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Website Monitoring Software - Get out of the Zero Dollar Zone Now

admin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:32:22 +0000

If you’ve been following these posts you know I’ve been recommending that it’s important to have an alternate plan for monitization. One method I’ve been suggesting is developing some of you sites into little automatic ATM machines that will deposit money in your account every day.

If you develop any of your web sites you’ll have to read my posts on hosts and hosting companies. But one of the things you will quickly realize is that if your site is not up because of some hosting company problem and your clients can’t get to your site you’re out of business and you’ve entered the ZERO DOLLAR ZONE. Even the best hosting company has some downtime.

1. It’s important to know whether your sites are up or not and you have entered the ZERO DOLLAR ZONE for several reasons besides the money.
2. The second negative effect is you are annoying your potential website vistor that’s trying to reach your site - you are showing them you are not really ready for primetime and you are sending them to your competitors.
3. The third reason, especially if your site is down for any length of time you are showing the search engines that you’ve worked so hard to impress convince to give you a higher rank and the money it brings is that your really aren’t all that trustworthy.

Once I started spending a lot of time putting up these web sites. I noticed that the web sites would sometimes be down once or twice a day. I started thinking if my sites go down once or twice a day while I’m on the web looking at the site what about all of the time that I’m not looking? How many times are my web visitors trying to get to my and my sites are down and I’m not even aware of it? Remember my web host is generally well regarded in the industry. What’s happening to your sites if you shopped for that low cost web host. Are your sites up all of the time or are there frequent times when your sites are inaccessible and you’re in the ZERO DOLLAR ZONE.

But how are you going to know? I searched for website monitoring and found a number of sites that will monitor your web sites. But they charge from $10-$12 a month for each web site! That would have been a heck of a lot of money if I wanted to monitor all of my web sites. That’s not a solution that will work for very many people

But I came across a piece of software you can run from your PC that will monitor all of your web sites, notify you with alarms if a site goes down. You can even set it to alarm you if there are changes in the web site from the last time the site was checked. What I like about it it is simple, you simply type in the domain names you want monitored, set the monitor interval, set the alarms and let it go. You can set it to sit quietly in your tray at the bottom of the screen until one of your sites goes down. If you have set it up for an audible alarm you will hear it - if not you will just see it flashing in the tray until you click it to see the details. It will even tell you if the site was down in the past so you can start forming a good idea about how reliable your host is even when you are not watching.

So how much will this peace of mind set you back? Less than $10- $9.97 to be exact. That’s for software that can monitor all your domains. It’s not a monthly fee either. I think this is one tool you can’t be without. Get it at Domain Monitoring Tool

It’s already proved it’s weight in gold to me. I have had a couple of issues with my current host that I’ve had for the past two years. We’ve always managed to work things out but I wanted a host where I didn’t have to work things out - my sites would just run, load fast, and there would be no downtime - or rather no ZERO DOLLAR EARNING TIME.

Going to different forums and doing some research I’ve found out some interesting things about hosts. One of the basic truths is they all go down at one time or another. What’s important is how quickly they go back up, how often are these service interruptions and are you inconvenienced or do your sites just pop right up.

Some other web masters were urging me to try another host they felt deserved consideration.
So far my little $10 alarm has shown that none of my sites on my existing host went down during the past few days. But during the same time sites on this new host went down twice yesterday and three times today.

One of the great things about knowing your site is down as soon as it happens is that you can call up the hosting company support and alert them and complain. I’ve found, especially with shared hosting companies, the loud squeaky wheel gets fixed quickest.

All the best,
Ted Sudol
The Domain Hunter

PS - One thing I forgot is that this is being marketed by one of my Internet partners in Germany. So when you click on the Paypal buy button it will come up with the German PayPal screen. Just enter your PayPal account information and the PayPal screen will change to the American version. The amount $9.97 is US dollars. And finally if you are thinking I don’t read German don’t worry - the software is in english.

PPS - A lot has been happening here at The Domain Hunter and I want you to share in my success. There’s going to be a very exciting announcement here on July 12th so make sure you check back often to make sure you don’t miss out.

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admin — Sun, 25 May 2008 12:54:24 +0000

Hi,
A few weeks ago I told you about a new ebook that Brian Johnson was releasing called Revenue Domains Exposed. I purchased it and just wanted to give you and update. Brian’s method shows you how you can quickly monitize an expiring domain and earn much more than you would in parking.

I purchased several domains following the Revenue Domain model a few weeks ago and they are all producing income. Some of the sites became profitable within weeks. As I honed my experience and understanding of the Revenue Domain model my income from each site I was picking went up. I even applied his methods to domains that didn’t strictly follow the Revenue domain model but were domains I already had parked with a parking company. I just felt they should be earning more than the parking revenue they were making. I’m happy to say that within three days I exceeded three months parking revenue for the same domain.

But that’s not the reason for my post today. Brian is launching a new site netmarketingcourse.net. To help launch the site Brian is giving away absolutely free a domain name with an existing traffic producing web site. Read about it here at www.netmarketingcourse.net Besides a chance to win a free web site you are also going to be getting a lot of great information that will give your Internet marketing career a giant boost. Brian’s goal is to have 100 videos available on that site.

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admin — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:13:53 +0000

Hi,
I have some exciting news. Brian Johnson has just released his ebook and video course “Revenue Domains Exposed” Brian has developed a method to take an inexpensive domain and transform it into a continuous source of revenue. His course takes you step by step through the same process he has used in taking a domain that cost him $40 and has earned him $4,146.77 so far and is still earning money every day. Another domain he purchased for $65 is currently earning about $7 a day.

Brian currently has his system down to a science and can launch a new Revenue Domain in a few hours. It doesn’t take his domains a long time to reach profitablitiy either! By selecting the right domains they often become profititable within weeks or months.

What if you had ten revenue domains each earning you $7 a day? What if you had 100 revenue domains each earning you $7 a day? That’s the power of this method. You put up a revenue domain relatively quickly, find another one, launch that and before you know it you have an empire of lots of revenue domains each earning you money.

Brian’s “Revenue Domains Exposed” method isn’t a get rich quick scheme but a solid detailed step-by-step method of developing a continuing source of income from the Internet. You know I don’t recommend a product unless I have personally used it and I’ve been working with Brian on a prerelease copy. I can recommend it whole heartedly.

Get your copy NOW:
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All the best,
Ted Sudol
TheDomainHunter.com

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Plan for Domain Profit - What’s your Plan B?

admin — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:45:52 +0000

One of the things that’s exciting to me about domain names is there are so many ways to profit. There are also some ways to lose money. I don’t want you to be like the guy yesterday who auctioned off his portfolio of 383 names for $40.99. That’s about 10 cents a name on his investment that was originally about $3,800 (depending upon the registrar he was using).

So what do I mean by plan B? Whenever you are looking to buy a domain name you need to purchase with the end in mind. Buying is the easy part - you just click your button on the shopping cart. Now that you have it what are you going to do with it?

Whenever I’m considering a domain name I like to consider what I’m going to do with it - am I going to auction it? Is it an orphan? Am I going to develop it? I like to have two or three strong options. I chose the one that offers the most profit potential and see it which one meets the timeframe I want - quick profit or longer term revenue. That way if the first one falls through I go to Plan B.

Let me give you an example. Here’s the 20 second explanation of the orphan method of domaining. Basically what it means is you buy a .com domain and then offer it to the .net owner for a profit. You may have all of the reasons why .the net owner should buy - .com is a stronger extension, it might be getting existing traffic, easy low cost way to boost their business, etc. It might make all complete sense to you. But remember the business owner might not be internet savvy and it just might not make sense to the .net owner. I was trying to sell an orphan domain to a business owner of the .net name. Even though the .com equivalent of the name was both DMZ and yahoo listed, had traffic, etc. the .net owner wasn’t interested in any price.

But at the price and with the statistics it was a bargain I just couldn’t pass up. The orphan strategy didn’t work so I went to plan B. The first thing I did was go to Google and search on the domain name. Remember with the Internet the world is your oyster. So a business owner with this exact name, in this particular town in California wasn’t interested in purchasing. So what! I didn’t waste any tears. A Google search showed thousands of businesses around the country with the same exact name. Hear a no? Just think next! Go to the next one in line or to Plan B.

Be open to possibilities. One of the things I did a while back was to flip cars - buy used cars and resell them for a profit at auctions. (If you know what you are doing its a good way of making a signifcant income.) When people have to sell their car they often need cash bad and they need it NOW. So one of the names I picked up was www.carcashfast.com. My original idea was just to sell it at auction. But when I mentioned it to the partner I had on some of the past car flips he flipped. Knowing the business, he knew the potential and what he proposed is that we become partners. I handle the web and marketing and he handles examining the cars, and setting with the auctions. Perfect fit. I’m already doing that so web and marketing won’t be a problem for me and I’l certainly get a lot more as a parner in a business than I would by parking or other types of monitization.

So remember when you are considering a domain name start with the end in mind. What am I going to do with it if I get it? - how am I going to turn it into a profit? Have a couple of alternate plans so if one doesn’t work out you can go to plan B. Make sure you have a viable plan B before you start. In the orphan domain example I gave above I checked and found out first that there were many other businesses with exactly the same name that might be interested. But remember to stay away from trademarked names or known company brands. You don’t want any legal complications - and besides their pockets are probably a lot deeper than yours. Well that’s it for now. Let me know what you would like to hear more about. My next post is going to be “How to know if you are going in the right direction!”

In the meantime, for some practice go to HotDotAuctions.com Go through the list of names imagining that you were going to purchase a few. For each one come up with a plan A for turning a profit, a Plan B, and maybe even a plan C. How realistic are each of those plans? Do you believe that each one of you alternatives could be successful? If you are confident you have several strong plans for monitization and you’ve done the research to show you the value then this might be a domain you can turn a profit on. But for now we are just practicing. I want you to make sure you are going in the right direction. I don’t want you to end up like the other guy with a portfolio of 383 names no one wants. (Well someone wanted them for ten cents a name) That’s it until the next post tomorrow. Happy Domain Hunting.

All the best,
Ted Sudol
PS Don’t forget to practice and just in case you are in a rush here’s a few auction names for you to practice with.

LWPJ.com 4 letter Domain Name LLLL NO Reserve & RARE
US $10.50 (8 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-18-2008 1:37:38 PDT
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Tuebo .Com Rare Five Letter Dot Domain Name 2-3-4-5 NR
US $6.01 (5 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-18-2008 7:59:00 PDT
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OSRI.net - brandable premium 4 letter LLLL domain name
US $15.53 (5 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-18-2008 8:07:11 PDT
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PREMIUM Brandable 4 Character Domain Name EFZX.com
US $10.70 (3 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-18-2008 8:44:50 PDT
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Prestige Promos .Com Rare Letter Domain Name 2-3-4-5 NR
US $5.50 (3 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-18-2008 8:59:00 PDT
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True Promises .Com Rare Letter Domain Name 2-3-4-5 NR
US $19.51 (3 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-18-2008 9:29:00 PDT
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Chick Market .Com Rare Letter Domain Name 2-3-4-5 NR
US $56.00 (4 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-18-2008 9:59:00 PDT
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New PTC Website for sale with Domain Name
US $53.00 (3 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-18-2008 10:16:15 PDT
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9 Years Old [PUNK] Related Domain Name - Since 1999
US $5.50 (6 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-18-2008 10:38:58 PDT
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Blackberry Flip Phone Domain Name RIMMFLIP.com 2 words
US $9.99 (2 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-18-2008 10:57:17 PDT
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1goo.com 4 Letter .com Domain Name NLLL
US $9.50 (9 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-18-2008 10:59:12 PDT
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illegalToys.com Great Domain Name High Traffic
US $6.50 (4 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-18-2008 11:30:03 PDT
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VESW.com - 4 Letter Premium Domain Name LLLL .com 1,2,3
US $23.03 (8 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-18-2008 11:35:17 PDT
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Appears.com Domain Name Website 3 4 One Word (Rare!)
US $835.00 (20 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-18-2008 12:19:08 PDT
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SOPHISTICALLY.COM RARE 1 Word Dictionary Domain Name
US $11.00 (6 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-18-2008 13:10:00 PDT
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OUQJ.COM BRANDABLE 4 Letter LLLL DOMAIN NAME
US $11.50 (4 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-18-2008 16:29:40 PDT
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Old Rusty .Com Rare Letter Dot Domain Name 2-3-4-5 NR
US $11.00 (4 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-18-2008 16:59:00 PDT
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Leazo .Com Rare Five Letter Dot Domain Name 2-3-4-5 NR
US $6.81 (4 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-18-2008 17:29:00 PDT
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eBlazed .com Fun Rare Domain Name 1-2-3-4-5-6 Letter NR
US $3.78 (3 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-18-2008 17:43:51 PDT
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HotForexTips.com - Forex Guide Domain Name NR
US $8.00 (7 Bids)
End Date: Thursday Sep-18-2008 17:45:20 PDT
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