 | Domain Development For Dummies
It seems that almost everyone in the domain space is suddenly banging on about developing domains instead of parking them.
That’s a bit of a turnaround, as for years (and I mean years), I felt like a complete outsider in the domain game, as I never really got to grips with parking and could never understand
| David Carter - 20 hr 17 min ago |
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| My Top 10 Essential Wordpress Plugins
Here are a few of the plugins I use to extend the core capabilities of Wordpress.
How To Keep Wordpress Current
First and foremost is Plugin Central. This was shown to me by Ed Keay-Smith of Ozdomainer.com. It keeps track of all of the other plugins installed on a site and automatically lets you know when new
| David Carter - Friday, February 19, 2010 - 7:2 |
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| Domain Development – XSitePro or Wordpress?
For a number of years now, I’ve been a user and fan of XSitePro.
The program is a domainer’s dream and could have been made specifically with domainers in mind. It was certainly built with the affiliate marketer in mind and that’s it’s real strength.
Using the in-built templates, it takes just a few minutes to...
| David Carter - Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 4:48 |
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| Outsourcing For Beginners (and not just online)
My eldest son works with me in the surveying practice at the moment as a graduate trainee building surveyor. We’re putting him through university to get his building surveying degree, but it’s a part time course on a day-release scheme.
Along with some of his work colleagues, he has started to supplement his income by dra...
| David Carter - Friday, February 12, 2010 - 4:34 |
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| Video Tutorials Engage Advertisers
Since loading my commercial property portal onto my server this week, I’ve been concentrating on ironing out the inevitable bugs and putting some finishing touches to the site.
One of the things that I’ve probably overlooked in the past, is the user experience and engaging them in the site.
This time, things are different...
| David Carter - Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 15:49 |
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| How To Stop Being Everybody’s Free Website Guru
If you can build a web site, or know anything at all about computers, the Internet, search engines etc., then you must have already experienced the friends, family and associates of friends who always seem to want a favour, but don’t seem to place any value on the knowledge you have.
It happens a lot in
| David Carter - Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 15:1 |
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| 9 Months Domain Development And…
… it’s done!
A few years planning, 9 months development and many thousands of Pounds later and I now have a commercial property portal loaded on my server with some dummy data for final testing.
This is the free advertising model I have wanted to implement for so long, it’s now in my blood.
This is where the
| David Carter - Friday, January 22, 2010 - 3:47 |
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| When Is A Distraction Not A Distraction?
Is a blog a distraction or a tool? That’s a question I keep asking myself.
To me it’s a tool that keeps me motivated. By publishing something on this blog, I’m announcing it to the world (well, ok, not the world, but perhaps both of my readers) and that kind of helps me commit.
When I was
| David Carter - Monday, January 18, 2010 - 5:39 |
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| When Is A Distraction Not A Distraction?
Is a blog a distraction or a tool? That’s a question I keep asking myself.
To me it’s a tool that keeps me motivated. By publishing something on this blog, I’m announcing it to the world (well, ok, not the world, but perhaps both of my readers) and that kind of helps me commit.
When I was
| David Carter - Monday, January 18, 2010 - 5:39 |
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| The Biggest Mistake I Never Made [.com]
Just after Christmas, I sent out a mailshot to a few selected companies, offering skill.co.uk for sale.
It’s a great generic name and I envisaged that it would appeal to a training organisation, a recruitment operation or perhaps a skills gaming company.
The price tag was £100,000 firm and I consider that to be cheap, knowing w...
| David Carter - Saturday, January 16, 2010 - 17:28 |
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| Ignorant Domain Seller Drives Me Crazy At Sedo
There’s a name I want and it’s for sale on Sedo and it’s marked with a fixed price of $200.
That price is too low for this particular name, but if someone is selling at that, then that’s the way it is. Except it isn’t.
Contact by Sedo and myself failed. A Whois search identified the seller
| David Carter - Monday, January 11, 2010 - 4:10 |
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| If You Were To Do It Again [.com]
I was sent a super question today by a reader called Chris, who says he’s relatively new to domaining.
The question was, “If you were to go back in time and meet your self. How would you steer him?”
I took all of 10 seconds to think about the answer and here it is:
Hello Chris,
Easy answer to
| David Carter - Friday, January 8, 2010 - 2:3 |
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| Domain Cull Continues Into 2010
It’s annual culling time for the domain portfolio again.
Last year, I was pretty brutal and let around 40% of my portfolio go – either by selling off names at low cost, or just letting the names expire.
Expiry was a great option, because who wants to mess around with transfers when the selling price is low?
| David Carter - Monday, January 4, 2010 - 9:20 |
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| XsitePro Revisited
Since falling in love with Wordpress earlier this year, I’ve kind of left my other tools on the shelf, including my favourite site building software, XsitePro2.
Yesterday, I got a call from my brother in law, since he wanted a web site for his Spanish Villa that he rents out to tourists.
I considered using Wordpress again,
| David Carter - Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - 8:39 |
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| New Years Resolutions Fail For 95% Of People
Well, for better or for worse, 2009 is coming to a close and the forthcoming new year gets people thinking about their futures, particularly with regard to new years resolutions.
The start of a new year is a natural time to think about goals, whether it be to make more money, become more productive, lose weight,
| David Carter - Sunday, December 27, 2009 - 4:30 |
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| Why Invest in Property When You Can Invest In Domains?
Image by thinkpanama via Flickr
Just been chatting to a mortgage broker I know, about buy to let properties.
Until the crash a couple of years ago, the UK buy to let market was booming and banks couldn’t lend quickly enough to budding landlords.
So bouyant was the market, that even some specialist buy to let publications...
| David Carter - Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 10:16 |
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| Just Because Chritmas Is Coming…
Have you noticed how the business world slows down for Christmas?
It’s always bugged me that people get lazy at this time of year.
I’ve spent my Saturday looking to increase my income opportunities by building another fishing line.
This time, it’s offering property management services for commercial property owners ...
| David Carter - Saturday, December 19, 2009 - 8:38 |
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| A Lesson In Name Acquisition
Had an interesting discussion this morning, as on my travels, I spotted a sign on a building that said “Asbestos Transfer Station”.
Unable to resist, I dropped in to introduce myself and to see what the company did.
An asbestos transfer station acts as a halfway house between the site of removal and the ultimate destinati...
| David Carter - Friday, December 18, 2009 - 12:15 |
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| When A Domain Name Just Won’t Lie Down
Have you ever had one of those domain names that just won’t lie down?
You know, the one that niggles at the back of your mind and nags away just begging to be developed.
I have one of those. I mentioned it here 2 years ago as one I was to develop and despite trying, it all
| David Carter - Friday, December 18, 2009 - 12:5 |
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| Beware of Domain Renewal Notices (again)
Keeping all of your domain names with one or two registrars has a number of advantages and one that I hadn’t really considered, is that it allows you to spot fake renewal notices.
Anyone who’s been around domain names for any period of time will have received solicitations to renew from various companies,either by email o...
| David Carter - Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 7:7 |
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