GeoDomainer.com Passes 100 Registered Members It is a pleasure to announce that GeoDomainer.com registered its 100th member yesterday. Matt Bently of Sedo.com signed up as the 100th member. In a very short amount of time, we have been able to recruit some of the world’s top domain professionals. This is only the tip of the iceberg as we continue to build onto the networ...
Simply Geo - 4 hr 58 min ago
Newspaper Web Sites Bash Other Media in Local Advertising According to data from Borrell Associates’ fifth annual local online revenue survey, newspaper-owned Web sites maintained a three-to-one lead over other local competitors in advertising market share last year, capturing 26.9 percent of the market.
This is an article that sheds some light on how well local newspaper websites ...
Simply Geo - 6 hr 32 min ago
The Geo Tracker 15 May 2008
Geo domain sales continue to gain momentum in the aftermarket with Bellevue.com selling for top dollar. ccTLD geo domain sales totaled $110,759 for a grand total of $434,469.
Bellevue.com
$150,000
PVT Sale
NewYorkBiz.com
$27,844
Sedo.com
Mukilteo.com
$19,000
RickLatona.com
Gadsden.com
$19,000
Ricklatona.com
G...
Simply Geo - 10 hr 21 min ago
The GeoView With Mike Mann Of WashingtonVC.com
(Interact with Mike on GeoDomainer.com)
Mike is Chairman and Founder of WashingtonVC, a private equity group whose portfolio of companies share resources, talent and technologies to deliver innovative digital products and services.
In ‘94 he founded Internet Interstate, which he sold to Verio in ‘97. In ‘9...
Simply Geo - 5/12/2008 10:13:40 AM
Blog Break, But News Did Not Stop It felt good to take a few days off from blogging, although I did miss communicating with all the readers of the blog. It seems many bloggers took it easy this weekend. While I was not able to blog, I did keep busy working on the GeoDomainer.com platform. We now have an industry blog roll SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Blog Break, B...
Simply Geo - 5/11/2008 8:17:14 PM
You Have Developed Content For Your Site, Now What? is a great interview with Avinash Kaushik from Google.com analytics that will prepare you for the next level of development.It is proven that fresh content is essential for site growth, but how do you know if the content you have built is effective to visitors? Answer, analytic tools. There are a variety of analytic tools SHARETHIS...
Simply Geo - 5/8/2008 11:09:36 AM
Giant Geo Domains Coming To Auction, America.com and Israel.com There is no doubt the geo domain industry has become red hot in 2008. Already, we have seen a variety of geo domains come to auction and on the after market, with most selling for top dollar. However, there are a variety of geo domains that were listed on auction since January that SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Giant Geo Domains Comin...
Simply Geo - 5/7/2008 4:30:59 PM
GeoDomainer.com, Connecting Professionals For Success
We officially launched the GeoDomainer.com Social Network on 3 May and have already recruited some of the most powerful domain owners on the internet. While GeoDomainer.com is somewhat of a targeted community, it is open to all professionals in the domain industry. I wanted to take a little time explaining the benefits of this so...
Simply Geo - 5/7/2008 1:15:42 PM
The Geo Tracker 7 May 2008
This was a great week for geo domain sales. It seems there were a lot of investors and end users ready to spend top dollar to acquire geo domains. RickLatona.com has done an outstanding job selling some of his geo domain portfolio through his daily newsletter filled with domains for sale. He is responsible for SHARETHIS.addEntry(...
Simply Geo - 5/7/2008 9:40:31 AM
GeoDomain Sites Say ‘I Told You So’ to Metropolitan Publications AssociatedCities.com has published a great article on how city.com geo domains have evolved in the last couple of years and their values. David Castello and Jessica Bookstaff provide insight on this journey. 2008 has already proven to be a big year in the transformation of traditional media outlets embracing the internet. With ad...
Simply Geo - 5/7/2008 8:39:57 AM
LATimes.com Will Generate $25 Million There are a variety of people who believe building a business around a geo domain is limiting the global concept of the internet. The little piece of the local pie is not appealing to these individuals. The great thing about the domain industry is that it is a multifaceted industry full of revenue SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "LATimes...
Simply Geo - 5/6/2008 11:55:46 AM
Interesting Commercial I was watching a show on tv yesterday, and a commercial came on. It was a Utah commercial promoting their site Utah.travel. It is a well developed site that has great content for a visitor traveling to Utah in my opinion. The group behind the site is the state of Utah. While there SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Interesting Commercial"...
Simply Geo - 5/6/2008 11:12:41 AM
The GeoView With Fred Mercaldo Of Scottsdale.com
This week, we bring you the GeoView with Fred Mercaldo, owner of Scottsdale.com and Tempe.com. Fred is a proven business professional and owner to a variety of businesses. His other companies include Hospitality Tee Times (HTT), Butts In Seats Marketing, LLC which includes their brands LunchClub.com and DineS...
Simply Geo - 5/5/2008 9:57:07 AM
Learn From Different Sources, As It Will Give You A Variety Of Perspectives It is important in life to learn from a variety of sources in order to become an educated wise man or woman. This enables an individual to see a variety of perspectives to a common discussion. While successful people offer a wealth of knowledge, same can be said for the average guy on the SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Learn From Dif...
Simply Geo - 5/4/2008 8:07:05 PM
SimplyGeo Video Blog Post Well, I finally got around to using Seesmic to deliver this “cheesy” blog post. I didn’t want to get prettied up for the camera, so please excuse the roughness. It is quite an easy tool to use, but I must say that it is a little uncomfortable recording yourself. It SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "SimplyGeo Video Blog ...
Simply Geo - 5/4/2008 3:16:24 PM
GeoDomainer.com Social Network Launched
We are happy to announce the launch of GeoDomainer.com, an industry social network. We were going to wait until next week to launch this service, but we figured it would be best to let users figure out how to use the functions and apps on the site during the weekened. Most professionals are very busy during SHARETHIS.addEntry({...
Simply Geo - 5/3/2008 1:32:52 PM
Busy, Busy, Busy Things have been a little hectic this week and I have not been able to complete all the projects I had planned. I am so glad the weekend is here. I have been communicating with Philip Corwin and Michael Collins from ICA this week. We will be publishing their interviews in the weeks to come that will assist SHARETHIS.addEntry({ tit...
Simply Geo - 5/2/2008 4:21:16 PM
The Geo Tracker 2 May 2008
Another week has past, and it is time to list the geo domain sales. There were not many sales on the .com side of the house, however, ccTLDs continued to do well. Last week I said I would include ccTLDs and IDNs in the listing. After experimenting and seeing how time consuming this was, I have SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Ge...
Simply Geo - 5/2/2008 3:50:27 PM
Dwindling Circulation Hits Newspapers Hard This article was submitted by a fellow reader. The bad times continue for traditional print media with circulation taking a drastic plunge. The Audit Bureau of Circulations show significant declines for every major New York paper with the exception of the Wall Street Journal.
Traditional media companies are trying a variety of stra...
Simply Geo - 5/1/2008 1:41:07 PM
1.3 Billion Phone Subscribers To Use Local Search By 2013 Approximately 1.3 billion cellphone users will embrace local search by 2013. Juniper Research states that this is 30% of the subscriber base. We will continue to see additional reports from other industry experts validating the future growth of local search in the months to come. There are many clues given in each report that can ...
Simply Geo - 5/1/2008 8:50:14 AM
Knowledge Is Power!
I just completed an interview with Mike Mann for a future post on the blog. He has written an outstanding ebook called, “Make Millions and Make Change”. I started reading it last night and have not been able to stop. It has energized my business thought process and reenforced social conduct. The ebook contains a SHA...
Simply Geo - 4/30/2008 3:46:51 PM
The WB Network Going 100% Online
This is a pretty amazing transformation that the WB network is making. This year, we have already seen several traditional media companies make major moves to embrace the internet, in much the same ways they embraced television back in the days from radio.
Is the media revolution around the corner for all these companies? Based ...
Simply Geo - 4/29/2008 2:20:22 PM
The Newsletter
Yesterday, I sent out the blog newsletter to subscribers. At the bottom of each newsletter, I ask subscribers to submit ideas that we can implement to make the newsletter more effective.
I received an email this morning with a recommendation. Apparently, I have not done a good job at helping newcomers understand how to get into ...
Simply Geo - 4/28/2008 4:25:16 PM
Yahoo Adds Circles To Local Search This is a pretty amazing tool that Yahoo! has recently added to its local search platform. Check out the video to see it in action on the link porvided. Geo domains would greatly benefit with a platform like this on their site. Consumers are always looking for the best tools to find what they need locally.
(Via SERoundtable.com)
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Simply Geo - 4/28/2008 3:13:39 PM
SimplyGeo.com Raises $500.00 For ICA Thanks To Page Howe
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In life, I find it very important to support something bigger than yourself and self interests. The rewards to doing this are delivered in different forms and can not be predicted. Unfortunately, there are many people who will only support something if they can directly benefit from it.
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