The Birth of a Media Company – Jewocity Media Corp.
About a year ago, I was fortunate enough to acquire a few high quality local GEO domains for the Jewish market—CrownHeights.com, Monsey.com and BoroPark.com.
I had no original business plan for the names, but I was always impressed with the e-directory software and the benefits it can provide for your SEO efforts. I decided to run local business directories for my new properties and started the process of manually uploading local businesses.
With a goal of a quick site launch, I soon learned that the manual uploads would take much too long. I needed something that worked quicker and easier (through a datafeed), but would that exist for just the Jewish market?
I conducted a search for Jewish business directory and found the largest one. It was named Jewocity.com, and it had about 50,000 listings. This was exactly what I needed to populate my sites; I soon emailed the owner who originally was not interested in selling.
After a few more emails and a phone call, we finally made an agreement and I had what I needed. With Jewocity.com, I had the perfect umbrella site. I then worked on expanding the city sites into more neighborhoods. I succeeded: A year later, utilizing my domain buying experience, I now had over 100 GEO domains which were populated with local businesses.
For the most part, I bought wisely from many different sources including buydomains, private owners and large corporations. I decided to pass on the higher priced ones and settle for the .net’s and .org’s in some cases. When I felt the city.com was unattainable, I went with “city state.com”—i.e., BrooklynNewYork.com, and SkokieIllinois.com.
My goal is to create a thriving online media company with a lot of targeted local traffic for the Jewish market, a market which I am very much a part of. I am in the early stages of marketing and sales and very pleased with the progress I have already seen, in addition to the great potential of the network.
Early achievements for the site include:
¨ hiring a well known writer for compelling blog content
¨ creating social network accounts, including Facebook and Twitter, with several thousand likes and followers.
¨ streamlining the Classifieds sections on all city sites to point directly to one page at Jewocity.com. The same was done for the Events and Blog sections.
Currently, I am in talks with several individuals and companies to possibly: a) explore ways to power the classifieds section; b) head up an ongoing sales division; and c) offer many other services such as matchmaking. We plan to continually expand our content and marketing ideas.
Moving forward, I am always on the lookout for more GEO domains that fit my criteria. I very recently acquired ClevelandHeights.net (a large city with a sizable Jewish population) on namejet, and Rivertowns.com from a private owner.
For a full list of domains purchased for this project click here. If anyone has any business proposals, sponsorship opportunities or other ideas, you can email me through the contact form on Jewocity.com or just Shai AT Jewocity.com
Location.com Sale and Partnership with eReal Estate Holdings, LLC
I am very excited to announce the sale and partnership of Location.com with Richard Swerdlow and eReal Estate Holdings, LLC.
eReal Estate Holdings has succesfully built out Condo.com, Houses.com and very recently Property.com along with Rick Schwartz. I look forward to having them build out this domain and hopefully learning from there expertise in SEO, marketing, lead gen and business in general.
We signed an NDA on the terms of the deal.
You can read the official Press Release here:
http://www.condo.com/Learn/CondoNews/Location.com-Domain-Acquired-by-eReal-Estate-Holdings
And more here:
Order.com Sold
Last week Order.com was sold to Delivery.com a very successful food delivery company. Omar Kubba of Aftermarket.com did a brilliant job of opening the door and getting multiple offers from several key strategic buyers.
You can read more about it here:
http://www.elliotsblog.com/aftermarket-com-sells-order-com-in-6th-largest-public-sale-of-2011-1733
And here:
http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/lowdown/2011/dailyposts/20111129.htm
Bombarded lately with scam domain sales emails
Over the last month or so I have received hundreds of emails from supposed domain companies who are looking to sell similar keyword domains that I own. In every single case the domain they are trying to sell is expired. I have a list of just some of the few names these supposed brokers go by. If you google search some of these names you will come up with dozens more:
Premier Domain Brokers, imandala.com, dropcatchone.com, Riverside Domain brokers, donnyrhode.com, securecatch.com, domainsatriverside.com, riversidedomain.net, fabric24.com
The emails go like this:
Hello, my name is Sam Southerland with Premier Domain Brokers.
xxxxxxxx.com will be listed for sale in the next couple of days.
You are one of 26 companies/individuals who are either bidding on, have organically integrated or operate domain names related to the keyword set “keyword set”.
You can lower or eliminate any current/future advertisement expenses by becoming number one in search engines for this keyword set.
Purchasing xxxxxxxx.com can help you become the market leader. If you are interested please visit:
http://www.premierdomainbrokers.com/sales/07wuOR2lqSwR
I will try to answer the most common questions I receive from my customers below.
In case your specific question is not answered, you can call us at 1-888-240-9137 (toll free in the USA and Canada) using reference code 656654.
A live person will handle anything you need pre/post purchase. To better serve you, we do not use automated phone support.
1) You receive a year of registration on us with your purchase so you don’t have to stress about renewing your domain for one year.
2) We only require a one-time fee for exclusive ownership. Premier Domain Brokers will only charge you once.
3) You don’t have to worry about re-branding or changing your current site. You can forward xxxxxxxx.com to any of your domains or vice versa at no cost.
4) All transactions use a 128-bit SSL encryption and are processed through Authorize.net, a leading payment gateway. We also accept PayPal for secure transactions.
Once you confirm your interest and the domain is ready to ship, one of my transfer specialists will contact you.
Thank you and have a great day.
Premier Domain Brokers
865 SW 78th Ave, Suite A100, Plantation, FL 33324
1-888-240-9137
info@premierdomainbrokers.com
(Please use code: 656654 when calling our customer support)
Skype: globaldomainsellers
Live support: http://premierdomainbrokers.com/chat
premierdomainbrokers.com
Another email goes like this:
To Domain Owner,
We are emailing you in regards to xxxxxxxx.com which will become available on Monday, 06th Jun.
If you do have interest, please fill up priority notice form available here: http://donnyrhode.com/898972fodaga
Thank you and we apologize for the inconvenience if this is not of interest.
No more please: http://donnyrhode.com/u/898972fodaga
I have always received these in the past and I know others have as well. Most of us can quickly see the scam but the fact that they continue to pursue this route must mean that they are having some sort of success with it. To someone just starting out it can sound credible and may be enticing. The annoying thing for me is that these are now coming in by the hundreds. I am sure im not the only one.
Some names for sale
The following names are for sale. Please contact me through the contact page if interested.
.com’s
RepublicofMoldova.com
BastilleDay.com- France Independence day July 4th celebrated every year on July 14th.
CamercorderPhone(s).com- both singular and plural for sale.
Kamrin.com
Kandice.com
Takes.com
VideoCameraPhone(s).com- both singular and plural for sale.
Intenet.com
Jhon.com
Premium .org’s
Crayons.org
Desktops.org
Fridays.org
Glutes.org
MP4Players.org
Paintballs.org
TiananmenSquare.org
WireTransfer.org
Strobes.org
Others
Joey.biz
Shoes.bz
Mongolia.org and Grams.com have hit reserve with 24 Hours left in the Great Domains Auction
Both Auctions have hit the $4,999 Reserve and ending in 24 hours January 27th at 12PM EST.
Mongolia.org ending January 27th 12PM EST $4,999 Reserve
Grams.com ending January 27th 12PM EST $4,999 Reserve
My friend and fellow Israeli Arbel Arif recently interviewed me on his popular blog HDN.co.il- Check it out
Order.com now accepting merchants for free 30 day trial
Merchants looking to take advantage of a free 30 day trial may upload there products to Order.com right now by first registering here http://www.order.com/merchant/merchant_register.php
We are looking for some feedback from merchants so email me Shai AT order.com
Order.com Looking For Product Feeds For Testing Phase
If you run an ecommerce site and would like to get your products on Order.com now is the time.
We are currently accepting qualified merchants into our database during our alpha-testing phase.
Order.com will be bringing flat rate pricing to our customers
- no more click fraud
- no more bid management
- no more limited catalog loads due to overpriced CPC costs
We will strive to deliver the most effective traffic for your products while keeping your costs fixed.
Accepted merchants products will be loaded into our system free of charge for our testing period (approx 2 months), after which we will offer participating merchants special discounts on our new flat rate pricing.
To Qualify:
1. You must be a direct reseller of products, no affiliate sites or shopping comparison sites will be accepted.
2. You must be able to provide us with a feed file built to our specifications as defined here – http://www.order.com/feedspecs.php
3. Your site must pass an Order.com site review for quality and usability.
To Participate:
Please review our feed file specifications here – http://www.order.com/feedspecs.php ,
If you would like to participate please email your product feed file or link to a feed file on your server in a CSV or XML format to — Shai AT Order.com—-.
ANY FEEDS NOT MEETING THE ABOVE FEED SPECIFICATIONS WILL BE IGNORED.
Fridges.com Looking for ideas
I am looking to develop the domain name Fridges.com and looking for ideas. Would be interested to partner up with an established business. If anyone has any ideas or know anyone that would be interested email me Shai AT Order.com
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