5 April 2008 The Results are in for March - and another exciting graph!!

So March is over, where did that go, I reckon that the earth has started spinning faster or something as the months seem to be going quicker. Anyway I'm rambling lets get back to domain names, trading, selling, parking and making money. I've got another graph to show you for this months revenue, and again looks postivie. Ok part way through the month I had a couple of days where I was making over $2 a day and I thought it was going to be a big month, however things tailed off towards the end, but still the trend is good as revenue continued to increase.....

Good news though is that April is already shaping up to be a good month, got to remain positive! March also marked the month that I learnt how to setup a Forum, have I mentioned that :) And content is starting to build up on this, and of course I bought some Forum domain names. I have also just bought some new names based on some trends I expect to see. Today it is impossible to get a good lcd / hd tv domain name however what will be the technology of tomorrow?? OLED TV is seen as the next step. WIFI is another term that has all the domain names sold on, but Technology of tomorrow will be WIMAX, and finally said to be one of the hottest new products to be launched in 2008 will be Microsoft Surface, so I have made a few speculative purchases this month, in the hope that one of these technologies takes off and my domain names sit in the middle of some high traffic terms. They are.....

BestOLEDTv.co.uk - Surfacehelp.co.uk - SurfaceOnline.co.uk - WimaxZones.co.uk - WimaxEquipment.net

So I am off to develop some of my new sites. Thanks for dropping in and get yourself registered on the buythemap forum!

So Whats so great about a Forum - Domaining??

Ok so in my last couple of posts I said how I wanted to make the site more interactive and give people a chance to discuss domain names and then hey presto 24hours later I posted again to say a Forum was online - so whats the big deal about a forum and am I moving away from domaineering.....?? Of course not - no!

So heres the plan the forum allows people to discuss domain names etc, and as I have been chatting in so many forums it makes sense to have my own, but also the second benefit of the forum is that as people discuss, chat, and create content on my forum this helps increase the content on my site. Having a popular forum and more and more members joining will also mean I can add adsense to my forum and get even more revenue. See it makes perfect sense.

With the excitement of my new forum, I thought I would celebrate the event by buying some new domain names of course. So I purchased DomaineerForum / DomaineersForum / DomaineeringForum all .coms and will hopefully bring more users to my BuytheMap forum as I will point them to it.
So firstly thanks to those people who have already joined, if you haven't yet - get involved. I'm going to post lots about the tools I use and plan to have a regular news feature.

So thats it, I will post revenue for March soon. Final little thing for you to check out, have you heard that Pizza.com is for sale on SEDO - a great name we are talking big money. Check out the auction here.

25 March - Only a quick post but Frankenstein has risen!! The Forum goes 'live'

Well it took me a total of 24hours, but as I mentioned in my last post I have made BuytheMap.com interactive. I have my first ever Forum!! Drum role please!!! I have been spending a lot of time chatting in forums meeting new people and learning loads, so I thought I would bring the Forum to me, so with some messing around last night and a bit of research its Live! Ok most websites would do some testing, get a big launch sorted etc etc however the BuytheMap Forum launch is a little more subdued........are you ready for it...........here we go............its......... a new button!!

Yes I know a bit crap, some music and something flashing would have been cool but instead I made a new button on the homepage. There it is below, so come in, say hi and I will see if I can make it a success. I will talk about the benefits of the Forum in my next post ;) And hopefully some of you will have joined and said hello - as I will get very bored very quick. Boy Project Continues!!!!!!!!

http://www.buythemap.com/foum

13 March 2008 - Rockin and Rollin

So seems like things have started to take off a little bit now, and I am getting some nice little clicks on my domains. The other day I had a record $3.11 hit my adsense account, and yesterday I had $2.20 in clicks. Today and it seems history is repeating itself as I hit nearly $2 dollars again. That means during the month of March I have had my 3 highest revenue days, and already it looks like I am going to make more money than in Feb and its only the 13th. Great for my little graph below if I can keep things going up!

As I have said before I really want to start working on adding content to my sites that I currently have listed. More content on a site helps with the Search Engine Optimisation. The more text and information I have on a site the more interested google and the other search engines will be. Then climbing up the search listings will mean more visitors and more revenue - simple really. Parking with Sedo seems like a good place to hold my sites before I develop them, and the third and final income stream - sales is a bit more long term so nothing to report there.

But as you can see I am happy! I spent the weekend in Paris (hence no update) but hanging out in such a great city and with so many rich people walking around it made me want to work at this harder!!! So I am going to get more dedicated, I am going to improve my sites (the recent upturn in revenue is helping to inspire me even more), So I'll keep on the forums learning more info and most importantly investing in new sites. $100 dollars means 10 new sites, this is a long term revenue generation attempt - so I need to continue building the BuytheMap Advertising Network. The empire keeps a growing!!!

One thing I must say though................this is harder than I expected!

01 March 2008 - The Boy Project Continues, the empire groweth!

Phew boy have I been busy! Over the last couple of weeks I have been doing some project management training called Prince2, watching to much TV (masterchef) and planning my great escape from the U.K. to Australia. Researching VISAs and finding out where the best places are takes time! So this kind of means I have taken my eye of the domain pulse a little, but alas there is still a pulse!!

I thought the last couple of weeks would be a great opportunity to sit back and just let my domains tick over and see how much money would roll in. Well it seems good news, the revenue from my adsense is remaining positive and parking my sites on SEDO is bringing in some pennies. OK no big sales and not hundreds of dollars but the business model still seems viable.

At present I am averaging about a dollar a day (it's started going up over the last week), this means every 10 days I can buy a new domain, and in theory this will help to bring more money. Over the weeks as I add more names the revenue should increase, purchases should increase and hence the BuytheMap network becomes bigger and makes me rich....

In general the domain industry continues to gather pace as more and more people realise the value of this domain name stock. The launch of .ASIA was covered in BBC news last week - however you have to be registered in the area to register these names, so I am sticking to what I know, - .coms / .nets and .co.uks And yes the registrations have continued. I am now the proud owner of ChefCourses.net and Prince4.com - this weekend I am back on the trail (I think I have 32 now)- I am going to get some new content on my sites, get posting in forums, and I have a little plan that I am concocting that I will reveal soon....

Yep ok not the most exciting blog entry ever, but I am still here, I am still plugging away, and this is the reality of modern day domaining - experimenting, investing and working hard for the magic solution. Rome wasn't built in a day :) Oh also last month I announced my first ever check from google - I still haven't had it!!

Revenue for the month of revenue - $13.72 - the most yet. In fact check out my little graph of monthly earnings below....

13 February 2008 - More Cash in the Coffers!

As another week passes through all of our lives, thousands of new names will have been registered, thousands more changing hands for vast amounts of money, and thousands more millionaires created around the world. Unfortunately on my current standings the only place where I would be a millionaire would be in some strange Russian state experiencing ridiculous inflation. So why more cash in the coffers as this weeks title?? Well not my coffers obviously, but the domain registrars.

Ok I'll stop moaning - firstly no new purchases made this week...........for the second week in a row, mainly because I am having a small cash flow crisis (the reality of modern day domaining for people new to the business)! However the market in general continues to bound along - some news in the domaining world for you.....crusies.co.uk sells for the highest amount ever for a .co.uk at a massive $1million dollars! Whilst 4x4.co.uk sold for $75,000 dollars. Imagine having the foresight to have bought names like that.

Well that really sums up domaining, having the faith and forsight to spot a new trend, the next big thing, and then register the names before everyone else. Well thats the plan anyway, and means its a bit of a long term view to take, but who knows perhaps I will blindly stumble on something good ;)

Ok so how much money did I make last week. Well from my google adsense adverts a massive £3.53 - ok again not much but I am seeing a definate trend in the popularity of my original few names, and I am getting lots of clicks. However I need to increase the value of them, and somehow get me other sites bringing in some revenue as well! Simple.

Finally I think I mentioned before every week more and more people are adding the buythemap blog to their favourites list. Firstly thanks, very kind of you, its not really that exciting!! So to make it worth your while a quick joke.

Sausage and an egg in a frying pan and the sausage says ''ahh its getting hot in here!"
And the egg says......."ahhhh - ahhhh - ahhh a talking sausage!!!"

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