Kickstart Commerce Podcast - Domain Investing & Development Strategies

A School Teacher By Day, Domain Investor By Night with Stuart Maloff

Welcome to the Kickstart Commerce podcast where we share search marketing and domain investing strategies to help grow your business.

In today's episode, our guest is Stuart Maloff — a long-time educator and 20-plus year domain veteran.

Today Stu and I dive deep into:

• How starting a kids basketball camp led to Stu selling a geo service domain and discovering the colossal world of domaining
• Stu also shares how he identifies and assesses undervalued 3-4 character alphanumeric domains
• He then talks about how traveling around the globe to 30+ countries has shaped his domain pricing and investing strategy
• Stu also shares his thoughts about Clubhouse, and predictions in regards to what’s next on the horizon for the domain industry
• Last but not least, Stu reveals his domain portfolio's top 10 domain names.

In closing, don’t forget to subscribe as you enjoy this week's episode via iTunes, GooglePlay, Stitcher, or however you desire to listen. 😍
 
Last but not least, please visit KickstartCommerce.com and DNAdverts.com to learn more about search marketing and domain investing ideas to grow your business.

 

The Handshake Domain Ecosystem, Community, Auctions, and more with Mark Smith

Welcome to the Kickstart Commerce podcast where we share search marketing and domain investing strategies to help grow your business.

In today's episode, our guest is Mark Smith — a newly minted Handshake domain investor and advocate, and the founder of Namesake.Domains — a consultancy aimed at helping brands adopt and develop their Handshake domains.

Today Mark and I discuss:

• How launching fitness and SaaS companies led him to discover domain investing and then handshake domains.
• Mark and I discuss the ins and outs of handshake domain investing and development as well as common handshake domain use cases, including how Mark became the handshake domain registry of .gin.
• Mark also shares insight in regards to the feasibility and interoperability of handshake and legacy domain ecosystems re-imagining the future of web 3.0
• And finally, we discuss the nitty-gritty details in getting started with the buying, selling, and auctioning of handshake auctions.

In closing, don’t forget to subscribe as you enjoy this week's episode via iTunes, GooglePlay, Stitcher, or however you desire to listen. 😍

Last but not least, please visit KickstartCommerce.com and DNAdverts.com to learn more about search marketing and domain investing ideas to grow your business.

 

Riches in the Niches with FinTech Domains — Mike Sallese

Welcome to the Kickstart Commerce podcast where we share search marketing and domain investing strategies to help grow your business.

In today's episode, our guest, Mike Sallese, is a long-time, part-time domain investor and the CEO of FinTechNames.com.

Today Mike and I discuss:

• How a marketing and finance background during the early days of the internet led Mike to discover the domain industry
• Mike shares how he uses marketplace data when buying and selling domains in the FinTech niche — blockchain, token, crypto, and more
• How and why journaling daily auction results helps Mike refine his strategy to identify under-valued domains
• And last but not least, we chat about GoDaddy’s substantial price adjustment to closeout domains, and its impact on domaining

In closing, don’t forget to subscribe as you enjoy this week's episode via iTunes, GooglePlay, Stitcher, or however you desire to listen. 😍

Last but not least, please visit KickstartCommerce.com and DNAdverts.com to learn more about search marketing and domain investing ideas to grow your business.

 

Transparent Data-Driven Domain Investing with Nikul Sanghvi

Welcome to the Kickstart Commerce podcast where we share search marketing and domain investing strategies to help grow your business.

In today's episode, our guest, Nikul Sanghvi, is a highly-esteemed, professional domain investor of ccTLDs, and the founder and principal of hypernames.co — a digital asset boutique connecting startups and subject matter experts with high impact, memorable domains.

Today Nikul and I dive deep into:

• Insightful perspectives and lessons learned about his ccTLD investing experiences thus far
• Including detailed analysis of his best year in domaining yet, detailing purchases, renewals, registrations, commissions, and fees, and more
• The pros and cons of ccTLD investing, and everything in between
• Predictions for what’s next on the horizon for ccTLDs

In closing, don’t forget to subscribe as you enjoy this week's episode via iTunes, GooglePlay, Stitcher, or however you desire to listen. 😍

Last but not least, please visit KickstartCommerce.com and DNAdverts.com to learn more about search marketing and domain investing ideas to grow your business.

 

From book publishing and technology company exits to 6-figure part-time domain investing — Mark Levine

Welcome to this episode of Kickstart Commerce podcast where we share search marketing and domain investing strategies to help grow your business.

In today's episode, our guest is Mark Levine — a serial entrepreneur and astute domain investor, once owning category-killer domains such as Published.com, BookPrinting.com and many more valuable one and two word .com domains.

Today Mark and I discuss:

• How a lucrative career in a book publishing and technology company introduced him to domain investing
• He also shares how and why domain investing has sharpened his business acumen
• We also talk a bit ccTLDs, and which extensions he actively invests in
• And last but not least, Mark reveals his overall 2020 domain results as a part-time domain investor — including average acquisition and sales data, portfolio sale-through rate, and much more.

In closing, don’t forget to subscribe as you enjoy this week's episode via iTunes, GooglePlay, Stitcher, Spotify, or however you desire to listen. 😍

Last but not least, please visit KickstartCommerce.com and DNAdverts.com to learn more about search marketing and domain investing ideas to grow your business.

 

AI Selling with Data, Digital Outreach, and Dialing Technology — Chad Burmeister

Welcome to this episode of Kickstart Commerce podcast where we share search marketing and domain investing strategies to help grow your business.

In today's episode, our guest is Chad Burmeister— a long-time sales professional, podcaster, and founder of Scalex.ai — a pipeline as a service that solves the sales pipeline problem by combining data, digital, and dialing through artificial intelligence.

Today Chad and I discuss:

• How mentors assisted in identifying Chad’s “fire-in-the-belly” gifting for sales early in life
• He also shares how previous sales experience across varying industries — supply chain management, social recruiting, talent management — paved the way for founding Scalex.ai
• And last but not least, Chad reveals how virtual and remote selling early in his career served him well during COVID, having recently launched SalesClass.ai — the first interactive community for empowering sales professional

In closing, don’t forget to subscribe as you enjoy this week's episode via iTunes, GooglePlay, Stitcher, Spotify, or however you desire to listen. 😍

Last but not least, please visit KickstartCommerce.com and DNAdverts.com to learn more about search marketing and domain investing ideas to grow your business.

 

The 50/50 Approach to Bulk Domain Portfolio Investing with Deepak Daftari

Welcome to this episode of Kickstart Commerce podcast where we share search marketing and domain investing strategies to help grow your business.

In today's episode, our guest is Deepak Daftari — a long-time domain investor, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor based in India.

Today Deepak and I discuss:

• How developing online portals for headhunting and education paved the path to full-time domain investing
• How cornering the .co.in market led to the birthing and refining of bulk portfolio buying and selling of premium domains
• Also, hear how Deepak drives sales by limiting renewal length and aiming for quality rather than quantity
• Deepak also reveals his 50/50 approach to bulk domain portfolio investing as well as angel investing and domain brokering
• Last but not least Deepak insightfully shares a handful of his latest domain sales, and his strategy when pricing domains to sale

In closing, don’t forget to subscribe as you enjoy this week's episode via iTunes, GooglePlay, Stitcher, Spotify, or however you desire to listen. 😍

Last but not least, please visit KickstartCommerce.com and DNAdverts.com to learn more about search marketing and domain investing ideas to grow your business.

 

Solving Domain Capital Challenges via a No-Code Domain Development Subscription Business with Stephen Campbell

Welcome to this episode of Kickstart Commerce podcast where we share search marketing and domain investing strategies to help grow your business.

In today's episode, our guest is Stephen Campbell — domain investor turned domain developer of FlipWebDomains.com, NoCodeMakers.com, having recently launched an Open-AI virtual ghostwriter earning $400+ recurring monthly revenue (and growing) in less than 7 days.

Today Stephen and I discuss:

• The economic challenges of buying and selling domains while residing in Jamaica
• How he got his start in the domain industry, and what it was like working at Epik as a Territory Manager
• Stephen also shares why and how he choose to pivot from domain investing to domain development, for now
• Last but not least, Stephens reveals how recently launching a monthly recurring subscription business for ghostwriting services — all while having not written one line of code.

In closing, don’t forget to subscribe as you enjoy this week's episode via iTunes, GooglePlay, Stitcher, Spotify, or however you desire to listen. 😍

Last but not least, please visit KickstartCommerce.com and DNAdverts.com to learn more about search marketing and domain investing ideas to grow your business.

 

From a DJ spinning records to full-time domain investing with Jason Sheppard

Welcome to the Kickstart Commerce podcast where we share search marketing and domain investing strategies to help grow your business.

In today's episode, our guest is Jason Sheppard — a former DJ now turned full-time domain investor and the newest DNAcademy Accelerator Instructor.

Today Jason and I discuss:

• How COVID abruptly transitioned him from spinning records as a DJ to flipping domains as a full-time domain investor.
• He schools us on how he manages cash flow through liquidation and installment payment plans.
• Also, Jason shares how he partnered with a local businessman to create a domain partner portfolio, in addition to his personal portfolio of 7500+ domain names.
• And finally, Jason compares and contrasts domain investing in 2020,  and what’s to come in 2021 and what to watch for, including a sneak peek about the DNAccelator.com.

In closing, don’t forget to subscribe as you enjoy this week's episode via iTunes, GooglePlay, Stitcher, or however you desire to listen. 😍

Last but not least, please visit KickstartCommerce.com and DNAdverts.com to learn more about search marketing and domain investing ideas to grow your business.

 

Recap of 9 Domain Predictions for 2020

Welcome to this episode of the Kickstart Commerce podcast where I share thoughts about search marketing and domain name investing strategies to help grow your business.

In today’s episode, I’ll recap 9 domain predictions made for 2020 as it pertained to domain sales, domain extensions, bloggers, conferences, and the overall economics of the domain industry in general.

In closing, don’t forget to subscribe as you enjoy this week's episode via iTunes, GooglePlay, Stitcher, or however you desire to listen. 😍

Last but not least, please visit KickstartCommerce.com and DNAdverts.com to learn more about search marketing and domain investing ideas to grow your business.