We’ve had this conversation a few times as an aside at the TaxLoopholes First Class Lounge Forum. I think it’s worth another reminder because I just saw a site make this fatal mistake.
Don’t forget to renew your domain names! I buy names and hold on to them for the “some day” future of creating websites for them. Meanwhile I have names that I think could really turn into something. If you notice these days, unless you’re looking in the Spanish language market or secondary market for domain names, most of the things that are available are either really long or don’t make sense. That’s why if you have a potentially good domain name, you want to make sure you hang on to it by having an automatic reminder set up. We have a spreadsheet with the dates as a reminder on top of the reminder that we get from the domain company.
I’m not going to publish the faux paux I saw at a site today, but if you’re curious drop me an email at Diane@ DKTaxServices .com and I’ll give you the site with the link to whole different place than they expected.
September 11th, 2008 at 4:44 am
I have a question about domain names. I have tried to get http://www.marknelson.com
Someone has it right now but doesn’t use it. I reserved http://www.marknelson.net but haven’t been able to reserve http://www.marknelson.com
The person who has it right now started a blog 2 years ago and hasn’t written on it so I am thinking the name will come up again in January. Any idea on how to get my hands on it without selling my house.
September 11th, 2008 at 6:12 am
There was some to-do a while back about .name urls.
That might be something to investigate.
September 11th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Ages ago when it dawned on me that I needed to start paying attention to the Internet, I tried to buy DianeKennedy.com. It was taken by a Realtor in Austin, TX. I keep waiting for her to go out of business, but no such luck.
So, I have DianeKennedyCPA.com, which I will some day get a page up for…
I don’t know if it’s that important Mark. Build a brand instead of your name. In “Good to Great” that’s one of the keys for a business that lasts. It’s a company that is bigger than a personality. I tried to do it with TaxLoopholes at first, but it is just too linked into my name. I think that might make sense because people want a face for an advisor.
Mark, I’m still not sure I get your business model for Financial Hat, though. Where are you going with this? What is the product you’ll sell? Do you have a sales funnel? Not sure if you picked up Ready. Fire. Aim when we were reading it this past month for the Learning Circle at the First Class Lounge Forum on TaxLoopholes. If you didn’t, give yourself a homework assignment and read it, even if it’s just the section on getting to the first $1,000,000. There is invaluable advice there.