This may be a bit on the risky side, as you may not get exactly $150+ or it may take an extra day. You can make it consistent if ya really want, but it does require work.
There are loads of ways to make some quick cash from domaining.
1- Join one of the many domain droplist subscription (or free) services that deliver really brandable and/or free expiration lists (way more work and time, but you can typically find a few awesome diamonds in the rough that others won't pick up on). Buy 1 domain based on selling it at 5x-10x your initial domain purchase price ($10 for arguments sake). Look for domains that are generic, don't even bother with premiums, because you most likely won't score one. Generics are keyword style domains. Great spots to look at are current search engine keyword trend reports (as current as possible). Some possibilites using this stategy
2- Buy one domain per day for 30 days straight. Make sure each domain you purchase is a keyword that is getting at least 300 searches per month on avg. It's VERY likely that of those 300 searches, maybe 30-50 are going to be typein searches aka typing in your domain name thinking it's the best way to find what they are looking for. If they hit your parked domain search engine and click any of the links, you're going to be getting paid. You can either target one completely related niche for all 30 domains, or 30 different ones. Either way, what you want to focus on is TRAFFIC/SEARCH VOLUME and 10+ SPONSORS/ADVERTISERS. The amount of the cpc are tough to guage sometimes because there are so many beaks to wet in the process. Don't go for $30/click keywords, because 99% of them have really low search volumes and even lower, if any direct navs and clicks on your domain's parking page. Be realistic with yourself.
I was getting out of control with domain acquisitions, and although I've amassed over 20,000 domains now, there are so many of them that don't do shit for me and won't, so they are useless to me. Instead of bitching though, I started to pick up 1-5 new domains, everyday, using the exact strategy above. I'm not making millions from it, but I am making over $150/day from the direct nav/typein traffic now.
3- Domain flipping. Everyone wants to fucking bank in this area, and lemme tell you, it's tough, because what is popular today, may not be popular again until years from now, or worse, you may THINK you have a great domain with a high value, and even if you do, it may sit on the market for months or even years. It's a buyers market right now, so don't expect to sell your 5 word long keyword domains for $10k in a day. Most domain sales are in the $1500 or less sale zone, and many of them have been on the market for a while. So how do we get over it?
This takes some market research (just like anything should you lazy bastards!). Look around and see what people are talking about. Whether it's a hot new topic in the news, or some celeb is going back into rehab, or even something industry related within ad network campaigns that are really hot. No one is going to hold your hand through this, but if you can spend a few hours digging up some sweet topic specific niche domains, you can easily acquire them and flip them in less than a day or a week or less, depending on how HOT that market is. Webmasters/Affiliates buy TONS of domains. Maybe not in large portfolio acquisitions, but definitely for landing pages that they want to brand for a new campaign, or some new blog to take advantage of some news story taking place.
Here's where you can take a regular domain, and increase it's value by at least 10x what you paid for it. You can go the simple and easy route and just sell the domain, as is, with a free push to the new owner's account at the registrar you got it at. Or you can play fixerupper.
Cut your day up into four quarters.
First quarter, market/niche/traffic research. Find a niche, get the domain.
Second quarter, dress the domain up with a website, even if it's an out of the box script (stay away from something that requires a shitload of traffic to make it work).
Third quarter, go link crazy on it. Hire a submission of directory, social network bookmarks, do all the SEO, spruce up that fucking site like your ass depends on it.
Fourth quarter, put that sucker up for sale either here, or at DP or at SPF (they do have one of the best places to put it up for sale at, especially if it's worthy). You can also try ebay and Craigslist or any other type of online classified ads spot that isn't saturated with bullshit spam posts (thanks to so many of you boys and girls here I bet!).
See, all you're doing is playing on the "potential" of what this site can do.. so you can very easily list the BIN at $100-$300.. don't go higher than that. If you manage to get a $300 sale, you can spend the entire next day doing it all over again. You won't score $300 every time (well, not usually) but it is very simple to do and once you get the hang of it, you'll be able to do a few sites a day if that's what you're interested in... and all this, from something that was just a $10 bare bones domain earlier that same day! Not too shabby.
I would also suggest that you include a very general scope of WHAT you did, in terms of linking, bookmarks, seo, design, script/layout, etc. Also, something I've seen many people do is as soon as spots for ads are added, they jack the price up by another $50-$100 in the middle of the auction, and it gets people biting quicker and closes the sale faster too.
There are loads of ways to make some quick cash from domaining.
1- Join one of the many domain droplist subscription (or free) services that deliver really brandable and/or free expiration lists (way more work and time, but you can typically find a few awesome diamonds in the rough that others won't pick up on). Buy 1 domain based on selling it at 5x-10x your initial domain purchase price ($10 for arguments sake). Look for domains that are generic, don't even bother with premiums, because you most likely won't score one. Generics are keyword style domains. Great spots to look at are current search engine keyword trend reports (as current as possible). Some possibilites using this stategy
2- Buy one domain per day for 30 days straight. Make sure each domain you purchase is a keyword that is getting at least 300 searches per month on avg. It's VERY likely that of those 300 searches, maybe 30-50 are going to be typein searches aka typing in your domain name thinking it's the best way to find what they are looking for. If they hit your parked domain search engine and click any of the links, you're going to be getting paid. You can either target one completely related niche for all 30 domains, or 30 different ones. Either way, what you want to focus on is TRAFFIC/SEARCH VOLUME and 10+ SPONSORS/ADVERTISERS. The amount of the cpc are tough to guage sometimes because there are so many beaks to wet in the process. Don't go for $30/click keywords, because 99% of them have really low search volumes and even lower, if any direct navs and clicks on your domain's parking page. Be realistic with yourself.
I was getting out of control with domain acquisitions, and although I've amassed over 20,000 domains now, there are so many of them that don't do shit for me and won't, so they are useless to me. Instead of bitching though, I started to pick up 1-5 new domains, everyday, using the exact strategy above. I'm not making millions from it, but I am making over $150/day from the direct nav/typein traffic now.
3- Domain flipping. Everyone wants to fucking bank in this area, and lemme tell you, it's tough, because what is popular today, may not be popular again until years from now, or worse, you may THINK you have a great domain with a high value, and even if you do, it may sit on the market for months or even years. It's a buyers market right now, so don't expect to sell your 5 word long keyword domains for $10k in a day. Most domain sales are in the $1500 or less sale zone, and many of them have been on the market for a while. So how do we get over it?
This takes some market research (just like anything should you lazy bastards!). Look around and see what people are talking about. Whether it's a hot new topic in the news, or some celeb is going back into rehab, or even something industry related within ad network campaigns that are really hot. No one is going to hold your hand through this, but if you can spend a few hours digging up some sweet topic specific niche domains, you can easily acquire them and flip them in less than a day or a week or less, depending on how HOT that market is. Webmasters/Affiliates buy TONS of domains. Maybe not in large portfolio acquisitions, but definitely for landing pages that they want to brand for a new campaign, or some new blog to take advantage of some news story taking place.
Here's where you can take a regular domain, and increase it's value by at least 10x what you paid for it. You can go the simple and easy route and just sell the domain, as is, with a free push to the new owner's account at the registrar you got it at. Or you can play fixerupper.
Cut your day up into four quarters.
First quarter, market/niche/traffic research. Find a niche, get the domain.
Second quarter, dress the domain up with a website, even if it's an out of the box script (stay away from something that requires a shitload of traffic to make it work).
Third quarter, go link crazy on it. Hire a submission of directory, social network bookmarks, do all the SEO, spruce up that fucking site like your ass depends on it.
Fourth quarter, put that sucker up for sale either here, or at DP or at SPF (they do have one of the best places to put it up for sale at, especially if it's worthy). You can also try ebay and Craigslist or any other type of online classified ads spot that isn't saturated with bullshit spam posts (thanks to so many of you boys and girls here I bet!).
See, all you're doing is playing on the "potential" of what this site can do.. so you can very easily list the BIN at $100-$300.. don't go higher than that. If you manage to get a $300 sale, you can spend the entire next day doing it all over again. You won't score $300 every time (well, not usually) but it is very simple to do and once you get the hang of it, you'll be able to do a few sites a day if that's what you're interested in... and all this, from something that was just a $10 bare bones domain earlier that same day! Not too shabby.
I would also suggest that you include a very general scope of WHAT you did, in terms of linking, bookmarks, seo, design, script/layout, etc. Also, something I've seen many people do is as soon as spots for ads are added, they jack the price up by another $50-$100 in the middle of the auction, and it gets people biting quicker and closes the sale faster too.
