From the DUMB FILE: Yahoo! to BAN Working From Home!?

Morning Folks!!


The headline says it all. Probably everyone reading this would be fired from Yahoo! if we were working there. Gee, ya mean when I get up at 5:30AM and do 3 hours of my most productive work, I can't do it any more? You want me less productive? Does my bathrobe threaten you?


I have not even read the reason why and frankly, I don't give a damn my dear. Stupid is stupid and I think this ban will last as long as it takes you to read this crap. I guess she did not work from home during her pregnancy? I guess checking email after 5PM is now a NO-NO!


If you own Yahoo! stock...dump it. I thought this new CEO, Marissa Mayer, would get this company and Brand back on track. I was wrong and this sort of misguided nonsense proves it.


No working from home....EVER!!! WOW!


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-belkin/marissa-mayer-work-from-home-yahoo-rule_b_2750256.html


Rick Schwartz


The Sun Never Sets on the English Example: Why WORDS + .com are and always will be the Internet Standard

Morning Folks!!


I'm probably going to use terms or say a few things in this post that are wrong.


That's because I personally don't believe it's worth the while for me to invest in foreign language .com domains (whatever domainers call those) or country code extension domains.


Because in MY lifetime there is more opportunity to profit with dot com as an INVESTOR, even though as a speculator there is money to be made down the road with those, and great money to be made TODAY with businesses using those in certain DEFINED instances.


Just nowhere near what's coming with dot com as a quaint 20 year hobby of a few thousand people you may just be learning about TODAY...called 'Domaining'...is transforming by the DAY into a new industry and asset class called eRealEstate.


And so I haven't researched those foreign language dot com or country code domain name topics in the depth I've researched the brand of dot com, which I personally believe is probably the most mind-branded concept in the history of mankind (that doesn't have a theology attached to it anyway).


That's right folks, the history of big ideas that WON over other ideas in the evolution of our species goes like this:



Of course I left out a few steps and I'm sure if one of my HS history teachers or college history professors would be quite upset at my incomplete essay and the fact that some might be in the wrong order...but fact is I ain't writing a meticulously researched treatise on the history of history to get an 'A'...I'm letting you know I've seen the future and its because a guy named Rick Schwartz saw it first and pointed it out to me.


Just as he's been pointing it out to people selflessly (and selfishly too...yes he has an agenda, and that agenda is becoming richer each time he helps someone else become richer too).


Tirelessly pointing it out for close to 20 years, and getting A after A with just a few Bs and Cs...for a guy that I don't think ever really cared too much about formal education, college etc its almost amazing how prescient many of his predictions have turned out to be about eRealEstate.


And I am starting to understand how he's so puzzled when so many other people choose to disagree with him and keep getting an F why they wouldn't just ask for his help and look at his cheat sheet of notes he's been maintaining for decades in journals just like this one here on RicksBlog.com.


I'm not saying there isn't opportunity in other places of the domain name universe for investors. There is...I'm just puzzled why anyone as educated as the long-time readers of this entire blog would bother, especially viewed in light of the fact that the newest viewers of this blog are entrepreneurs and business leaders first and domainers second....they each have ONE 'big idea' they want to turn into a business (startup) or to use to propel a business further (established company).


There is so much opportunity in .com, why bother with anything smaller that has been proven less valuable and will increasingly be proven so?


The future dollars of dot com is eRealEstate, not Domaining.


It's just not yet proven.


Give it 3 years and you'll kick yourself if you don't stop complaining today that all the good .com domains are taken...and start realizing ALL the great .coms available then WERE TAKEN 20 years ago.


Some others evolved with changes in culture, technology, human nature, products etc...


They were taken for a reason folks.


They ain't coming back.


And no equal alternative is possible in this lifetime, though THOUSANDS of www.domain.craps die will be cast hoping for Daddy's Lucky #7.


As Sergeant Bilko said it best when asked 'Sir, is there anything else we can do for you?' by the hotel concierge after he threw several winning Craps tosses in the row:


'Yes, go down to your vault and tell the rest of your money to be patient...we'll be together soon.'


Dot com is the new global eRealEstate, and almost anything a man or company or business can do to make money with physical real estate, he can do BETTER with eRealEstate.


Rick Schwartz predicted it on the day he registered eRealEstate.com on November 4th 1996 and all these years later people still look him up, chase him down, follow the yellow-brick road from a property he owns that they wanted to buy (so they could build on), and knock on his virtual VAULT front door at RicksBlog.com and say 'Rick, you're wrong!'


And he steps out from around stacks of cash and gold bars and virtually looks at them and says-- a little brusquely maybe at times-- when they step back off his front porch and he can get a good look at them:

'Who are you? What do you want?'


And when they say 'I want to buy your land you're not building on.'


He laughs and tells them he's been expecting them, asks them what they want to do with the land and closes the door.


They read that brusque email from this guy they find out calls himself the 'Domain King' and sometimes they think he wants to steal their 'idea' (never realizing in many cases HE had their big idea...or one close to it...17-20 years before when he registered the idea's best possible name on the Internet), many times going away to work harder and not smarter because of their irrational fear.


And when they reply to the email and come back and knock again with their reason why they can only pay $$$ couched as an objection that they don't believe what they're trying UNSOLICITED to buy ain't worth what he says it is, he laughs again.


Then replies to their challenges, questions and counters all in English words, and they do the same...even when a growing percentage of them are from dozens of other countries than US, UK or Australia...(hint), and maybe he says something like this:


'My WORD.com land isn't for sale at any cash only price you'll want to pay, but you can use it and buy it down the road when your business can afford to pay an amount that's fair out of the increased profits I'm confident you'll make for the same reason I knew you'd show up here knocking, knocking at my virtual vault door.'


And for 17 years most of these would-be land buyers would shake their head at the IDEA to build something on land they didn't yet own, and walk away to work harder and not smarter.


Today it's changed.


We get it Rick.


The lessee can own the shop and sell to all the foot traffic while you own the retail space.


The lessee can build, own and operate the office skyscraper starting with one floor at a time going up...while you own the land underneath.


The lessee can build the business of their dreams and own it...and you simply provide the foundation you'll give up as soon as they're ready to be their own eLandlord and buy you out so in time the successful ones own both the land AND always from day one own what's built ON it, with never a worry that it would be 'stolen'...no more than a landowner can or would steal a shopping mall or a skyscraper so long as the business owner leasing the land pays as agreed to use it.

99 year land lease?


It's happened before. And anyone can look it up. Maybe they should read about who owns the land underneath Irvine, CA or many other cities where one family was smart enough to buy up all the land and make great deals for anyone to build.


One parallels another, history will repeat itself...only this one will happen faster.


And one day the currently offered 30 year domain lease deals and the 5 year lease to own deals offered to the fast movers in the next couple years as this new market gains worldwide acceptance will simply be GONE.


And your only options at THAT time to get the dot com domain name you want and need will be a 99 year lease or a piece of your company. It's dot com and its eRealEstate.


And it's here to stay.


And you can get your piece of the Internet Dream for your start-up company for nothing more than $3000 as a set up deposit and start paying monthly on the lease deal.


Or your more established company can put 12 payments down on a non-refundable purchase option deposit plus $3000 security deposit and start paying monthly on the lease purchase deal to FULLY CONTROL your eRealEstate land and build as you wish to sell more of your products to a global marketplace of customers...starting with those knocking on your door every day.


Hell, you can even rent eRealEstate on a month to month basis with a fair and much higher security deposit (so the owner knows you won't ruin his/her property) and no long-term commitment...simply because you agree with us that a vanity domain name will convert prospects to leads BETTER from direct response advertising such as TV commercials, magazine ads, and billboards. Don't believe us? Rent and test...you'll convince yourself to buy or lease with an option to purchase that GREAT domain name you are/were looking at before knocking much better than we could ever do it.


Just ask yourself how you found yourself here reading this?


You followed the Yellow Brick Road of powerful attraction. In most cases, no one marketed to you to come here, did they?


That's how your customers will find YOUR great domain name once you grab it from your competition.


And then that's how they'll find YOUR great business...in ways they aren't yet now.

It's YOUR job to turn them into customers, though.


If you can. If you can't, and of you hesitate to lease the property you've been eyeing, we're happy to wait til your competitor makes us a better offer.

Happy to wait all DECADE doing what you feel is 'nothing' (but that makes us effortless income) on 80% of the properties, if the 20% include doing deals with companies that have vision and money both (or one or the other is often fine too).


Make us an offer for WORD.com we won't laugh at.


Just be sure we're speaking the same LANGUAGE and the $$ numbers will work themselves out with time and conversation.


Danny Welsh

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Location, Location, Location Does Not Mean a BAD Location!!

Morning Folks!!


Want some examples of really bad locations? Confusing locations? Cute but confusing and so they are nothing at all? Just a little of what is to come. Who you will share the stage with. Who will make the smart guys a ton of money. You can't make this stuff up and I am sure a few will stroll in here and tell me this or that. Let me start slapping my knee right now before they even speak.


They don't pass the radio test. They fail the radio test. They don't pass the word of mouth test. They fail that one as well. The ONLY test they pass is the one that creates a 'State of confusion.'


Hey it's the weekend. Maybe I will uncover a hornets nest of domainers that think this is the way. This is the future. All I can say to them, be on time Monday morning.


These guys have the right arguments, just armed with the wrong names. That means they will always work harder for less.


JesusSav.es and InGodWeTru.st are Among the Hot New Domain Names Now Being Offered Exclusively at WeFollowJesus.org


http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/2/prweb10423779.htm


Have a GREAT Day!
Rick Schwartz


REAL”BIG Ideas” that WON…and how Domaining is/was an Important Prelude to dotcom eRealEstate

Morning Folks!!


If you don't always want to be complaining that you missed this and you missed that, maybe it is time to be EARLY this time around. Your choice. You can be late again if you CHOOSE!


A brief and incomplete history of a few big ideas in the last few thousand years that WON over other ideas in the evolution of our species and how we think as human beings...



Gold

Land Ownership

Monotheism

Rome

Latin

Rationalism

Agriculture

British Empire

Pound

English

Coal

Industrialization

America

Representative Democracy

Automobile

Oil

Radio

Telephone

Stock Market

Dollar

Airplane

Television

McDonald's

Coke

Nike

Capitalism

Computer

Internet

Information economy

Dot com


To be the BIG IDEA you must BEST the big idea. Not simply alter it. Not simply copy it and call it better or the same. Not simply compete with it, though you can surely compete and make money or gain users/adopters...you cannot play small and WIN when you are up against the BIG IDEA.

A cellphone is still a telephone. Internet radio is still a radio. Communism though it still exists FAILED. So did Reebok if its desire was to become THE athletic shoes.

Google.com is built on dot com. Domain.net and all the others are imitations until and unless any one of them can be a BETTER idea in the mind of the masses than dot com, they are all playing for first loser.


English became a better alternative than Latin, why? America became more influential than the British Empire, why? Capitalism was a more perfect IDEA in the timing of history than the Soviet Communism...why?

Not to get all geopolitical on everyone and reveal my ignorance of current events that may stem from not owning a televisions...but let me flex my brain of what I DO see in the news and from my background with a degree in Political Science: China's growth is a threat to America the nation but not America the IDEA which is made up of other ideas on that list...why will China never rule the world even if and when they try?

And even if and when another English speaking representative government that's capitalist were to take the place of America in the role of world peacekeeper, why am I supremely unconcerned that one Sunday in the future my children's children's children will wake up dressing in Chinese-style clothing, driving a Chinese government-created car to a Chinese temple, praying to some non Christian, non-Jewish, non-Muslim god in one of the hundreds Chinese dialects as a first language, before returning home to their Commune apartment?

Because 97% of the IDEAS that would have to become real for that reality to happen have yet to happen...and most never will because they've already been proven less desirable to the common man on the street in ANY country.

Which is why no matter where you go they strive to speak English as a second language, wear Nike, drink Coca-Cola, and enjoy McDonald's (even if the menu is different than what we in America would recognize).

Why does 'China' never scare me? It's an IDEA made up of some good ideas (gold) mixed with some bad ideas (shit) that together persuades many its own people that they'd prefer to just live the American Dream.

Or did I give you the answer already why China will look more and more like an ally and not an enemy as time goes on and their very people bend to superior ideas their government simply can't keep them for learning forever? Think hard now...I promise you'll get it how this all applies to domain names if you don't look to your television for answers.

The answers to the future aren't in today at all (and never have been).

They're in the past and in human nature, and predicting how things SHOULD unfold is half art and half science and even though I have that BA in government I won't BS you and say 'this must happen'.

But from where I'm sitting if you want to become richer, any bet on China/India or Chinese/Indian or Domain/IDN in a business MAY earn more speculative growth in the next few years than English, America, dot com...

But hey, they have a lot of catching up to do. Have they even fully realized completion of the INDUSTRIALIZATION 'big idea' yet!? Stop...go back to my brief and not perfectly in order list of what I cheekily called 'A history of ideas that WON' and YOU TELL ME why I should be afraid of the Chinese people taking their place at the rightful table to discuss capitalism and representative government? Lol I'm getting too deep for a domainer blog, aren't I?


If you can't ask the tough questions, you deserve what lazy thinking gets you. A great idea is never one man's!

It may have a spokesperson or an inventor or a revolutionary or a champion but the power of great ideas come from a movement, a market, pressure and time and circulation.

Look at dot com thru the lens of history and human nature and you'll realize today what most of 'the 500' realized 20 years ago.

There is 'dot com' and then there is everything else.

Sorry folks, Godaddy running that YourBigIdea.co commercial is not being completely truthful with you and spending millions to do it on that idiot box you plop down in front of just trying to relax at the end of a long day...never realizing that if you take their .co 'Your Big Idea' commercial at face value and buy a .co lottery ticket, trusting their very convincing commercial as you believe somehow you won't have to wait 20 years to have a chance to be in that jet as discussed here: [LINK]

Buy Domain.co and the registrar Wins, You on the other hand will have TWO possible paths:

1. Succeed in your online business, feel like you win as your business takes off built on a foundation of sand, until You lose when finally one day in the future you realize you needed Domain.com when it was available that one day back then for lease/JV and now you have to pay even more for it.

2. Fail in your business


What about a Chinese .cn domain?


Buy Domain.cn and the registrar Wins, You on the other hand will have THREE possible paths:

1. Succeed in your online business selling only within China, feel like you win as your business takes off built on a good but not great foundation of bamboo, be happy with that medium-level success as your local country-area customers are quite satisfied to do business with the Domain.CN they alone in the world recognize and trust. Maybe one day your children will want Domain.com so they can expand the business you built to become GLOBAL.

2. Succeed in your online business selling at first only within China, feel like you win as your business takes off built on a good but not great foundation of bamboo, are UNhappy with that medium-level success as your local country-area customers are the ONLY customers in the world satisfied to do business with the Domain.CN they alone in the world recognize and trust. Maybe one day you wake up wishing you had secured Domain.COM as your global brand so you can expand... You lose when on that day in the future you realize you needed what you could have gotten fairly in a lease/JV and now you have to pay even more for it.

3. Fail in your business

Buy .co and you take business advice on the most important decision for selling products online from a television commercial.


Buy .cn and you can be quite successful selling products online in China where their ideas are mostky still 100 years behind what their own people know are superior ideas...and despite your regional success, you'll almost certainly never have a global IDEA or business in THIS LIFETIME.

Trust a Commercial? Trust Communism?

Shoulda read a book instead!

Here's one for you:

'Influence: Science and Practice'

Dr. Cialdini's book doesn't mention domain names that I recall and the book may have even been written before such existed. But the book explains human nature in ways that is scary.
Eyeball sees or ear hears '.com'

Click....whirr

Brain immediately processes and trusts.

Eyeball sees or ear hears '.crap'

Click....whirr

Brain tries to process, can't help comparing to '.com', suspects something is maybe not right (with the possible exception of a few exceptions that have been covered in other posts right here on this blog)


Just two men's opinion, folks.


Sometimes Rick's right.

Sometimes Danny's wrong.

But even when the one is wrong...the other could have been right.

And right now WE are telling you...history has proven, is proving, and increasingly will prove most (but not all) of Rick Schwartz's predictions correct as it pertains to the decline of Domaining and the rise of eRealEstate spearheaded by Danny Welsh with his mentor and partner's advice and help.

So if you loved Domaining, its time to leave all the hopes for a second coming behind, cash out of all the pipe dreams (take a loss if you have to like Rick did with flowers.mobi) and invest MOST of your dollars in dot com before dollars alone are simply no longer enough to buy ANY eRealEstate that doesn't include equity from the END USER company burning with desire to buy it.

If you're reading this blog in 2013, you still have a chance to squirrel away a few choice dot com nuts that one day someone will come along and offer you more DOLLARS than most people would consider a lifetime's pay for ONE dea in THIS LIFETIME.

Or you can chase all the other non-English, non-dot com www.Domain.Yen or www.Domain.Indian or whatever.

Your call, I think it'll 67% pay off big for your kids as a speculative investment today in 2013. (Hint)

But it's 'small ball' folks, when the game everyone whines is 'over' is simply at the 7th inning stretch.


.com is about to hit a grand slam AND pitch an almost no-hitter in the next 3 years.


You think you've seen a secondary market for dot com now? Ha! Wait til the $25,000,000 cash deals and for others besides Rick Schwartz to lease a domain for more than $1,000,000 per year.


Those kinds of deals are coming.

And it will open the floodgates of the possible, and send a message loud and clear 'they' won't be able to ignore.

The question is..knowing that future predicted right here by these two men, will you ignore what you can do TODAY to prepare your business to profit and your family to prosper?


Again?

Rick Schwartz &

Danny Welsh
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What does”Moving Mountains” Mean??

Mornig Folks!!


The Great Gratz taught me a Few things. Never cross the street unless there is a reason to do so. The difference between leaders and assholes. Think big and move mountains! So what exactly does the latter mean?


It means think BIG. Dream BIG. Do BIG things. Don't think small.


So let me give you an example of a mountain I moved right before your very eyes. Maybe it moved so slowly you did not see it. Maybe it moved so fast that you missed it.


This mountain mover started with one slogan. 'This GREAT Domain Name May be Available for Joint Ventures or Lease. Click here to inquire.' It started on a handful of my domains and has spread to all my domains. And then the domains of others. And the domains of PPC companies.


So what started out as an experiment on a few of my domains now has the exact or similar wording on many thousands if not MILLIONS of domain names. They added one word or thought. They added LEASE or RENT to the mix. That my friends is just the first mountain we HAD to move to PREPARE for all the other mountains that come after.


Each is a mountain. These are big things and as I write about it many times I will keep telling you about the stages we must do FIRST before all else. There are things and there are things in a proper order. To move a mountain, it is an Olympic type event. If you want to succeed you need to prepare. Preparing usually takes a LOT longer than the actual goal or the actual hunt. Olympians prepare for years for a 50 yard sprint. A race lasting seconds and they prepare for YEARS!! WHY??? Because they want to succeed!


Prep and train


For the clueless that have hidden agendas, feel threatened somehow and want results yesterday. Let me show you what kind of fools we are dealing with. Imagine we are at a Marina and we are gathering our gear for a 3 month expedition looking for some great whale of a catch. The prep takes the most time. But these fools are jumping up and down when we are still at the marina looking for the whale. Geez. Grow up. You expect that from a 3 year old. Are you insulted. GREAT! Take a hike! I don't force you to come here. I write for myself and those that are interested and are constructive. PERIOD! Plus those to come down the road so they know the REAL story!


So we will do this the way WE see fit and let me spell it out for all to see. All the mountains and all the statges as far as what we expect and when we expect it.


Mountain #1.......Domainers need to see the wisdom and extra money leasing can bring. DONE!


Mountain #2.......Bring to market the very best leaseable domains and work from JointVentures.com. DONE!


Mountain #3......Setup a 12 man sales force that will help us. IN PROCESS (Deadline March 1)


Mountain #4......Setup an EFFECTIVE custom and individual Pitch Page for each and every one of the domains we represent. IN PROCESS. Will unveil some samples soon.


Mountain #5......Arrive in Las Vegas with at least 5-10 deals in hand.


Mountain #6.......By December 31st have at least 1 deal per week happening.


Mountain #7.......Go to our clients and tall them about the fight Danny and I had about the exclusive TERM. Danny wanted an exclusive for 2 years. I said no domainer would do that deal. I said 6 months. He said that would not be enough time to do what it would take. I said I will make you a deal. Let's do 1 year and I promise when I can go back to our clients on December 31st and demonstrate the progress we have made and the mountains we have moved, that 90% or more would stay on board with us. When they see a deal a week. That works because the next stop is 2 deals a week. Then 3. Then 4. Then 1 per day. When we reach 1 per day and there are 255 working days in a year for 9-5ers, everyone will know this game is BIG and the mountain has been MOVED!


But each step takes time to do it RIGHT if you want a success! Any MORON can try and do it FAST and fail! Failing is easy. Inside each mountain are hills with peaks and valleys. There is a path to follow and our job is to follow that path. A path I have been waiting to embark on for 17 years. Waiting for the EXACT right moment.


So if you are tired of hearing about this and what we are going to do to transform what we all do, then I am sorry. This is what I choose to write about and you can choose to ignore every word. I understand completely.


We have a mission!


What Danny and I are doing is good for me and it just happens to translate well to many others.


Moving mountains is not an easy thing to achieve. But when done in order and done right and done methodically and done in a deliberate way by 2 of the most passionate people you will likely ever see with a record of successes and assembling a sales team of like minded folks.....it will bring demonstrable results along the way.


Plus we have added nearly total transparency like no other company. Who does that? We don't have to do it. We choose that path because to be a win-win it has to work that way. Our motives are crystal clear. The benefits are crystal clear. Domainers win big. End users win big.


Need, want, desire, meet problem with a solution that equals more profits and accelerating growth.


So we are still in the marina collecting our gear and preparing. TRAFFIC is when we come back to port. We won't come empty handed and we won't have to invent stuff to save face. I can already give you a list of ACTIVE Joint Ventures. But that was not Danny's plan and I kind of screwed him up. Had this been pulled off the way he wanted and expected with just my domain names, he would have stolen the show.


But guess what? We won't come back empty handed and we will steal the show.


Just like leasing was the big topic out west a few weeks ago. It came up at panel after panel. WHY?? I planned it that way. Really. I'll tell that story some day in the future and can prove what I say. That was like a fun mini-mountain type experiment just for shits and giggles. Mostly for Danny's consumption. Just to prove something about marketing and TIMING! TIMING! TIMING! Lightng a fuse and knowing EXACTLY when and HOW it will go off. I just LOVE when a PLAN comes together!! (Thanks A-Team!)


Leasing has made folks think and many see what we see. Why? Because we moved the mountain. We moved the needle. We changed the conversation. We changed the direction and most importantly, we changed the attitude from one of fear and doubt to one of optimism and excitement. Like maybe there is hope that you can regain control of what we all do.


So think big or think small. But you can't move mountains playing small ball.


I imagine the folks with less than stellar portfolios that now have an opportunity to basically own 5% of Rings.com. Do 20 deals like that and it is like owning a domain like rings.com. Look at things differently. DARE to try! Is it that uncomfortable to look at success right in the face?



This post is for the Great Gratz, Frank Critelli, Al Heller, Bob Hayde and all domainers past, present and future.


Have a GREAT Day!
Rick Schwartz
JointVentures.com

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My A/C Repair Guy has 271 Domains and he gets it! What’s the Excuse for Folks with Fancy Titles?

Morning Folks!!


So yesterday my 65 year old Hungarian Immigrant Air Conditioner guy is working on one of my units. He asked me what I did. I said I make my living on the Internet. Asked more info. Told him I invested in Domain Names. He then tells me he owns 271. Really I ask?


He says he never got any traffic from his company name. So what he did was register 271 domain names. acrepairZIPCODE.com and uses the local zip codes or city names. And that is just how one guy in a service business takes advantage of generic domains to drive traffic to his site to make his phone ring and keep new business coming in. DUH! DUH! DUH!


So please somebody explain to me why well educated men and women that have fancy titles in corp America and Madison Ave. can't seem to get their head around what my a/c repairman can figure out? When the man on the street gets it, those folks that are really smart can't be THAT far behind. Can they?


As a side-note I own ACRepair.com and that shows shows the value one domain can have. This to me is the PERFECT example of a yellow page category killer domain name that has many uses to many people.


If I had no other domain in the world to focus on, I am sure I could make my fortune just as easy doing this one thing full time. But instead, I will find a partner that will do it for both of us.


Have a GREAT Day!

Rick Schwartz


PS: ACRepair.com will be leased by December 31 of this year. This is such a no brainer. ACRepair is a huge, worldwide industry with an average residential ticket of $250-$4500 or more and commercially of course much higher. You mean to tell me I can't find ONE PERSON on the planet that can not see that opportunity? I INSIST I can and WILL! But my job is not find one, it is to find the BEST one!


Here's how you use Google. Look up ac repair and look at all the paid listings. DUH!!!!!


Who else wants $500 cash, 5% of $5000/mo for as many as 5 years or more and then a chance for 5% of a $5,000,000 buyout?

To our friends and clients of JointVentures.com,


We want to pay you a bunch of money for very little effort.


Maybe as much as stated in the catchy title of the blog post
you just scanned, depending on a few variables. That might only be ONE joint
ventures deal we do together.


And we only want you to send ONE email to earn the
up-front money, the monthly money, and any back-end bonus money.


What's the
'catch'?


We need to reach someone with a personal email that has an
important marketing message from us they’ll probably be very interested to hear
from you FIRST (before their competition), someone you may have in your Rolodex
that we maybe don't have in ours.


What is our message we'd like you to pass along if you have
a personal relationship and personal email address with the type of person we
want to reach?


Simply copy this:


<<<


The 'Million Dollar Domain
Name' _________.com is available for sale, lease or joint ventures for a
limited time-- until your company or another signs a deal to get it. Knowing your
business is in ________ and there is
only one __________.com, naturally I thought you'd want to hear about this
unique opportunity for a competitive advantage in your industry category ASAP.
I have cc'd Rick Schwartz to
this email message who invites you to read over the offer proposal at
JointVentures.com and make him an offer to get this premium domain to use for
your company. Best of luck!


>>>


Pretty simple, right?


Who do we want you to send that message to and CC Rick
Schwartz as your only responsibility to earn big referral money if and when I
work a deal with your referral client to buy, lease or JV develop the
'Million Dollar Domain Name' of their interest?


Easy!


Anyone you personally
know who'd be ECSTATIC to hear that theirs could be the one and only company to
get their hands on any of the domains listed at the link below and priced on
the “Featured Domains” tab of JointVentures.com...


http://www.ricksblog.com/2013/02/the-entire-2013-jointventurescom-domain-leasing-list.html


...And is to your
knowledge financially QUALIFIED to make a serious offer.


…And is to your
knowledge a decision-maker for that business on an executive level, preferably
marketing or chief executive only.


Got it?


Our company values
each of these 'Internet real estate property'
domain names at $100,000 up to $x,000,000.


And we'll offer them for lease or lease to own starting with
an affordable monthly fee to the RIGHT company.


If the deal for you ended up being 10% as good as the catchy
example in our blog post title today...or $500 cash plus 5% of $500/mo for 5
years then 5% of $500,000...would it still be a “great day at the
office” for you sending that ONE email?


Of course. Do the math. The only difference is the value of
the domain in question. In the world of premium 'internet real
estate' Property.com for instance is more valuable than DERIVATIVES like
IncomeProperty.com or UKProperty.com and sometimes by a geometric multiple.
Same would go for RealEstate.com (not ours) being far more valuable vs
RealEstateForSale.com by 50x or more.


But again, we'll pay you $500 cash, 5% of the up front cash
in any lease deposit, 5% of the monthly payment if a property domain is
'leased' to your contact and a 5% back-end bonus of any sale -- no matter how big.


One of Danny Welsh’s long-time connector contacts in real
estate that simply knew very little about the domain name space listened to
what we were doing and asked him: “Is this legit?”


Danny responded: “Yes. Property.com sold for $4,000,000 in
2011 just to use ONE related example. And still makes money every month. How
would you have liked to get 5% of that up-front cash, monthly cash and a possible
back-end bonus cash and/or revenue stream just for having sent an email to
bring together buyer and seller? You missed out on that one. You can read about
more big-ticket 'Internet real estate' deals here: http://www.dnjournal.com/ytd-sales-charts.htm.
You missed those too, and so did I. But
I ain't missing any more!”


Needless to say, that mover and shaker is already creating a
pipeline of “protected contacts” one email to a CMO or CEO at a time, and we
think their first completed deal we do FOR them will be very soon.


Now, you can get in on these kinds of deals like we've been
doing using an innovative but SIMPLE method Danny Welsh created for high-level
personal WIN-WIN joint ventures referrals.


Don't hesitate.


If a name of someone you know in a decision-making role
popped in your head when reading those premium domain names on our 2013 list of
properties represented, email that person the simple offer copied from above
and CC me NOW to lock in your commissions if we do a deal with them.


Interested to get an
easy check for sending one email? How about 12 checks a year for years?


All you need to do is
take a look at our 2013 listings, and get in touch with us and them too if
someone in your Rolodex would be thrilled for the opportunity to hear that
PRODUCT.com is available affordably as a lease to their company selling
products.


No daisy chain. No NCND. No BS.


Most of you have been on my blog reading or email list for
years. Many of you have done business with me in various ways, TRAFFIC
conference or auction or other.


I've added value to you
with tips and stuff for years as I want
always to earn your trust. I don't take that lightly.


If you're
'new' to my blog and haven't heard much from me at all or only a few
times, or you've been here a long time and want to know why I've been
'quiet' the last year or so before a flurry of productive action in
the last 8 weeks, thinking and planning to put this opportunity together
for others is a big part of it.


Just as a quick note: this is NOT about our sales broker program.
. We ARE accepting video applications
from applicants for the 12 available sales broker positions…through the week of
2/25/13, posted as links right there in the comments of the blog titled “Armchair
Quarterbacks Need Not Apply: JointVentures.com Sales Team Now Recruiting Future
MVPs”:


LINK


This post today is just about an “informal” referral deal.
Our sub-broker sales program pays the same with a few extra perks and bonuses
for doing multiple deals, but requires an application process and those folks
will get a contract with us, warm lead prospects to follow-up with, protected
properties and they will close deals with a lot more time and effort involved.


This “connector opportunity” is simply a friendly referral
that might pay you $x,xxx-xxx,xxx for little time invested…simply for sending
ONE email to a company decision-maker you may know that we may not, and if it’s
done AS
WE ASK HERE and the company decision-maker responds to the email to
them from you and lets us CC’d know that they are interested/considering a deal
for the domain name…our company will make that company for that domain name a
“protected client referral” for 6 months.


If a deal gets done with that company to lease or buy that domain
name in that 365 day time frame, you get paid as advertised with no other
responsibilities.


The difference between THIS and our sub-broker program for
the JointVentures.com sales team which is now accepting applicants?


A pre-existing RELATIONSHIP must be in place for this
“informal referral deal” and between you and the ONE decision maker you’re
emailing about ONE specific domain name you’re confident that they’d be
interested in if the price were right to lease. Simple, no need for a bunch of
fancy documentation. Just a track record of doing what we say we’ll do, and one email among friends that creates cash
for you (commission), cash for us (lease fee), and cash for your connected
referral (increased sales for their company). WIN-WIN-WIN :)


Let's help you make 2013 your best year ever.


ONE email to the
right person you know that we may not.


We'll do the rest.


And whatever we earn doing that deal with that referral will
be shared with you for as long as we earn it— no matter how much $$ it means
paying out for what amounts to 5 minutes worth of effort on your part...and
having had cultivated the relationship with that decision-maker in the first
place.


You have our word.


Rick Schwartz &
Danny Welsh


If Google is Your Answer to Everything, then you have no Answers to Anything!

Afternoon Folks!!


Dear End user,


Dear Domainer,


If Google is your answer to everything, then you have no answers. Then you are kidding yourself. If your dream is built on Google, you may as well build your dream on a cloud or sand at the ocean.


Now I have stated many times that Google is your LAST resort not your first. This is not a knock on Google. This is illustrating the LAZY end user or domainer that thinks GOOGLE is the KEYWORD that fixes everything answers everything when in fact most get it wrong.


I watch domainers interpreting Google results as their guide to what makes a domain valuable. Ha! They include numbers that don't represent what they think they do. They type in one keyword and get results for many semi related terms. They use Google as a seeing eye dog but without the training needed to accomplish that. Google is the answer all day long. It's no answer at all in my book. It's a crutch to make you look like you know what you are talking about.


End users love affair with Google usually comes crashing down to reality at some point. Likely the point you go out of business.


Depending what good or service you sell you can get so much better results with traditional advertising and other sources of online ads and links and publicity and all the rest. All need to be used together in concert. But Google should be the last one you call after you get all others in place.


Look, there are several approaches. Some are longer term and more of a business type business. Others are businesses set up as pages to earn revenue and sometimes they work and sometimes they don't but few are here for the long term.


So my comments are ALWAYS aimed at those with real and long term type businesses. Always will be. The best way to make anything fly and get off the ground is with a good plan and the best available materials. Google is the keyword that should be deleted from the vocabulary of many. Google has its place, just some don't know exactly what that place is.


Rick Schwartz


Why Domain Leasing? Why Now? The Down and DIRTY Story of Why!

Morning Folks!!


Let's REALLY get into it today. Let's really set the line in the sand. Let's understand why MOST businesses fail. Let's think differently and get a different result. Do you see what we see? Do you see WHY we see it? Well you will after you read this. You will understand what we see. At least you should.


BY Danny Welsh
JointVentures.com
“Why should I consider domain leasing?” seems to be a question Rick and I hear
often from companies offering to buy one of our domain names….most of whom
simply do not have an existing “category” business or new “category” idea that
is at this time BIG ENOUGH that leasing Category.com is a better alternative
than buying any other domain name.


“What makes you think
end users will accept domain leasing?” seems to be a question Rick and I hear
often from domain name owners…most of whom simply do not own domains that
are at this time OF THE CALIBER that leasing them is a better alternative than
buying any other domain name.


Most businesses
don’t care about due diligence
and frankly, most businesses FAIL.


Thousands upon
thousands of businesses just getting online for the first time in the next few
years will be happy to pay $8.99 for a www.domainname.crap wrong-extension
non-.com domain name from registrars that pay upwards of $30.00 per CLICK
to Google just to get that prospect to find the registrar’s website when searching
for a “domain name” at a search engine (thereby revealing themselves as an
internet marketing “newbie”)…never
realizing that the registrar would GIVE THAT VALUE-LESS ALTERNATIVE-EXTENSION
DOMAIN NAME AWAY FOR FREE to get the lifetime customer in the door to buy all
kinds of other products and services.


Thousands upon
thousands of businesses just getting online for the first time in the next few
years will be happy to pay $8.99 for a www.domainname.co from the GoDaddy
registrar and will find out down
the road…that by doing so they’ll lose money, lose customers, and work harder
instead of just work smarter AND harder to achieve greater business success
faster (and they’ll be PISSED when they realize that GoDaddy themselves KNOWINGLY
set their customers’ .co-using company up to FAIL online)


Thousands upon
thousands of businesses just getting online for the first time in the next few
years will be happy to pay $8.99 get a completely FREE www.companyname.google (or
its equivalent) domain name along with easy free email and file hosting, not realizing that their desire to get
“free stuff” will cause them to sign away their destiny to succeed in business
to the whim of the golden god of the 21st century that really only
wants your advertising dollars (and doesn’t lose sleep over whether or not your
business actually MAKES SALES).


The companies that make the www.wrong.choice
for their domain name will play not to lose…and not all but most of them will
EPIC FAIL, and this will just be another reason why among the myriad reasons
why in fact MOST businesses— online OR offline— fail to get off the ground and
become profitable.


So go ahead and if
you’re in that 80% according to the SBA that couldn’t be bothered to make
decisions for the future profitability of your company based on evidence, go
elsewhere than reading the hard truths here because we can’t help you.


However, if you’re here reading and learning because you
want to get the best NICHE.com domain name available for your niche
category…you’re exactly who I want to talk to directly.


You may have just heard about “domain
leasing” TODAY
yet more and more every week, business owners like you
wanting the BEST domain name they can possibly get for their
business idea or existing company are already
seeing domain leasing as a win-win.


15-20 years ago folks like you didn't know what a domain
name WAS (and unfortunately if you want a great one today…you’re realizing now
that someone else already owned it 15-20 years ago…in most cases that
person is one of a group of folks I call “the 500” and if you didn’t realize
it, these approximately 500 or so domain investors own the majority of the
eRealEstate on the net worth building a website and company on).


10 years ago many wouldn't have believed they NEEDED a
website more than an online brochure, much less a special domain name
better than their made-up company name brand.


Today, you know
differently right? Looking to make SALES? Keep reading….


5 years ago many would have laughed to hear a $1000/mo
lease price for something where an 'alternative' would cost $8.99 outright.


In the last few years, and
increasingly each week that passes…the businessman wanting to take his company
global online with FAST RESULTS has begun educating him/herself about what
makes the internet tick and what contributes to multiplying profits.


Last year— you would have Google searched and found less
than 1000 results for a search of this simple offer proposition:


“This GREAT Domain Name May be Available for Joint Ventures or Lease”


Now you’ll find how many?


Why?


It’s because
increasingly both domain name owners not proactively developing their best
eRealEstate and the companies that want to do so…are BOTH seeing domain leasing
and lease-to-own deals for an a true WIN-WIN for both parties.


Hell, just this past month you may have read the news about
the Las Vegas tourism/visitors board leasing LasVegas.com as their brand
instead of the inferior VisitLasVegas.com domain name and internet brand they
had previously been using.


When throughout this year they roll out the humongous
international TV and ad blitz using that superior domain name as a domain name,
brand, and call-to-action for adventurous travelers worldwide to visit, do
business, and play in Las Vegas…what do you think is going to happen?


Is any “Joe Blow” not reading this blog or others like it
seeing the LasVegas.com commercials and ads going to know…or care…that the city
of Las Vegas doesn’t technically yet own the eRealEstate land upon which the
“official website of Las Vegas” is built?


How many extra bucks does the city of Las Vegas need to
bring in from tourism and conventions on top of the $100s of billions the city
is awash in each year already…to make whatever the landlord of that highly
visible property worth whatever the domain name owner quite fairly asked when
we have empirical evidence that within our lifetime the eRealEstate property
LasVegas.com WILL VERY LIKELY be worth more money than any single REAL real
estate property in the city of it’s dotcom namesake?


Did you follow that
or was it too convoluted for you?


Here’s a hint: In your lifetime and
mine, a time will come when there won’t be a single hotel/casino on the Las
Vegas Strip that is worth more than LasVegas.com.


A premium .com
category domain name for your product or service or audience equals instant
credibility and lead generation benefits. And so much more. Who around the
world will not know EXACTLY what LasVegas.com offers without yet even
responding to those advertisements? It’s an instant brand…an incomparable word-of-mouth
shareable idea…and a bargain at whatever price the city of Las Vegas paid to
lease it.


Bravo! They are on the cutting edge again.


Love Vegas or hate the city…they know how to make money
unlike perhaps any other place on Earth, and the decision you’ve just seen made
here WILL be repeated again and again by many smart municipalities in the next
few years to get their hands on their “CityDotCom” eRealEstate.


Anyone that
seriously does their due diligence on internet marketing realizes that there is
ONE BEST DOT COM DOMAIN NAME for their business idea, and the
LasVegas.com deal simply proves it’s not just small business, or big business,
but even within the merger of government and business where a visitors’ board
operates.


And each company in
2013 doing their due diligence on the ONE BEST DOT COM DOMAIN NAME for their
business idea is going to run smack dab into “the 500' – again, this is
simply the name of what I call the group of visionaries that as early as 1993
bought up all the premium .com “land” under the infrastructure on which the
entire INTERNET is built.


Guys Like Rick Schwartz and the other domain name owners who
are my clients with JointVentures.com


If you want a GREAT .com domain name, your due diligence
will lead you right to the 500 in so many cases it is SPOOKY, as you start
researching to buy the domain names you want and find...again and again...that
someone beat you to it. Who? Maybe me. Maybe someone else reading this among
the collective brain trust of an entire industry that treats RicksBlog like a
watering hole.


Doesn't matter who you find, as the next few years unfold…you
will hear a response to a request to buy the domain name you want that “the
500” and those who aspire to be among them will know exactly why is quite fair
and reasonable: 'Not for sale,
lease only!'.


Domain owners have taken their powerful assets away from
Google and Yahoo who were paying them very poorly and put their destiny in
their own hands (WIN).


And the end user companies that covet a GREAT domain name
you feel is worth 6-7 figures can try it out for 5 figures a year (WIN).


The wind at your
back forever for the cost in many cases of a corporate car or two each month
(something many companies big and small already LEASE).


What's not to like?


WIN-WIN is key, here.


No one is trying to 'get one over' on a domain
lessee.


Just like no one is taking advantage of the city of Las
Vegas. It’s called capitalism, folks. And you can invest or you can gamble. Own
the house, or play .craps. Your choice.


Everybody has to be happy with the deals we make thru
JointVentures.com, NOT just our domain name owner clients.


Of COURSE you would prefer to own the domain name you want outright
(and those are the folks that opt for a lease-to-own deal instead of a straight
domain leasing deal).


I'd prefer to have
been born with a million dollar trust fund waiting for me, but I've had to work
for every dime of mine.


You take what you can
get in life, right?


If you have your mind set on the one and only GREAT domain
name that can really make your business idea or your existing company FLY…


Then don’t jump out of a plane without a parachute and pay 6
figures to acquire it, when you can pay $xxxx per month on a test drive lease.
Don’t pay 7 figures cash now to acquire it when you can pay $xx,xxx per month
to make certain your hunch is right.
It wouldn’t be priced so high, if that hunch hadn’t worked out pretty damn well
for many companies who wanted THEIR one domain name…and got it, and never
looked back.


Way to go, Las Vegas!


Think WIN-WIN!


Think Joint Ventures.


Danny Welsh
JointVentures.com


Why I Focus on the USA and .Com?? It’s called Consumption!!

Afternoon Folks!!


I am often reminded by domainers that there is a world out the USA. That's fine and you may even be surprised to know that I recognize that and have visited my share of countries around the world. But what folks don't seem to recognize is how to fish! You go where the fish are! DUH! Where they are biting. Where they are hungry. Were they are big and diversified.


So here is a tidbit of PROOF of what I see and how I see it and why I focus on the USA and other ENGLISH speaking countries as it pertains to sales and domain names and the value of a domain name.


Lets look at the .Me registry. Please explain how one country in the world of 350 or so can be responsible for 53% of all their registrations when EVERYONE had the same opportunity? 53%!! That is a REAL number. Why do more than half of ALL their registrations come from the USA? Why so disproportionate? Why?



  • 53% of .Me domains are registered in the US;

  • 46% of .Me domains are registered by businesses;

  • That .Me is the most popular domain choice for startups after .com;

  • There are still 35% of three-character .me domain names available!


Interpret that into Dollars. Or Euros or Yens or whatevers.


See the problem is I see an answer where others don't. I choose to compete in the arena with the largest fish. Why the USA??? It comes down to one word.


CONSUMPTION!!


Read it again.


CONSUMPTION!!


The USA consumes MORE than the rest of the world combined on MANY things. Many! Many!!!! So that is why I don't dabble in IDN or country codes and only lightly in non-dotcoms. It's fine for those that do but it is not in my DNA for reasons I am about to explain. The numbers guide me.


So if you don't understand or even can't accept that one tidbit in life, then we will never see things eye to eye. We will always disagree because. We will never be on the same page. You will always tell me why your small pond is better and I will always point to the SEA with no limits! The sea of consumption! Sales!


And that is fine. I don't want to talk you out of the pond. It may be very nice. Very comfortable. Very good to you. But at least acknowledge the difference in size and VALUE of the audience. maybe not 100% of the time, but most of the time.


Yes, they consume more rice in China than the USA. So what?? They consume that rice to build things that we will consume mostly in the USA.


Maybe what is important is figuring out since nobody here is in the rice business and many here are in the domain business that facts do count. Numbers do count. This is just one tiny tidbit of an example. So why does .Me have 53% in the USA if it is not about how we consume things and that has enriched many folks around the world? Do you think .co's numbers are much different? They may support my argument even more! .com's numbers are widely known.


Sure you can come here and tell me the USA is slipping by percentage, other contries are gaining or this or that. But it does not mean much when it translates into business.


Country-wise Domains Distribution


Domain Names by Country of Purchase. USA has more domain registrations than all other countries combined! 12X the second closest. All other countries combined equal 48 million to the USA at just under 80 Million. Then add the English speaking countries to that. That would bring that number up to over 92 million and the other down to 36 million. The numbers paint a picture. Then add buying power to that equation and it further tilts.



















































































RankCountryDomains
1 United States 79,950,786
2 Germany 6,496,459
3 China 5,910,176
4 United Kingdom 4,808,723
5 Canada 3,930,427
6 France 3,472,316
7 Japan 2,821,525
8 Australia 2,337,278
9 Spain 1,688,317
10 Cayman Islands 1,665,319
11 Netherlands,The 1,416,581
12 Italy 1,329,267
13 Turkey 1,256,428
14 Korea 989,491
15 HongKong S.A.R. 795,535

If you fish, you go where the most and the biggest fish are. It is not about what you know folks. It's about how you interpret what you know. Whether you play for an audience of 600 or an audience of 600 million. Just numbers. Then add BUYING POWER and Kaboom!


And btw, how many of the .whatevers are not English words or abbreviations? Why is that? These are questions worthy of some thought. Numbers don't lie. They paint pictures. Some see different realities in their pictures. By starting off with 50% of anything you are bound to do quite well.


So .Me is 53% just in the USA. Then add the other English speaking countries. Maybe you are over 75%. The rest is fragmented. Fragmentation is costly to market to. Fragmented markets are limited markets.


Do you market to the folks with buying power? How does that factor in? Do folks in Guatemala have the same buying power as in the USA?


When I was growing up 'French' was the universal language. It then shifted to Spanish. But English dominates things from English speaking Airport Traffic controllers all over the world to New domain extensions. There is a reason. Why English? Because flight was invented in the USA and as it blossomed it blossomed in English because all the terminology was/is in English. That holds true on so many other things.


From Cars to computers to medical to DOMAIN NAMES!


Are things shifting? Sure. So what? 6000 member audience will grow to 12,000 while 600 million will grow to 1.2 billion. And even if the 600 million only grows to 610 million, it may be a lifetime or more before the 6000 grows into the first million. If ever. That has to factor in. It can't be dismissed. It has to be understood.


Some people are going to come here and beat their chest for this or that. But they all have A.D.D. because they won't focus on the point of the post. They will joust with themselves as they invent straw-men to defend their point of view and maybe their turf.


Numbers are in my DNA. Focus on numbers and money happens. Why is that? Because money is based on numbers and numbers don't lie!


Have a GREAT Day!

Rick Schwartz