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Morning Folks!!

Yesterday I emailed this out to everyone on our mailing list. Hopefully you got this, but if not...

Business is galloping along as we start 2011 so I will be brief and to the point. Today I would like to announce that the new T.R.A.F.F.I.C. website is open during our makeover and that below is the price schedule. With a year to work on this show and at the Ritz Carlton I think you will experience a TRAFFIC with a focus like never before. The first 50 registrants pay just $995. That's called 'Opportunity' and a call to action in one thought. Those tickets will not last long. (23 left as of this writing)
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. means business. We don't waste your time. We just provide you with a great venue and assemble an audience that makes it impossible not to do business. Our formula is perfected. It works. We give great bang for the buck because we know what domainers want and need and sponsors know the sluggers will be in attendance. It's like it has been since day #1....a WIN-WIN situation for all that participate. Sit on the bench at your own peril. In article after article what happened in the domain industry, happened at T.R.A.F.F.I.C.. Who you met in the domain industry you likely met at TRAFFIC. You can't rewrite history. We mean business.
As you will see below we have limited space at the Ritz. We have decided to sell a limited amount of tickets at the early level. The capacity of attendees for this show is 335-350 and there are 192 hotel rooms. So we will be taking over the entire hotel.
Show dates are Sunday October 16th until Wednesday morning the 19th 2011. But the Cabana Networking Weekend Party starts on Friday October 14th. Rooms at the Ritz Carlton are $254 for a 5 star hotel right on the beach and in the center of the Ft Lauderdale strip. Almost every room has a balcony with a fabulous ocean view. Our GROUP CODE is AULAULA but if you want a suite, those codes are listed below.
https://www.ritzcarlton.com/en/Properties/FortLauderdale/Reservations/Default.htm?nr=1&ng=1
Ticket Pricing:

$995 Early Bird Until Jan 31(Limited to the First 50 registrations. Whichever happens first)

$1295 February 1 - April 30^th (Limited to 75 registrations at this level)

$1495 May 1- June 30^th

$1595 July 1- August 31^st

$1795 September 1- Show (As space and seats allow)

Spouse....Early Bird $299 until January 31st. Spouse $399 thereafter

5 Pack Group Passes

$4900 Early Bird (As available)

$5900 Until April 30^th

$6500 thru June 30^th

$7500 thru August 31

If you act right now, you get a huge savings. As much as $800 off your ticket and $100 off the spouse rate. We wish we could give that price to everyone, but we can't. So act early and get a great deal. Simple as that. Save $4,000 for your company with our '5-Pack' But you need to act now.
We won't let you down. The best TRAFFIC is always coming next. We're never satisfied. We always want to make it better and add more value for your dollar. And as we have proven, we work on the agenda until Stage Time. Say what you like, TRAFFIC Means Business because so much business is done at TRAFFIC. Our focus is growing your business by putting you in touch with serious people looking to do serious business. We would not waste our time so you know we won't be wasting yours. See you at the Beach!!
Rick and Howard

All Hotel Codes:

AULAULA- Run of House- $254

AULAULC- Partial Ocean Double- $294

AULAULE- Ocean Front King- $274

AULAULF- Ocean Front Double- $294

AULAULI- Intracoastal Junior Suite- $354

AULAULK- Ocean Front Suite- $579

AULAULM- Intracoastal One Bedroom Residential- $454

AULAULN- Intracoastal Two Bedrooms Residential - $779

AULAULQ- Ocean Front One Bedroom Residential- $629

Morning Folks!!

I watched “The Social Network” DVD yesterday after watching it in the theater a few months back. I watched scenes over and over again. I could not stop dreaming about it last night. Again.

A movie like the Social Network is about a dream. An idea. Success like this is so very rare, but success like this also keeps dreams alive and ideas coming because you just never know when you will hit a nerve. Hit something big. And even if you hit something small, like owning a few domain names and building on that, it still works. It still fuels the dream.

The next part of the movie was understanding genius in action working. Social genius is a hard thing to communicate but it did that in the first scene and every scene after.

I don’t ever recall a movie being so contemporary. EVER! Do you?

In 2002 this juggernaut did not even exist. More users in Bosnia than roads.

This is a special movie like none other in HISTORY. I have watched it twice and played a few scenes over. I will watch again today. There is a blueprint here. There is a story of the fasting growing company in history. The youngest MULTI-Billionaire in history. Self made. A genius figuring out a simple but complex rubix cube. The valuation has gone from $25 Billion to 3x that in just a YEAR! I wrote this last night directly after watching. Like the first time, there were tears in my eyes. Everything was blurry but I typed as fast as I could anyways with a dozen misspells. But the thoughts are here. Every scene is a book! Every scene is genius. Every scene means something. Every scene worth watching over and over and over again.

Then I woke up this morning to see that the movie won a number of Golden Globe Awards. Well deserved. This is a true look into genius in a way that I have never seen genius. I am in awe of such a mind knowing I am not even in that type of orbit or could be. But the glimpse into that…..PRICELESS.

If you have not seen this movie, you are missing something very special and you are doing your self a disservice.. I would urge you to get it, watch it, watch it again and it won’t be until the 3^rd time that you even begin to understand what is going on. Sheer genius. We are just mere mortals.

The Hula-Hoop has finally met it's match. I believe this to be the biggest business phenomena in history because we are all involved. Studying this is what it is all about. Understanding our limitations. The power of a simple idea that fills a void. This is just the beginning of the phenomenon, not the end and THAT is what makes this the most important movie in my lifetime and how we as domain asset holders and web based businesses and and everyone else in the universe can/will all directly and indirectly benefit.

Add to that a roadmap, a template a motivator a host of other adjectives that would take me a YEAR to get into. It is that deep. That simple. That important. and the story is still being written and that is what makes this unique. Don't waste a second, if you are reading this and have not ordered and watched it by this time next week........then you wasted valuable time.

Mark Zuckerberg is your new best friend. A friend you will never have to meet or see to understand but will get to know intimately. Forget if you like him or not. Business is not about like. It is about watching this genius and watching the movie that allows you to see and witness and UNDERSTAND genius. Of course we could only hope to understand. But they make that genius visible so mere mortals like us can identify genius when we see it and THAT is the greatest takeawy of the movie among so many I would not even know where to start or end and maye there is no end.

Have a GREAT Day!

Rick Schwartz

Morning Folks!!

1 man could not run a ship. Same is true with our assets. Many of us are one man shows but you will need a full crew to get that ship moving. With that in mind and being this is the last in this series, let me share my favorite story. The way I see things....or did. Especially 15 years ago with such limited tools to work with.

http://www.ricksblog.com/2009/03/the-great-army-of-unorganized-domainers.html

Enjoy!

Have a GREAT Day!

Rick Schwartz

Morning Folks!!

I'll get right to this post from 2009. I just doddled and wrote down 20 items I consider when buying a domain name. There are others as well depending on the domain and the category etc.

http://www.ricksblog.com/2009/02/do-you-ask-the-right-questions-when-buying-domains-my-top-20-right-here.html

Enjoy!

Have a GREAT Day!

Rick Schwartz

Morning Folks!!

Those that have followed me know I have an issue with 'Branding' and the best way to do it and how sales is the ultimate branding. In this post from 2008 I delve into that issue and more.

Now there is also something embarrassing there as well and I thought twice before I linked to this post. But you don't win every game and the losses are important as well. But regardless of the loss, the story does not change. The reason he wanted to buy Property.com did not change.

http://www.ricksblog.com/2008/10/branding-vs-bra.html

Enjoy!

Have a GREAT Day!

Rick Schwartz

Morning Folks!!

The iReport.com sale is the sale that keeps giving and giving. One of my favorite storie and perhaps the most high profile sale I ever made in my life. It is my mindset that allowed me to make this deal and I still believe it was worth much more than was paid and I will explain the flawed thinking process that would have resulted in this deal being nothing noteworthy.

3 years later this domain still pays dividends and is one of my favorite stories.

http://www.ricksblog.com/2008/01/ireportcom-and.html

Enjoy!
Have a GREAT Day!

Rick Schwartz

Morning Folks!!

I hope you are enjoying some of these posts. We are still in 2007 but this one actually happened in 2000. So you will see a post I made in 2000 combined with one I made in 2007 and have not varied here in 2011. The domainer I am talking to 3 YEARS before Frank Schilling ever registered his first domain name PROVES that the title of this post is accurate.

If you think you can you are right and if you think you can't you are right.

http://www.ricksblog.com/2007/11/time-capsule-se.html

Enjoy!

Have a GREAT Day!

Rick Schwartz

Morning Folks!!

2011 is the year that Corporate America comes to the point of finding out what we already know. It took them an extra decade to see it, but they are here and are coming in droves.

This post is from November 2007. It would have been a lot cheaper to have listened to those words then than it is now. But do be it. Better late than never.

http://www.ricksblog.com/2007/11/competition-ins.html

Have a GREAT Day!

Rick Schwartz

Morning Folks!!

When I dug up these words I wanted to memorialize them forever. It was my earliest writings online. It was my innermost feelings about this new medium and what it meant. It was historic. Of all the things I have ever written online, this is the paragraph I am most proud of and the true basis of my being.

'In cyberspace nobody knows if you are black or if you are white, if you are rich or poor, tall or short, fat or skinny, clean or dirty, handicapped or healthy, Christian or Jew etc., ....They know only two things....the content of what you have to say and a way to communicate effectively to people from all walks of life and from around the globe. Plus the value you put on your own character. Consisting of your credibility, your honesty, your integrity, and your devotion to do things the right way without taking advantage of others. This will be either your greatest asset or a liability that will inevitably be your downfall. You don't judge a book by its cover, In cyberspace you are judged by your content. Of course a nice cover such as a great domain name couldn't hurt.'

This is the way I am wired. That is how I view the universe. I deal with Facts and Reality and want to know and learn more.Those that have convenient memories, have to bend the facts to match their agenda will always be met with strong resistance from people like me.

http://www.ricksblog.com/2007/08/ricks-time-caps.html

Enjoy!
Have a GREAT Day!

Rick Schwartz

Morning Folks!!

The Apple App Store for Mac opened the other day. What can I say. I love it! Pissed away $300 in a flash. But a small price to pay for more productivity. Now even more 'Glue' between your computer and your iPhone and iPad. I see a widening net Apple is using to cover the globe and the marketplace and their share of it. You can only be impressed by what Apple has done over the past few years. Providing tools that make life more fluid and easier to work with.

Not to get off track, but Preferences?
Just one mans view. But leave it to Apple to bring progress to us faster than anyone else. I'd love to see an Apple and Facebook alliance. I think that could happen some day.

Have a GREAT Day!

Rick Schwartz