{"id":1449,"date":"2010-12-30T19:41:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T00:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2010-12-30T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T00:53:00","slug":"thank-you-sedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/thank-you-sedo\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Sedo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I could share my appreciation over a single business for 2010, that would be <a href=\"http:\/\/sedo.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sedo.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My relationship with the PPC provider started in 2004 and I must admit it started a couple of years late. Until then, parking my domains was something that I wasn&#8217;t considering. I lost several thousand dollars in revenue this way.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson learned:\u00a0 Despite the ups and downs of the industry, Sedo is for me the perfect combination of a PPC provider and domain sales platform. At some point, I asked <a href=\"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/22\/i-love-you-parked-but-i-just-have-to-go\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Donny Simonton of Parked<\/strong><\/a> if they&#8217;d consider doing the same; he responded that adding a domain sales platform wasn&#8217;t in their immediate plans.<\/p>\n<p>As time passes, Sedo becomes a <a href=\"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/09\/when-it-comes-to-customer-service-sedo-is-top-notch\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>mainstream, household name<\/strong><\/a> outside of the domain industry &#8211; something that is necessary in order to facilitate sales to end users. While PPC revenue fluctuates, the number of sales have increased for me and nowadays I use Sedo for roughly 90% of my domain sales.<\/p>\n<p>This year, I had a <a href=\"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/18\/sedo-sold-pushed-and-credited-in-23-minutes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>record number of sales<\/strong><\/a> on the Sedo platform, without sweating much.<\/p>\n<p>Sedo handles the sales process very efficiently nowadays; while I&#8217;ve slowed down my buying I&#8217;ve enjoyed the increased revenue from selling on Sedo, often involving <a href=\"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/20\/zfbot-did-it-how-i-doubled-my-sedo-sale-money-with-a-simple-email\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>targeted emails about ongoing auctions<\/strong><\/a> to maximize sales revenue.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/07\/the-single-most-important-asset-of-sedo\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>meeting with the Sedo staff in Boston<\/strong><\/a>, I was thoroughly convinced about the seriousness with which Sedo treats its\u00a0 PPC business and sales platform. <a href=\"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/04\/sedo-and-parked-domain-parking-on-the-up-and-up\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Recent improvements<\/strong><\/a> in the Sedo system have generated <a href=\"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/27\/sedo-delivers-record-revenue-for-november\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>increased revenue<\/strong><\/a>, despite the financial straits the economy is still going through.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So thanks, Sedo &#8211; here&#8217;s to a splendid and equally successful 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I could share my appreciation over a single business for 2010, that would be Sedo. 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