After 15 years of direct end-user domain sales, I’m very familiar with the lingo used by those who attempt to get a domain on the cheap.<\/p>\n
I’m not referring to the hordes of “poor students,” or the “single entrepreneur moms,” or even the occasional cash-strapped “non-profit.”<\/p>\n
Domain sales occur when the offer is within my asking range, and there are a few reasons not to accept an offer that implies they are doing you a favor.<\/p>\n
A domain asset that you have spent time, effort and money to acquire, is yours, strongly so, unquestionably so. No offer to the south of the combined value of these parameters should sway you away from your asking price.<\/p>\n
One of the most used techniques of domain portfolio predators<\/strong> is the reference to making “a sale today.<\/em>”<\/p>\n In other words, they insinuate you have certain quota to meet; sometimes, these offers arrive in the middle or at the end of the week.<\/p>\n Your refusal should not be considered an act of inflexibility.<\/p>\n By all means adjust your asking price according to an educated overall study of the domain’s metrics, but do not give an inch<\/strong> to domain predators that use the “make a sale today” phrase. Send them packing where they came from.<\/p>\n I’d rather not make a domain sale today that takes the first offer as I don’t have any quota to meet. I’d rather keep my options open and seek the best price based on my educated valuation.<\/p>\n Holding domain assets long term is a process that requires turning down a lot of mediocre offers, before selling at an optimal price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After 15 years of direct end-user domain sales, I’m very familiar with the lingo used by those who attempt to get a domain on the cheap. I’m not referring to the hordes of “poor students,” or the “single entrepreneur moms,” or even the occasional cash-strapped “non-profit.” Domain sales occur when the offer is within my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domains","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n