{"id":9,"date":"2008-02-06T02:19:35","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T07:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/06\/power-naps-power-grabs\/"},"modified":"2015-03-05T19:58:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T00:58:06","slug":"power-naps-power-grabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/power-naps-power-grabs\/","title":{"rendered":"Power naps &#8211; power grabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was growing up as a teenager, my friend Mike would always say that <strong>one should seize every given opportunity by being alert and prepared<\/strong>. During our trips to downtown Athens&#8217; &#8220;Silicon Valley&#8221; shops where all the new gadgets, computers and software first appeared, Mike would bring with him a small chunk of cash &#8211; &#8220;<em>just in case<\/em>&#8220;. Indeed, on several occasions he bought a computer peripheral or a new software game that existed in only a single copy. Sometimes he&#8217;d resell these at a nice mark-up. Mike would have done well on eBay &#8211; <em>if it were around in the mid 80&#8217;s!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s fast-paced, global community, <strong>opportunities arrive and go in bursts;<\/strong> the chances to get more things done diminish as the world economy and markets are interconnected, non-stop, 24\/7. One has to split their sleeping pattern in order to achieve maximum alertness during the times that people from other timezones are actively promoting their offers and items.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitepoint.com\/name-goldrush-1-rules-play\/\" target=\"_blank\">6:30 am Domain Gold Rush<\/a><\/strong> days are long gone; nowadays domains worth more than their registration fee are rarely released to the general public, without being auctioned through a variety of after-market vendors, like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/namejet.com\" target=\"_blank\">NameJet<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/snapnames.com\" target=\"_blank\">SnapNames<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pool.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pool<\/a><\/strong>. But one can still find great deals at various domain forums, where the sellers and buyers actively trade. At <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dnforum.com\" target=\"_blank\">DNForum<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; the biggest domain name community on the Internet &#8211; one can find domains being offered at fixed prices, negotiable prices and &#8230;outrageous prices. <strong>The key to getting good deals is to keep a trained eye onto these sales.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Power naps help. Sleeping 30 minutes to 1 hour in the middle of the afternoon or early evening, helps restore the alertness and the ability to sustain oneself into the small hours of the night, before bed time. As I am writing this article at 2:15am, I am still plentifully energized by today&#8217;s power nap for a couple of more hours. This helps me keep in touch with the European and Asian markets that are active and several hours ahead of Eastern US time.<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it: keep an alert eye, use the best resources, take power naps. <strong>Let the power grabs follow!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was growing up as a teenager, my friend Mike would always say that one should seize every given opportunity by being alert and prepared. 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