The fun part about domaining is that it resembles a Middle Eastern bazaar. Those that yell about their wares or other offers the loudest, end up attracting the endless hordes of lazy, shoe-shuffling crowds around them.
A large percentage of people that indulge into domaining these days are also self-appointed “experts” in several fields: development, SEO, copywriting, social media etc.
There’s a new domainer expert born every minute a WordPress template is downloaded.
We thought we’d make it easy for you to become an Expert Domainer, without having to try much.
Here’s a mini guide on what you need to keep in mind so that others view you as a person of great importance, when in fact you have no background with domains, no history of sales, no development portfolio and no real place in the industry other than the pathetic domain portfolio that you’ve amassed.
- Get a blog. Call it “FirstNameBlog.com” or if that’s already taken go after “FirstNameLastNameBlog.com”
- Install WordPress and get a $27 skin for it.
- Start blogging about your day: what you did with yourself, or your girlfriend or about something you read in another blog.
- Blog about something your friend wrote in another blog and link to it. Ask your friend to blog about what you did and to link to yours. Infinite loop.
- Tweet and blog about your blog. Don’t forget to thank people for retweeting your thanks and blog about it. Then tweet about it again. Tell your friends to tweet about your tweets and blog about them as well.
- Mention the latest GoDaddy coupons and where you can get web hosting for under $5. Anything cheap or free is a great subject on your way to become a celebrity “Expert Domainer”.
- Never mention your portfolio directly. Just say that your (sucky) collection of long tail domains are “under development” and that you own a large number of “verticals” and have invested in “geo-domains”. Noone will suspect that you own such gems as OutdoorsFightingMachines.com, SpanishFlyTraps.com or AtlantaGeorgiaByNight.org
- The moment you flip a domain at any forum for $50 you are an “Experienced Seller”.
- The moment you buy a domain at any forum for $100 you become a “Domain Investor”.
- The moment you throw an one-pager with a basic image header and a footer, with Adsense in-between you are a “Domain Developer”.
- Repeat steps 8, 9 and 10 several times to further establish your fame as an “Expert Domainer”.
- Be part of every industry gathering you can afford to attend, in order to exchange business cards and hang out with the big domainers. When they ask what you do, mention “domain development and monetization with a business focus on geo-domains and utilization of social media” as the single killer line. You’ll be recognized immediately as part of the group.
- Don’t forget to add as many “friends” as you can on Facebook even though you never met them. Add as many “co-workers” at LinkedIn as you can, even though you never worked with them. Follow as many social media “experts” on Twitter even though you have never heard of Internet Relay Chat.
- Advertise your expertise! Find cheap blogs to place your flashy, animated banners on and make sure you leave comments on these blogs, daily. Make sure everyone knows you are alive and kicking and that you’re available for “development”.
- Become an expert name-dropper. At every opportunity, mention famous domainers, their domains, what they did with them and how much the domaining industry benefited from their existence. Act as if you actually had tea and biscuits with them and you discussed matters of importance.
In a nutshell: To become an “Expert Domainer” you simply need to lie to yourself first, and then to others.
