Do I Look Like I'm Easy?Don't you just love opportunistic marketing?  Seems like everyday, I get phone calls from someone wanting to sell me all the greatest leads for only hundreds of my dollars every month.  Yeah, I swallowed that bitter pill once...Not going there again! 

Then yesterday, I got the following email from the nice people at Strategies Inc. 

 

Dear,

Our agency is currently selling the domain name TulsaOK.net
We can currently offer this domain for the very reduced price of $890.

Owning an easily memorizable domain name can help to drive high value clients to your business.

If you have interest in purchasing this domain or have any questions, you can contact me at...

 

Now let's think about this for a moment.  The first little indication that this might not be something we really want to consider is the fact that it isn't addressed to me.  In fact, it isn't addressed to anyone!  What that tells us that is that this is a spam email that was sent out to no telling how many people.

The next indication that we should run for the hills on this particular offer has to do with the purchase price and the domain name.  Notice that they are offering TulsaOK.net rather that TulsaOK.com or TulsaOK.org or any other extension.  Why is this?  Because they don't own those names.  They went to GoDaddy.com or some other online vender and bought this name for the same price you and/or I could - around $20 bucks!  Now they're trying to reach into our pockets to make some easy cash.  Is that even legal?  I guess go...but talk about a HUGE price mark-up!  No thanks!

Even though TulsaOK would be a big Google keyword search, the competition for those particular words or for the words of other big cities is extremely large.  The fact that you might own a city domain name is no guarantee that you can drive it to the number one result on Google page one, even with excellent blogging content.  Too many other people have way more money, are way better at it and have been trying to do the very same thing for a whole lot longer.

Tell you what Strategies Inc, I think I'm gonna take a pass on your offer today.  In fact, I think I'll just use my blogging skills, keyword placement and Google juice that I learned and harvest from Active Rain.  That will take me ahead of you to page one position one in Google every time!

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8 Comments on Dear (Name) Got a Spare $890 to throw away?

JAN
27
2012
1,052,529 Points 2 Featured Posts Called Shot Master

Well said! I get alot of these calls too...from Trulia, zillow etc...why pay a large monthly fee for whatever they are selling...just keep blogging away on AR for free :-)
10:04am • #1
849,295 Points 183 Featured Posts Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

It seems like a great spam business....and of course you are right to NOT jump at the great opportunity.
10:07am • #2
699,772 Points 39 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

I had the same thing happen to me a few years ago where I just went to GoDaddy & purchased the name for $18 or whatever it was. I'm not sure why they think this is a good marketing strategy but someone probably does 'bite' at their offer.  I do get emails from a great company called JustDropped.com that looks for these recently expired domains & offers them up. As you say, each one has a different price.
10:07am • #3
386,181 Points Outside Blog

BUY MY LEADS! THEY ARE 100% GUARANTEED OR YOUR MONEY BACK!*

* Money back only if you notify us that the lead is not legitimate in the first 24 hrs and all notifications must be sent by carrier pigeon, followed up with an email and then confirmed with a phone call. No exceptions!
10:14am • #4
379,832 Points 85 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Hit Router Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Kristin - they all think we're desperate or something like that!

Karen - I don't know how they STAY in business!

Lyn - Even GoDaddy is pushy with their after purchase upsell stuff!

Than - LOL!
10:17am • #5
216,031 Points 11 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Spam must work, or there wouldn't be so much of it!  I saw the figure on how much money people had lost helping out that Nigerian guy, and it was mind-boggling.  So, even though you and I our good friends on AR will pass on TulsaOK.net, the spammers are betting that someone out there will bite.
10:36am • #6
408,661 Points 13 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

I had a call last week, "we can guanantee 4-5 more closings per month, we just need you to send us $1500!"  Seriously????
12:14pm • #7
179,258 Points 6 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Bob,

Good post. We will probably see more of this as I seem to remember reading that there are possibly to be more suffixs available for use in the U.S. in the future beyond ".com, .org, .net or .info. Maybe they think they will rerun this scheme to capture the uninitiated into blogging. The reality is that the newbies that they may hope to prey upon have had keybouards in their hands since they were old enough for teddy bears. Guess they can't tell the newbies from the rest. Dianne's last sentence says it.
12:23pm • #8


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