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Web sites & the virtual real estate market.

July 19th, 2008

“The market is so bad, the rates are so high” is what you hear on the news. Investors are looking all over to find property that can yield a great return, In comes domain real estate. There are plenty of folks who owned personal sites for 7 to 10 years that have sold them for close to 10 million dollars. Recently I stumbled upon this site Tooth.net and I said to myself wow what an awful looking site, but looks can be deceiving. Turns out this site is being sold for 15k to an internet investor. The owner had this site created in 1998, the cost for this site ( the down payment ) was $200 dollars and the hosting ( mortgage ) was $20 per year. The investor is no fool, he knows that this site has a premium 1 word domain ( prime location in the wealthy part of town ) and with some programming this can become a dental directory where he can get millions of users to visit and later sell the website to Colgate or Crest for 500k to 1million. So I take my investigation even further and I find out there is actual domain mortgage companies that will lend you money to buy a premium domain.

How much do you think color.com is? Well is for sale for 50k on sedo. I can’t afford it but if I could I would buy it today. Read the rest of this entry »

15 dollar notebook Million dollar notes

July 15th, 2008

So today I received my Action book from Behance. Its a notebook created for the creative. It follows the principles of 3 steps - Actions, Reference & Backburner items. I intend to use this for my client meetings since It gives me a place to write down the reference and date on the top, it gives me place where I can list my actions and a place to jot down the backburner notes. Read the rest of this entry »

Open source eCommerce with Magento

July 10th, 2008

I’ve always been a osCommerce user, I tried other packages but always found my way back to osCommerce because of the community. Recently I’ve been working with Magento. What is Magento? you ask. Magento is the ultimate ecommerce platform, it has all of the features like inventory control, attribute groups, multi-store Read the rest of this entry »

The top reasons why you need a website

July 8th, 2008

There are so many reasons to get a website made to promote your business. Pound for pound having a website is the number one way to create interest in your product or service. This is so important that most new business secure their domain name before incorporating their business. Below is a list of reasons you need to call me so we can strategise your web business initiative: Read the rest of this entry »

Another blog in the sea of 60 million blogs

July 8th, 2008

Hello World. This is the first of many blog entries I will be writing.  Yes this is a programming blog but I will sprinkle some gadgets and jokes to liven things up.

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