It has been a great couple weeks since making the decision to focus full time on my online projects and specifically my Geo projects. One of the problems many businesses have when initially launching is focusing on quick, small deals to get money in the bank and losing out on what can be larger opportunities

Sitting in a Starbucks in Norman, OK getting ready to be in a wedding tonight for two of my great friends (congrats Jen and Mark). Thought I would do a quick post about what happens when a newspaper simply does not get it and then suddenly realizes that they are in for some trouble. With the

In the midst of all the work that has been going into the launch of my larger venture in the background I have been working to get another project moving. Drug Reform is a hot social issue that most people have some opinion on. I had a few ideas on how I wanted to develop

OK, so the title may be a bit dramatic but I truly feel the decision I made a few weeks back and executed this morning may be the most important decision I have made outside of children and marriage. Today I walked away from a six figure income at a leading technology company to focus on

My domain sales have been rather good the past couple weeks so thats put me in the mood to keep move some more names, rather than focus on selling individual names I thought I would do something a bit different and package names together to help the buyer build a niche domain and minisite network.

OK, so funny title I know. ?As many of you know I am a big believer in the Geo domain space and have been continuing to make investments there, this week I have increased the square mileage owned signficantly. I now am owner of 23 US States in the .ME extension with several being picked

When explaining domain names and their value to people I usually start with a real estate reference, billboard location reference, etc and then go from there in how a domain name is even better for various reasons (probably should do a post on that....). ?Well tomorrow it will be really interesting since I have to

I have been a bit quiet on the blog front lately due some crazy travel schedules. When traveling I try to use all the tools available to stay connected and productive and have carried both a Blackberry and and Apple iPhone together for sometime but in the past week or so I killed the Blackberry

I have not had the time to actually build many minisites lately do to a crazy schedule but tonight thought I would try something different than what I have done in the past.? Although I have never focused much on affiliate ads and have always relied on Google Adsense and parking income I knew that to

? Godaddy.com is without a doubt the gorilla of domain name registrations. They hold more registrations than any other company and are the company most general consumers think of when they go to register a domain name. What some domainers do not know is they also have an executive accounts program for domainers and individuals with

Although I am a big fan of minisite development ?and also use Parked.com and SedoPro for domain parking I have also had a Whypark.com account for a couple years but have never used it to its full potential. Well, today that stops. Although people have voiced concerns about the potential for duplicate content and also unrelated

? With todays push on?web development for domainers and the decrease in PPC revenues hitting the bottom line of most domainers,?finding a?web development partner that understands the mindset of?domainers is more important than ever.? With that in mind I bring you an interview with Web Developer, Writer, AND Domainer Tia Wood. ? Tia, you have ...

Its been about a month since launched the Mathbooks.net minisite. I thought it would be good to review the results of the launch of this keyword rich minisite. First off this site was done a little different than others I have done in the past. I had originally planned to build the site myself but due

OK, so Mike Cohen at WannaDevelop.com?always has interesting (and very direct) insights into domain/minisite development. Although some people do not appreciate the direct and somewhat abrasiveness of his posts I think that it can be somewhat refreshing. His post today is offering to post a detailed post next week of a domain development "secret". ...

Steven Sikes is co-founder of YouAnd.ME, a rapidly growing online dating site. He is also a domain investor who found domaining almost by accident after offers for names came in after he would purchase a name for a new business idea. After seeing the value of domains he began investing and has recently been successful

Wordpress Minisite News Aggregator in 15 Minutes Minisites for your Domains come in many different forms. One that has become popular is taking a niche and building a news aggregator using Wordpress and the FeedWordpress Plugin which is built specifically to aggregate RSS feeds from sources that you choose. This How-To Create A Wordpress Minisite T...

I very seldom focus on checking my Yahoo search results for my various minisites and developed domains and spend the majority of my time verifying Google search results. I have found that recently Yahoo has been showing certain minsites of mine in the first page of their listings causing a measurable increase in traffic and

This is not the post I planned on doing today but due to a technical difficulty I don't have the bandwidth to fix right now I thought I would post a few domaining notes that were not quite large enough to justify their own post. Here goes… What may of been one of the coolest things

Why do you buy Domain Names?? That is a question I have asked myself before. Now to be clear, I buy them for one reason, to make money online. There are very few domains I buy without a purpose, it should either have keyword potential for minisites or immediate resell potential which is why I

I have had several (dozens…) of emails in the past week asking various questions about developing minisites, using wordpress for minisites, revenue on my minisites, and how-to create minisites. As most people will tell you, I do respond to each and every email rather quickly most of the time, if I miss one its because Outlook

Today I present an exclusive interview with Aron Meystedt, Founder of the super-exclusive XF.com professional domain forum and 20-something year old professional domainer. Aron is owner of several high end premium domain names and a big proponent of developing key domain properties. Below you will find some very good info to help build your domaini...

I have been connectivity challenged the past day or so and have not got to post a few things I really wanted to so am saving them for later this week, but wanted to send a few shout outs to people that have thrown out some good info this past week. Wanted to give a quick

A few random domaining thoughts and some insight into what will be coming next on BruceMarler.com: I have someone looking for a domain with the word "media" in it, not a bunch of random letters with media, but something that can be used for a company presence online. If you have something please use the contact

My Wordpress Minisites and other Minisite types seemed to of fared rather well during this weeks Google Pagerank Update. Overall the Pagerank results are definitely more positive than negative and with this I have seen an increase in traffic for targeted keywords to many of my minisites. Here are several that came out looking good: Branson Mo Misso...

Today Betaworks launched a new real time website stats service called Chartbeat. The potential looks very good with this one. Although I use Google Analytics on some of my minisites I still always seem to default back to?Awstats but Chartbeat may change that. Chartbeat requires a couple lines of code to be added to your site,

Being a believer .ME domain names?I have been watching the Sedo premium .ME auction which is currently running and ends tomorrow at 1PM EST. There are some premium .ME names in the auction that fit the extension well and I think with the current economic situation can be picked up at what will end up

While Twitter continues to figure out ways to monetize its fast growing, highly addictive micro-blogging services another company has found a way to *attempt* to monetize the tweeting crowd. I was just reading?a post on TechCrunch.com, they are reporting that Tinker?is launching a professional micro-blogging network.? Tinker?is a micro-blogging?tra...

Ok, thought I would give people the chance to try something a little bit different. There are many different avenues to sell your domains but I hear people complain all the time that their name is buried in the thousands of other names on the various auction sites or forums. Also, many people want to be able

One thing I have always found interesting is watching what people are searching for that landed them on my site. My minisites are very keyword targeted and usually are pretty predictable but many times I have found that my sites have been "selected" by google to rank high for certain terms I did not necassarily

One of my developed domains is ifones.com?where I do both Apple iPhone News aggregation and original iPhone App Reviews. I get several requests a day for app reviews and last night got one that hit on the domain world. The co-founder of ideegeo Group sent me an email asking for a review of DomainApp which allows

Getting ready to board a flight but thought no time like the present to post the second list of Domain Buying and Selling do's and don'ts. Had some good commentary on Twitter and email after the post yesterday.? Enjoy the second installment: 1) Brandables - Do not buy brandable anything, I do not care if it