ePOWER TIP: (full story)
How
To Perk Your Profits By Powerfully Pointing Your
Parked Domains --For Free! ...
Brian Chase (Roy Wheeler Realty Co.,
Charlottesville, VA), a recent graduate of my
3-Day Advanced Workshop in Charlottesville, VA,
did exactly that. Here's his secret of
how to powerfully amplify the marketing
effect of your domains, without spending a dime!
Having the right kind of
domain names pointing to your Web site can make a
huge difference in the number of visitors your
site sees. What Brian did is review page 7 of my
ePOWER! PRO course book and
immediately acquired all the recommended "power"
domain names for his area on the first day of the
course (talk about taking immediate action —and
yes, many were still available!) I call these
"power" domain names because prospects have a
tendency to type them directly into the address
bar of their browser when looking for real estate.
Just one of these resulted in thousands of
extra visitors per month for one REALTOR I know.
The next step Brian took is
what made this whole process really interesting.
He used a service called
MyDomain.com to point all
these new domain names to his current site for
free! You see, most ISPs will charge for pointing
a domain name, however using
MyDomain.com you can
point as many domains as you want to any sites you
please and at no cost —all controlled from your Web browser. Now
anytime someone types in one of Brian's power
domains, they are immediately taken to his primary
Web site.
Pointing To Success
But wait —it gets even
better! MyDomain.com offers two versions of domain
name pointing / redirection. The "standard" mode
will take a visitor to the pointed site, but then
show the actual URL of the site. For example, if
you click on
http://www.mrinternet.info (a
recently acquired domain name of mine) it will
immediately take you to my primary www.russer.com
site showing the "russer.com" domain in the
address bar.
However if you use the
"stealth" mode option, the URL never changes in
the address bar —which will blow your mind when
you first see it. For example, clicking on
http://www.epowersuccess.com
(another of my domains) will take you to a very
recognizable site that is definitely not mine, yet
"epowersuccess.com" will always show in the
address bar.
FOR GEEKS ONLY -
How It Works
In "stealth" mode
MyDomain.com creates an invisible frame around the
target site thus giving the appearance that the
pointed domain is the address of the target site.
Okay very cool, but why would
you ever use the "stealth" mode you might ask?
Brian, once again (smart guy, that Brian!) showed
how it could be used to never lose the goodwill
and awareness he puts into his neighborhood sites.
You see, some of these
REALTOR neighborhood site services that create
exclusive neighborhood Web sites for REALTORS
insist on keeping the domain name. Face it, you
are held hostage by the company that built the
site if they own the domain name, no matter how
much effort you put into creating awareness and
community within the neighborhood for which it was
built (does "highest bidder" mean anything to
you?) This can't happen however if you purchase
your own neighborhood domain name and point it (in
stealth mode) to the actual URL of the
neighborhood site. (NOTE: I'll be talking more
about neighborhood sites as powerful marketing
tools in future issue of ePOWER! NEWS)
Unlimited E-mail Addresses
And just when you think it
can't get any better —it does! Because for each
domain you point through
MyDomain.com,
you can create an unlimited number of different
e-mail addresses based on the pointed domain. Each
of these addresses can be forwarded to any other
real e-mail address you may have. Just
CLICK HERE
to see the entire extent of this powerful feature.
If you think about this for a
moment, the possibilities are endless. Especially
when working with some autoresponder services that
insist on using their domain name within the
autoresponder address. (NOTE: how to use this
feature with "sequential" autoresponders will be
covered in a future issue of ePOWER! NEWS)
Putting It Into Action
Think about this for a
moment. This one idea (that costs you nothing, by
the way) results in an incredibly awesome way to
extend the power and use of domain names to
generate more business for you.
Thanks once again to Brian
Chase for sharing this idea with all the members
of my most recent 3-Day Advanced Workshop. It is
this spirit of collaboration that makes these
programs so tremendously valuable.
Now don't just sit there
thinking what a great idea
MyDomain.com is (which
you will get to, someday). Go do what Brian did
and take action —NOW! |
