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This is my blog about domains and domain name registration. From hand-registration, investing in the domain names aftermarket to using domains for online marketing purposes, these are my thoughts and opinions spanning 10 years of experience in the industry.
I am pretty active in the UK domain name community and you can usually find me stirring up public opinion about things I like or dislike, I pull no punches and am always open to discussion. So if you have anything you'd like to say, feel free to get in touch!
Gary
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1 and 1 Direct Debit Indemnity
It seems as though 1 and 1 Internet just simply can’t help themselves and have taken yet more money from my account for domain names which I have correctly cancelled, well actually they are domain names which their Transfers Department cancelled on my behalf! › Continue reading
Domain Names For Sale In May
As it another month comes to a close, it’s time to have a sort through some more domains and see if I can clean up my portfolio. I have been whittling down the amount of domain names I have over the last 6-12 months in an attempt to focus on developing a select handful and also purchase some new ones which I have had my eye on for a while. The selection of domain names I have for sale below are a mixed bag of .co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk and a single .me with a mixture of product, financial, one word and two-character domains, including a little collection of car parking domain names. › Continue reading
Social media leverage – the why and how of connecting with the connectors
The following is a guest contribution from James Agate (@jamesagate) founder of skyrocket SEO, an SEO and Social Media Marketing Agency in Chester.
Laziness is a condition that afflicts many people and it is often assumed that when we talk about concepts like social media leverage, we are really just looking for a shortcut and a way to feed the desire to find the quick way of dominating a market.
However, the social media leverage I am talking about is about marketing smarter rather than marketing harder. Identifying targets and piggybacking off some of their authority and success as a way of skyrocketing your social media marketing efforts.
It sounds almost calculating but, as social media marketers, we shouldn’t forget that what we are really doing is trying to sell more stuff and make more cash (usually) – if you take the ‘marketing’ out of social media marketing then all you are left with is social media and that kind of just translates into wasting time on Facebook and Twitter.
We are told to be the authority in the market and whilst this is an admirable longer term goal, in the immediate future you need a strategy that gives you some of the right attention now. › Continue reading
1&1 Issue Three Months In
It has been a few weeks since my last update about my dreaded 1&1 saga and things actually seem to be progressing. Perhaps they are starting to take notice of the 60+ comments to this series of blog posts!
Here is the recent flurry of email communication I have had with 1&1 Internet and details my attempts to cancel a large number of domain names and get a refund for the one they have billed me for AFTER I had transferred them away to DomainMonster.com. There have been a number of technical faults on behalf of 1&1 during this entire episode and I feel I am completely justified in asking for this near £400 refund. › Continue reading
Does social media automation actually work?
Guest social media post contributed by James Agate, founder of Skyrocket SEO. Find me on Twitter (@jamesagate)
Let me introduce you to a little experiment of mine. Dubbed Newsrush, it’s a twitter based news aggregator. I created it back in 2010 by doing nothing more than registering on Twitter, aggregating multiple news feeds using xfruits and then setting up Twitterfeed to publish up to 5 posts every 30 minutes. Total time investment around 15 minutes.
I decided against the usual route of adding hundreds or even thousands of followers because it has almost been proven beyond doubt that mass friending generates a following.
The point of the experiment was to see if people actually value an automated curator and to determine how easy it is to gather followers without following them first. › Continue reading
About Me
Hi, I'm Gary Taylor. I have bought and sold domain names since 2002. In January 2008 I won the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the Midlands Business Awards. I have been featured on sites like Mortgage Strategy, speak at events like Think Visibility and SAScon and develop sites like Rottweilers.co.uk and South Africa. I am a Director of One Result and head up all aspects of SEO, Project Management and Internal Operations. I live in Birmingham with my dog Alfie and love to play the guitar. You can follow me on Twitter or connect with me on Linked In.
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