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Marc Köhlbrugge

Marc Köhlbrugge
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There's basically two types of customers you can sell your domains too: 1) end-users, and 2) resellers.

  1. Selling to an end-user usually yields the highest price. However, it can be tricky to find them depending on your domain name. Try googling for the words in your domain name and see if any businesses turn up that might be interested in the domain. Reach out to them. The ideal situation would be for a potential buyer to reach out to you. For this it helps if your contact email is available on your site and the page implies it's for sale. A parking service like DomainHolder mentioned by @maheshj567 or Sedo.com can be helpful for that.

  2. If you want to sell your domain soon then you'll probably end up selling it so a reseller (i.e. someone who then goes to find an end-user and adds a healthy margin to the price). sedo.com is probably the most popular market place amongst domain resellers. In addition to the sites already mentioned by others, I'd also check out namepros.com

Having said all that, I should add that in my experience many makers hold on to worthless domain names. Year after year you renew domain and now you're invested. Sunk cost fallacy comes into play and you don't want to get let it go. Has anyone ever reached out to you asking to buy it? If not, and if based on the homepage it's clear that it's for sale, then there's a decent chance it's a worthless domain. You can still try selling it of course, but if you don't have luck at any of the mentioned market places then it's probably best to cut your losses and let the domain expire.

Another good way to get an estimate of a domain's worth is namebio.com – there you can look for recent sales of similar domains. Filter by the same TLD, similar length (or exact length if it's a very short name), and search for the keyword in the name, or synonyms. If any sales of similar names pop up, those prices will give you some idea of what people pay for a domain like that.

There's two things that work really well for me:

  1. Rubber ducking. I usually use @levelsio for this haha. I just message him the problem. Try to describe it as well as possible. And during the process of describing it I often come up with the solution. Even before Pieter gets a chance to respond. If it's a particularly complicated issue though, it's also helpful to get another developer's perspective. – Feel free to ask such questions in the chat or ask people willing to be your rubber duck to message you.

  2. For more architectural problems I tend to take a walk and just think about it. It's amazing what a 30 minute walk can do.

Great question. I don't feel like I've found the right balance yet. I tend to focus too much on shipping new features or products, rather than refining existing things or all the other tasks you need to do in a business. (Marketing, sales, taxes, etc.)

When I'm procrastinating on something that's usually because I haven't decided yet whether I will do it, what the end result should look like, or what the next first step is.

So I ask myself the following questions:

  1. Is this something I really need to do? (For example: quarterly taxes, yes I really need to do. Even though it's boring work, it will get even worse if I don't do them right now.)

  2. What does the end result look like? (I've entered all the necessary information into the tax website. It will be removed from my todo list. I can get back to the real work.)

  3. What's the first step? (Collect all expense invoices)

Once I know that yes I need to do this. I know what I'm working towards. And I know the first step. That usually helps me get things going.

Take into account that people don't necessarily use full screen browser windows with such large screens. Base your design decisions on viewport sizes, not screen resolutions.

It's a pretty broad question, but here are some starting points:

Startup for the Rest of Us – Podcast with practical tips on how to turn your product into a business. www.startupsfortherestofus.com

MAKE by @levelsio – Will get you into the right mindset of just going out there and actually doing stuff, rather than just thinkign about it. Since most business skills are learned through trial and error that's a good mentality to get. makebook.io

Growth Hacking by Julian Shapiro – Extensive guide on how to get customers for your business. www.julian.com/learn/growth/i…

Indie Hackers interviews by @csallen – Both the podcast and the text interviews are a great way to get practical suggestions on how to build an online business. It will also help you get motivated to focus on the business part. www.indiehackers.com

MicroConf by Rob Walling and Mike Taber – Conference for bootstrappers. Both the speakers and attendees are great people to be around and learn from. If you go to one event a year, this should be it. They have events in Europe and the U.S. – www.microconf.com

There's also FemtoConf in Germany which feels like a mini-MicroConf to me. I haven't attended yet, but if you have a smaller budget and still want to meet similar minded people this might be a good alternative. – femtoconf.com/

Apart from that I'd recommend spending time with business savvy people so you can both learn practical tips and mirror their mindset.

I'd ask a friend to give me the money each day and give it all back on the 16th day.

Be under 30, achieve something newsworthy, be connected with the right people.

Seriously though, I wouldn't worry about these kind of awards. Your energy is better focused on things that actually matter.

It depends on what I'm rating.

I feel like 👍👎 would work well if I'm likely to have either a positive or negative experience. I think that's the case for something where you generally have a non-neutral expectation. For example if I go on holiday that experience is usually non-neutral (i.e. positive or negative). Same for watching a movie. Etc. Maybe negative expectations too like going to the dentist. It's likely 👎, but if it's not negative then we'll experience it as positive (👍). Generally we wouldn't consider it neutral. (Except when it becomes routine.)

For something that can have a neutral experience (something less exciting, routines, etc) the 😄😐😠 might make more sense. That said, I would research the feelings people associate with those specific emoji. For example the middle one doesn't feel neutral to me. Feels negative/sad/perplexed. The last one feels angry. Not all negative experiences are anger.

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