Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by mailjenil on Thursday March 01, 2018 @02:18AM
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How often your domains are sold? Are those all inbound inquiries?
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by brandfountain on Thursday March 01, 2018 @12:56PM
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I rely on word of mouth and random visitors for sales. With very little time, interest or expertise (in marketing) my approach is quite basic - offer domains that I would buy for my own projects and be humane with pricing. The extent of my customer strategy can be summed up in: if a customer has a good experience they will tell a friend. If they have a bad experience they will tell 10. I'm not trying to build an empire with Brandfountain, small is perfect for me as I am very busy with another project.
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by Jack000 on Monday March 05, 2018 @02:38PM
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how do you price them? eg. I'm not sure how you would price cookry.com at 7k vs chefgram.com at 3k etc
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
by brandfountain on Thursday March 08, 2018 @12:40PM
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Not 100% science but typically: length of name and number of words are biggest factors. Category can matter as well - eg 'crypto' names are very hot at the moment.
I have curated a stellar portfolio of brandable domains geared to startup community, allows me to dev other projects without raising seed. I succeed by being flexible/sympathetic with early stage companies, expect to reach six digit sales on almost autopilot.