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Bill Myers Tip of the Week - August 04, 2007
Staking out your web real estate
In case you missed the news, this past week the domain name 'business.com' was sold for $345 Million dollars.
That's for just the domain name. Nothing more. No web site, no content. Just the domain name.
And yes, I think this is crazy.
For that kind of money you could purchase Chrysler motors, all its manufacturing plants, and all its inventory.
Still, it is a good idea to own domain names related to your business or the products you sell.
And in most cases, you won't have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to acquire domain names.
For example, I recently registered 20 domain names matching the names of DVD products I am working on - and I paid less than $9 for each domain name. (I used www.godaddy.com )
By registering domain names for my products, it makes it easy for potential customers to find the products and keeps others from encroaching on my product names by registering the domain names for themselves.
Plus, who knows, maybe someone will offer me $345 million for one of those names.
To see an example of how I use these domain names with my products, check out http://www.computertodvd.com
Bill Myers
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DVD Menu creation in 4 minutes or less - using DVD Architect
This short video shows how to quickly create professional DVD menus for your 'how to' videos. You'll be amazed at how easy it can be.
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Do it once, then build a template
I recently completed a 'how to' video, and needed a 'retail ready' DVD case cover to supply to the DVD duplicator I use. To create the retail ready cover, I spent an afternoon working with
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Creating DVD Disk Art - includes ready to use template
Quickly create DVD disk art for your how-to DVDs, using this ' fill in the blank' template I created. This article includes short video showing how to use the template, and the template itself
Read the full article at: http://www.bmyers.com/members/1300.cfm
That's it for this week!
Bill Myers
http://www.bmyers.com
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