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Lots of companies make eight figures per year and generate a high profit margin. But those that upgrade to a premium domain name can see even greater success and market dominance. Consider: * Slack used to be SlackHQ.com. * Facebook used to be TheFacebook.com. * Dropbox used to be GetDropbox.com. * Mint used to be MyMint.com. Those companies that buy a premium domain name are saying something about their company to their customers and the industry. According to Noah Kagan, they're saying they have status, they're going to last the test of time, and they have a “seriousness of business.” Learn how Kagan persisted through seven years of negotiations to finally own Sumo.com, and how his financing creativity finally got the deal done.

Should you buy a killer, exact-match domain name and build a business? Or should you stick to the business of investing in domain names? If you want to know what goes into running a business—with employees, inventory, shipping/receiving and customer service—this is the show to watch. And what better exact-match domain name to take on the $15 billion North America ($62 billion worldwide) battery market than Batteries.com.

The DomainSherpa Review, Live from NamesCon 2017! ClosetDesign.com, Rat.com, PublicEye.com, 2.cool In this show: Domains from the audience at NamesCon are reviewed and appraised... Find out which reserve or reserve-met auctions at NameJet the Sherpas like... Audience questions... Plus, much more! With Andrew Rosener, Frank Schilling and Shane Cultra.

What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names? In this show: We learn what the Sherpas bought or sold recently: Carve.com, MonkeyWrench.com, Model-Planes.com An investor's portfolio is appraised: FineCars.com, Snoring.org, Body.me... Get your bids in soon for Fort.com, Farms.net, OceanfrontProperty.com... Plus, much more! We're joined by Adam Strong, Andrew Rosener and Shane Cultra.

There are a few companies in the domain name industry that provide financial services. One of them, Domain Capital, provides financing so you can buy premium domain names with only a fraction of the capital required to make the purchase – as long as you can service the loan. Domain Capital can also provide cash based on the value of your portfolio to grow your business. Listen in to learn how these "hard money" types of loans are structured, including over what period and at what annual percentage rate; how a borrower's credit worthiness factors in; what happens if you default; and what types of domain names can be financed.

On this Profitable Flips show, we talk to Mark Levine, a newer individual investor who purchased a series of .io domain names that – as a portfolio – have yielded a 100 percent return on his investment in less than a year with a 23 percent sell-through rate. Given that most domain name investors agree that a 2-3 percent sell-through rate is typical, 23 percent is unbelievable. Listen in as we learn from Levine what types of .io domain names do or don’t sell, what types of end users are buying them, how he sets retail pricing, and how his .io investing tactics are going to change in 2017.

Last year we interviewed Christian Calvin about two profitable flips ($81 to $12,500 and $99 to $9,000, both within just months of acquisition). Today we learn how Calvin has sold more than 200 domain names (a 17 percent portfolio sell-through rate), garnered more than $200,000 in revenue, and profited by more than $60,000. You'll also hear how he selects his brandable domain names, what his process is for managing domain names, how he optimizes his sales process, how he's trying to liquidate 30 to 50 domains per month at NameJet to right-size his portfolio, and why he turned down a six-figure offer to sell his entire portfolio.

What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names? In this show: We learn what the Sherpas bought or sold recently: 18x3L.net, CPL.com, ImDumb.com An investor's portfolio is appraised: BoulderAccountant.com, NursesAideJobs.com, NewHavenLaw.com... Get your bids in soon for NYCSolar.com, TheOutdoors.com, MobileAlerts.com... Plus, much more! We're joined by Andrew Rosener, Monte Cahn and Shane Cultra.

What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names? In this show: One Sherpa snags a domain for $5k that Richard Lau thinks could be worth as much as $500k; Selling Spanish .com domains; The Soft .net market. We learn what the Sherpas bought or sold recently: RAAS.com, Decimeter.com, FirstLastName.com An investor's portfolio is appraised: Grief.org, SMSMessage.com, Comment.net... Get your bids in soon for Supplier.com, eLuxury.com, Beerfund.com... Plus, much more! We're joined by Andrew Rosener, Richard Lau and Shane Cultra.