I recently wrote a guest post about How To Sell a Domain Name on my good friend Nima’s domain news and tips site. Check it out and share it with any friends you think might like it =)

We are going to attempt to sell the domain www.raleighpatentattorney.com

First Google the keywords Raleigh patent attorney.

In an Excel Make a list of the top 50 results (including Google ads).

Make sure to remove any directory sites like findlaw.com, super pages, etc…

Get the email of the domain registrant from Godaddy Whois here who.godaddy.com

Enter the email into the excel next to each domain.

Send them an email with the subject line: Patent Attorney Leads

Send this message in the body of the email:

We are selling our domain RaleighPatentAttorney.com

It is already ranking on page 1 of Google in the top 3 results for the keywords Raleigh patent attorney so it is a very interesting domain because intelligent people who know the value of high rankings should jump on this opportunity.

The buy it now price is $2500 or you can lease it for $149 per month with a full year payment due upon agreement. You will recoup this investment with just a few clients and since this site is already ranking on top of Google, you don’t have to spend any money on SEO.

Let us know, we are sending this to every patent attorney in Raleigh, so hurry, it won’t last long.

Sincerely,

Your Domain Partner

Do you have an examples of good domain sales copy? Let me know in the comments.

This is an excellent video produced by Microsoft with the help of General Motors. It’s a great look into the what the future has in store for us. ENJOY!

Check out Google's list of top 1,000 websites

Do you want to know what the most popular and most successful websites are on the internet?

There are many lists that claim to show which websites are the most popular but the figures used in these lists are less than accurate. So, in order to give the people what they want, Google has decided to release a list of the top 1,000 websites…

The list is separated out according to the category of the website (i.e. social network or email and messaging service) and it also shows the amount of unique monthly visitors a website attracts, the amount of page views the website gets and if the websites allows advertising.

Here are the top 20 sites:

1. facebook.com – social networks -880,000,000 – has advertising

2. youtube.com – online video – 800,000,000 – has advertising

3. yahoo.com - web portals – 660,000,000 – has advertising

4. live.com - search engines – 550,000,000 – has advertising

5. wikipedia.org – dictionaries and encyclopedias – no advertising

6. msn.com – web portals – 450,000,000 – has advertising

7. blogspot.com - blogging resources  – 410,000,000 – has advertising

8. baidu.com - search engines – 340,000, 000 – has advertising

9. bing.com – search engines – 340,000,000 – has advertising

10. microsoft.com – software – 340,000,000 – has advertising

11. qq.com – web portals – 280,000,000 – has advertising

12. ask.com - search engines – 210,000,000 – has advertising

13. taobao.com - classifieds – 190,000,000 – has advertising

14. adobe.com – multimedia software – 170,000,000 – no advertising

15. wordpress.com – blogging resources – 170,000,000 – has advertising

16. twitter.com – email and messaging – 160,000,000 – has advertising

17. youku.com - online video – 160,000,000 – has advertising

18. soso.com – search engines – 160,000,000 – no advertising

19. sohu.com - web portals – 140,000, 000 – has advertising

20. 163.com - web portals – 140,000,000 – has advertising

The list of websites excludes adult sites, domains that don’t load properly and ad networks.

The list was compiled to assist advertisers to target the most popular websites that accept ads but it has proved to be really popular with all kinds of web-enthusiasts!

As long as the data is correct, it shows some really interesting stats. For example, Mashable is as big as PCWorld and Engadget is as big as the Washington Post and if you are counting unique visitors, the Huffington Post is as big as Digg!

Check you the whole list of Google’s top 1,000 websites and see if you can spot any surprising stats!

Attention! DoubleClick Benchmarks Report has been released.

The DoubleClick Benchmarks Report evaluates the performance of online advertising campaigns within the US in order to assist agencies, publishers and advertisers to see how well each ad campaign is performing. The statistics are derived from solid data from campaigns, advertisers and ad impressions ensuring that the statistics provided in the Benchmark Report are acutely accurate. DoubleClick is an ad management company that provides ad serving solutions to the top companies that sell, create and buy online advertising space. The information found in the below report represents the activity from ad formats in the US from January 2009 through to December 2009.

You can view the full report here.

An interesting article was posted over at NeuroScienceMarketing about changing behavior with Fun.

Here’s a video demonstrating:

Changing Behavior with Fun

How can your company make purchasing or using your products and services fun?

Jonathan Volk’s article on farticles is a great piece of journalism that shows us that not all fake articles are conniving and manipulative and that a farticle can be used to sell a good product in a fun way. A farticle is a little like turning on a tap when someone in the room needs to use the bathroom – deceptive encouragement!

Farticles are basically fake articles that are made to look like genuine news stories that encourage people to make a purchase as they convince the reader the news article about the ‘fantastic’ product is real – when in fact it is simply the company deviously marketing their own product.

These fake news articles can be used as a spammy way to convince people to buy a product and is a truly illusory way to make a sale. Yet this great example of how to use such a devious form of advertizing in a positive way is truly unique and goes to show that we shouldn’t always think with such closed and pre-opinionated minds..

To read Johnathon Volk’s article in it’s entirety, go to http://www.jonathanvolk.com/email-marketing/farticle-via-email-marketing.html