Domain Owl

Many domainers pass up fantastic deals on dropping app and other types of live build site potential names.  Serious domain money can be made constructing a destination that draws eyeballs. The new devices like mobile and new phones and portables need small screen apps to make the clicks flow easily. Think all the great apps are gone? Balderdash! if you are sitting on a snappy site or a cool domain name and you aren’t building or tweaking an app, you need to be put in the domainer penalty box.

1. Build an Iphone App

The surprising news about Iphone apps is that they aren’t original apps, just tweaked versions proofed as gateways to the real apps for device users to tap for use. Even a directory site of preferred iPhone apps by category (travel, business, music, entertainment0 makes a valuable resources for spot-bloggers or sometime readers who want one site to check to get the urls they need. Make a nonsense word domain name the brand and the app name.

2. Make a Walking Tour

Know those museum tours where people walk around with headphones on, absorbing the information without having to scan plaques or read brochures? Ever listened to or seen an awful piece of marketing material on a place you know like the back of your hand? You could probably spend one hour recording stream of consciousness memories and do it better. So go ahead, do it better.

And the market for directions is unbelievable. Last week I saw three different groups of drivers looking to connect to the Wi-Fi at  McDonald’s to get driving directions and hotels. Just verbal streaming of how to navigate local roads and offramps will be a huge attraction for visitors and tourists. Is it a California place? Offer the details En Espanol, hasta luego. You just got twice the clicks.

This is the way to wring value out of  a geo domain name. Those people leaning out of their car window to ask which way is North, where is the freeway, and how far is the Starbucks? Those are your target market. Hook the whole thing up to a recorded phone message. They can print 20 pieces of paper or dial a recorded version of your site or zip code at $2.50 a minute. Think of the possibilities…..

The only thing standing between your authorship of a walking (or driving) tour of anything, be it your hometown or any geographical attraction, is your making it. Work the microphone and upload the YouTube. Then link it up! Think how much easier tourists would rather listen to the list of available nearby restaurants than read it on a site. As some people say, it’s hard to get to Beverly Hills from Beverly Hills.  Lightbulb!

3. Make Your Passion Pay

Got keyboard habits that lead to Madden mischief? World of Warcraft warfare skimming your time away? Those Farmville elves on FaceBook sucking away the most creative part of your day? Make those hours (days, weeks) spent churning at a game pay off. Build a site with cheats, tips, personal anecdotes and tricks for new(b) players to learn by. Anything to do with gaming has wheels online right now.

4. Niche Targets

Niche hobbies like ballroom dancing to skeet shooting will want a presence and a community. And these community members will want sites that operate as portals to direct them to the best and latest resources online serving their interest. If you can’t find a good site for your chosen passion, chances are nobody has built it yet. Bringing one site link and short text entry a day to your hobby or niche interest blog and reviewing it can make a destination in three weeks.

5. Simplify Something Technical/Medical

Nobody’s got time to read the manual/desk reference anymore. But everyone’s got time to watch a few YouTubes and suck up the details. Shave away the gluck, and relate the necessary step/symptoms in English. Clarify and define new terms and features for any product/condition. Think about how painful it was to learn that simple trick or fact for dealing with a  problem. The information sharing will set you free.

What to use for ideas? Think about your own frustration points for installation, programming, and device fixing. Think about what symptoms alarm people. Give them a well to go to. People are scared of two things: Doctors and technology. You are not the first to feel the pain. Include an Adobe .pdf of the real brochure or links to the source for those who really want to drill down.