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November 2006
Success Stories: Business is "Hot, Hot, Hot" for This Venture
Have you ever wanted to dance like the stars? Do you love those Latin rhythms? Hook up with LearnSalsa.com, a BuyDomains customer. Learning salsa could be your best bet for recreation if you live in Los Angeles.

According to George Rodriguez, his company, LearnSalsa.com, started a "Learn Salsa Boot Camp" in the Los Angeles area.
Their classes have 75 to 100 people attending every single time. Says Rodriguez: "They are a BLAST, people love going to the LearnSalsa.com Salsa Lessons!"

The domain name is unique and incredible, and, he says: "obviously attracts a lot of traffic without much advertisement." The site has pictures of students on its website — everyone seems to be having a terrific time, and in an age where most Americans aren't active enough, dancing might be a good bet to tone up without hating every minute of exercise.

The company has a team of over 15 employees at every boot camp for LearnSalsa.com to ensure that participants receive individual attention and get the most out of their lessons.

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.mobi Domains on the Move — Get Yours While You Still Can!
.mobi domains are now selling in the six digit range at recent auctions

With more and more people using their mobile phones to connect to the internet, the demand for slimed down websites that can easily be viewed on a mobile device has amplified dramatically. Along came the .mobi, the first and only top-level-domain (TLD) designed for the mobile communications industry. The introduction of the .mobi extension was the result of lobbying from mTLD Top Level Domain Ltd, an organization composed of leaders in the mobile industry. The greater intention of the organization was to have a way of providing mobile users with a more reliable way of accessing the internet. Therefore, the registrant of a .mobi domain should ideally be planning to develop a website that has content tailored to the needs of the mobile device user, such as pages that can be easily viewed on a small display screen.

The Trademark Sunrise period, began June 12 and ended on September 22nd. During this time only trademark holders were able to reserve .mobi domain names before the general public. After September 26th, .mobi domain names opened to all for registration and during the two week landrush period most of the best remaining .mobi domains were registered.

Today, thousands of .mobi domains are available on the secondary market and have proven to be immediately valuable. .Mobi domains are already listed among premium .com domains in the top 20 sales of the week listed on dnjournal.com. Flowers.mobi recently sold for $200,000.

Other historic .mobi sales include:
fun.mobi $100,000
hot.mobi $40,000
stockquotes.mobi $27,000
freeringtones.mobi $9,100
There are many more valuable .mobi domains available for sale both at BuyDomains, and through Sedo.com, a trusted BuyDomains affiliate.

Companies are catering to mobile internet users through the new TLD and developing sites with content that will load faster while optimizing the design for mobile browsing.

In the future, we can expect increased development of mobile friendly portals. As mobile web browsing becomes even more commonplace and .mobi domains gain more traffic, these domains are expected to appreciate significantly. Be sure to invest now and ride the .mobi wave.
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E-Commerce Basics for Small Businesses

Almost every prediction made about highly visible e-commerce enterprises in the last decade has been turned on its ear. The 2001 bankruptcy of the online grocer WebVan sent the pundits racing to the airwaves with a chorus of smug assurances that they'd known all along that shipping groceries was folly.

Just five years later, several online grocery delivery systems are quietly thriving in major cities across the US. Pets.com was an early casualty of the dot.com meltdown. It had achieved brand name recognition in record time with its icon, the sock puppet dog with no name. The sock puppet was featured as a balloon in the 1999 Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade and appeared on Good Morning America. The January 2000 Pets.com Super Bowl ad was ranked first by USA Today and had the highest recall by viewers of any commercial that year. No one would have predicted that the company was to close down just ten months later.

Since the dotcom crash of 2000, though, many e-commerce success stories have tarnished the reputations of naysayers. Books and CDs will sell well on the Internet, they assured us, but videos won't. Tell that to NetFlix and BlockBuster stockholders.

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How to Implement an E-Commerce System
Whether you've decided to build your e-commerce system from scratch, contract it to a third party or customize a package, you've probably run across a mind-boggling array of implementation issues. In an effort to streamline the list of implementation topics, we'll address them in five general categories:
  • Pre-sale tasks
  • The user experience
  • Post-sales support
  • Security
  • Risk management
You'll soon see why so many books have been written about implementing an e-commerce system. Go ahead and read a few, but make sure they're current. Much has changed even in the past two years.

If You Build It, Will They Come?
You wouldn't think of having a big garage sale just by setting out your sale items in your driveway and waiting for customers to find you. Of course, you'd put signs out in the neighborhood, take out an ad in the paper and let all your friends know you have some great stuff for sale.

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Home & Garden Trends in the News:
Translating News Into Business Opportunity

The Home and Garden Online Retail Sector Saw 32% Growth, Year Over Year
Between 2004 and 2005 online home and garden sales grew at a rate of 32%, according to recent research.

Online sales for non-travel consumer retail comprise 6% of all online spending — with 2005 expenditures of more than $82 billion.

Experts predict that this growth will continue through 2010; this growth highlights continuing opportunities for online entrepreneurs hoping to build profitable businesses catering to online shoppers.

Have a home- or garden-related idea? Want to build an online business around your concept?

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Home- and Garden-Related Searches On the Web Number in the Millions: Traffic Highlights Business Opportunity
There is a huge volume of traffic to home- and garden-related sites each month, based on Web searches. This traffic base offers new online sites strong business opportunities to capture consumer dollars.

From Yahoo!'s Search Tool: August 2006
Home 466,257
Garden 129,209
Home décor 23,667
Home gardening 126,402
Home decorating 30,289
Garden center 91,751
Japanese garden 27,992
BuyDomains has related domains across all categories: whether you are seeking to start an online home specialty or imported furniture venture, promote your garden center or you want to run a specialty orchid business — we have domains which will drive customers to your site and put money in your pocket.

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