[Karsten]

Who actually read the story about the town for sale on ebay??
The name of the town is wauconda and the winning bid was $370,601.00

Imagine what you could do if you would own that town

1.Change the towns name into your website URL

I know this was already done but Mark Hughes who talked Halfway/Oregon into changing their name to Half.com
With that publicity stunt he was able to grow the customer base from 0 to 8 Million within only 3 years...
You have to do a LOT OF SOCIAL BOOKMAKRING AND LINKBUILDING to get those results..
But who cares - you could do it again and you will end up getting publicity

2. You can force the citizen to wear a T-shirt with your URL printed on it (since this is already the name of the town
they can even develop some kind of community spirit with your help LOL)

3. If you are a nasty and bad person you can force them to get the URL tattooed on their forehead (nasty, I know but this WILL GET YOU A
YOU A LOT OF MEDIA COVERAGE - but most probably one or two people will start to hate you also)

4.Your ULR is not limited to T-shirts and foreheads - you could also put them on Cows, Horses, Chicken, Eggs (great if you plan to
sell the eggs nationwide)

[JamesStein]

Just one question ....

Can I have what you're drinking .....

Seriously though if you pay close attention to TV Commercials and Popular Shows and notice what the popular catch phrases are now, you can actually register some great domain names that will already have media coverage..

Of course this also works online too.. Pay close attention to some of those "gurus" sales copy and notice how their affiliates talk about this certain word or that word, then register the domain name, create a product and dominate the search engines by doing "proper" marketing..

I actually have a product in my sig I did this for and I not only dominate 2 different keyphrases but I dominate the page 1 and 2 in google so a word a "guru" made popular but did not register the domain name...

James

Originally Posted by Karsten

Who actually read the story about the town for sale on ebay??
The name of the town is wauconda and the winning bid was $370,601.00

Imagine what you could do if you would own that town

1.Change the towns name into your website URL

I know this was already done but Mark Hughes who talked Halfway/Oregon into changing their name to Half.com
With that publicity stunt he was able to grow the customer base from 0 to 8 Million within only 3 years...
You have to do a LOT OF SOCIAL BOOKMAKRING AND LINKBUILDING to get those results..
But who cares - you could do it again and you will end up getting publicity

2. You can force the citizen to wear a T-shirt with your URL printed on it (since this is already the name of the town
they can even develop some kind of community spirit with your help LOL)

3. If you are a nasty and bad person you can force them to get the URL tattooed on their forehead (nasty, I know but this WILL GET YOU A
YOU A LOT OF MEDIA COVERAGE - but most probably one or two people will start to hate you also)

4.Your ULR is not limited to T-shirts and foreheads - you could also put them on Cows, Horses, Chicken, Eggs (great if you plan to
sell the eggs nationwide)

[Jim Gillum]

I have seen ads on cows......I was not...repeat NOT drinking at the time....

Kind'a unique.....

I dominate Yahoo for #1....my name.....

Go figure........

[Karsten]

Can I have what you're drinking

right now I am drinking a cherry coke - they are hard to get where I live

every time someone posted a town or something else on ebay like a rocket silo (I really like the rocket silo though ) they get HUGE media attention...

[Dean]

I should list the acres of sea front I have on ebay - can you have a 8 hour listing?
We have to sell quick, the tide is coming in again.

[Jim Gillum]

If you decide to by that water front property...I can get you a bridge real cheap...

We have a few in Florida that don't get much traffic.....

[Dean]

Originally Posted by Jim Gillum

If you decide to by that water front property...I can get you a bridge real cheap...

We have a few in Florida that don't get much traffic.....

They sound like a bargain - I don't hear of Florida bridges falling down

[Karsten]

I remember the florida swamp thing a while back -
stuff like this works (similar to diet pills) and there was already someone on ebay selling part of the ocean - so you guys are too late ...

[Jim Gillum]

Some of that swamp land is now worth a fortune....anything near water draws a premium price....
Who knew?

[Dean]

Take something worthless and add a little vision - that is where most of the Richlist got their foot in the door.

[Jim Gillum]

Much like developing a new product......

Ever see people paint old bricks and sell them for doorstops?

Just need some imagination and some creative skill and BINGO.....another money maker...