Here is a system which allows you to register ordinary domain names and then on sell them to off-line businesses.
You would be amazed to know how little ordinary local businesses know about marketing on the internet.
The system involves getting a regional domain name such as dentistinyourcity.
com.
Of course you would substitute your city with the name of the city you wish to target.
I would suggest that you target the smaller towns and cities, as the big cities like New York and in Los Angeles will surely already be taken.
But even if the domain you want is already taken, there is a way round it by putting something like the word best in front, so that your domain would now read best dentist in your city.
com.
You could also use a plural version of the type of business, which would make it best dentists in your city.
com.
Now type your new domain name, in quotes, into a search engine and see what comes up.
Now look up all the sponsored listings or that search term, and try to get a contact e-mail address from something like iwhois.
com.
Obviously you would stay away from the big chain stores and franchises; you are just looking for reasonably small private companies.
Then you would set up a simple one page website using the domain name, making sure that the domain name phrase appears in the title of the site and in headline form in the content.
This should only take you around 15 minutes or so, especially if you have a basic template, in which you just change the header image and the text.
I would suggest that a basic WordPress theme would be perfectly adequate for this.
The benefit of using WordPress is that it is mostly a one click process to add or change things.
Just add some generic text about the product or service as content, but I would also include fairly prominently a notice that" this website is for sale or for rental", followed by your contact e-mail address.
Instead of the generic text, you could just add the sponsored list businesses - basically you just copy and paste their ad, so that your site becomes a mini directory with perhaps more or five listings on it.
Just make sure that any links back to the businesses in the ads are still live.
If your domain name and is truly local, they should not be much competition, and your new website should appear on the first page of the search engines within a few days.
If it doesn't, you can always hire a link building resource - there are plenty available for as little as five dollars.
Once your domain does appear on the first page, now is the time to e-mail the businesses and tell them that this site is now on the first page.
Say that you have noticed that they are paying good money for a sponsored listing for that search phrase, when they could be getting their current listing for free, once they have purchased the domain name from you.
Also make sure that in your e-mail you mention the fact that you are contacting the other businesses listed on your site, and that you are just waiting to hear back from all of them, and that you are open to all offers.
Also point out that the top listings in the search engines get the lion's share of clicks, and that they should see a marked increase in their customer base.
Now you just take the highest bid, and move on to the next site!
You would be amazed to know how little ordinary local businesses know about marketing on the internet.
The system involves getting a regional domain name such as dentistinyourcity.
com.
Of course you would substitute your city with the name of the city you wish to target.
I would suggest that you target the smaller towns and cities, as the big cities like New York and in Los Angeles will surely already be taken.
But even if the domain you want is already taken, there is a way round it by putting something like the word best in front, so that your domain would now read best dentist in your city.
com.
You could also use a plural version of the type of business, which would make it best dentists in your city.
com.
Now type your new domain name, in quotes, into a search engine and see what comes up.
Now look up all the sponsored listings or that search term, and try to get a contact e-mail address from something like iwhois.
com.
Obviously you would stay away from the big chain stores and franchises; you are just looking for reasonably small private companies.
Then you would set up a simple one page website using the domain name, making sure that the domain name phrase appears in the title of the site and in headline form in the content.
This should only take you around 15 minutes or so, especially if you have a basic template, in which you just change the header image and the text.
I would suggest that a basic WordPress theme would be perfectly adequate for this.
The benefit of using WordPress is that it is mostly a one click process to add or change things.
Just add some generic text about the product or service as content, but I would also include fairly prominently a notice that" this website is for sale or for rental", followed by your contact e-mail address.
Instead of the generic text, you could just add the sponsored list businesses - basically you just copy and paste their ad, so that your site becomes a mini directory with perhaps more or five listings on it.
Just make sure that any links back to the businesses in the ads are still live.
If your domain name and is truly local, they should not be much competition, and your new website should appear on the first page of the search engines within a few days.
If it doesn't, you can always hire a link building resource - there are plenty available for as little as five dollars.
Once your domain does appear on the first page, now is the time to e-mail the businesses and tell them that this site is now on the first page.
Say that you have noticed that they are paying good money for a sponsored listing for that search phrase, when they could be getting their current listing for free, once they have purchased the domain name from you.
Also make sure that in your e-mail you mention the fact that you are contacting the other businesses listed on your site, and that you are just waiting to hear back from all of them, and that you are open to all offers.
Also point out that the top listings in the search engines get the lion's share of clicks, and that they should see a marked increase in their customer base.
Now you just take the highest bid, and move on to the next site!