Yes,
for real.
Welcome to the new world of parking
company promotion! Despite an overall
decline in PPC revenues in recent
years, the parking space appears to be
more competitive than ever. Players
determined to stand out from the crowd
are pulling out all the stops in an effort
to get domain owners to check out their
systems first hand. In
what is probably the most ambitious
promotion I've seen to date, Above.com,
in association with two new but rapidly
rising PPC companies, RookMedia
and ParkingCrew,
is giving away 4,000 domains
divided into 400 revenue producing
portfolios of 10 names each in a
campaign called Above & Beyond.
It will officially launch at next week's Webfest
Global conference in Santa
Monica, California, going live on the
show's opening day, Tuesday, February 5.
Attendees
will each get a scratch off coupon card
with a code number that will
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which
portfolio is assigned to a new free
account they will open at Above.com.
As soon as they log in they will see the
ten domain names randomly assigned to them.
To
let me see how it works for myself,
Above.com's Director of Domain Services, Victor
Pitts, gave me one of the promo |
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codes
in advance. I opened the account and sure
enough, there were 10 domains that
collectively had earned over $20
over the previous 30 days via RookMedia or
ParkingCrew. If that rate holds up for the
rest of the year - that would be a $240
gift for simply checking out the service
(I agreed to test the system with the
stipulation that Above.com will auction
off the portfolio I received with all
of the proceeds going to Jodi
Chamberlain's current campaign
to raise $50,000 for The
Water School by having her
head shaved at the Domaining
Spain conference coming up in
April 2013). |
Here
is a screen shot from my test portfolio
showing you my domain statistics and the other
platform features that are available from the
neatly organized control panel.
Pitts
said some of the free accounts that will be
given away could earn into four figures
annually. Exactly what you end up with will
depend on luck of the draw, but you certainly
have nothing to lose and, judging from
the ones I ended up with above, something
to gain as all of the domains have traffic
and many are producing revenue.
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Above.com
President David Warmuz said a lot
of work went into getting the results they
expect new account holders to see. "Testing
multiple revenue sources is hard work,
time consuming and comes with a lot of
risk and most often at a loss of revenues,"
Warmuz noted. "Because of this,
quality parking companies find it hard to
get new customers to give them a chance
directly. Above.com removes the hard work
and risk, and we know that testing with
multiple parking companies works to increase
revenue. That is why we are giving
away these revenue domains along with
pre-configured Rook Media and ParkingCrew
parking accounts for customers to give
us and our promotional partners a try
so they can see for themselves how much of
a difference we can make to your domain
portfolios."
Warmuz
added, "Many parking companies claim
to be the best, but without closely
monitored testing, domains may not be
parked at the provider that performs best
for that domain. |
David
Warmuz
Above.com President |
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Above.com’s
Domain Parking Manager with its
proprietary algorithm automatically
identifies the best performing service for
each domain, using normalized
statistical information. Traffic is then
dynamically allocated to maximize the
parking revenues earned." |
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Ash
Rahimi
Co-founder & CEO, RookMedia |
In
addition to participating in the Above
& Beyond promotion, RookMedia
is running another eye catching offer of
their own - a CashAdvance program
that allows eligible clients to receive up
to 12 months worth of commissions
on qualifying domains paid in advance.
The program is aimed at providing
domain investors with the needed capital
to continue growing their portfolios
and provides an alternative for
those seeking financing through
traditional lending institutions.
Ash
Rahimi, co-founder and CEO of Rook
Media GmbH, said “As most domain
investors know, using domains to
collateralize a loan is tough to say the
least. Most banks simply do not recognize
what tremendous assets domains
truly are. We understand this
because like our clients, we’re
domainers ourselves.” Rahimi said Rook
associates will be speaking to interested
parties in person at next week’s Webfest
Global conference, so if you will be in
Santa Monica and are interested in more
details, you can get them face to face
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If
you won't be at Webfest you can still get more
information on the program from
RookMedia's Director of Business
Developement, Joe
Higgins, by phone at 310-569-3603
or email Joe at RookMedia.net. |
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