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from DN Journal,
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Less
Than 3 Weeks After Buying Bouquet.com Bill
McClure Has a Site Up and an Affiliate Program
in Place! Plus Bree CD Released & Goldberger
Movie Hits YouTube
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Less
than 3 weeks ago
at the 2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Las Vegas conference, Bill
McClure spent $30,000 to
acquire Bouquet.com
in the show's live domain auction (a sale that
was the auction's biggest). McClure, who is
based in Fort Smith, Arkansas, is widely
known for the successful coffee business he
built at Coffee.org,
but he also already had several profitable
flower-related websites in operation before
adding Bouquet.com to his portfolio. With
a proven platform already in place, it took
McClure just a few days to get an attractive
ecommerce site
up and running at Bouquet.com and flowers and
gifts aren't the only things he is offering
there. McClure has also set up an affiliate
program for other domain owners who
have .com names related to flowers,
florists and bouquets. McClure told us, "We
pay 50% of our revenue, $10 per order,
with no expiration cookies. If your site
gets an order, you receive a commission for $10." McClure
said the seeds for the affiliate program were
actually planted when he had breakfast with Rob
Grant at the October 2012
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference at Fort
Lauderdale Beach, Florida. McClure said,
"Rob mentioned that he had a few old flower
and related
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Bouquet.com
Owner Bill McClure
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domains
- three word URL’s, long tail domains -
and he asked if we could work together. I
agreed to give him $10 per order and he pointed
the domains to our Rackspace servers the
following week. He is now generating
around $600 per month from those
domains."
With
respect to the formally introduced affiliated
program, McClure added, "Because of the
accounting involved, I am limiting this offer to
legitimate domainers only. If you have an
interest, contact me at [email protected]
or my cell 479-721-1010."
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Elsewhere, David
Castello and Bree are
celebrating the official release of her new
CD, All
American Girl, yesterday
(June 18, 2013). Domain Hall-of-Famer David
manages Bree and plays drums in her
trio.
The CD
(available at Amazon
and on iTunes
among other outlets) has been drumming up
a lot of positive attention for Bree
including an interview
in Huffington Post,
selection as one of MSN's
featured CD's of the Week and
a 9
out 10 star rating from 100%
Rock Magazine.
Bree has also
been in demand on the rock radio
interview circuit. There is an
especially illuminating 10-minute segment
from suburban New York's WFDU-FM
that you should check out on YouTube. |
| Cover
of the new Bree CD All
American Girl |
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One
other note today, in my coverage
of the fabulous bar mitzvah party
that Ari
Goldberger threw for his
son Josh last weekend in Cherry
Hill, New Jersey, I mentioned a
James Bond inspired mini-movie
featuring Josh that was shown during
the event. That video is now
available on YouTube.
To set
up the video for you, the
premise was that Bond film villain Jaws
(who was at the party in the form of
a look alike actor who was a dead
ringer for the original) had chewed
through a electrical wire causing a blackout
at the party, just before Josh was
to be introduced. In the darkness,
the gold Torah Pointer
(reputed to be a priceless |
Ari
Goldberger (with microphone)
speaking to his son Josh
at last weekend's bar mitzvah
party in New Jersey. |
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16th
century relic named La Mano D'Oro)
was stolen. The movie then begins
with Josh on a mission to
recover it.
Once
you see the video you will have a
better idea of just how over the
top the entire Bond themed party
(complete with a live concert
from Sean
Kingston) was. The
overall feeling was like being at a
once in a lifetime bash
that would have made Hollywood
proud. |
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(Posted June
19, 2013)
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