In response to yesterday’s article about using contact forms to sell domain names, two readers asked me for more information about my usage of Dropping.pro. I find the Lead Generation tool helpful, and I will share some more information about how I use the tool to find prospective buyers for my domain names.

When I am looking to do outbound marketing on a domain name, I will plug the domain name into the Lead Generation tool. After a couple of minutes, it will reveal prospective buyers it found based on other domain names and domain name registrations.

I haven’t been doing a whole lot of outbound marketing to sell domain names this year, primarily due to the pandemic and economic fallout that resulted. When I do outbound marketing to sell domain names, it is for my “inventory quality” assets that are relatively easy to replace. I have selectively picked up my outbound efforts a bit since the beginning of the month, and I want to share a tip.

To give a bit of background on my outbound marketing efforts, I can share that I primarily find leads via related Google searches and via the lead generation tool at Dropping.pro. Instead of just looking for email addresses and aiming for the cannon approach, I try to take a nuanced approach and find someone specific at a company. I then try to find their email address or the email convention for the company.

Last week, I kiddingly posted a tweet illustrating what happens when a domain investor shares a sale publicly. Many people reply with congratulatory messages, but there are almost always people who reply pitching their (typically less good) domain name they seem to think would be comparable to what sold:

Domain investor 1: “I sold https://t.co/teAKVWiv9i for $50,000!”

Domain investors 2 – 10: “Congratulations, that’s great!”

Domain investor 11: “I am selling DomainNameAwesum.garbage for $5,000. HMU if u want to buy it.”

— Elliot Silver (@DInvesting) August 14, 2020