Managing Your Own Landers Can be Difficult

One of my favorite aspects of the business of domain investing is negotiating my own deals with prospective buyers. In order to generate some of my inbound leads, I operate a variety of my own landing pages and inquiry forms, supplemented by Efty landing pages.

There is a downside to operating my own landing pages and inquiry forms. I am fully responsible for all technical aspects of the landing pages – from their design to their resolution and functionality. This is something I do with the help of a developer, but a great deal of the management is on me.

A few days ago, I created a landing page via Carrd and changed the nameservers at the registrar. The landing page did not resolve at all. I updated the nameservers a couple of times, and still nothing. The following morning, I reached out to my hosting provider (LiquidWeb) and asked them to investigate. They did something behind the scenes related to one of the nameservers I have used for many years, and the issue was resolved. I still don’t know what happened or why, but the domain name now resolves. Fortunately, LiquidWeb doesn’t charge me to help diagnose and resolve these occasional issues, but it’s on me to detect them.

Whenever I want to make changes to the functionality of one of my websites, I rely on my developer to assist. I know enough about html to make many changes on my own, but there are some things I am smart enough to know I will break if I don’t utilize an expert.

I use monitoring services to track uptime for my websites and landing pages because I am responsible for ensuring my landers are working correctly. If something goes down and doesn’t automatically reset, that’s on me, too.

For those of you who are like me and wants full control over landing pages to save money on sales commissions, it can be a fair amount of work to launch and manage your own landing pages. Creating a landing page on Carrd or a similar service is fairly easy. Launching and continually operating landing pages and inquiry forms takes some work, and it is an ongoing effort to keep plugins updated and websites operating.

Elliot Silver
Elliot Silver
About The Author: Elliot Silver is an Internet entrepreneur and publisher of DomainInvesting.com. Elliot is also the founder and President of Top Notch Domains, LLC, a company that has closed eight figures in deals. Please read the DomainInvesting.com Terms of Use page for additional information about the publisher, website comment policy, disclosures, and conflicts of interest. Reach out to Elliot: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

9 COMMENTS

  1. You’re absolutely right, Elliot!

    Landing pages cost time and money to host, manage, upgrade, and keep secure, so our free landers can save you money and give you peace of mind that it’s always working and secure, allowing you to focus on your core business of buying and selling domains.

    We also offer features that your website (and others) don’t offer, and that list will increase over time. For example, we offer the highest-quality location data about your leads. You get that information for free with us, but you’d have to pay for it on your own.

    You can save all of that time and money by using NamePros Landers for free ($0 fees, 0% commission), and then focus on making money instead of spending it on technology and maintenance.

    It’s best for your business if you just let us handle the tech for you. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain by using our free service.

    We’re always happy to help with this process and support you after everything is setup.

    This top-notch, hands-on assistance is available to everyone. 🙂

    • Bulls,

      Our landers and our forums are two separate services; you’re mixing them up.

      You can use our landers entirely free, without upgrading, on your original account: @marijuanadomain

      Due to the restrictions on your original account @marijuanadomain from continuous rule violations, you may not create new accounts to bypass your restriction, which you’ve been doing almost daily. Your disallowed accounts are the only ones we’ve closed. Please stop creating new accounts while your original account is restricted.

      We hope this helps clarify the situation.

  2. For my best names i am using Google. E.g.:
    BusinessSalesman.com
    It’s good for seo and attract potential buyers.
    For others i prefer Atom wlm

  3. It’s actually super easy to make your own lander. In your hosting package make a folder called mylander/forsale/ and then direct every domain to that folder.

    Make an index file as your lander and direct domain1.com to mylander/forsale/domain1.com

    Now you only need one lander and the address will look like this.

    mylander.com/forsale/domain1.com

    You can look into your google stats to see which domain was typed into the address bar.

    You can see it working here: https://mapledots.ca/forsale/red.ca

    Now remove the red.ca part and add any other domain and you will see it works perfect. So basically I can use the same lander for any domain and have stats.

    Easy if you want to do everything yourself.

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