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As
I told you yesterday
domain
industry veteran and newly published author Marc
Ostrofsky was scheduled to be on ABC-TV's
hit show The View today
(Thursday, June 9). Ostrofsky was invited to
talk with the show's five famous female co-hosts
(Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg,
Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd, and Elisabeth
Hasselbeck) about his best selling book Get
Rich Click! that teaches people
how to make money on the Internet. Today's show
also featured Neal Patrick Harris and Ice
T but they saved the best for last by
bringing Marc out for an excellent five-minute
segment near the end of the hour. 
Get
Rich Click! Author Marc Ostrofsky on ABC-TV's
The View today (June 9, 2011)
(L to R in the photo above): Whoopi Goldberg,
Joy Behar, Marc Ostrofsky,
Sherri Shepherd, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and
Barbara Walters The
first words out of Marc's mouth were that "he
made his fortune with domain names."
That's our boy! :-) Ostrofsky noted that
he bought Business.com for $150,000
and sold it for $7.5 million to earn a
place in the Guinness Book for World
Records in 1999 for what was the biggest
domain sale on record. He went on to explain
what generic domain names are and why they are
valuable as ecommerce platforms, citing his own CuffLinks.com
and Blinds.com
as examples.
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Ostrosky
also talked about how to make money with
no starting capital by running
product ads, collecting payments
and then buying the product
to ship after the money comes in.
I'm sure that caught the attention of
thousands of viewers who dream of
running a home-based business and
gave Get Rich Click! sales an
immediate boost.
Other
subjects Marc covered included affiliate
marketing and how to use social media to
build client lists for your business. I
thought the funniest moment on the show
came when Marc informed Whoopi Goldberg
that someone in Australia owned her
domain name. Whoopi immediately replied,
"No, they don't!" Marc
just smiled rather than belabor the
point, but sorry Whoopi, yes they do.
Held under WhoIs Privacy in Australia WhoopiGoldberg.com
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A
lot of people wilt on a big stage
when the red light goes on and they
realize millions of people
are watching, but Ostrofosky was calm,
cool and collected, looking and
sounding his very best. He came off as
being completely comfortable as he
clearly explained one point after
another as the co-hosts bombarded him
with rapid fire questions. I thought he
did a terrific job.
The
co-hosts were clearly interested in what
he had to say and the studio audience
was happy to hear they would all be
given copies of Get Rich Click!
to take home. It went so well that
Ostrofsky said he had already been
invited to come back in 6-8 weeks
for another segment. That made what was
already a home run, a grand slam
home run for both Marc and the industry
at large. If you missed the telecast you
can still the full
episode on ABC's website (Ostrofsky's
appearance is in the final 10 minutes of
the show).
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One
other note today - as I write
this, the DOMAINfest Europe
conference is winding down in Barcelona,
Spain with a farewell dinner
party. In a point of special
interest the organizers
announced a new plan for the
show's live domain auction
that had to be cancelled
yesterday (June 8) because of
technical difficulties. Instead
of a live auction, the domains
are being offered in an online
auction that is running
now and will continue until
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Wednesday, June
15 at 3:15pm U.S. Eastern
time. SnapNames and
Moniker will also be
conducting an extended online
auction for additional
seller-submitted domains the
will begin shortly and run to
Wednesday, June 22 at 3:15pm
(Eastern). |
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