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Veteran
domain investor Steven Newman, who is
based in Houston, Texas, has just
branched out in that direction and his newly
launched SportsPicks.com
website has the look of a winner. Everything
from its eye pleasing interface to its $1
million football predictions contest gives
one the feeling that Newman is on the right
track. Newman's
venture began when he acquired the
SportsPicks.com domain name in a NameJet
auction for $25,660. He knew what he
wanted to do with the domain from the start.
After an old high school buddy went off to
college the friend set up and ran a
sports handicapping site for several years to
supplement his income. The friend moved on
to other endeavors but with the perfect category
defining domain name to work with, Newman called
him and asked if he wanted to get back into that
business. Newman
told us, "We realized that we needed additional
money in order to do the things we wanted to
do like run contests
where we could offer a chance to win a million
dollars with guaranteed weekly and grand prizes
for the
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Steven
Newman
SportsPicks.com Co-Founder
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winner.
So, we brought in outside investors who
have enabled us to do these things. We have
placed full page ads in several magazines and
plan to run campaigns on a few websites in the
weeks to come."
Like
many before him, Newman had issues with a third
party development company he had hired to build
the site. When they failed to deliver he found a
new, reliable developer to work with and
they custom designed and built the site
from the ground up. Most of the site's revenue
will come from annual $29.95 subscriptions
that give subscribers access to the site's
sports picks and articles.
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While
SportsPicks.com provides tips in multiple
sports, football is the king of the
hill. With the start of the NFL
regular season just two weeks away, the
timing of their launch couldn't be better.
The current million dollar contest for
SportsPicks.com subscribers (which has an
entry deadline of Sept. 7, 2013) is
based on beating the spread in NFL games.
Anyone whose Lock of the Week pick comes
in every week of the 17-week season will
pick up the million bucks. If no one goes
17-0, the person who scores the most
points will still pick up a $10,000
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I
don't know what the odds are that
SportsPicks.com will be a home run for
Newman but at least he is swinging the bat
and that is only way anyone will ever knock one
out of the park.
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