Business slow? Same? Better?

[nameplanet]

I was just wondering how every one's business has been so far this year. It seems like December was a really active month, and now things have slowed down some. I have had a few good sales, but my volume in sales has slowed down since December. I started getting higher quality names in December though as well, so I wasn't sure if December is also a good month for name sales or if it was the better names I had to sell. Some of my other friends in the insurance and finance industry are saying things have slowed down as well. I can understand how things would slow down in a lot of industries, but I was wondering about the domain industry and how it usually works. I have only been in this for under half a year, so don't know if there are seasons for name sales yet. I would be curious as to how everyone else has been doing in volume. I dont mind selling some names for less to keep volume up, but I am going to wait this out for some of the better quality names I have. Thanks for the feedback in advance.

 

[GT Web]

January has been great for me, especially considering I was away on vacation for a week.

Hope this keeps up the rest of the year!

 

[Togoodhlth]

I have only been buying this month and I actually know of a couple others who have been on buying sprees however my $xxxx in purchases this month obviously doesn't have much effect on the industry as a whole.

I did receive a few offers too but no more or less than usual. Unfortunately I have not closed any of these sales...yet.

Sales at my ecommerce sites was brisk in December what with the holidays and all and actually 1 of my ecommerce sites is really slow this month which I expected and another is really busy for January which was unexpected.

My Goog ad rev. is down a lot from Oct, Nov, Dec. and the 1st haf of January. Much lower than I anticipated. The clicks is up so people arent paying as much for ads. now that the holidays are well passed.

A newer site which generates "leads" is doing a lot better than I had anticipated for this month.

That's it!

 

[Vivvy]

Well since my business is site development I measure my success in new clients and I broke the 50 active clients mark this month so I'm quite pleased... I will have to hire out quite a bit more work than usual and I'm busy as heck with 4 new sites in the the beginning stages and all kinds of maintenance renewal contracts... but I'll take this kind of pressure any day in comparison to struggling for business...

Vivvy

 

[Joe]

January has been wonderful for me too. Far better than December, I've noticed. k:

-Joe

 

[nameplanet]

Sales picked up tonight again. Hopefully they will stay at this pace.

 

[Prosperous]

For me, both Dec. and Jan. have been excellent!



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[dotNetKing]

December and January very good for me too.

 

[clemzonguy]

I'm getting more offers.....just more lowball ones $5-$25. Mostly laughable.

 

[Steen]

For some reason an older arena is doing very well lately with minimal work!

 

[JMJ]

32 sales ranging from $10-$125 last January
18 sales ranging from $4-$75 this month so far.

Turned down two low $xxx offers this month and portfolio is triple what it was this time last year. I would say sales are down from last year with my numbers.

 

[nameplanet]

Things are picking back up now it seems. I think it was just the start of January that slowed things down. Although it seems like the trend hasnt been the same for everyone.