Welcome back!  You may be a bit groggy this morning, but shake it off.  We’ve got work to do and a lot of it. It’s time to get back in the swing of things and back to the normal week-to-week life.

We’ll get things kicked off today with 9 domaining actions that I religiously perform when I end and start a new year. I’m certain the ideas and thoughts to be discussed will help you tremendously.

You may already perform some of the domaining actions.  If you are, then you’re reaping the benefits of increased profits, reduced costs, and less stress with a more succinct organization.

If not, then today’s your lucky day.  This is a fair warning that this guide is a lengthy read of nearly 2,200 words, but hang in there, it’ll be well worth the read.

Using these 9 domaining actions, I give you quite a bit of insight, and tips and tricks for how I successfully manage my domain portfolio from year to year.

We’re kicking of this year with a bang, releasing a MUST-READ ebook topic: Local SEO Marketing.

Yes, there’s an abyss of local SEO marketing content covering a vast number of options for small businesses to locally market services and products.

The list is long, including marketing and advertising options such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, Yellow Pages, Yodle, CitySearch, MerchantCircle, Door-to-Door hangers, and many more…

But I’m not covering those topics in this book. I’m sharing and showing you another less traveled road that only a few are dare to travel.

That’s right, I’ve worked quite hard over the last year researching and experimenting with a variety of techniques and strategies to command local market share for a range of businesses.

And I wrote an ebook to share with you and the world about what I learned in my quest to understand local SEO marketing for myself and others.

In short, getting more revenue and customers in a local market can be quite the challenge for the every day small business and it’s owner (that’s you and me too!).

After all, I’ve been there with my own businesses, and executing local SEO marketing is not an easy nut to crack.  Why, you ask?

As 2015 comes to an end, it’s been quite a year for Kickstart Commerce pertaining to SEO and Domaining.

The 2015 recap…

I’ve help quite a few customers determine that SEO MUST be aligned to the needs of their business as well as their overall marketing strategy.

I’ve successfully taught, coached and consulted quite a customers on what it means to always be continuously content marketing with an education slant and not selling.

I’ve also fired a few customers who only wanted to focus on buying reviews, buying links, or create content based solely on keyword focus in an attempt to sell and not educate.

Although I’m working with less clients, my stress levels are down, yet my overall value proposition has increased right along with profitability.

Where we’re headed in 2016…

I’m looking forward to 2016 and focusing less on SEO and more on domaining. I’ll still accept new SEO relationships with customers, but I’ll be more intentional with who I am called to serve and how to serve their business in the most effective manner long term.

That said, with my new found time in serving less customers, you’ll notice that there will be quite more posts about domaining in 2016. You may have already noticed with daily domain auction posts being made within the last week or so.

Nevertheless, the domain industry overall is growing at quite a rapid pace. Namescon, a growing domaining conference, is right around the corner is expecting nearly 1500 domain investors (aka domainers) to attend.

With the domain industry growing, I’m devoting more time to educating brands not only about SEO and content marketing, but adding to my repertoire the value-add services of educating customers about domain investing at a personal level for themselves as well as a professional level for their business.

With the new domain extensions becoming more relevant over the next couple of years, the time is right for me to transition with the vast market growth of the domain industry itself.

As we enter 2016, I want to leave you with my top 10 predictions for where I see both SEO and Domaining headed. At the end of 2016, we’ll see how spot on I was or was not. That said, here are my 2016 predictions…

As most of you know, a good portion of my posts on this blog have been primarily targeted at small to medium-sized business owners looking for SEO tips and tricks.

This audience (that’s you too!) desires to promote their website(s) safely to search engines in order to increase search rankings and results, and get more customers and cash.

In between the various SEO posts, such as today, I sprinkle a few blog posts about domain names or the domaining industry in general.

Today’s post will blow your mind as it pertains to domain names and China, and how both are settings records right at this very moment in time.

What’s going on in today’s domain market for both buyers and sellers is very much reminiscent of the mid to late 1990’s when the Internet was just budding into existence with premium domain names.

Is this your business?

• You’ve had your website and blog optimized for SEO. Check.
• You post content for customers first and search engines last. Check.
• You plan and measure the effectiveness of your SEO effort using web analytics. Check.
• You’ve tried pay-per-click advertising. Check.
• You’ve tried guest blogging. Check.
• You have and are actively using social media profiles. Check.
• You’ve had press releases written and submitted. Check.
• You have local business page listings across a variety of online and offline entities. Check.
• You’ve tried give-aways, contests, whitepapers and various digital materials to educate and inform customers. Check.

So, I know you’re thinking “what is there left to do?”, right?

If your business has consistently accomplished all of the above on an ongoing basis where applicable, then congratulations as you’re ahead of most small businesses and businesses in general. But not so quick!

Have you tried small business SEO tips using domain names?

Yes, domain names can be used as a very value-add SEO weapon for small businesses to drive more local business, capturing more customers and making more money.

Today, I’ve provided you with a round up of my best domain name articles that discuss how small businesses and businesses in general can execute small business SEO using domain names.

So happy reading, and let’s get you on your way to capturing more customers and making more money!

We’re back in the saddle for another roundup adventure.

Today’s round-up will help those of you searching for good content centered around the essentials of buying and selling domain names.

From novice to expert, I believe you’ll find a good bit of content spread far and wide throughout the internet.

From DomainSherpa.com to DNForum.com to Domaining.com to DomainNameWire.com to DomainBoardroom.com to name a few of the many domain news places, you’ll find and uncover an assortment of knowledge when it comes to buying and selling domain names.

Today, I’m sharing with you my top 7 posts for buying and selling domain names.

I hope you can glean knowledge from each piece of content and implement some of the various domain selling and buying techniques to benefit yourself and others you may know.

Today is a good day to share and learn about expired domains SEO.

Quiet as kept, there is a growing aftermarket of domain names, specifically the expired domain market.

From Sedo to GoDaddy to Park.io to NameJet to SnapNames to name a few, many business owners, domainers, developers and more are sniping expired domains right and left (even right now as you read this very article!).

And I’m not talking the bottom of the barrel expire domains either. I’m talking about highly-valued expired domain names that they are buying for pennies on the dollar of the expired domain’s overall value in some cases.

But why would anyone buy expired domains?

Well, I’m glad you asked! I’ll share with you some of my most popular expired domains SEO content in today’s round up.

And although finding and buying expired domains is much like attempting to find a needle in a haystack, when you find that one needle or diamond in the rough, the SEO value you’ll attain in search rankings, traffic and new customers will make your work and effort all worth it time and time again.

So let’s get started, and I’ll share with you proven tactics and techniques of how to use and not use expired domains as a part of your overall SEO strategy.