One likely thinks of book publishing as archaic or somewhat out of touch and date to the fast-paced nature of the ever-changing internet.

Now marry the inventions of various digital technology, smartphones, tablets, and more, to that of the book industry, and boom: a self-publishing revolution is born. It has never been easier for a person to communicate and dialogue in mass and across the globe thanks to self-publishing.

Now you may be thinking, “But Alvin, what does self-publishing have to do with domain investing?”

Well, I’m glad you asked because today’s guest has strategically married both self-publishing and domain investing industries to realize profitability — with bullish growth ahead based on key indicators.

Will artificial intelligence make entry into the domain industry, buying and selling of domains, specifically outbounding domains?

The domain industry is often on the bleeding edge when it comes to envisioning the future. However, the day-to-day grind of buying and selling domains is often laborious, especially outbounding domains.

Most domain investors enter into domain investing having to work hard learning the ropes of the following:

• Assessing which niches and TLDs best align with their personal and professional experiences
• How to identify undervalued domains of the aforementioned option
• When and where to buy and sell domains
• How best to prices domains competitively and profitably
• Why and how best to assess which domains to renew

This barely scratches the surface of all the varying factors at play to becoming an astute domain investor with a legitimate business and not a labor-of-love hobby.

Many have tried their hand at buying and selling domains only to realize it isn’t as sexy as it appears or is made out to be. It’s a craps shoot, or is it?

There are more than 500 million blogs out of 1.7 billion websites in the world. Now try to imagine how many links are in the world? Exactly, there are likely just as many web links as there are stars in the universe.

With over 200+ factors to rank websites in search engines, primarily Google, a healthy backlink profile carries substantial weight in whether or not a site ranks well or ever finds the light of day on Google’s page one search results.

Many bloggers, myself included, are so focused on producing content in hopes of increasing visibility and search ranking, that we often forget about the simple things in operating a blog.

Simple things like ensuring there are no to only a handful of all sorts of links that are not broken. The longer one blogs or the older the website, the greater the percentage for there to exist broken text and image links.

The most critical challenge of any business is prudent cash flow management, especially when the business is buying and selling domain names.

Domain renewal fees are every domain investor’s nemesis. Why? 

Here’s a look at the top 5 podcasts for Kickstart Commerce in December, ranked by the total number of monthly downloads:

In-person conferences (yeah, remember those pre-COVID) can sometimes feel like hundreds or thousands of people descending upon a single space with a common cause, yet as different as the east is from the west.

What a difference 12 months can make when considering relationships. One minute you casually pass by a stranger and neither one of you ever give a first or second thought to one another.

Then with a simple introduction, a meal, phone call, or email exchange, and you soon forget about what life was life before you both entered into one another’s story and life journey.