You may be wondering why so many of my blog posts focus on selling domains at Bido. Well, the truth is that Bido has become my largest avenue for generating income.
I really cannot write this post without, again, mentioning how strong the Bido support staff is when it comes to accommodating and communicating community members. Garrett Gilmore is not only quick to respond to my requests, he is also extremely polite and just oozes excitement about the Bido platform. On top of this, Jarred Cohen and Sahar Sarid are doing a great job promoting the platform and getting some deep-pocketed buyers at the daily auctions.
I am happy to say that the lack of updates here at Rural Technocrat is thanks to a lot of buying and selling at Bido! I have had much success selling a few LLL.info’s and LLLL.com’s in the low-mid $xxx range over the last month and I am hoping this week brings me more success.
I would like to send a warm shout-out to the entire Bido staff. Sahar and Jarred for representing the organization so well on social platforms and truly taking the time to listen and share with the community, but I would like to send a MASSIVE shout-out to Garrett, who has to be the most polite, fast-acting and accommodating customer service representative I have ever dealt with!
Here is to 2010!!?
For the past few weeks I have been promoting my new photography site using Twitter, Facebook and email. It only makes sense to use Rural Technocrat as an avenue to share some of my work – check it out at ColeMason.ca!
If you have read my domain-related posts in the past you surely know that I am a big proponent of the domain auction site, Bido. As a buyer, I have bought a few dozen nice domains at great prices and as a seller I have had an excellent ROI. Well, I am happy to report that the Bido staff have significantly upgraded their site to include new features such as Buy It Now, BidoPrice, Vote for Profits, the ability to negotiate with buyers/sellers and an all-new, and more informative, listing layout across the tabs.
I would like to touch on my favourite new feature, Vote for Profits, so if you would like more detail on the other features check out Sahar Sarid’s post on his blog, Conceptualist.
For me, an active Bido user, the Vote for Profits feature is both appealing and largely unique. All members of the Bido platform are given 100 votes each month (more can be purchased with Bido credits) with which the member can award 1 to 3 votes to domain looking for the 10 necessary votes to make it to auction. Depending on when the votes are awarded, the voter is entitled to a share of the sale of that domain! This financial incentive to vote will not only encourage previous non-voters to participate, but it should also ensure that domains of quality are those that go to auction.
For more on the Vote for Profits program, check out Bido.com/VoteForProfits.
Of course, this wouldn’t be a Bido update with a little GUI streamlining! I am a big fan of the more informative and expandable method of listing all of the domains in each tab. Check out the screenshot below!
I would like to conclude by congratulating the Bido team on a job well done!
Thanks to the advancement of the Web, it is possible for anyone to share their experience with the corporate world – be it positive or negative. Many of my posts in the past have focused on the positive, but sadly it is time to turn the table.
Last week, we received the monthly cable/Internet statement, but this time something was different. Cogeco, a Canadian telecommunications firm, had charged us $31.50 for exceeding our bandwidth limit by 40.74GB in October of this year. I scrambled to the Internet usage section of the Cogeco Web portal to see that the statement did match their records. What was more interesting was that the usage did not fit our bandwidth patterns. For instance, in August of ‘09 we used 37GB with 31GB in September, 100GB in October and 50GB in November.
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