BrandBucket sent out their September sellers newsletter today. Michael Krell reported that individual sales have increased by 250% year over year. The significant growth has been fueled by several factors including a continuing effort to reach out and spend marketing dollars on startup community. The nice thing about the seller newsletter is we get a […]
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BrandBucket Accepted Names Becoming a Wholesale Auction Play
One of the newer trends in the wholesale market is to put up brandables, mostly of the made up variety, on auction with the BrandBucket accepted seal of approval. As BrandBucket approaches 20,000 names some have taken to auctioning off their names that in most cases have been accepted but not published. If the name […]
Continue ReadingAs BrandBucket Nears 20,000 Names A look at some recent sales and other data
BrandBucket is approaching 20,000 names listed on the site, the company put out its first sellers newsletter 12 days ago which gave a peek into what things look like on the sales front. July Sales What started as a normal July ended as one of our better months to date. Keywords and pure brandables were […]
Continue ReadingHeat Gets Turned Up Another Notch in the Brandable Boutique Space
Brandable Boutique Space Getting A Little Feisty Back in July I wrote about the brandable boutique wars heating up, things are now getting amped up to another level. There was a thread started on Namepros where a poster Tom Carl pointed out that Brand Bucket was selling some domains on Flippa. These names are owned […]
Continue ReadingNew Names Added To Brand Bucket For The Week of 7/21
Brand Bucket is back to releasing their added names list, the company was doing this last year, but then stopped the emails. They are out with the list of names added for this week and there are some nice names on the list. For those who still like the LY suffix there are a handful […]
Continue ReadingMichael Rader of Brand Root calls for the Death of the Exact Match Domain
Michael Rader from Brand Root crafted a very long and thought out post on the Death of the Exact Match Domain. Of course Michael is running a brandable boutique so this may read to some like the Chik-Fil-A commercial with the cows saying, Michael talks about bland names vs brand names From the article: Brand […]
Continue ReadingBrand Bucket: “Sales are growing, inventory is increasing and affiliate partners are joining by the hundreds”
A couple days ago I wrote about the brandable boutique wars heating up, Michael Rader posted on Namepros that Brand Root is going to be the aggressor and look to take market share, he also claimed that Brand Root ranks higher than BrandBucket and Namerific for almost all keywords that they target. As a side […]
Continue ReadingThe Brandable Boutique Wars are Heating Up – Is Brand Root Poised to Unseat Brand Bucket ?
In 2013 we saw the rise of the “Brandable Boutique” sites like Brand Bucket had been around for years but as far as their popularity taking off, that started in 2013. Two of the more prolific sellers at Brand Bucket were Zane Gocha who started Namerific and Michael Rader who started Brand Root. Last week […]
Continue ReadingMargot Bushnaq on The New Look of BrandBucket
BrandBucket Has A New Look BrandBucket rolled out a new look a few weeks ago and I chatted with Margot Bushnaq about the new design of the site. Margot explained: The biggest reason for the change was to make the site responsive and mobile-friendly. Over the past year, we’ve seen visitors from mobile devices increase […]
Continue ReadingNamerific Lists Their Names of the Month
By: Raymond Hackney Namerific has started a monthly Names of The Month on their blog, the names for February are below: This will be our first edition of NOTM! We’ve got so many good names coming down the pipeline that it’s really tough in getting the amazing ones to stand out. So we’re going ahead […]
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