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Reporting about my first experiences to sell .Tel domains to companies . http://www.c-drew.com/blog/wp-conten...est-grenko.jpg Reporting about my first experiences to sell .Tel domains to companies: Selling .Tel's with sales letters plus phone calls: 1.) A sales letter has to be good and successful. 2.) Email sales letters do not get much, or any attention. 3.) Email sales letters get overseen, or not forewarded to responsible person within the company network. 4.) Emails sometimes land in the spam mail box, and never get seen and read. 5.) Follow up your email sales letter by a phone call, and you might find out the following: 6.) The email might have the wrong email address (wrong departement). 7.) The email might be addressed to the wrong person. 8.) Send or foreward your sales email a second time, to the right person and departement. Conclusion: The follow up phone call, is a must. Because you are able to make the responsible persons read your email sales letter, at last, and digg it out of their unread emails. Some companies, simply say, they are not interested, because they already have a website with contact information, etc., and quasi say: „period!“, before you get any chance to explaine. Some responsibles say, that the company already has a webmaster and webdesigner, which is why they actually don't need another one... Then you can counter arguement with some strong arguements, saying that .Tel is a new product and very beneficial for the company, etc. Final thoughts: At the end, at least you get the company to read your sales letter and to study you attached ducuments about the Dot Tel domain. They will either contact you back, if they „get it“, or you might have to make a follow up contact again. Well, after all that struggle, you might want to give the companies a trial period first, before telling them the price. However, it is a backbraking process, to get a company interested in .Tel, if they had never heard about it before. And it may take more time, then you hope and expect, to see some cash. The new improvements for designing Telproxy, will make it that little bit easyer to present a decent looking .Tel site for the company, to give them a idea. Once you sold the .Tel site, you can transfer the domain, without having to loose the data and configuration (restore function, etc.). If you give up, you'll never make a sale: Only sellers with stamina, will be successful. I just tried to sell about 10 .Tel's, and I feel like a wounded soldier, bashed up, but still alive, and a bit frustrated. But the show must go on. (How much can you ask for your .Tel site?: Sometimes, $1500 is the maximum, to avoid a dispute. If there happens to be more then one existing company with the same name, you can charge more. I would ask for maximum $3600, if it is basically peanuts for a company. For all other types of genric sites, I guess that companies might approach you, rather than you approach them. As it may be otherwhise a lot of wasted time, with fruitless attempts to sell.) Sales adventures: http://www.c-drew.com/blog/2009/11/1...ock-high-noon/ Edit: I just got a reply from a very prestigious restaurant/bar in Zurich: Quote: "Besten Dank für die Zustellung der Unterlagen. Ich habe diese gelesen und zu der Überzeugung gekommen, dass dies nicht unseren Vorstellungen entspricht. Marketing gibt es auf so viele Möglichkeiten. Ich bin überzeugt, dass es sicher für andere Betriebe sinnvoll ist Aber nicht für uns." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Google translation: "Thank you for the service of documents. I have read this and come to the conclusion that this does not correspond to our ideas. Marketing there are so many possibilities. I am convinced that it is certainly useful for other businesses But not for us." Cheers, and long live .Tel! . |
. So, then I replyed: "Danke, dass Sie sich Zeit genommen haben, meinen Brief, und die Unterlagen zu lesen. Die Dot Tel Seite, ist für Ihre Bedürfnisse weniger als ein Marktiginstrument gedacht, sondern als eine Hilfe für Ihre Gäste, um Ihr Lokal zu kontaktieren, und Reservationen zu machen. Das können sie nähmlich bequem von ihrem Handy aus machen: "Click to call", ohne eine Telefonnummer wählen zu müssen. Um die Sache etwas aufzulockern, zeige ich Ihnen hier ein "glattes" Video dazu: http://cappuccinomustache.blogspot.c...ain-video.html Ich danke Ihnen für Ihre Aufmerksamkeit, und wünsche Ihnen eine schönes Wochenede. Es war mir ein Vergnügen, mit Ihnen zu kommunizieren. Sehr angenehm. Mit freundlichen Grüssen" ------------------------------------------------------ Google Translation: "Thank you for your time, my letter, and to the documents . Read The Dot Tel side, is less than one for your needs Marktiginstrument thought, but as a help for your guests to contact your local, and to make reservations. They can easily make use of their mobile phone Namely this: "Click to call", without dialing a phone number to have. To lighten things a bit, I show you here a "smooth" video this: http://cappuccinomustache.blogspot.c...ain-video.html Thank you for your attention and wish you a nice Weekend. It was my pleasure to communicate with you. Very pleasant. Yours sincerely" . |
. Update / Sales Report: guebelin.tel : Not interested. Quasi harsh response. tuerler.tel : Nice contact, still hope. kronenhalle.tel : Nice contact. Not interested. haecky.tel : Very nice contact. Made compliments. Very interested. hotelpwilson.tel : Nice contact. Does not care to read sales letter. Still hope. juliusbaer : No results, yet. lerichemond.tel : Nice contact. Must speak with London office. protectas : Quite nice contact. I must send docu to IT departement. rexbar.tel / Sweden : Was not able to reach the director. wilmaa.tel : Very nice contact. Not interested at present, maybe later. solutionpark.tel : No response, but probably not interested at present. workbee.tel : Very nice contact. Did not have time to read sales letter. Not that interested, however. nicecarcompany.tel : Telephone number was not valid. I must try again. Cheers. . |
