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About 2 weeks ago, I was working on my garage to move my home office so that I can make room for the new baby and all that comes with her. Well I seem to have bitten off more than I can chew. I had never done drywall before but here I am hanging walls and so forth. After that comes the part everyone hates: Sanding the drywall. After about 3 hours on this task, I decided that there must be an easier way apart from the obvious which is to get a pro. I commenced a search in one of the most popular classified sites on the web looking for a motorized drywall sander. After I emailed the owners, out of boredom, I decided to enter the search term “Domain”.  Of the 5 or so results, one of them was iCharleston*com

I thought the seller was smart by localizing his sale. After about 5 emails, I bought the domain. I have many plans for the name but that is not the purpose of this post. I am just wondering was the seller smart in localizing his advertising for this domain or was I just lucky for finding it. This is by no means the greatest name in the world but I live in Charleston and I can make it work for me in several ways. Thoughts and inputs are still highly welcomed and appreciated.

I run  a classified ads site FleaMarketFinds.com and I have noticed that one of it’s greatest challenges is getting it populated with ads. Because a lot of people now use search properly, I tend to get inquiries and sales often which means It is seldom populated because each time I have some goodies there at the right price, they are gone. The iCharleston experience got me into thinking about starting a domain section in Fleamarketfinds. Believe it or not, there are a lot of end users that have never heard of Sedo. This section will Cather to low end aftermarket domains like what the regular mom and pa’s shop will want. Domains in the 300 to 1500 dollar range.

If you have a localizzed service oriented domain like LALawncare*Com for example, it might be a good idea to advertise where  your prospective clients might actually look.

In summary, determine who your customer might be and put your domain within there proximity. You are not going to catch a crocodile on a tree.