There was a poll on one of the forums regarding domainer earnings.
21% of domainers operate at a loss, 14% breaks even and close to 18% makes $100 a month or less.
For various reasons our industry still has a gold rush like image which attracts all sorts of newcomers on a daily basis but unless you started buying domain names in the late nineties it takes a lot of creativity, passion, salesmanship, discipline, money and a crazy amount of hard work to build a valuable portfolio of domain names that generates offers and sales on a consistent basis in today’s market. Even those of us that manage to turn a profit from our domain name investments have to understand that time is a valuable commodity too. It’s very likely you would have made more money per hour working for your boss or mowing your neighbors lawn
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21% of domainers operate at a loss, 14% breaks even and close to 18% makes $100 a month or less.
For various reasons our industry still has a gold rush like image which attracts all sorts of newcomers on a daily basis but unless you started buying domain names in the late nineties it takes a lot of creativity, passion, salesmanship, discipline, money and a crazy amount of hard work to build a valuable portfolio of domain names that generates offers and sales on a consistent basis in today’s market. Even those of us that manage to turn a profit from our domain name investments have to understand that time is a valuable commodity too. It’s very likely you would have made more money per hour working for your boss or mowing your neighbors lawn
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