Ladies and Gentlemen of JointVentures.com, START YOUR ENGINES!!

Morning Folks!!


Here is the bidding order. Please move your selections along. Once published and it is your turn you have 90 seconds to make your selection. That will insure that things move along quickly. Faster would be even better. ;-) So reload every 15-30 seconds when you are coming up and make sure you have another clean browser just in case cache is king. ;-)


You are picking the artillery you are arming yourself with to go battle the marketplace snd find homes for these great names and the opportunity that each domain name comes with. Priceless! Once again we enter a UNIQUE MOMENT IN TIME! A time that decisions made will be everlasting and permanent.


In every field there are competitors and one is always smarter than the other. More aggressive than the other. More focused than the other. More passionate than the other. More of everything you can think of. FIND THAT GUY! Your mission is to find the smart guy that gets it and is hungry as you and me! SIMPLE!


All I ask is that you go in order and do it as timely as possible as not only are others waiting, but the eyes of an industry are on us. We try big things and sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. So, each does their job on this TEAM and we WIN!


Michael Hudak will start the process at 10:05AM if this posts timely. Once a selection is made, please cross off your list if you have it on there.


If you pick any of the following domains you will LOSE YOUR PICK POSITION. DELETE THESE NAMES FROM YOUR LIST FOR TODAY. We will focus on these names in the coming days.


CATER.COM

COLLECTIVES.COM

DISPENSARIES.COM

DISRUPT.COM

DIVORCING.COM
HOLOGRAM.COM

HONDURAS.COM

LMAO.COM

PANELING.COM

PASTRIES.COM

PHYSICAL.COM

PLUMBERSUPPLY.COM

RINGS.COM

ROOFS.COM

SLOGANS.COM

SOCCERBALLS.COM

STEMWARE.COM

STOP.COM

STRINGBIKINIS.COM

STUFF.COM

TAXPLANNERS.COM

TEABAGS.COM

TORTILLAS.COM

TRADESHOWS.COM

TRAVELCOACHES.COM

WEIGHTS.COM
Bidding Order
1. Michael Hudak
2. Brian Facaro
3. Joshua Fahrer
4. Anthony Silva
5. Cate.TV Colgan
6. Brandon Breshears
7. Dr. Domainer
8. Angela (Newgrl)
9. Dara Celestin
10. Eusorgio Guzman
11. Christian Calvin
12. Toshi Endo

The available list is here less the list I posted yesterday that will be treated as special cases.


http://www.ricksblog.com/2013/02/the-entire-2013-jointventurescom-domain-leasing-list.html



T-Minuus 2 Hours and Counting!

Morning Folks!!


In just a little over 2 hours we will do something unique and different and it will be done transparently right in front of everyone. The naysayers can continue wasting their time and energy while you watch a dozen motivated folks take the positions and begin to move these 18 wheelers over the crest of this monster of a mountain. While they root for our failure each success will be a dagger to their being.


If nothing else we have defined progress! We have done this entire undertaking in front of everyone. Each day methodically moving just a little bit closer to a HUGE goal. A goal that if and when achieved will change the way all non pigeon shit farmers do business.


You can own 100% of pigeon shit the size of a grape or you can share in the rewards of 5% of an asset the size of a watermelon. 5% of something vs 100% of NOTHING! or .NOTHING or .Pigeonshit


See you at 10AM EST TODAY!


Rick Schwartz


Announcing the Domain Lease Draft, LIVE on RicksBlog.com Saturday at 10AM

Morning Folks!!


Are we having fun yet? Danny and I are going to keep moving this mountain and have some fun doing it and involve as many of you as want to be involved.


The 'Pick Your Properties' Reverse Domain Draft will be Saturday at 10am EDT and our 12 member sales force will select the domains they go to market with. So team, if you can make it, we'll do it live, right here on RicksBlog.com tomorrow. If not, see the P.S. below.


One BIG change to what was announced before and its one you need to take notice of: ALL of our listings are in play...y'all can have the pick of the pick and show people what you/we can do when you take a hungry tiger and take the bars off the cage. With one caveat. The 25 free agent domains below are off limits as far as exclusivity, however you can still market to your very targeted clients. We will also assign you one of these names IF you lease a domain OR you have a significant relationship with a specific domain name.

So, for every lease written you get to pick one domain from the following list to add to your roster. So there is a sense of urgency to all this because when we roll into T.R.A.F.F.I.C. in May, our goal is to have a handful of leases to waive around as we move the ball forward.

At 10AM tomorrow we will list the domains, announce the bidding order as far as the sales team. Each team member will be able to pick one domain per round for the first 5 rounds and then 2 domains a round for the next 5 rounds. That will give each of you 15 names to focus on. This is all subject to change but we are trying to keep it as simple and transparent as possible and will clearly state everything at 10AM.


CATER.COM

COLLECTIVES.COM

DISPENSARIES.COM

DISRUPT.COM

DIVORCING.COM
HOLOGRAM.COM

HONDURAS.COM

LMAO.COM

PANELING.COM

PASTRIES.COM

PHYSICAL.COM

PLUMBERSUPPLY.COM

RINGS.COM

ROOFS.COM

SLOGANS.COM

SOCCERBALLS.COM

STEMWARE.COM

STOP.COM

STRINGBIKINIS.COM

STUFF.COM

TAXPLANNERS.COM

TEABAGS.COM

TORTILLAS.COM

TRADESHOWS.COM

TRAVELCOACHES.COM

WEIGHTS.COM

So print out the listings from the blog, sharpen your pencil, grab a highlighter, put your game face on and get your 'list' together of which properties you want to pick to represent that no one else on our official team but Danny Welsh will be able to market for 3-6 months...
If you want a SalesTips.com tip on which of our 6 figure and up dollar domains you SHOULD pick to sell...it's simple:
1. If you already have C-level decision maker contacts in 'industry', pick an 'INDUSTRY.com' style domain names to represent (example 'GoFishing.com')
2. If you already have a hobby in an area and interest or passion for something that has a social group attached to it, then pick a SOCIALGROUP.com domain name (example Fisherman.com)
3. If you already use a product, love it, and know just which types of companies should want PRODUCT.com, then pick that one (e.g. BassBoats.com)
And so on and so forth. It's not hard. Rick and I picked less than 1% of 70,000 domain names, and thanks to our inaugural clients we were able to get the best of the best in value.
Now you guys get to each pick 10 to start with, start selling that value at a very affordable lease price...and then away we go!

'See' you Saturday at 10 AM EST right here on RicksBlog.com
And maybe in person May 27th in Vegas too?
Up to you.

Danny Welsh



PS If you can't do Saturday, send me your preferred list via email in order from 1 to 200 and Saturday I'll pick on your behalf from your choices and what's still available.
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So you Think Rings.com is Best for Jewelry? I Think not!!

Afternoon Folks!!


It would be the knee jerk reaction of most to believe Rings.com should end up with a jewelry store. But is that REALLY the highest and best use? Absolutely not! As we have it the value is $3.5 Million. But how can you make that same domain worth 10x that? I have the answer.


The PERFECT use for Rings.com would be for Bing.com to go after Google Circles. That's the single best use at this point in time. Imagine making that sale. Persuading folks in power to make a decision that what we have can be useful in what they are trying to achieve. SIMPLE!


Maybe showing a strategic way to a common end has value? Maybe more than you might think.


Have a GREAT day!

Rick Schwartz


There IS no “.com” monopoly and so “.whatever” is doomed to be (at best) second best

Morning Folks!!


You are about to see a full court press from every registrar out there. Yesterday you saw Godaddy.NOTHING. They have a lot at stake here. If .crap, craps out....then what? So imagine all the dollars that are going to be spent trying to brainwash people that inferior is superior. That's gonna be some trick. Tulips anyone?


But that has nothing to do with this post and not sure why I even went down this road. Maybe just as a warning not to swallow the bait as tempting as it might be.


Have you ever thought there might be a “monopoly” on “.com” domain names because most of the best of them are owned and not being “used” as you see it?


Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly and maybe you'll see more of what Danny Welsh saw when he had the 'ha!' moment that matched my own 'ah' many years ago. Ah+Ha = Ah-ha! Get it? BTW, I’m genuinely sorry your customers email me every day when they want to buy from your established company. But you can’t say I didn’t tell you it would happen…and all this unpleasantness could have been avoided if you just hadn’t RUSHED to make thewww.wrong.choice :(


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Rick Schwartz



By Danny Welsh
JointVentures.com
There's no '.com monopoly' and there is no shortage of extremely valuable .com domain names available for your business idea. If you believe that, you’re wrong. So what happened and why can't you buy the eRealEstate property you've got your eye on?


Read this blog and you’d understand why it’s YOUR fault you were asleep at the wheel for all those years and now are about to CRASH head-first into a future others predicted, transparently TOLD you would happen, and you went forward with driving a www.domain.crappy vehicle anyway.


It’s just timing and circumstances and human nature that has proven to turn the exchange of cash for one $100 bet many years before into an asset such as1019.com or Queen.com, while all attempts to copy and sell, buy, market/promote or make money with a 'good enough' alternative for either has proven a risky gamble with SIGNIFICANT consequences.
Just ask the fine folks at Ebid.net how many calls and emails their customer service handles weekly because their customers are confused.
We're not even sure it'd be legal for us to read the “confusion email” from their customers who don't even know what “.net” IS and regularly email someone that doesn’t exist to an @ebid.com email address no one marketed to them…when they want to buy or need support of some kind from ebid.com.


So once we realize it happens, we don't want to read sensitive information. But if you think hundreds upon hundreds of customers and prospects don't regularly email @Ebid.com email addresses --many times with credit card numbers, orders, personal information etc-- then you're in fantasy land that nothing more than a simple AUTORESPONDER EMAIL TEMPLATE I set up saying 'Sorry, wrong number!' would expose in a SHATTERING EXPLOSION that would have Rick Schwartz and Danny Welsh and getting this huge problem you've been ignoring handled NOW an URGENT and IMPORTANT topic of conversation at every executive meeting in your company starting...RIGHT NOW.


Rick Schwartz TOLD companies like that it would happen and they built their online company on sand anyway, sand that might simply WASH AWAY as their profits ERODE handed off one customer at a time to a competing auction company that does the same thing Rick Schwartz knew a company in the future would WANT to do because he had their 'Big Idea' years before they did when he staked his claim on the eBid.com eRealEstate property perfectly suited for an online auction company.


That doesn't make him a bad guy.
It makes him a bit of a sage, but even the most uncanny predictors of the future are rarely believed until that future unfolds.
Well, that future Rick predicted in 1993 is here....NOW
If your business wants to be 'good enough' for years, you can do that for an $8.99 gamble and register any old www.domain.crap such as a '.net' domain name.
If you want to be perceived as a market leader in MINUTES, protect your company from future leaks and failure...you can do that too.
Here's the part you need to understand if you followed the 'due diligence' bread crumbs we've left out for you to educate yourself on why doing business with us is a good idea...the same ones that led you without us in most cases spending a single PENNY for you to be right here, right now alonngside your customers AND competitors.


If you want
PRODUCT.com or
SERVICE.com or
SOCIAL.com or
###.com or
ABCD.com
Then simply bring your checkbook and your big ideas because the guy who can make that happen for you ain't selling for nickels when there are millions to be made with the RIGHT buyer of their eRealEstate asset...ESPECIALLY with a flood of www.domain.imitations about to flood the market and make the confusion even WORSE.
Choice is each business owner's to make for themselves!
Gamble? (.net)


Invest? (.com)


Dicey? (.co)


Proven Sales Increase? (.com)


Who had YOUR 'big idea' first?


This is a fork in the road, Mr. Business Owner.


Which path do you want to take?
I know which path -I- chose to partner with and lease eRealEstate from domain owners among the '500' and while the path is not yet completely paved, the price and terms have been more than fair so far.


And the mountain to climb gets easier the moment you choose an ALLY who has already had your big idea (or something like it) and been to the top and can talk you through getting there too.


The guy's extending a hand of friendship...and if you don't take it and your competitor does...


Who is to blame?


Not the Rick Schwartz I know better everyday and am coming to trust as among the greatest allies I ever thought I might have the good fortune to meet.


Want to go to the top of your niche?


Then the first step up the mountain is to make Rick an offer he can't refuse...


See you at the Top!


Danny Welsh
JointVentures.com

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Breaking: JointVentures.com Announces Entire 2013 Sales Team!

Afternoon Folks!!


You can only climb a mountain one step at a time if you want to get there and get there safely. We are about to announce our 12 member sales team and this is a very big step in building a 'Gung-ho' organization. What is a 'Gung-ho' organization? Well that is pretty simple. And there may be a variety of definitions. Mine is when every member of a team is passionate and motivated striving for a common goal.


We advertised for 12 we got 12. We advertised for a sales manager and we got a sales manager. Before you do something you have to have the idea and the dream and then tell the world. That is the same with selling or leasing a domain or anything else you might do in life.


As early as Saturday we will have a LIVE 'Domain Draft' similar to pro sports. We expect 10-15 rounds of which each sales team member selects up to 20 domains to personally market. The first 3 team members that secures 3 paid leases by TRAFFIC, will get a FREE ticket to TRAFFIC and join Danny and myself on stage.


This will not be easy but it will be easier as time goes on and that is the thing to remember most. There will be resistance but that can be overcome with solid arguments backed up by numbers and examples.


The top 25 domains may or may not be up for Draft. To represent those domains, you will have to earn that privilege by demonstrating results. Those domains Danny and I will personally work until things shake out. But we will announce all the other details by Friday.


So without further blah, blah, blah from me. Let me present the 2013 JointVentures.com sales force. Each of which you can meet via their video applications. I see a lot of desire there and I think their hunger and desire may just get this monster of a movement to be a success.


Angela (Newgrl)
Brian Facaro
Anthony Silva
Cate Colgan
Brandon Breshears
Toshi Endo
Joshua Fahrer
Eusorgio Guzman
Dr. Domainer
Michael Hudak - Sales Manager
Christian Calvin
Dara Celestin



None of us knows where this journey will lead. For some it may lead nowhere.
For others it may be life changing or it may just turn into an education.
There will be headwinds and there will be noise, but nothing will hold back the wave of domain leasing!

We believe it will and can be profitable for many years.
With each lease will be more oxygen to work with.
With each lease the next one gets just a tiny bit easier.
With each lease we demonstrate the viability of this model.
With each lease there is one more reason not to sell your domains.
With each lease it will point to the elements that make certain domains attractive to lease.
With each lease you will once again see a rapid rise in domain name values and demand.
With each lease you are watching something unfold 20 years in the making.

But it does not stop there. It only starts there.
Next is a success, longevity and an exit plan for both sides.

Have a GREAT Day!
Rick Schwartz



Breaking: Michael Hudak Named JointVentures.com Sales Manager

Morning Folks!!


Each day we blaze a little bit further down the trail. Some days are not easy. Some days we make strides. Today is such a day.



Danny and I are thrilled to announce the appointment of Michael Hudak to lead the JointVentures.com sales team. There were 2 other folks we seriously considered and that means we will have a deeper bench than I fist thought.


Other members of the team will be announced soon.
'Michael Hudak is a self motivated entrepreneur with a deep understanding of sales, start-up ventures, financial services, high level corporate structure, domain branding, investing as well as leasing and selling.
He holds a Bachelors degree in finance and has a self proclaimed PHD in people and real world business. Michael's joint startup NewYorkEvents.co has recently been covered on some big blogs and across many internet event partners and sites. He is also a partner of the first in person monthly venue for professional networking for finance professionals in New York- NYFSP.com.
Michael has achieved success with buying and selling domain names, creating revenue producing online properties, building businesses from the ground up and building a vast network of like minded professionals- both online and in person. Recently, Michael has taken the lead of a sales force headed up by Rick Schwartz and Danny Welsh at JointVentures.com and is ready to help set the gold standard in the domain leasing space.'
Congratulations Michael and spread the news!! Building the future one day at a time right in front of everyone! Maybe someday this will be something more than just a blog post.


Have a GREAT Day!

Rick Schwartz



Rick’s Board is Back! Domain King’s Joint Venture Group Grand Opening!!!

Morning Folks!!


I started posting on my first 'Forum' back in 1996 and opened the first domain forum in 2000. It was always hard to control the noisemakers and folks that only purpose for living was disrupting things.


Well with the way Linkedin works, that problem has now been effectively solved. So for professional domainers and end users, may I present the all New Rick's Board at Linkedin.


Domain King's Joint Venture Group


Professional Collaboration is alive and well. Real names, real faces, real people real business.


Have a GREAT day!

Rick Schwartz

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