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Before writing, I want to make a statement: because I write everything as I please, wherever I think. This is all related to my love for Gu Long's novels when I was young. Friends who like Gu Long know that he never writes novels in full. So you may be confused, but you also think it won't look obscure.
I only started to get involved in domain name trading at the end of 2008. To be honest, the beginning of March this year is the beginning of my official career as a rice farmer. Throughout 2009, I occasionally visited Domain Name City, but I didn't have a deep understanding of the market, so I just occasionally practiced Tai Chi on the periphery. This year, in just half a month during the Spring Festival, I suddenly went from being an otaku webmaster who spent all day chatting in forums, watching Japanese romantic action movies, and studying the true acting skills of young and beautiful female artists, to a house slave + child slave. A house slave is a slave to the house. A child slave is a child slave.
Yes, I mortgaged a house under the direction of my wife. And with my cooperation, my wife gave birth to a very cute, beautiful, smart, healthy baby girl that everyone loves. Before buying a house, I thought about it a lot and for a long time. The key to my final decision was not lack of money, not having a house to live in, or wanting to invest. But I want to give myself a pear. Yes, pear = stress.
Now, let’s first give a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the author of this text: me. Born in 1984, he can’t read but wears glasses. Gentle on the outside but sullen on the inside. Once high-minded and low-handed, now he is low-key and pragmatic. After graduating from college, I went south to Guangdong and struggled for four years without achieving anything. He fled Guangdong at the end of 2008 and moved to Zhejiang in early 2009, where he started a business partnership with others, and then learned a lesson: partnership business cannot be done. In this way, the whole year of 2009 was almost deserted. Then from November 2009 to March 2010, for five months in between, I stayed at home and thought about the meaning of life... Thinking about the meaning of life is so nonsense that we won't talk about it. I spent 5 months living at home with my hands on my clothes, my hands on food, and my mouth open. I felt that it felt so good to be at home. This is something that people who have never left home or gone out to struggle will never understand. Because I have a warm home behind me, when I face difficulties and choices, I always think of, don’t be afraid, even if I fail, I can still go home and be hungry or poor. But precisely because of this escape route, I chose to compromise and avoid many issues. Therefore, after a few years in society, I gradually developed the habit of not wanting to make progress. This is a must.
Then at the end of last year, I decided whether to buy a house or not. I made a decision. I needed to put enough pressure on myself to mobilize myself in all aspects. I could no longer hang around all day or waste a lot of time. In addition, my wife was about to give birth, so for a while, the whole world seemed to be busy.
From that moment on I was possessed by Yali. It seems that I have gone too far, so let’s get back to the topic.
When I first started to enter the market, I bought some cheap 4-letter items and resold them. At that time, I bought a meter for a hundred yuan, and then I sold it after making a few dozen yuan. Because I have been out of business for many years, I know many webmasters and have joined many webmaster groups, so these millets change hands very quickly. Although I didn’t make much money at the time, I was very happy. The pleasure of selling rice is better than masturbating. This feeling is only felt by novices. Once you become a veteran of the rice market, especially the big guys, I guess they will be less excited than a novice selling a piece of rubbish rice.
Later, I started to contact with pre-registration. At that time, Amber had just launched the pre-registration service, and I became the first batch of Diamond and Platinum members. Then I started to pay attention to the deletion list every day, searched for domain names from kingnic.com that I thought were valuable, and submitted reservations on Amber.com. Initially, there was no bidding for amber registration. Whoever submits first will get it. So I waited until 0 o'clock every day and quickly submitted the reservation. Later, more and more people used Amber to pre-register. Every time I submitted at 0 o'clock, I would occasionally be preempted by others. Then I asked my brother to get a button wizard, and it worked every time. Not long after, I discovered that the button wizard would also have problems. When the Amber server occasionally jammed, the button wizard was useless. Then I asked my brother to submit it with me at 0 o'clock every day. He used the company's optical fiber, so he submitted it successfully every time.
Because the pre-orders are all from Xiaomi, or junk rice, the success rate of pre-registration is quite high, with 1 out of every 5 successful. But for each Xiaomi, I explained the meaning, checked the suffix on Baidu and Google, analyzed its website value, and then decided whether to make a reservation. Then the sales price of each domain name is very reasonable. Sometimes I can make dozens of dollars, so I will choose to sell it. So during that time, the domain names on hand circulated very quickly.
In July 2010, Amber.com launched Taoming.com and started bidding. Almost all the rice that was registered was sent to Taoming for bidding. As a result, the cost of getting rice has been increased invisibly, and new rice has gradually become less and less. Later, I found that the rush to register for Amber was getting weaker and weaker, and even some ordinary creative rice was difficult to obtain. So I was thinking about other ways out, and started to focus on the preemptive registration services provided by some foreign registrars. Occasionally, I also collect some domain names that I think are valuable. Of course, they are mainly low-end and cheap. In this way, small profits but quick turnover, fast in and fast out, slowly figured out some tricks, and more and more customers bought rice. I sold more than 260 domain names successively. In less than a year, I sold an average of 20 to 30 domain names every month and accumulated more than 150 customers. Among them, more than ten or twenty customers often come back to buy rice. . Naturally, I also made many friends. When I was doing sales in the past, the sentence that impressed me the most was: In business, you are not selling Shenma products, you are selling yourself. Comrades, don’t think wrongly, selling yourself here is not about selling yourself, it is about getting customers to accept you and trust you so that they believe that the products you sell to them are worth their money. To put it simply, as long as customers think you are honest, reliable and a friend they can make, they will naturally accept what you sell.
Over the past year, I have seen a lot of good news about Yimifa on the forum. Then so-and-so, so-and-so, sold a few digits of rice to some big company or portal. Every time I see these news, many people will come out and say how lucky the buyer is. Of course I believe there is an element of luck in this, but it is more about their hard work and dedication, more about their timing and market analysis ability, and more about their vision and patience. Martial arts novels once told us that only those who can truly endure loneliness can become peerless masters. You see, the sword god Ximen Chuixue is aloof and arrogant, but he only gained invincibility by practicing swordplay naked in the ice and snow. So we don’t have to envy other people’s success. What we have to do is learn from their successes and get prescriptions that are beneficial to ourselves.
After a year of selling rice, the biggest reward is not the good rice you receive, or how many banknotes you sell, but getting to know a group of like-minded friends, getting to know a group of friends who trust each other, and getting to know a group of people who can still chat in forums or QQ groups at midnight. Brothers who bullshit each other. Today you sold it at a good price and I am happy for you. Tomorrow I will receive good rice and you cheer for me. The gentleman's friendship is as light as water's rice friend. I have gained too many friends, so I won’t name them one by one. This is not a Golden Horse Award acceptance speech. There is too much nonsense in the year-end summary and there is no so-called experience. Because although I am an Internet veteran, I am still considered a leader in the Minong circle. So far, when using Godaddy’s foreign platforms, you still need to follow the Chinese tutorials.
Although I still cook the same dishes as always, I still want to introduce two summary points to friends who are new to the industry:
1. Don’t think that even if the rice doesn’t sell for the price, it can always be sold at the cost price. This kind of rice will probably go bad;
2. Don’t think that if you can’t sell this rice, you can keep it as a website, because you simply don’t have the time or energy to do a website.
The above two points are the experience I gained after paying a lot of tuition and spending a lot of rice in my hands... This is the first year that I brought my family to Yiwu to work hard, and it is the first year that my daughter Xiaoxun was born and grew up. One year. Although life is dull, because I put enough pressure on myself, I lived a very fulfilling year. Yiwu is a good place. Although I only stayed here for a short time, I just like it for no reason. At this point, it’s time to write a summary.
Thank you to all the friends who have bought my domain name this year. Thank you very much for your support. Thanks to my friends who play rice together, you make me no longer lonely. Thank you to those who have helped me. It was you who made me fall and get up again. I also want to thank those who have laughed at me, because you have made me stronger.
In 2011, as well as the upcoming Year of the Rabbit, I wish all my relatives and friends: May the tiger come with joy, and the rabbit be happy! Prosperous wealth and prosperous seasons. Of course, I would also like to wish all rice friends a great success!
Finally, let me be a small AD, buy and sell domain names, remember to go to Paoming.com www.paoming.com
Thanks to Zhang Daguanren for his contribution