siteMighty as a Domain Holding Page

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Dave Coustan wrote a post today about his idea for a “hipster domain holding page“. Basically, an easy-to-create placeholder page that you could point your domain name servers to for those 5-50 domain names that we all own that are just sitting there.

Marshall Kirkpatrick talks about the investment that several domainers are making in SharedReviews. It’s no secret that there’s big money and domain real estate. But how about a little money for all of us who own 25 odd domain names?
This is an interesting concept, and something that we could certainly execute through siteMighty.com. It’s already brain-dead easy to point the domain to siteMighty. Your site is automatically embedded with affiliate links that give you the opportunity to earn revenue when someone clicks from your site and performs the desired action. Right now you can market anything you want, as long as that thing as credit cards (We got our inspiration from Henry Ford’s Model T). But in the near future you’ll be able to market a whole lot more.

What if you could customize this page with content about you, and embed some affiliate links and maybe AdSense on it to earn a little revenue whenever somebody goes to this domain?

Through your siteMighty placeholder page you could:

  • embed your Twitter feed
  • embed your blog feed
  • embed your Flickr feed
  • include affiliate links for categories of your choosing
  • include AdSense

Would this one-page site make sense for you? Let us know, we definitely could build it.

Sweet.. I won the Freshbooks contest

zappos.jpgMy good friend Matt told me today that I fancy myself as the arbiter of good customer service. When I see great customer service I love it when I see bad customer service it irks me to no end.

Last week, as I posted here on this blog, I entered a contest sponsored by Freshbooks with a story about Zappos.com customer service. They are company I tremendously respect for valuing customer service. In fact, if you look at their homepage, here is how they describe themselves:

We are a service company that happens to sell… shoes, bags, clothing, accessories.

At any rate, Mike McDerment notified me that I won the contest yesterday, and I’m very excited to be heading to Chicago this Sunday for the SEED conference. Thanks to Freshbooks, Zappos, and all companies that still value customer service.

If you’re in Chicago for the conference on Monday, drop me a line and let’s hook up.

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