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Sunday, March 1, 2009

Financial Management Of Your Expired Domains

Article Presented by:
Copyright © 2009 John Khu



There are two important aspects that you should consider, while conducting expired domains trading business. Whatever buying and selling strategies you choose to conduct your domains expired trading business, the first real step that you must ensure is to manage the financial matters in a careful and well planned manner. Managing your finances is as critical as grabbing great expired domains. The most important goal here is to acquire the ability to play in the market by holding enough capital. In essence, a big cash asset will help you buy more valuable domains.

Raising enough capital to carry out your domain expiring trading activities depends entirely on your ability to infuse and import a sizeable amount of capital. There are several strategies and methods that will help you set up a sold financial base. Here are some tested and working methods using which you can raise the required capital:

Spending what you have in your wallet

This is possibly the most conservative method of spending your cash in a careful manner. When you start out, you may have very little cash in your wallet. Acquiring additional cash reserve at this juncture is rather very difficult. On the other hand, using your credit card to spend cash with very high interest could be counter-productive and negative. The best way to buy expired domains in the initial stages of your business is to use the money you have currently in your pocket. Never ever use money raised out of your credit card! Even when you buy domains-expired by using your credit card, ensure that you are paying off the debt as soon as possible. Otherwise, you will see your domain profits sinking with each passing day.

Raising capital with partnership and equity

Though no one likes to share the hard earned profits with other people, it may become imperative to seek additional funding from your friends, relatives and partners. With this additional cash reserve you can diversify your expired domain activities. However, you may need to return the money taken from other people along with a hefty interest rate. In case of dissolution of partnership agreement between you and your partners, you may need to pay back the money to your partners.

Using credit cards: A number of people use different credit cards to buy their expired domain names. Business credit cards that offer 0% APR seem to be the best type of credit cards; most of these cards also offer interest-free credit for 6 or more months. Another method of using credit card is to use a facility called balance transfer that will provide you some amount of interest-free credit for a certain period. However, using this type of cash could be very risky, when you consider its hefty interest rate and stiff pay back conditions.

Reinvesting method

Some miserly expired domain traders may resort to a technique called bootstrapping, when they reinvest their investments by selling domains-expired as soon as they buy them. Reinvesting is an intelligent money-saving technique that will also aim to pool and solidify cash assets in the long run. Bootstrapping is a careful technique that will allow domain traders to plan their purchases in a calibrated manner.


About the Author:
John Khu is an author and also a seasoned professional with vast experience in expired domain name business. He is also the owner of the path breaking web sites called http://www.expireddomainsecret.com and http://www.expireddomaingains.com which provides complete and up-to-date information on expired domains and their eternal secrets.