I first learned of dot com mogul Mitchell Harper through the ReviewMe he ordered on John Chow dot Com. First, he wanted John to have a look at his blog and then, less than two weeks later, he ordered up another review, this time of his email marketing program. Since that time, Mitch — as he likes to be called — has gone on to do several guest posts on John Chow dot Com, largely discussing ways to make money online, as well as increase your presence on the web and improve the traffic your blog receives.
Needless to say, at just 24 years of age (the same as me, coincidentally), Mitchell Harper is pretty darn successful. So successful, in fact, that he needs to start dumping off areas in his life so that he can maximize the incoming money while minimizing the outgoing funds. I guess the title of this post is a little misleading, though, because Mitchell Harper isn’t “selling out“, per se. He’s just selling.
Yesterday, Mitch posted up an entry on his blog — HarpzOn.com — that he is selling his domain. The sale will not include the content of the blog, the mailing list, and so on: you only get the domain. Bidding starts at $5,000 and will conclude on May 1st.
I guess Harper is going to focus his energy more on Interspire and other projects he has lined up. Being busy is a good thing, after all, because it gives you options such as these. Good luck Mitch.
It will be interesting to see where this leads. The domain harpzon.com, by itself, doesn’t suggest much value to me. If he were selling the content already there along with the domain I would have bought it already … I could add to it in the future and the core content will earn $5000 in a year easy … but the bare domain … don’t know.
It was surprised that the “make money” blog category didn’t hve much to say afew weeks ago when problogger.com made some (IMO) dumb moves toward selling their site and then finally made a private sale to the logical buyer … Problogger.net owner, Darren Rowse. I think Problogger.com would have been worth more than it eventually sold for just in type-in traffic and they went about selling it in what seemed a very hestitant and dis-ordered fashion.
Anyway, I’ve enjoyed some of Mitch’s insights, I wish him well, and we’ll see just what does happen with Harpzon
The domain selling is now a popular form of art practiced in many parts of blogosphere now. Actually this is like teasing the readers to get all the bookmark s or the dresses they memorized to be changed every now and then. I don’t like domain selling anyway
That’s funny because he’s spent quite a bit of money promoting his site with ReviewMe reviews…all that money spent only to sell the domain?
Now it is a fact that he is not selling it.. I am glad because I found the blog pretty useful.. Also, Gdog, promoting a blog before selling means, he can command more money from potential buyers