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You might want to consider partnering with cable or radio stations in your area. Give them a cut of the profit for constant advertising. I'm pretty sure that is what one of the local job boards does near me.

What state are you in? My grandmother's boyfriend is in the process of selling his bar in CA and I bet I could ask him some questions for you.

I'm from SLO and would love this. I'm currently down in Orange County until late October but once I'm back I would definitely come to SLO meetups.

Clickable: http://www.tubri.com/

I'd recommend trying this guy out. He's produced a few good domains for me so far!

Sure. Passive up-selling is fine. I hate aggressive up-selling.

You have a very good point. I don't think there will be an easy way to figure out how much value each user will see in a product. Maybe try to up-sell through a mailing list? People interested in new offers could sign up.

I spend a decent amount of money on domains every year. I think I own or take care of maybe 100 domains.

I use EnomCentral because I have a reseller account with them through hostgator (~10$ per domain) but they have grown more and more into an upselling machine. They automatically assume you want a free trial of their Content Writing program. I uncheck it everytime. This is annoying.

I've lately been buying all of my domains through NameCheap. They offer a free SSL cert and free privacy. They don't do much upselling, as I recall. If they do, it didn't bother me as much as Enomcentral.

I don't think upselling is a bad thing. I think it can be a good thing if I see value in the product they are upselling. If not, that's when it's a bad thing. Automatically adding a free trial (w/ a monthly fee after the trial) to my cart when it's something I don't want is horrible.

OpenX - http://www.openx.org/

I'll second this. I tried to buy Hackers and Painters and the site reported "We're sorry, but your promotional code was invalid."

I'll second this. They also give a free SSL certificate

I've have a lot of success with NextDayFlyers and so have my friends. They have great customer service as well.

Check out http://www.metalabdesign.com/ (the makers of BallPark) for some great inspiration.

If you have to use their mobile site to get away from their "annoying" site then why deal with them at all?

Clickable link: http://todoneapp.com/

I don't think you need to be sorry at all. You have a very valid question.

I'd say up your Google adwords spending a little bit, maybe up to $5 or $10 a day, and see how it fares with more traffic.

A lot of it depends on the actual contract you signed. I would take a look at that to start off. Maybe post your findings back here if you feel open.

It's a feature that used to be in Google labs. So yes, Google is probably searching your email for the word 'attached' and making sure you don't look like a fool by forgetting an attachment

This announcement must be a bummer for SetJam.com

I would probably only use this application if I was traveling to some place where I am not familiar with the surroundings. I don't live in a metro area either so I know everything in town already. If you could clean up and simplify how I order food/movie tickets into one screen, I might be interested in checking this app out again.

Use this idea ^ but add Multiple Inboxes from Gmail Labs. Forward your google app domain emails to your main gmail account and add a filter to apply a tag and remove it from the inbox. Set your top inbox to only show emails with your googleapps tag. It may be enough of a separation for you but you will have to forward all your emails ;(

I doubt it. The DNS is pointed to one of Google's servers (any-in-2415.1e100.net) which displays the 404.

Whois data:

Domain Name: ZIPAPI.COM Registrar: MONIKER

Registrant [304045]: WWP Domains Greenwich 2000 5482 Wilshire Boulevard Suite 141 Los Angeles CA 90036 US

DNS data:

WebDev-Mac:kohana$ dig zipapi.com

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> zipapi.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 17462 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION: ;zipapi.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION: zipapi.com. 7200 IN A 216.239.36.21 zipapi.com. 7200 IN A 216.239.38.21 zipapi.com. 7200 IN A 216.239.32.21 zipapi.com. 7200 IN A 216.239.34.21

;; AUTHORITY SECTION: zipapi.com. 172422 IN NS ns2.domainservice.com. zipapi.com. 172422 IN NS ns1.domainservice.com. zipapi.com. 172422 IN NS ns3.domainservice.com. zipapi.com. 172422 IN NS ns4.domainservice.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns1.domainservice.com. 134894 IN A 208.73.210.41 ns2.domainservice.com. 158397 IN A 208.73.211.42 ns3.domainservice.com. 134894 IN A 208.73.210.43 ns4.domainservice.com. 134894 IN A 208.73.211.44

;; Query time: 16 msec ;; SERVER: 72.29.161.1#53(72.29.161.1) ;; WHEN: Mon Jan 25 15:20:10 2010 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 242

WebDev-Mac$ dig -x 216.239.36.21

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> -x 216.239.36.21 ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2130 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION: ;21.36.239.216.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION: 21.36.239.216.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR any-in-2415.1e100.net.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION: 36.239.216.in-addr.arpa. 63306 IN NS ns3.google.com. 36.239.216.in-addr.arpa. 63306 IN NS ns4.google.com. 36.239.216.in-addr.arpa. 63306 IN NS ns1.google.com. 36.239.216.in-addr.arpa. 63306 IN NS ns2.google.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns1.google.com. 333866 IN A 216.239.32.10 ns2.google.com. 1393 IN A 216.239.34.10 ns3.google.com. 28320 IN A 216.239.36.10 ns4.google.com. 1393 IN A 216.239.38.10

This has been possibly the coolest use of Google Docs I have seen

For an application launcher, I love Quicksilver [http://www.blacktree.com/]

Thank you for posting this :)

I agree.

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