We Own A Ton Of Really Cool Companies

Mann: Yeah. Well, I didn’t say I made a ton of money selling BuyDomains. I just said I sold it. We’re kind of agnostic, and we want to look at entrepreneurs and see what they bring to the table. We own a ton of really cool companies that juice up the entrepreneurs on day one, so we’re extraordinarily efficient at starting and building new corporations. Just in the last six months, we’ve probably started literally six new companies, and they have a lot of head start because they start with a fantastic domain name, they usually start with some staff members that we’ve already worked with before, potentially from our other companies or people we know from the industry. Then we have clients on day one for these companies. So, for example, we started PRMarketing.com. We started PurePPC.com. We immediately had tons of work for both of these businesses because all of our other business have a lot of PPC work that needs to be done, and the customers of our other businesses have a lot of PPC work that needs to be done, so we can get them started before we even go to the outside world. It’s the same case with PRMarketing.com—we have lots of internal needs for PR/Marketing services and we own the domain, so we can juice up this company on day one. There are great people working there who we already know and have already worked with. They go out into the broader community and bring in new clients.

We’ve set up this very efficient method of starting new businesses, so when new entrepreneurs come to the table, they need to be good at a specific industry, at leadership, hiring people, training people, and doing deals. As for accounting, we have an accounting company, we own an HR company, a SEO company, a PPC company, a phone company, a PR/Marketing company, and we’re trying to start a bunch of other companies. Our HR company is called proHR.com, and it lists the current job openings with approximately 20 executive positions that are currently open. All 20 of those are names that came from Aux.com. They came from DomainMarket.com, then they went to Aux.com, then they went from Aux.com to having a business model and then moved over to BrightFuture.com. And that says, “We need a CEO for Advertising.co,” for example—one of our domains. So again, that’s how it filters through the whole system. And with those companies at proHR.com, we find great entrepreneurs to be the presidents of those companies. Like I just mentioned, we have all this additional juice to go out of the gate—much more so than almost any competitor would have.

Cyger: Wow.

Mann: Gives us a huge strategic advantage to start new companies, so we’re going to keep doing it.