Hello friends,
It is time for my first post of 2009.
Apologies for not getting back on the blog earlier, but things have been manic since I came back from holidays. Hope you’ve had a great start of the year so far!
Let’s get straight to domain names in the lime light.
if you are reading from the UK, you might be familiar with the website ‘compare the market.com’ . I’ve used them myself to get a good deal on insurance. What they do is basically compare insurance quotes from multiple car insurance companies based on the details you provide them.. It saves you from going to each individual company website and ask for a quote, and it is big business. Have a look at this bbc article.
“Price comparison sites: deal or no deal?”
PRICE COMPARISON SITES – MONTHLY HITS*
Moneysupermarket.com – 4.046m
Gocompare.com – 1.039m
Confused.com – 1.026m
Uswitch.com – 0.701m
Comparethemarket.com – 0.304m
*Monthly average Oct 2007-Oct 2008, Individual visitors aged 15+, Excludes traffic from public computers, mobile phones & PDAs
Source: comScore
So, to my surprise (agreeable surprise I should say) I saw an advert on tv lately showing Alexander who owns “compare the Meerkat.com” where they compare Meerkats – sort of a dating site for meerkats., I guess! 
I was so used to seeing advertising about ‘compare the market’ that whenever I saw one on TV, I just didn’t bother. But when I heard about Alexander’s site, I had to rush online to see it.
love the accent ! It’s been a long time since a domain gave me such a big smile! Obviously it is yet another way to bring attention to “compare the Market.com” and a nice way. The smile they’ve put on people’s faces will certainly rubb off on their brand.
Compare the Market.com may be lagging behind their competitors on number of hits per month, but that would change if they keep on delivering such creative ad campaigns.
So be careful people if you are looking for car insurance go to “compare the market.com” and not “compare the meerkat.com”. And if you are a meerkat, you know where you need to go
See you later,
alligatorS..
PS: for those not on my facebook friends list, here’s a video of a few shots I took in Dubai!
Also, note what’s written on my shirt 
Ritz and Wife in Dubai
January 26, 2009 at 12:42 am |
Welcome back
January 30, 2009 at 12:34 am |
thanks Mike!
February 13, 2009 at 6:34 pm |
Very nice information. Thanks for this.
February 17, 2009 at 9:30 am |
Internet marketing is indeed very different from traditional marketing. In the field of internet marketing the webmaster uses all possible means for promotion just from the comfort of his small office or his bedroom.