I have a domain that I've owned for a looong time. www.sellmar.com I'd like to finally hope to put it to some good use. Any suggestions?
A blog having info about online selling methods, with lot of article content, or an online store is a good option to use the domain.
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Maybe you could park it at sedo or gadaddy till you have a firm idea of what you are going to do with it?
Great suggestions...all much appreciated. So far it looks like I'll go with wordpress 'selling tips and other info', and then some plugins for shopping cart, etc... Any other ideas, keep'em coming!!
Ok, so online store seems to get the majority vote here, then blog. So which script? wordpress with shopping cart addon? or some shopping cart script like maian or zen? or something else. Personally, I'm leaning towards wordpress with a cart addon...but just not 100% sure. Not sure what to sell on there either...lol. Thanks again, all!