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Making a Moat: Matt Barrie Pulls out all the Stops

Tech entrepreneur & top global influencer Matt Barrie reveals how to build a moat around your business and why he believes exact match domain names are integral to strategy.

Matt calls the domain industry a phenomenal, fertile industry and reviews Escrow.com’s recent report on Alternative Investing: A Comparison Between Traditional Instruments & Web Domains.

If you’re developing business strategy, maximizing marketing budget, or curious about domain investment, you want to hear one of the smartest – and most engaging – successful tech entrepreneurs today!

DomainSherpa July 22, 2019 2

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Escrow Insights: Building the Future – with Matt Barrie

Tech entrepreneur and top global influencer Matt Barrie specifically discusses his acquisition of Escrow.com and his strategy in business acquisitions in general. Plus, we learn so much about what he sees in the domain industry behind the scenes at Escrow.

Matt is one of the most brilliant and voluble business minds today, so this interview is just jam packed with commentary about best approaches for entrepreneurs.

Bonus: We discuss Escrow.com’s 2 recent reports. 1. Alternative Investing: A Comparison Between Traditional Instruments & Web Domains 2. Domain Investment Index, beginning with this one in Q1 2019. We get in depth with Matt reviewing factors influencing current domain name prices and so much more!

If you’re involved in business acquisitions or interested in the domain industry whatsoever, you want to hear one of the smartest – and most engaging – successful tech entrepreneurs ever!

DomainSherpa July 8, 2019 7

Vacation.Rentals acquisition highlights its plans to disrupt an industry – With Mike Kugler & Brooke Hernandez

If you’re an entrepreneur who plans to disrupt an industry- or you want to learn to become one- spend some time listening to the out-of-the-box thinking of resort industry veteran Mike Kugler. Mike’s company, Vacarent, LLC recently acquired the Vacation.Rentals premium gTLD, purposely paying the most ever for a public gTLD acquisition.

Entrepreneurs like this who surprise and confuse us are often visionary thinkers. We don’t need to do the exact same thing, but we can definitely benefit from learning about Mike’s perspective and seeing where to apply that in both our domain name search and entrepreneurial endeavors.

DomainSherpa April 15, 2018 13

VPN.com: a Crucial Entrepreneurial Pivot – with Michael Gargiulo

Serial Entrepreneur Michael Gargiulo spent years trying to acquire VPN.com, poured about $2 Million into developing it, and then identified a crucial need/opportunity to pivot. Hear a serial entrepreneur’s perspective on EMDs (exact match domains), and how VPN will shape the future of our internet connectivity.

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Welcome Wayne Nelson, DomainSherpa’s First Producer

I welcome DomainSherpa’s producer, Wayne Nelson.

Wayne is an avid domain name investor, has developed a website that ranks #2 in Google for a very competitive word, trades options, and is a successful businessman.

Wayne will be focused on finding the best strategies, tactics, stories and inspiration to feature on DomainSherpa.