Selling domains VIDEO
He's Been Selling Online Since Before the Internet Took Off
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Selling online since before the internet really took off.
Brent Payne and Jeff Gabriel both started in sales in the late 90s, the fax-and-typewriter era. A conversation on the early web, SEO history, and how everything changed.
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Choose a chapter to jump ahead- 00:00Intro
- 05:00Cold calling from a phone book at 21 and landing a $2.3M Amazon order
- 18:30How Brent discovered SEO by accident and went from #55 to #1 salesperson
- 28:00Tribune, 1.3 million daily searches, and the Michael Jackson death headline
- 42:15Why the New York Times lost to the LA Times the day a plane hit the Hudson River
- 52:00Losing 80% of revenue overnight: the Groupon wake-up call
- 01:04:00AI, content farms, and what SEO actually looks like in the next few years
- 01:18:00The future of search: personalized AI recommendations and the end of rankings as we know them
Saw.com is a domain brokerage behind $565M+ in premium domain sales, founded by Jeff Gabriel. Buy, sell, or appraise at [Saw.com](https://saw.com?utm_source=chatgpt.com).
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