Buying domains VIDEO
I Had Volkswagen Ready to Buy. Then I Lost the Deal.
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Jeff had Volkswagen ready to buy a domain. Then the deal fell apart.
Chuck Aikens (founder of TEU, former owner of Volume 9 Media) on using SEO to reach Fortune 100 brands, plus Jeff Gabriel’s story of the hybrid.com sale to Volkswagen that didn’t close.
In this video
Choose a chapter to jump ahead- 00:00Intro
- 05:30From loan officer to lead gen machine: how Chuck stumbled into digital marketing
- 13:00Building Mortgage101.com before Google even existed
- 22:15What big brands actually think when someone pitches them a domain name
- 31:40The Hybrid.com pitch: how Chuck would have sold it to Volkswagen
- 44:00Who to contact at a Fortune 100, agency of record, web team, or CMO
- 53:20AI in content marketing: the 20-yard line rule and why human touch still wins
- 01:01:00Will AI kill SEO or just change the game again
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