Domain owners can chat with potential domain buyers in real time.
When someone wants to buy a domain name they want a quick response from the domain owner. The faster you respond, the better your chances of closing the sale.
Domain sales platform Efty is taking fast response to the next level by integrating Tawk.to live chat on users’ marketplace sites.
Live chat won’t appear on each individual domain name, but many Efty users forward their domain names to a landing page in the marketplace. If they do this, the landing page has SSL and can use the live chat feature.
Tawk.to also lets domain owners monitor visitor behavior on their sites.
Efty also announced an integration with Mailchimp.
Domain Boss says
Adding these tools with limits of 2000 domains? Not a great idea, anyone can take a free plugin and install/integrate it with their site. Why is this a major new everywhere? Does it come for all domains, no. Does it cost extra for over 2000 domains, yes.
EFTY.com just keeps talking about pretty landers etc all the time. The truth is their system is not user friendly and bulk editing tools are not easy to use. They don’t even provide the following on their landing pages:
1. Lease/rent to own
2. just lease only
3. Buy on monthly installments
4. Joint venture development – where potential buyers can use domain for sharing revenue and equity in the venture.
I know other players are working on the above features.
And, btw…what about people who have over 5000 domains? They can’t even use their system.
Doron Vermaat says
Thanks for taking the time to give some feedback. These are good comments and i’ll try my best to answer them.
You are right that anyone can (fairly easily) install a live chat plugin on their own site. But it is not so easy to launch a full-fledge, mobile optimised domain name marketplace with payment integrations, logos, search, SSL, adjustable colours, backgrounds and themes and have all your domain names redirect to the corresponding landing pages by simply updating the name servers.
And all that, is what investors get within their Efty subscription. No technical knowledge required.
The Live Chat and Mailchimp integration simply is one of the many things that our users get without the need to host, install or update software or write code (or paying someone else to do so for you) when creating their own marketplace (or for-sale landing pages)
We launched a new bulk editor and upload tool last year that allows user to make use of a CSV to make changes to their entire portfolio in bulk. It’s a major improvement from the previous bulk editor but certainly there’s still room for improvement. Feel free to email me at [email protected] and i’ll share a demo video with you, if you’d like that.
The reason we don’t provide lease, payment plans or JV development as of yet is because Efty is a platform and not a traditional marketplace like Sedo or Undeveloped (where we deal with the actual domain name sale and escrow process). We agree that leasing and especially payment plans are great value ads which is why we are currently exploring partnerships with companies in our space that can bring these type of transactions to Efty.
Regarding portfolio size, the current portfolio limit at Efty is indeed 5000 domain names per account but there’ an Enterprise plan in beta at the moment that once it rolls out will allow large portfolio holders to use the Efty platform as well.
Mr. dee says
Lovely and amazing features. This will make domain investors look more professional and increase sales. I believe there’s more room for improvement. Anyway thumbs up.
Efty User says
100% Agree with Installments/Payment Plans/Lease/ etc; no brainer, have requested it in the past. The response from Efty is not relavant as to why it should be implemented, it should be implemented; asap.