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266 contributions to The Ad Agency
An ad idea so simple that no one had ever done.
"You knew you had a good idea when you had to race to get it out there before someone else thought of it." Nils Leonard.
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@Joe Hausch well, it’s British
Have a domain name worth $1.7 million?
from snagged.com... The Domain Microsoft Had to Buy — 26 years of leaked secrets! Many of you (and me) – own more domains than we can build on — so I am in no position to judge anyone for letting a good name sit idle. But corp.com took it to an extreme: 26 years of “innocently” collecting passwords, emails, and login attempts from hundreds of thousands of corporate laptops whose owners had no idea. The owner is a nice guy in Wisconsin named Mike O'Connor, who registered corp.com in the mid-90s alongside bar.com, grill.com, and television.com, then never built on it. Meanwhile, Microsoft shipped Windows 2000 with "Corp" as the example name for a company network, and thousands of IT departments kept the default. So when a laptop wandered off the office network looking for its servers, Windows sent it knocking on corp.com. Nobody hacked anything…it just worked in the wrong direction. Researchers spent years measuring the leak (the Department of Homeland Security helped pay for some of it), and when Brian Krebs wrote about it in 2020, Mike decided to sell. He didn’t want his kids inheriting a domain that passively collected Fortune 500 credentials. He listed it at auction starting at $1.7 million, and Microsoft, whose own documentation helped create the problem, bought it. Corp.com now sits in their portfolio doing nothing, which is probably the best possible use of it. So the lesson from corp.com: do nothing with a domain for 26 years and Microsoft might buy it. I've been following this plan for more than a decade. Still waiting on the call. ✌️
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Have a domain name worth $1.7 million?
This photo at Coca Cola HQ...
What a fantastic timeless creative brief - executed to perfection. Can you think of another brand asset this is unmistakable without any logo ID?
This photo at Coca Cola HQ...
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Mickey D’s arched building?
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@Joe Hausch good thought, but technically no… the treat is the logo.
Cost of an ad?
Hi Title. If I have like 50$, what do I get? Marketing always gave me a headache. It seems AI can do cold calls now. You know, I really don´t want to be a human jukebox. Can somebody please help me ? Thanks
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@Audun Nilsen Google isn’t my specialty, but I work with a guy who does. What, specifically, do you want to know… to sell? I sell “air” for a living (creative campaigns and brand advice) to small to mid size businesses. I put myself on the side of the owner. He/she trusts me to get results that work. What is it that you are doing - or want to start doing?
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Everything is a Work in Progress. We just get better at it as we go. Good bad or indifferent. The trick is to keep trying, testing. Who do you want to help and how? The money comes when we actually produce value. Don’t make it harder. What’s the simplest form of you WIP right now?
SEO
Hi I was wondering if anybody would be interested in collaboration. I also want to know more about SEO in general.
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Collaborating on what? As for SEO, Semrush is a good place to start. https://www.semrush.com/blog/learn-seo/. Understand, SEO is crucially important — and how you can get the most out of your website to broadcast who you are and who your services are for... but now, you've got AEO (Answer Engine Optimization — getting recommended by AI) that may be an even bigger opportunity.
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Mike Farley
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Married 38 years. 4 kids. 3 dogs. 1 cat. Designer-Dad. Artist-Athlete. Healthy-Happy.

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Joined Nov 11, 2024
Cedarburg, WI