Question “What do you do?” — Answering the
It’s a tough question for domainers.
A couple days ago Austinite and online entrepreneur Neville Medhora blogged regarding a tough question he gets: “what do you do for a living?”
“Hi. I’m Neville, I Own A Rave Firm.”
OK, so he doesn’t really own a rave firm. But he has a drop ship site that sells lights that you might find at a rave (or in a dorm room).
When I met Neville at an event in Austin earlier this year, I of course asked him what he did. He didn’t really answer the question.
Domainers have this problem, too. If you just work for someone, it’s easy to say what you do.
“I work for BigCo 1.”
“I work for Some Bank.”
But as a domainer it’s hard.
When someone asks me what I do, here are some of the responses I give:
“I buy and sell domains.” – always and interesting one, as people initially assume you’re a cybersquatter until you explain it to them.
“I’m a blogger.” – that’s cool today, but may be lame tomorrow.
“I own a few media firms.” – then you have an answer “what type of media firm”.
“I’m a serial entrepreneur.” – allows me to change up the explanation of what I do based on the response. If the person doesn’t care regarding domains, I then talk regarding the technology commercialization firm I founded four years ago.
“What do I do? What don’t I do.”
“I’m in internet marketing.” – Some people assume you’re a spammer when you say this, so you need to clarify.
So I ask you, what do you tell people you do?
