Comments on: Guest Post: Fred Mercaldo GeoDomain Sector Update

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:42:26 +0000

I was surprised to see that the Adwords tool shows only 18,100 global exacts for “French Riviera” (compared with 33k for Burbank).

Still, it sounds like Fred and his team are approaching the launch in a very professional way. Good luck to them.

By: Adi

Adi — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:36:58 +0000

I see many people are typing French Riveria instead of French Riviera. Maybe I should that that domain..just in case

Great article!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:19:40 +0000

Congratulations Fred.

Shout out to Peter and Jessica.

Cheers and keep up the good work!

By: Fred Mercaldo

Fred Mercaldo — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:38:35 +0000

Steve…..do 32 meetings in 12 days sound like a vacation to you? LOL!!! It truly was in the coolest place I’ve ever been to in my life….anyway, thanks for the support and comments, and let’s get these sites LIVE! Fred.

By: Steve K.

Steve K. — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:29:34 +0000

Congrats to Fred and his team and Toby as well for what looks to be an upcoming successful site for the French Riviera region.

I too am a big client of Fred’s “city in the box” platform. We are currently operating 20 city sites using the platform and have another 8 in development, yes Fred while you were on vacation we have added 2 more domains into development.

For those that own pure generic domains we at CityPartners strongly recommend “city in the box” its worth every penny.

By: BlackMonk

BlackMonk — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:23:33 +0000

FrenchRiviera.com is an awesome brand. Best of luck!

By: Gazzip

Gazzip — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:22:12 +0000

I was just checking FrenchRiviera.com a couple of days ago to see if it had been developed yet, nice surprise ! Looking good.

I’ve been drooling over that domain for over 5 years

Tons of potential, good luck (not that you should need it)

By: Fred Mercaldo

Fred Mercaldo — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:56:17 +0000

Jessica and Peter…thanks for the kind comments. Mike….we just launched on March 23rd, so our efforts to secure advertisers are just now underway. We have many interested hotel partners, and they will participate in numerous ways…either paying direct for advertising, or providing us with net rates in the 30 percent range, or by barter/trade deals. We will be handling our own vacation/travel fulfillment, so all of the options we are providing hotels will be profitable for us. We are also in the process of securing some major sponsors/partnerships for the site…..we are in discussions with some of the top organizations in the airline, credit card, and luxury brands industries. We hope to have some significant partnerships secured in the coming 60 days. Fred.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:37:43 +0000

There’s lots of open ad spaces on FrenchRiveria.com. Has anyone outside of local businesses had success marketing on these geo-sites?

By: Internet Media

Internet Media — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:41:09 +0000

Fred and his group developed and manage Boulder.com for me. He is a first class person and would highly recommend CitiesPlanet.

Thank you Fred!

-Peter

By: Jessica Bookstaff Doppelt

Jessica Bookstaff Doppelt — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:23:57 +0000

Congratulations to Fred on the launch of FrenchRiveria.com, the development of domains with CaliforniaMedia.com and the opening of the CitiesPlanet.com call center. It is encouraging to see movement in the Geo industry. Agreeing with Fred, .COM is still king. Additionally development is king and Fred is a testament to success in development. Although it seems like the industry has been stagnant the last few years, I think we have all hunkered down in our development and focused our energies there as well as relationship building with partners and clients. This is one of the keys to success in development that Fred recognizes and capitalizes on. Cheers to a great first quarter of 2012!