Women are more successful & trusted

Posted by Scott on October 29th, 2007 .

Men and womenMy wife has been working with me for the past few weeks now, we have always worked well as a team and it helps greatly on a day to day basis to have someone with a good understanding of what you do to bounce ideas off.

This has also relieved me of some general maintenance duties and we can share the more monotonous jobs like keyword research and emailing people to ask if domains or websites are for sale. As I have mentioned in previous posts I tend to prefer domains and websites that are not listed for sale, therefore some research is needed and then contact has to be made with the owner to get dialogue and hopefully agree a price and conclude a good deal.

The last few weeks have been trying to get some great domains to rank next year, if ranked would get traffic and then be very leasable in their own right while earning ppc profit.

Something that has come to light very quickly is that women seem to be trusted more in online dealings, perhaps owners receiving emails from a female gives them a different impression from a male. My wife and I both send the same emails, using the same text/template yet time and time again she has better results in getting a reply and talking numbers.

TrustI can only surmise that domain owners getting emails from me presume I am out to make a profit on the back of them underselling whereas an email from a female seems to be trusted more as a genuine buyer.

Is this because we work in what is still quite predominantly a male occupied business, there are some very successful female domainers like Donna Mahony and female SEO’s but I think most would all agree that the majority of the ‘public’ facing online entrepreneurs are ..for now… male and with that must come mistrust.

Either way today’s top tip is to get yourself a female pseudo name :)
It isn’t a scientific study but from all the emails we have sent recently being female continuously outperforms being male with greater success in getting replies and making deals, what started as a little extra help has turned into a great asset. More startling that just greater success by email is on a deal we wrapped up on Friday for $3000 for a domain name. The seller whom we offered to pay by Escrow for safety replied and said

..an easier way may be for you to pay me by paypal after I have pushed the domain to your account..

What? after you push the domain? Wow this gentleman was going to push this $3000 domain name into a strangers account first and then wait for the money to be paid even though he knew he was 5000 miles away.

So it seems over the last 2 weeks or sending emails and contacting website and domain owners:
Women are more successful and/or women are more trusted.

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11 Comments »

Comment by Webmaster Blog from Webmaster Blog
2007-10-29 09:39:04

I have some domains for sale if you are interested let me know, I won’t list them here.

Comment by Scott from Scott Subscribed to comments via email
2007-10-29 12:32:03

Feel free to email them to me if they are product based domains along with prices scott [at] selfmademinds dot com

 
 
Comment by Abdul from The Webmasters Tool Subscribed to comments via email
2007-10-29 11:07:16

I guess its the influence of women!!!

Something us men can’t do and will never understand.

It just happens

 
Comment by Neale from Barbados Info Subscribed to comments via email
2007-10-29 11:45:11

Very nice that you can maintain a business that provides work for both of you. I have tried something simlar with a GF recently & had simlar results the idea of having a females perspective onboard is very appealing.

Comment by Scott from Scott Subscribed to comments via email
2007-10-29 12:27:58

Yes it is negates that Monday morning feeling as we both see our son of to school and then put on the kettle :) not everyone can work with their other half though but it works for us.

Comment by Al from Al Subscribed to comments via email
2007-10-29 13:46:52

I find it hard enough living with my other half let alone working with her :)

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Comment by ToKa Subscribed to comments via email
2007-10-29 12:55:03

I can relate to that post and it happens in many walks of life to have a female parter/business partner.

 
Comment by Joey from Joey Subscribed to comments via email
2007-10-29 14:38:56

I can understand that scenario. Plus sometimes a male thinks he automatically has the upper hand in a deal with a female. I work in retail and I see that all the time when a guy thinks he is the superior negotiator than the female sales rep.

 
Comment by Ed Thira from Lifes Delight Subscribed to comments via email
2007-10-29 23:12:33

I remember reading a business article about 5 years ago on how women see both male and female co-workers as competitors in their workplace, where-as men, generally only saw other males as a threat. Here’s a real life example that lends credence to this.

 
Comment by Tomaz Mencinger from Financial Freedom Ideas
2007-10-30 02:57:54

You are right about this one. I build a website for my girlfriend about juicers.

Exchanging links for example is much easier when people check her website and her about me page where I put two pictures.

They are much friendlier and I can easily get in-content links instead of link-pages links. Not so when I email them as a guy… ;)

Comment by Yogesh from Content Pays Subscribed to comments via email
2007-10-31 01:20:46

That is called Pink SEO, I guess most of us webmasters are geeks, so we react in the same geeky manner when a girl/woman talks/emails to us.

 
 
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