so....I just snagged up - TigerWoodsApologyVideo.com- Was # 1...what to d0..lol

I don't know if it can be called a lasting trend, worthy of a whole domain. By tomorrow everyone will have seen it 100 times on the news and be sick of it.

Well you brought it so get to work:

1) Naturally the Tiger Woods apology will have to be linked on the main page (or imbedded)

2) Analyse what type of people would most likely search that domain (gossip mongers? Golfers? etc) - check youtube etc, to see what type of comments this video is getting for some ideas.

3) once narrowed down, you can think of other items these people are likely to be interested in to (golf products maybe, gossip related products etc)

That is where I would start. Doing nothing will bring nothing... period.

this subject has nothing to do with golfers. I would try get your ex back/magic of making up stuff. Also, celebrity CPA submits will hit the spot with the type of people hitting your page.

You're going for housewives, bored middle aged men, people in relationship turmoil and general celebrity vulchers...and a small fraction of golfers (possibly).

There's your demographic, now work outwards!

Be quick tho - this will be buried within a few days.

No, what's sad is that the media treats his "apology" like it is equal with things that are truly important.

It was the most scripted piece of garbage I've ever seen (at least the parts I did see). It sounded more like a high school graduation speech (no offense to high schoolers) than anything else.

He's a public figure. He got caught doing something. BUT, why did he have to apologize the way he did?

Easy.

Because he went into hiding as soon as the story broke. He actually made it much worse. What he should have done right then and there is tell the media it's none of their business and move on. He handled it in about the worst way possible.

I also thought it was funny when he said he brought all of these problems on himself, then yelled at the media for going after his family. They woudn't have gone after his family if Tiger would have been talking to them. So, he's the one that brought THAT on his family.

I didn't think he was all that sincere. There were several other statements that were laughable. Things like, "I know what I did was wrong". Really? Seriously? And that didn't dawn on you after the first two dozen times you were cheating on your WIFE.

You obviously didn't feel it was wrong when you were doing it. What changed? Getting caught.

Anyway, because his apology was so scripted, I see know reason why they had to pre-empt regular programming with the full speech. IF there had been a press conference, then maybe. And that's a weak maybe.

Bottom line. He should have kept it in his pants and honored his marriage vows.

OKAY...

As to what to do with the domain.

You could auction it off. My guess is you would get the highest price within the next few days.

Other than that, perhaps a site with other Tiger Woods videos from YouTube, monetized with Amazon or AdSense may bring in some income.

All the best,
Michael

Go and stick a twitter script on it or a send to a freind script which they have to complete!

Then also add adsense or adbrite to earn some small cash! You could go and signup to cpalead.com and add a cpa lead gateway to it so they have to complete an offer to get it! or to see the second part (if you just split it)!

Good luck

Mark Blaze

You should consider it a ten dollar learning experience in why to define a market FIRST and then build around that market's needs rather then the other way around.

Sorry for the honestly, but IMO the sooner you ditch a bum idea the better you'll be onto something that CAN make you more than a couple dollars for a couple days.

There's nothing there long term. You know that Sean.

Without reading the entire thread can I just ask, what exactly are you going to do next week when no one cares about Tiger and the media has decided to rip apart someone elses career and life instead?

Gotta love people who want to
exploit the problems of others.

But wait.

There's a real need for this -

You can teach athletes how to
make an authentic apology without
sounding like their PR dude just
handed them a stack of 3x5 cards
they'd never seen before stepping
in front of the camera.

Every week now there's a high
visibility athlete doing one of
these apologies and I wonder
what kind of a fool believes a word
they say.

We just got past Gilbert Arenas
waving his pistola around in the
locker room.

Long live the Washington Bullets!

Here's what I would have said,
no cue cards needed -

"I screwed up. My behavior is
out of control. I'm no different
than millions of other American's
who ruin their lives and health
with addictions to drugs, food,
alcohol and countless other
escapes.

Most never have to accept any
responsibility for it, but if I ever
want a sponsor to cut me another
check then I do.

And since Elin is about to walk away
with nine-figures of my cash I need
to get some of those sponsors back.

Right now, I've ruined my life as
I know it. And I know people love
it when that happens.

It just so happens I'm a rich, handsome
famous guy who has beautiful
women lining up to sleep with me -
if that's the life I wanted I shouldn't
have involved my wife or kids. I never
should have gotten married, then you'd
celebrate my libido and I'd be doing
Enzyte commercials in 20 years.

Right now, you can't trust me. My
wife can't trust. I need help. I'm
getting help. I'm determined not
to allow this to happen again, but
I'm an addict. No guarantees. You
don't leave a drunk alone with a
beer, and you don't leave the fat
guy alone with a cheeseburger.

If you want to slam me, make jokes
about me, remove me from the
pedestal you placed me on I'm cool
with that. I'm human. That goes
along with my position in life.

I may golf again. I may not. I love
the game and I hope I have a chance
to play again. If you choose to root
for me, great. If not, that's your
choice.

I had it good, I blew it. But hey,
OJ got away with murder. Kobe got
away with rape and I'm not even
in court for this one so you know I'll
be back.

Which is why reading my canned
statement from 3x5 cards is merely
a formality to move you along to
the next piece of Enquirer trash
you're going to spend your "hard
earned" money on.

Later - Tiger

See, if a guy builds his endorsement portfolio on a squeaky clean image, then you're gosh darn right it IS everybody'd business.

That's the difference.

Tiger did everything he could to cultivate a good guy image. The only thing that compares to a "rags to riches" story is a "fall from grace" story - with Tiger, I think we had the former and now we have the latter.

Regardless of what anybody thinks it IS in the public eye. That's what we call "reality". You can say it should be between Tiger and his wife, and maybe it should be...but it isn't.

~Michael

When a man becomes famous for golfing, that is the only time I want to see him mentioned.

If a man gets millions of dollars through advertising thrown at him, he should have to answer to those respective companies.

And my child should be looking at real life people as role models. The fireman who lives across the street, the pastor of the church they have been going to their entire life, etc. People who actually make a difference in their day to day life.

That's all I have to say about that.

Post the video on your site, make it look professional, and try to get rid of it as soon as possible. This is really a flavor of the minute type topic, and there is some other celebrity who is just months away from having their life crumble as well.

If this were my decision, I'd probably use some Amazon ads for popular electronics and other popular products. With Amazon, at least your cookies will (possibly) last 7 days and net you some sales later.

Your market is interested in pop culture, i.e. celebrity culture, and is savvy enough to find your site. iPods, DVDs maybe? Celebrity biographies?

Articles and press release while its hot and on time.

i would either put a tiget sex tape on their,() with a pic of tiger on top of it, so everyone thinks its him, with a gateway from cpalead, or a golf gear cpa offers, with the real apology.

The guy who created the original Million Dollar Homepage bought the domain SockAndAwe.com and created a flash game or something which involved whipping socks at Bush's face. He flipped the site for a few thousand bucks.

I don't really know what you could do with Tiger...make him say/do stuff maybe? I honestly wouldn't know what to do with that domain name

P.S. @theOP...

ManuelGonzalez's suggestion looks like an absolute winner to me. Can you say "link bait," anyone?

Of course this will have blown over by the end of the week so if I were going to do this (.X.'s initial comment notwithstanding...), I'd go for the WhiteTigerSex jobbie. Too funny.

This is certainly an interesting thread.


When I see people starving, homeless, ill and in other situations that make my heart hurt, the thing that always gets to me the most is when I see someone who just doesn't have hope that their future could ever be anything but bad.

It's my opinion that Tiger has probably given that spark of hope to more people than most of us will ever be able to - and whatever his problems I just can't bring myself to turn on the guy just because the media are trying to crush him.

So - however argumentative, disagreeable, controversial, inhuman that makes me - I still hope he gets his relationship on track and gets back to being the inspirational guy that he can be.

Sorry for those who aren't able to see past the media and feel the need to be negative towards him.

Andy

I would go with something a little more long term as far as interest goes. I'm just riffing here, but heres an idea:

HowToGetMoreTrimThanTiger.com
YourGirlSaysTigersGotGame.com
TigersWoodPlaysTheBackNine.com
WhyWomenDigTigersBalls.com
GettinVJayJayTheTigerWoodsWay.com

Taking this down another route...

It is usually the expectations of family, our culture and society which lead us to monogamous relationships. Quite simply, "marriage" is a human construct brought about when there was a change in our society and culture - that does not, and cannot change our nature:

WikiAnswers - When was institution of marriage invented

It can, of course change our habits, but, like Jeff Goldblum says "nature finds a way"

We are, by nature - genetically preprogrammed to expand our lineage (and add our genes to the gene pool).

Here's an interesting read: Those Cheating Testicles, or Who's Your Baby? : The Primate Diaries

I like to play devil's advocate - but, it's something Andy said that prompted this response:

All your morals, beliefs etc. are in your OWN head - you choose to have them. And judging people by your own standards and expecting them to be the person you want them to be is frankly pointless.

I'm not on any side of the fence - I'm looking at the fence from the outside of the garden but, on an evolutionary basis... good luck trying to change human NATURE.

That goes for woman and men too.

It is possible that one day, society will change and that monogamous relationships will no longer be accepted when we realise that there is "another way".

All I suggest is that if you're going to do the "poly" thing - that you're up-front about it, as that's the "nice thing" to do.

BTW, I say this as a man who is in a happy relationship - one that I choose to stay in, not because it is expected of me, but because I enjoy it.

Enjoy the alternative viewpoint

Back to the original question.....

I made a bit of trending dosh from the Shaun White/McTwist trend earlier in the week. See my sig for what I did just took me 30 minutes.

Looking at page 1 of Google for the search term, here's what I'm seeing.

News at the top, with YouTube videos directly below.

1. A New York Fox TV station

2. ESPN

3. Huffington Post (with multiple results)

4. Tiger Woods' official site

5. PR3 celebrity gossip blog

6. ABC News

7. VodPod video sharing site

8. GlobalGrind

And beneath that, selected blog results.



Based on result #5, I think it's well within the realm of possiblity that many people here are capable of producing sites that see good rankings for these flash in the pan opportunities, but probably not by buying a domain name based on a search that appears briefly in Google Trends and putting up a new site.

It's also conceivable that a parody video or mashup titled Tiger Woods Apology Video could have appeared in the YouTube results at the top of page 1.

As far as monetizing the domain goes, I think the best bet is flipping it as Mike suggested.

John

Hey,

Throw some cpa offers on the domain,

Go and cut the appology video and throw it on youtube say the first 10 seconds,
then say see the full video here>>> yourdomain.com

link it in your descrption then right a comment underneath your video and spark a debate about it to get people commenting on the debate in hand.

Go to goarticles and throw up an article there take the rss feed and submit it to aggrogators, do the same on ezine

Goto yahoo answers and people will be searching for the tiger woods appology video go and answer with your link in the post, do the same on other question sites linking your domain everywere

Then go and digg, prop, fave, wong it on social bookmarking sites..

Then chill out relax and see if it makes you any $$ time is of the essence go do all the above RIGHT NOW lol

cpalead is good for getting an acount setup pretty much isntantly

Good Luck
Mikey

Get SOMETHING out there to potentially generate revenue... even if you change it quickly.

Not sure if you are seeing traffic yet, but you don't to not have anything there when they do arrive.

i would get yourself a lawyer.. I would think using his name in a domain would be of interest to his people... maybe im paranoid but I would not try to make money off it. I once owned a name of a celebrity with a dash in between the first and last name.. and had all nice pics/words.etc... and there was an issue with me owning it. Now this is a bit different but still you are playing with fire here using his name in your URL.

I mean if you bought MetallicaVideos.com ...do you think they would be pissed if you made $1 off it?

GP

This is nothing more than a flavor of the day story. If you haven't
already made your money on this I think you're too late.

In another day or two there will be another story and the masses
will be off to that.

Tsnyder

Probably already said but you could wang up a poll

"Do you think Tiger Needed To Apologise"

YES or NO

Vote Now to Win a Chance of A (XXXX)

Both Yes & No link to some kind of offer.

Go run Quantcast over a load of Tiger Woods related sites.
Find out the demographic as best you can.
Go find an offer to match it.

Or some other obvious things come to mind such as:

Golfing videos
How to Play Golf
How to Keep your Husband.

Pretty much anything related.

Time isn't on your side, you're going to need to work fast.

What you're doing is event marketing so don't overlook the fact that it will die out pretty soon. The best thing you can do is give it a little push to become viral. I mean social bookmarking and video sites.

In terms of ROI I think the best thing you could do is try to get it on diggs first page. There are specialized services on different i marketing forums that can help you with this.

As for monetization. Pretty easy. You can put up a gateway to lock the video or an old style poll mail submit.

By the time you get the site indexed .. people will be searching for wife slaps hell out of Woods .... again.

dude put some banners for Married Dating & Affairs | The Ashley Madison Agency

stick loads of CPA offers on there related to Golf clothes, equipement, video manuals/tips,etc