I originally registered SchoolApps.com around 10 years ago... figured I would eventually build a college applications type website on it to expand out my small network of edu related sites.
Well, I never did build SchoolApps.com into the applications site for college, but something else appears to have happened along the way: the iPhone.
It seems that in the past few years people have become a lot more interested in "school apps." All I can figure is that this is related to applications being available for all the various devices (iphone, ipad, android, etc) as well as even websites (Facebook apps).
Who knows where all this apps stuff will go. There's probably a lot more room for growth in the apps market.
So, in the past year I have received several small offers on the domain. The most recent offer got me to doing a bit more research.
Google Trends pretty much says it all, in my opinion: http://www.google.com/trends?q=school+apps Whereas Google Trends shows virtually zero search volume prior to late 2008, Google Adwords reports that at the current time searches for "school apps" has grown to 49,500 searches per month. Average CPC reported for "school apps" is just under 3 bucks.
My best guess is that the google trends graph which is going up at around 45 degrees over the past 3 years, is due to the many millions of students in the US looking for apps for their devices, etc. Or maybe the millions of educators in the U.S.
Wikipedia reports ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_United_States#Statistics ) that there were 76.6 million students enrolled from kindergarten through grad school in the year 2000. Since 2000 U.S. population has grown by around 10%. So that probably puts current kindergarten through grad school enrollment at around 80 to 85 million students in school.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor & Statistics reports that there were 5.2 million educators (kindergarten through postsecondary) in the U.S. during 2008. 3.5 million K-12: http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos318.htm#emply and 1.7 million postsecondary: http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos066.htm#emply
Worldwide the numbers are probably in the hundreds of millions.
I've tried to include as much pertinent information as I could. With all that:
Please, for any of you who are knowledgeable in the domain industry, do me a favor and help me from selling myself completely short.
What sort of price should I be expecting for SchoolApps.com? How low is too low to sell this for, in terms of value?
Thanks in advance for any advice offered.
Well, I never did build SchoolApps.com into the applications site for college, but something else appears to have happened along the way: the iPhone.
It seems that in the past few years people have become a lot more interested in "school apps." All I can figure is that this is related to applications being available for all the various devices (iphone, ipad, android, etc) as well as even websites (Facebook apps).
Who knows where all this apps stuff will go. There's probably a lot more room for growth in the apps market.
So, in the past year I have received several small offers on the domain. The most recent offer got me to doing a bit more research.
Google Trends pretty much says it all, in my opinion: http://www.google.com/trends?q=school+apps Whereas Google Trends shows virtually zero search volume prior to late 2008, Google Adwords reports that at the current time searches for "school apps" has grown to 49,500 searches per month. Average CPC reported for "school apps" is just under 3 bucks.
My best guess is that the google trends graph which is going up at around 45 degrees over the past 3 years, is due to the many millions of students in the US looking for apps for their devices, etc. Or maybe the millions of educators in the U.S.
Wikipedia reports ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_United_States#Statistics ) that there were 76.6 million students enrolled from kindergarten through grad school in the year 2000. Since 2000 U.S. population has grown by around 10%. So that probably puts current kindergarten through grad school enrollment at around 80 to 85 million students in school.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor & Statistics reports that there were 5.2 million educators (kindergarten through postsecondary) in the U.S. during 2008. 3.5 million K-12: http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos318.htm#emply and 1.7 million postsecondary: http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos066.htm#emply
Worldwide the numbers are probably in the hundreds of millions.
I've tried to include as much pertinent information as I could. With all that:
Please, for any of you who are knowledgeable in the domain industry, do me a favor and help me from selling myself completely short.
What sort of price should I be expecting for SchoolApps.com? How low is too low to sell this for, in terms of value?
Thanks in advance for any advice offered.
