Buying Wholesale | Finding unlisted sites directly from their owners
Anyone who currently, or previously earned their living through property will be familiar with the quote that money is made (short term) when you buy and not when you sell, and to some extent the same...
View ArticleGrowing and Selling Forums – An Interview with Tyler Cruz
Forums and Community sites rarely make the list of top website sales, simply because they tend to be so difficult to get right. This is an interview with Tyler Cruz, owner of Merendi Networks Inc,...
View ArticleAnd the Winner is…
Reasons for people selling their sites just get weirder and weirder. I’m forever moaning that you should never ask a seller why they’re selling the site. People expecting to instantly uncover some...
View ArticleInquisitr.com sells for $330,000 on Flippa
It’s good news all round for b2Media co founder Duncan Riley, who last night sold his site, Inquisitr.com for $330,000 on Flippa to an ‘unnamed Israeli media buyer’. The site received a relative amount...
View ArticleBusiness and Boobs
This week adult webmaster portal Ynot Group announced plans to launch a marketplace for buying and selling websites and domains. If you’re expecting a Flippa clone, you could be out of luck, as the...
View Article$56K in 4 months from renovating Ecommerce sites
About three weeks ago I got an email from a friend in Holland who studies the market for trends and changes as obsessively as I do. After his usual rant about Ajax (the Dutch soccer team – not the...
View ArticleHow to get Scammed Buying a Site Privately
I’m always preaching about the virtue of due diligence. Faced with buying a new site, I get a sick satisfaction in pulling up every detail around the sale and looking for signs that might indicate...
View ArticleGuess what Died?
I would have much preferred to call this post something clichéd and ‘link baity’ like ‘Website Flipping is Dead’ but that’s not really true and it’s probably been done on a million blogs already....
View ArticleFlippas Price Increase and the numbers behind Brokered Sites
A recent post on the Flippa Blog revealed some changes that I’m pretty sure will get the silver (or based on the amount of sites some people sell – platinum) tongues wagging in our industry. The change...
View ArticleFeb 2012 – Latest Website Acquisition Opportunities from the A-List
First, I’d like to wish everyone a happy (belated) New Year. Hopefully, the January blues will be on their way out, and you’ll be underway to getting back the ‘work momentum’ that you had before...
View ArticleLessons in Fast Growth for Internet Businesses
Have you ever toyed with the question of ‘if you had to start from scratch, what would you do if you wanted to be as profitable as possible in the shortest time?‘ … No? … well this means you lead a...
View ArticleBuilding a Killer Member Site
Around two weeks ago, after over a year of blood sweat and coding, we finally launched Internet Tycoon, a community, an online learning resource and a set of tools for people with an interest in...
View ArticleWhy did this simple review site sell for $600K?
How do you take a simple content site and, in a relatively short time span, develop and sell it for $600,000? Last week I interviewed Thomas Smale, a broker from Flipping Enterprises who are one of...
View ArticleWas this Website Purchase a $17,000 mistake?
I guess I really should have called this “How to spot a potential dud that will take your time and money and eventually give you little in return before the other buyers do” but it wouldn’t have made...
View ArticleFeb 2013 – Website Acquisition Opportunities from the Flipfilter A-List
Following a two month holiday over the festive period, this month’s FlipFilter A-List went out today and it was a meaty one. Since our last A-List we’ve seen sales volumes from Flippa of $2,563,169 in...
View ArticleMarch 2013 – Website Acquisition Opportunities from the Flipfilter A-List
This month’s FlipFilter A-List is a slightly abbreviated version of your normal newsletter, as we’re working like busy elves to put the finishing touches on the new version of FlipFilter being released...
View ArticleCreating Opportunity – 7 Strategies to Buy and Flip Sites for a Profit
It’s fairly easy to buy an established website, but much harder to develop that site and eventually sell it for a profit. In the last few years, I’ve bought and sold 18 sites, with 10 being ‘successes’...
View ArticleThe simplest strategy you’ll ever need to implement
I spend a fair amount of time writing and talking about strategy – what to do once you’ve bought a site and decided it’s time to improve its value or increase income. Having a clear plan and direction...
View ArticleIs Leasing now a smarter alternative to Selling your Site?
Website leasing is one of those ideas like mobile gaming or video calling before smartphones and faster broadband came along. It’s been possible for ages, but has failed to take off without certain key...
View ArticlePremium Calls, Spanish Programs and Jedi Mind Tricks – A-List April 2013
This month’s A-List is packed with strategy, due diligence tips and our usual look at the market for buying and selling established sites. The market update for March showed a slightly subdued monthly...
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