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    Anatomy of a $20K per month seller

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    This article dissects the business model of website traders who list frequently and ALWAYS sell, earning upwards of $20,000 each month, every month.

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    Why your Adsense Sites could be leaving money on the table

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    In this post I ran calculations on over 2,000 recent website sales to find out which type of monetisation strategy yields the highest revenue per unique user.

    The idea behind this is simple; For every site we own we do similar things to get traffic – link building, partnerships, blogging, adsense etc, but doing the same actions on two different sites can yield very different results.

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    20 hacks to increase the value of your online website properties

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    This is a guide listing 20 practical things you should be doing to increase the long and short term value of the website(s) you own. Every item in this list can be outsourced, tracked and provides a direct return on investment.

    Some of these techniques focus on increasing traffic, whilst others focus on improving conversion or adding revenue sources but ultimately, all will result in more cash, whilst you own the site and when you come to sell it.

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    How to find Websites for Sale (35 Sites Ranked and Rated)

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    Reading the past posts on this site could lead someone to believe that there are less than 5 places to find established websites for sale when this is far from being the case. This article ranks 35 websites that list online businesses for sale, ordered by a quality score and linking to the specific section on the site that lists what we’re looking for. This score was manually calculated and rounded to the nearest whole number for each site taking into account volume, quality and the ratio of established to non established websites for sale.

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A List Newsletter

Buying & Selling Websites

Premium 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.

We took a look at a self serve platform for pay per minute lines, a give-away and coupons blog with a good system for generating income from paid social advertising, and Spanishprograms.com – a PR 5, 14 year old site that has developed both physical products sold on Amazon and digital products accessed through its site.

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Is Leasing now a smarter alternative to Selling your Site?

Website leasing is one of those ideas that’s been possible for ages, but has failed to take off. This seems set to change and now could be the time to consider it as an alternative to selling your site outright.

This article takes you through the pros and cons, but also gives you a step by step guide covering everything from setting up the agreement to finding potential leesees.

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Buying & Selling Websites

The simplest strategy you’ll ever need to implement

Having a clear plan makes sense with most purchases, but occasionally, it makes sense to do nothing – no monetisation changes, no maintenance SEO, no redesign – just sit, wait and recoup – I explain why in this article and show you what it means for your due diligence.

The chances are, if you’ve ever bought a site and found yourself hitting a plateau regardless of what you seem to do, then following the advice here could be the solution to your dilemma.

7 Strategies for Buying and Flipping

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Creating 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. I’ve noticed a pattern in sites that turn out to be profitable purchases and sales, and those that don’t. In most cases, you can predict the outcome BEFORE the transaction happens.

In this post are seven solid strategies for identifying, buying and flipping mobile apps, sites and domains to give you a much greater chance of making a substantial profit every time.

FlipFilter A List Newsletter

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Feb 2013 – Website Acquisition Opportunities from the Flipfilter A-List

In this month’s A List we looked at a textbook buyback business for sale with $70K annual net profit, Dealfuel.com being sold by Sitepoint and thecrims.com – a text based MMO game with a claimed 1/4 million users worldwide.

We also looked at why now is possibly the right time to consider leasing your site rather than selling it, and the recent increase in activity in the market for buying and selling sites.

Forensic Link Analysis

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Was this Website Purchase a $17,000 mistake?

This article is a guest post in two parts, the first dealing with a simple system of spotting potential problems with a site you’re considering buying, and the second part deals with what you can do if you’ve bought an asset and you’re starting to see traffic drop.

We’ve also included a live example of an auction that recently ended on $17K, so you can see it all at work. Everything in this post is easy to do, and requires nothing that isn’t available for free on the web, but could ultimately save you making an expensive mistake.

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Buying & Selling Websites · Internet Marketing

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Building 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 buying, selling and growing websites, apps and software.

This post is about the nuts and bolts of building a community, what tools we used and what marketing insights we discovered from our split tests.Even if you never intend to build a member site this should still be a useful resource on building an information based web business in general.

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Buying & Selling Websites · Internet Marketing

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Lessons in Fast Growth for Internet Businesses

If you had to start from scratch, what would you do if you wanted to be as profitable as possible in the shortest time?

I’ve always been fascinated by how some companies manage to grow so quickly with the same or sometimes less resources than we all probably have available to us. The idea behind this article is to take a look at some of the fastest growing companies that sold, see what they had in common, and show practically how we could replicate that success.

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Buying & Selling Websites

Feb 2012 – Latest Website Acquisition Opportunities from the A-List

This month saw the launch of the new look A-List, a monthly round up of noteworthy businesses for sale typically, but not always, with a value above $10K.

In this month’s issue we look at an emerging opportunity in ‘digital portfolio’ management , what sold for the highest prices and what they had in common, what was most popular amongst lower end buyers and how single page Clickbank sites seem to be making a splash lately. There are also four Internet Businesses for sale on review and a summary of the best of the web in Jan including How to build a startup without learning code, the guy who sold his two year old company for $75 million and Why The Loooooong Sales Letter Works And Other Surprising Sales Hacks – with Ramit Sethi.

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Flippas 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. This post looks at the actual numbers behind the alternatives and tries to answer the question, whether or not Flippa still represents value for sellers of + $10K sites.

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Guess 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.

Whether you’re new to the game or you’ve been doing this for a while, you’ve probably noticed that finding good sites at below x times monthly profit just isn’t happening a lot lately. Here’s why, and what you can do to guarantee that you still trade profitably.

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How to get Scammed Buying a Site Privately

A short while back I kind of got scammed. I say kind of because if it hadn’t been for a complete stroke of luck I would have handed over nearly £8,000 ($12,000) for a complete turkey of a site and whilst I’d like to claim skill and experience prevented it from happening, it really was just luck.

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Buying & Selling Websites · Internet Marketing

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$56K in 4 months from renovating Ecommerce sites

About three weeks ago I got an email from a friend in Holland about a seller on Flippa who was making in excess of $160K per year (pro rata), from what was a fairly simple, but under the radar strategy of buying average, often mediocre ecommerce sites from specific places, applying the same simple formula, then selling them less than six months later for up to 12x what they paid often without any significant increase in revenue or traffic.

If you’ve been finding it more difficult to find good undervalued sites at auctions with so many more people now bidding, hopefully this post will give you a little inspiration.

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Business and Boobs

This week online 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 Ynot Marketplace will exclusively feature porn related online businesses, filling a gap currently left open in our niche.

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Buying & Selling Websites

Inquisitr.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 of ‘comment action’ but ended with only 1 bid and at time of writing is “sold pending settlement via Escrow and transfer of assets”.

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Buying & Selling Websites · Internet Marketing

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Growing 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, which operate a portfolio of approximately 15 community driven sites.

As someone who has successfully bought, sold and grew forums systematically over the last few years, this interview has a special focus on community driven sites and contains some juicy pointers and insights for making them work.