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Buying Wholesale | Finding unlisted sites directly from their owners

Finding a website for sale direct from the owner almost always offers better value than buying through a marketplace or broker.

If you buy sites on a regular basis, you’re about to enter a new niche or if you want to expand within one you’re currently in, it’s often worth spending the time to see what’s available privately before shopping on the general market. This article aims to take you through a simple system that you can use to identify, find details for and negotiate on websites that aren’t publically for sale.

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Ratios for buying an Internet Business

Analysing an offline business is primarily focused on ratios, but using this same technique for online businesses is often flawed or difficult for several reasons.

We need a new set of ratios for quickly assessing the health of an online business, that can also be benchmarked if we collect enough data. This article explores two different calculations, and shows their practical use in a real situation.

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An Evolution in Selling Internet Businesses

Lately I’ve studied hundreds of solid, profitable websites for sale at the $10K – $150K end of the spectrum, but looking at the market on the whole there’s a definite change from this time three or even just one year ago.

The following is a summary of what in my opinion are the most important changes to happen over the last year. This is in the hope that if we can see where the market is generally heading, we can design offerings better placed to give people what they want and ultimately sell quicker and for more revenue.

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New Arrivals on the scene

Over the last few years we’ve seen a few good dedicated forums and marketplaces appear, and I’ve recently come across three that are showing some promise.

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Anatomy of a $20K per month seller

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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Using Advanced Due Diligence to avoid Buyer’s Remorse

Whilst many of the articles on website due diligence cover the basics well, few guides exist that cover the more long term discoveries that often lead you to have buyer’s remorse.

The following article covers some of the ‘things they don’t seem to tell you’ factors to look for during your due diligence on a site. If you find a site with a vulnerability in any of these areas, it’s certainly not fatal, but you should know the cost of remedying it should the worse happen and have an action plan in place, especially if a good part of your livelihood relies on the site’s income.

Buying & Selling Websites · Internet Marketing

Achieving Quantum Growth, trading up and knowing when to sell

Have you noticed that some people seem to hit ‘gold’ far quicker off the starting block than others, irrelevant of their business, market or even personal situation?

This article looks at a practical way we can speed up the process of accumulating wealth in what we do. The idea is simple and based on the theory of leverage. A site that earns $1,000 per day, doesn’t require 1,000x more work than one that generates $1 per day, so our focus should be to maximize our time investment by putting it into a project that gives us the highest return, and we can get this project through ‘trading up’.

Buying & Selling Websites · Internet Marketing

20 hacks to increase the value of your online website properties

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)

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.

Buying & Selling Websites · Internet Marketing

Building a new Marketplace – Part 2 of 4 – Marketing and Critical Mass

In part two of this series, I discuss the strategy behind marketing a new marketplace and aiming to acheive critical mass.

I also profile the six different customer types of people who typically buy and sell websites online, and explain the numbers that show 90% of Flippa’s revenue comes from just 20% of its listings.

Buying & Selling Websites · Internet Marketing

Building a new Marketplace – Part 1 of 4

This series covers in some depth exactly what it would take to build a rival ‘Websites for Sale’ marketplace similar to Flippa or Website Broker and address the strategy beyond simply building and promoting the site.

I know the majority reading this blog have no intention of ever competing with Flippa, but I hope it’s interesting reading for you, and gives a good round up of using strategy to compete in a crowded segment.

In part one, we look at the main two models and the policies you would need to adopt to ensure smooth operation.

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Flippa.com Hacked?

It’s not been the greatest summer for Flippa. From seller complaints to fraud to hackers, the king of sites for sale seems to be under attack a lot lately.

But is it really their ‘fault’?

Buying & Selling Websites · Internet Marketing

Ideas worth Borrowing 15th June 2010

Occasionally a concept or site comes up that we think is worth looking into as it can provide valuable ideas for your next site. We examine the idea behind the site and show you how you could profit with something similar. This week I’ll look online marketplaces and casecompete.com.

Write a better auction listing on Flippa

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Tips for writing a better auction headline on Flippa.com

A better listing headline WILL affect whether or not your site sells and for how much. This seems like a no brainer, but it really isn’t. Having a better headline equals more views and more views on a worthwhile site will usually translate to more bids

The current trend in website flipping compared to the gold rush

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How Website Flippers can profit from History

The model behind buying and selling websites has changed drastically over the last few months, and anyone selling starter sites have questioned where the change in website sale rates will end up. We cant predict the future but what we can learn from people’s reaction to a changing economy will always be valuable.

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After the Honeymoon

This post was inspired by the amount of passion stirred up in the comments of a recent post on Flippa losing its “charm”. The days of selling sites with no traffic or revenue for upwards of $200 are gone and the first in are often the first to suffer, but should we really condemn them for simply playing the game?

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The Best Day to End a Website Auction Listing

Many people had asked the question “What’s the best day to end a website auction listing?”. My theory is that with enough data, if one day was better than another for selling site, it would become clear after plotting a graph of sales by day.

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Website Buying and Selling Scams

For anyone who buys or sells websites, fraud and scams are likely to be at the top of their list of concerns.

We’ve compiled a list of the most popular things that can go wrong in a website transaction, and what you can do to prevent them from happening to you.