As Seen On…
We came across a special site today whilst browsing a list of auctions. Is it just us, or is the following “as seen on” thing becoming more and more common place, especially on CPA Affiliate sites for...
View ArticleGoogle’s Gift to Affiliate Marketers and Site Traders
Earlier this year we were fortunate enough to preview Google’s forthcoming Pay Per Click Lead Capture initiative. Here’s an overview of how it works 1) Users search a term for a generic service type...
View ArticleUsing Facebook to add value to your next Website Sale
It is no secret that Facebook is a must-have component to your social media strategy but also a great way to easily add value to a new project that you intend to sell. Just take a look at the numbers –...
View ArticleIdeas worth Borrowing 15th June 2010
As we check through sold listings pulled into the database, occasionally a concept or site comes up that we think is worth looking into as it can provide valuable ideas for your next site. I’ll try and...
View ArticleBuilding a new Marketplace – Part 1 of 4
If I had a dollar for every time I saw someone trying to build or clone Flippa I’d be a rich man. (Unless it was an Australian dollar, but even then I’d still be happy :) ) ** Reading Time for this...
View ArticleBuilding a new Marketplace – Part 2 of 4 – Marketing and Critical Mass
This article is part 2 of 4 in a series discussing what it would take to potentially build a new ‘website for sale’ marketplace. If you haven’t already done so, please check out the first article here,...
View Article20 hacks to increase the value of your online website properties
This article is an ‘all-meat-and-no-veg’ 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...
View ArticleWhy your Adsense Sites could be leaving money on the table
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...
View ArticleAchieving Quantum Growth, trading up and knowing when to sell
It’s been almost a full month since my last post; I almost feel the need to attend confession! The last month has been spent working on Flipfilter 2.0, which will be released in January 2011 and is now...
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 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 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...
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