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Flip Sites before you build them
Posted 04-27-2009 at 10:37 AM by LMC
Wouldn’t it be easier to know your buyer even before you began to build your site?
Building a website to flip:
My question to you is why?
Do you want to pay a $45 listing fee at Sitepoint, be bombarded with questions, some that have no relevance to the auction. In my eyes, this is something I want to deal with as a last course of action.
First, I’m going to search out a buyer for my website. I’m going to discuss this in another post, but once you have your buyer in mind, you will know exactly how to build your website.
Let us take an example, John Smith from Century 21 Realty Group in my town has recently been trying to build some web presence on the Internet. He is marketing his MLS listings, he has a small blog that gets no traffic, and he really has no idea what he is doing.
I’m going to contact John…
I’m going to say that I have seen that he is trying to build a web presence online, I’m going to tell him that I am an Internet Entrepreneur, and I build startup websites that have traffic to them and come with a complete manual on how to continue receiving traffic.
I use some copywriting to explain the benefits of owning this new website. How it will increase views to his listings, how his name will be noticd throughout the Internet, his credibility will be higher, and overall, he will be happier.
I tell him, if he is interested I can meet with him and we can go over the website, and I can show him how it works.
If I receive a yes, I schedule the meeting in two weeks from the received message. I’m 75% assure that I can now sell this website to John Smith.
Over the next two weeks, I build the site, do your normal optimization, get some articles out there and a press release.
Here is the kicker… John Smith has a value for my website. When you concentrate flipping websites over at saturated marketplaces like Sitepoint, you will see the value fo the site goes down.
When I show John the cool Wordpress backend that operates like any word processor, and that he has 15 published articles on the Internet, some traffic statistics, he will be so psyched that he will write me the $1,000-$1,500 check there.
What is the value of this site at
Sitepoint: $250
The one thing to remember always is, you don’t price your website or your flip, the buyer does
Building a website to flip:
- is not about putting together an affiliate site for a clickbank product and claiming it as your own.
- is not about putting together 50 PLR articles on an XsitePro website
- is not about exploiting marketplace’s for sales and income and making large claims that your website made $2,000.
My question to you is why?
Do you want to pay a $45 listing fee at Sitepoint, be bombarded with questions, some that have no relevance to the auction. In my eyes, this is something I want to deal with as a last course of action.
First, I’m going to search out a buyer for my website. I’m going to discuss this in another post, but once you have your buyer in mind, you will know exactly how to build your website.
Let us take an example, John Smith from Century 21 Realty Group in my town has recently been trying to build some web presence on the Internet. He is marketing his MLS listings, he has a small blog that gets no traffic, and he really has no idea what he is doing.
I’m going to contact John…
I’m going to say that I have seen that he is trying to build a web presence online, I’m going to tell him that I am an Internet Entrepreneur, and I build startup websites that have traffic to them and come with a complete manual on how to continue receiving traffic.
I use some copywriting to explain the benefits of owning this new website. How it will increase views to his listings, how his name will be noticd throughout the Internet, his credibility will be higher, and overall, he will be happier.
I tell him, if he is interested I can meet with him and we can go over the website, and I can show him how it works.
If I receive a yes, I schedule the meeting in two weeks from the received message. I’m 75% assure that I can now sell this website to John Smith.
Over the next two weeks, I build the site, do your normal optimization, get some articles out there and a press release.
Here is the kicker… John Smith has a value for my website. When you concentrate flipping websites over at saturated marketplaces like Sitepoint, you will see the value fo the site goes down.
When I show John the cool Wordpress backend that operates like any word processor, and that he has 15 published articles on the Internet, some traffic statistics, he will be so psyched that he will write me the $1,000-$1,500 check there.
What is the value of this site at
Sitepoint: $250
The one thing to remember always is, you don’t price your website or your flip, the buyer does
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