How much Could I sell this 'package' for?

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I've been working in the acne niche for awhile, and need some cash fast. I was wondering what a reasonable asking price would be for:

166 Articles on Acne (250+ words each) (many are keyword optimized in the article and resource box)

"Review" style blog

It's not much, but it brings in about a sale ($26.00) a week like clockwork, so roughly $100 a month of residual income (I haven't touched this blog or the articles in months)

A fair price...?

Mike
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  • Profile picture of the author E. Brian Rose
    If you auctioned it at Flippa, you could probably fetch about $900 or $1000 for it. I happen to be smarter than most, so I could probably get $2000 for the same site. Who knows, you may be as smart as me and be able to fetch the same price.
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    • Profile picture of the author butters
      Originally Posted by E. Brian Rose View Post

      If you auctioned it at Flippa, you could probably fetch about $900 or $1000 for it. I happen to be smarter than most, so I could probably get $2000 for the same site. Who knows, you may be as smart as me and be able to fetch the same price.
      Nice ego... Instead of gloating how good you are and how you are better then most, how about you actually help him get it to 2k?
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      • Profile picture of the author GCostanza
        I'd take 800 for it on the spot. 2k would be great, but I'd have no idea how to do that.
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      • Profile picture of the author E. Brian Rose
        Originally Posted by butters View Post

        Nice ego... Instead of gloating how good you are and how you are better then most, how about you actually help him get it to 2k?
        It's really all in the sales copy. My point was that by just throwing it up there you would get something, but if you took some time to make a good sales presentation, then you would fetch a higher premium.

        I contribute good money making ideas to this forum, but I don't write sales copy for people.

        My ego is nice, thank you. Most people that know me will confirm this.

        Sometimes my New England humor gets lost in translation with folks from England. My British ex-girfriend was an exception.
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  • Profile picture of the author cbwater
    Yeah, I'd post it up on Flippa as well
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  • Profile picture of the author GCostanza
    All of my articles are on ezine (and some are on other article sites). Problem is, I was too stupid to save them to text, and just have them up on Ezinearticles. I was a complete n00b when I started and didn't think to save them. Is it possible to just give up the ezinearticles account with the package? I don't really need it as the email I used was just for ezinearticles anyway. What do you guys suggest?
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  • Profile picture of the author GCostanza
    In addition, the blog is only on blogger. Like I said, this is bush league, but it still gets 4 sales a month like clockwork. I just want to get rid of it for some easy cash before the weekend, if at all possible.
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    • Profile picture of the author Peter Gregory
      Originally Posted by GCostanza View Post

      In addition, the blog is only on blogger. Like I said, this is bush league, but it still gets 4 sales a month like clockwork. I just want to get rid of it for some easy cash before the weekend, if at all possible.
      I think you may have issues (at least attempting to sell this publicly) since I believe it is against their TOS to do so.
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      • Profile picture of the author GCostanza
        No one will be any the wiser if someone just changed the affiliate links.

        I believe the 166 articles has gotta be worth something too.
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        • Profile picture of the author Stephen Meyer
          Your articles and blog are worth money but no one can really tell you how much. Buyers pay a lot for junk sites and they will pay almost nothing for a good one. It is really up to them and how you present it.

          Try it on Flippa and set a minimum, you never know what it could bring until you try.
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          • Profile picture of the author Peter Gregory
            Originally Posted by Stephen Meyer View Post

            Try it on Flippa and set a minimum, you never know what it could bring until you try.
            So are you saying that flippa allows these kind of sales? It has been a very long time since I flipped sites, but it doesn't seem that they would allow that since it is against blogger.com's TOS to resale. I don't know man but something doesn't seem right.

            This seems like the kind of thing I remember being sold on DP back in the day, who knows maybe still today they do as I rarely ever go there.
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        • Profile picture of the author Peter Gregory
          Originally Posted by GCostanza View Post

          No one will be any the wiser if someone just changed the affiliate links.

          I believe the 166 articles has gotta be worth something too.
          I am not saying it isn't possible to do, but to post it as a 'site for sale' on flippa in a live public auction would not be wise. I agree that there is some value in what you have to offer and you might even find someone who will buy, but you are going to be limited as to how you are going to go about doing such a thing because of the TOS issue.

          Since you don't really own the blog, all you really own are the articles, right? Or am I missing something?
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  • Profile picture of the author LiquidSeo
    I would transfer the account over to the buyer.
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  • Profile picture of the author GCostanza
    Right, it's on blogger, so technically I don't 'own' it. Since it's just a review style blog that I wrote, it can easily be taken and put onto another person's blog/website. The 166 articles can be used in whatever manner the buyer wants. Since I can't sell a blogger on flippa, that's why I'm asking for help here. I'll take a pretty lowball price as long as someone shows me how to sell it somewhere.
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    • Profile picture of the author E. Brian Rose
      Originally Posted by GCostanza View Post

      Right, it's on blogger, so technically I don't 'own' it.
      Ahh, I didn't catch that part. I would not buy a Blogger site, nor would many others.
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    • Profile picture of the author Peter Gregory
      Originally Posted by GCostanza View Post

      Right, it's on blogger, so technically I don't 'own' it. Since it's just a review style blog that I wrote, it can easily be taken and put onto another person's blog/website. The 166 articles can be used in whatever manner the buyer wants. Since I can't sell a blogger on flippa, that's why I'm asking for help here. I'll take a pretty lowball price as long as someone shows me how to sell it somewhere.
      How are you getting your traffic though? Any natural search engine traffic would be rendered useless because a new site would obviously not have the same rankings the blogger blog did. If you were getting traffic via PPC that would be a different story because you could sell your keyword list and other relevant information regarding your campaign. However, I am guessing that since you were artcile marketing your traffic came from SEO efforts.
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  • Profile picture of the author GCostanza
    Any other suggestions on what I can do then? Should I move the blogger site over to a domain or something, or just try to sell the articles? I need 200 bucks by Tuesday, and I'm just trying to figure out a way to do it by selling something of value online.
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  • Profile picture of the author GCostanza
    Like I said, the site brings in an average of 4 sales/month which is about 100 a month. There's gotta be someone that would want that. If flippa isn't an option, than what is?
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    • Profile picture of the author Peter Gregory
      Originally Posted by GCostanza View Post

      Like I said, the site brings in an average of 4 sales/month which is about 100 a month. There's gotta be someone that would want that. If flippa isn't an option, than what is?
      Truthfully, I do not know. I am pretty sure DP doesn't even allow you to sell these anymore. I know back in the day there were tons of people doing it and getting away with it, but I just took a quick perusal of the BST section there and didn't see any so you don't have many options.

      This is another great reason why people should always build up there own sites. Let alone the plethora of other reasons, but if you were ever in a bind and needed to offload a site for some quick cash, you are pretty much in a bind, unless someone has any better advice than I can give.
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  • Profile picture of the author E. Brian Rose
    I received your PM and I realize that you are trying to get this done by the weekend. I'm not sure about making your deadline, but you should buy a domain name and install Wordpress. Then you can import the Blogger blog. You could then offer to sell the domain and offer the Blogger account as a free bonus. I don't think that you would be breaking any rules by giving the Blogger account away.
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  • Profile picture of the author GCostanza
    The traffic is coming from the 166 articles. Some are ranked quite well and get organic traffic that will probably keep coming for a long time due to my keyword research. My avg click through rate is decent as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author GCostanza
    Tried posting over at the DP forum, but unfortunately need to be a member for 14 days with 25 posts. I've never been over there before so this is impossible. If someone would be kind enough to list the site for me over in the content area, please PM me and I will give you a % of the sale... or we can work something else out.
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    • Profile picture of the author jverley
      What kind of imformation do you have for the site? Are your articles ranked in google, or is your traffic coming from EZA itself?
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  • Profile picture of the author GCostanza
    Both. I have 166 articles. Many of the keywords I'm using are ranked on the first page of google. Some of them occupy spots 1-3. Infact, one of my articles is ranked #1 for a pretty tough keyword. I believe the article has gotten around 15k hits already and it's not terribly old.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brenden Clerget
    Build a redirect script Costanza and see if it'll work on your blogger blog. If it does, redirect it to a keyword rich domain and that domain will take over it's SERP's if it's optimized just as well as far as content and contains the keyword in the domain.

    If not, build a few more promotional sites with those articles and link them to a main domain and link your blogger to a keyword rich domain name having to do with it.

    That way you start receiving the traffic that the blogger blog gets at your new main money site. Then, obviously, flip your new domain.

    It's just like a 'transfer' of traffic. It's quite easy.

    Hope this makes sense

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  • Profile picture of the author GCostanza
    Your advice is golden, but as I said I'm really in a bind to get money by Monday. I don't even want to sell this stuff to be quite honest but I've run out of options, so I thought someone would jump at the chance to buy this content at a fraction of what I could sell it if I chose to optimize it a bit better. Hopefully that's the case. Sucks needing money, but I've exhausted most other options, so I have to give up what I put in about a year to build.
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    • Profile picture of the author E. Brian Rose
      Originally Posted by GCostanza View Post

      Your advice is golden, but as I said I'm really in a bind to get money by Monday. I don't even want to sell this stuff to be quite honest but I've run out of options, so I thought someone would jump at the chance to buy this content at a fraction of what I could sell it if I chose to optimize it a bit better. Hopefully that's the case. Sucks needing money, but I've exhausted most other options, so I have to give up what I put in about a year to build.
      This response may sound like sarcasm, but I am serious. If you really need money fast, then stop watching this thread and responding as quick as you can to keep it bumped to the top (I can read minds too).

      Instead, resolve to stay up all night for your cause. Open up a blank Word document and start writing in detail what you did to create a site that is generating $100 a month, as you said that it is. Don't leave anything out. Include all of your trial and error story and come up with a step by step plan that somebody can follow... and in a short period of time, because they won't be making your mistakes.

      Then, save it as a pdf. Ask a friend to read it tomorrow and get his take on it. If he thinks that it is of value and he learned from it, then start offering it in various online forums, including the WSO forum, as a $7 course, with payments going to your PayPal account.

      If you are serious about making money by this weekend, then you can do this and raise the $800 that you need by then. You just need to resolve to not sleep for two days.
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      • Profile picture of the author GCostanza
        I only need $200.

        But thank you for your help. Your sarcasm/mind reading is helpful.

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        • Profile picture of the author E. Brian Rose
          Originally Posted by GCostanza View Post

          I only need $200.

          But thank you for your help. Your sarcasm/mind reading is helpful.

          And yet you are still here posting... dude, get to work!
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  • Profile picture of the author peterbriss
    Hi have to say I am with Brian on this one. You are you own best asset to not only raise some quick cash but to raise some good money for a long time. Write the report and start selling it. FAST!!
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  • Profile picture of the author GCostanza
    I'll sell it for $450 on the spot to anyone that wants it.
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    • Profile picture of the author E. Brian Rose
      Originally Posted by GCostanza View Post

      I'll sell it for $450 on the spot to anyone that wants it.
      I laid out a plan for you to make that money that you said that you desperately needed by this weekend. Can you tell me why you won't do it? I'm just curious, mainly because of how much the need for money has been dramatized.

      Are you not doing it because this is easier than the work that I laid out my plan for you? I would really love to hear your response. In the time that you have spent pushing this thread, you could have been half done by now. Please explain what the problem is.
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      • Profile picture of the author butters
        Originally Posted by E. Brian Rose View Post

        In the time that you have spent pushing this thread, you could have been half done by now. Please explain what the problem is.
        My question is, is it really worth buying a product which has only token someone half a day to write?
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  • Profile picture of the author Underground SEO
    I don't think this part of the forum is for selling directly to members to be honest, if you want to advertise you have to pay the $20 like everyone else and submit the thread to the appropriate sub-forum.
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  • Profile picture of the author Damien Roche
    Live and learn as well. NEVER put your business in the hands of other websites. You need your own 'virtual real estate'.

    If this were on your own domain you would *easily* bring in more than $600 over weekend.

    I feel for you. Good luck in the future!
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  • Profile picture of the author GCostanza
    No problem, I actually already started on the Word document. However, I feel that it was prudent (before I knew the rules about posting offers on the main board) to throw up this offer incase someone was interested in the content I had up for grabs. If your idea fails, and I don't make the money necessary, but someone picks up the articles/blog that I am selling, then I have two ways to make the $200.

    I didn't think it was that difficult to understand, and I do appreciate your advice very much so. However, that doesnt' mean that if I put my first WSO up for $7 that it will sell. I assume people would be wary of a guy like me selling his first WSO when I've made it known that I desperately need to make a certain amount of money by a deadline, wouldn't you agree?
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  • Profile picture of the author J Bold
    Sell it for cheap like those cheap wedding invitations you let Susan lick. You were expecting 200 people, right Costanza?

    Ok, sorry, just watched that episode at lunch.

    My personal opinion is it's all worth $500, max. But that's just me. Plus, it's a blogger blog! I think the real value is in the articles that someone could point to their own site rather than a blogger blog, and the income stream is already there from the articles, right? So, no, don't see much luck in selling the blog, but the articles as a proven income stream.

    Just my opinion...
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