CPA vs Flipping

One of the biggest differences between flipping (domains or sites) and CPA is the scalability.

With flipping, you can spend a small amount of time developing and growing a Website, then turn a quick profit -- usually in the hundreds. It's fairly easy to do, and takes little investment. But then you start all over again. You can cut down your time investment (and your net profit) by outsourcing, but in the end you are starting from scratch every time. Call this "active" income.

With CPA, it can take a sizable investment of time and money to find a campaign that works and get the conversions to the level they need to be to offset your spend. But once you've found that level, you basically let it run on its own and continue to receive the revenue. You can continue to create multiple campaigns, of course, and/or boost your traffic so your conversions/profit also grow. It is infinitely scalable, "passive" income. But it's not for everyone and you should expect to stumble a lot, especially at the beginning.

As for me, I do both. Why not?

Agree! The best way to do both and you get multiple stream of income! Importantly to do it diligently with passion and patience.

For me, I love site flipping . I am just starting out though , but I know that with time it will get better. One thing I do not like about the CPA is that its offer can expire before you make money from it. But there are people who still integrate CPA with a site that they intend to flip make ,money from the CPA, and still go ahead to flip it for huge profit.

That said, you can always do the two,if you wish

Site flipping is good for turning a reasonable profit with a reasonable workload.

CPA is good for turning a highly variable and volatile profit with a small workload.

Most of the time, CPA will give you a reasonable return, once you get used to it.

But sometimes CPA will explode into a mountain of cash and you won't know what to do with it all.

And sometimes it will crap little green apples all over your business and you won't make anything.

Site flipping is a good way to deal with "green apple" months, and if you just naturally build sites to flip all the time, you can rapidly shore up your profit when those months happen. So they make a good combo, because if you wait until the green apples start falling, it's too late to start making flippable sites. You have to already have them in place.

I'm comparing the two just because I want to focus on just one to begin with. I completely understand doing both but i don't know if i'm ready to talk both at once. So I just wanted y'alls opinion on both. So far, you all have been great with some great help.

Although CPA is an excellent way of making money online, I'd say you concentrate on site flipping since you're already into web development. Once you flip a few sites and start making decent money, you may then explore CPA.

It's important not to put all your eggs in one basket and develop multiple income streams. Don't worry, just get started and within no time, you'll know what it is you want to focus on.

All the best!

So i'm going to try my hand a flipping. I understand the basic concept is this: I buy a domain (some name that would be appealing or based on keywords), I then build the site and attempt to boost its rankings, Finally find someone to sell it to.

Am i wrong with my understandings and what tips do you all have for me.

Boosting rankings is not as important as boosting revenue. Even if you can get the site making $1 a day, you should be able to sell it on Flippa for $250+.

How long does it take to develope a site(revenue included) to a sell ready point. I know it varies but i'm just looking for a baseline to judge by. Also how do y'all suggest generating revenue?

Actual development can take an hour or a month, depending on your skill level. You probably want to keep the site up for 1-3 months so you can get a track record and analytics, that will help your sale price. If you can average $X over 3 months, for example, you will do better than you could with just a single month's sales numbers.

To get the revenue coming in, try affiliate links, CPA offers, Adsense, and so on.

What affiliate programs do you suggests.