Website flipping is NOT dead... I will show you how I just made $180 in a few hours

[dmarze]

I just come across a website where people are talking how hard it is flip sites right now. Market is saturated. Then recession is here. You need unique and expensive content and so on and on. Hundreds of excuses why their websites don't sell.

I'm in this website flipping business for a long time now and my sites still sell. Ok, I have to adjust my business from time to time, but there is no problem for me to sell my websites.

I did small experiment to show you how you can make at least $50 of profit from simple site you can put together in three or four hours anytime you want.

So what I did? I built small membership site using only free and PLR content.

I registered domain name with namecheap.com and setup hosting account on resellerzoom.com (I have used their budget account for $6.95 ...you can put up to 20 sites on one account). Next step was to get content for my membership site. I have a lot of PLR content sitting on my computer hard drive. So, I choose 20 articles about how to make money at home niche. I took first 10 articles import them into Open Office Writer (it is free software) and make a little 20 pages ebook from them. It took me no more than 10 minutes to do that. I convert my little book into pdf format using Open Office again to do that. Next thing I did was ebook cover. I used photoshop to did it, but you can use any other free or paid software to create that tiny graphic.

Next step was creating members folder on my server using cpanel feature on resellerzoom server and upload ebook pdf file into that folder.

Now it is time to create a membership site. I built my membership site with XSitePro software, but you can build yours any other way you want. You can build it using wordpress. Just be sure to install wordpress into members folder. I use XSitePro because it is very easy to create any website and it comes with a lot of great templates built in.

All you need to build a membership site is ten articles and 5 videos which you will get for free. I will tell you about it in a minute.

I created the following pages for my membership site: Member Area (home page), Download, Contact Us, Videos and 10 article pages .

In the Member Area page you put welcome message and link to Download page. On download page you put links which point to your articles, image of your ebook with download link and link to your Videos page. Now, here is how to get your videos... go to Youtube and choose 5 videos you want to use and insert embed codes you get from Youtube on your Videos page.

Get few great free images from any free images site (jupiterimages.com is one of them) and add these images to your pages.

That is it, you are done.

Upload all what you already made to members folder.

Now it is the time to create sales letter. You can write it yourself or use like I did one from yours PLR packages you bought (I hope you keep them somewhere on your hard disk). Don't forget to add link to your member login page. Again use few great free images and when you are done upload it on your root folder on your server. (not in members folder)

Now you have to protect member area. I use membershipease software to do that. If you don't own this software already search google and you will find one for less than $10. You don't have to install anything. You will do it all on your computer and software will do the rest. It is very easy to use and anybody can use it.
I can build site like this one in less than two hours. It will take you more in the beginning, but after you build your first membership site you will see that it is not hard to do it at all.

So, I put that site on SitePoint auction and set BIN price at $70. Site was sold in less than one hour. And not just that. I got two other people asking me if I can build similar membership site for them which I did same day and sent them site next day.

I made $210 from these three sites altogether. I paid around 30 dollars for three domain names. I used my resellerzoom hosting, so I didn't have to pay for hosting. But, anyway it will cost you around $6.95 to get hosting for 20 of your sites.

In the end I put $180 into my pocket for a six hours of work.

I did it many times before and I will do it again because it works.

[MaverickWil]

Damn. Straight to the point stuff. Impressive.

[dmarze]

yes, if I want to sell site for $1500 I have to put in even more work into it and get some sales if I want to sell it. In the same time I can sell 20 sites and get from $60-100 for each.

[jobowen]

Thank you for your in-depth analysis of how website flipping is done and how to profit from it. Once more i say thank you.

[Desmond Ong]

WHO SAID IT'S DEAD!?

It's just the beginning! Haha...

Good job Marze. Converting PLR articles into eBook is a brilliant method but you can use PLR eBooks too to blend the contents of your eBook -- if you know what I mean. ;-)

[Peter Soos]

Marze,
Thanks for the paint-by-numbers layout. You said what others would 'fluff' into a 30 page ebook. Good lookin out!

[Lindsay Brynn]

Thanks dmarze. Website flipping is certainly not dead... people can believe that if they want to and we can keep making money that way

[rhondaklewis]

Great stuff, Thanks

[Michael Hackett]

Thanks dmarze - useful stuff. Now if I can only focus on one thing for a week ;–)

[kjkumar]

Thanks for sharing this info.
great

[Clyde Dennis]

Lots of people say things don't work or declare something dead if they don't have easy immediate success with it. Those who were discussing the death of flipping probably fall into this category.

[Alan Petersen]

Thanks for sharing. Personally, I don't think it's dead it just doesn't look very profitable to me. $50 profit for 3-4 hours of work is $12.50 per hour. That's day job wages. Better time spent creating your own info products or affiliate sites. It looks like a good model if you need a few bucks fast.

BTW - great use of PLR!

[NicheExposed]

People love to say it is dead because they just can't get it to work or don't make the money they think they should make right from the start. Good Job.

[Anne-Marie B]

Thanks for the great info. I have xsitepro and would like to do something like that. Your method is something that I could do. I have alot of plr that I haven't done anything with yet. Your thinking "outside of the box" . Great Job.

[Droopy Dawg]

There's a lady (or guy) that flips sites over on Sitepoint and sells one every day for no less than $600... sites are always purchased vis BIN... the auction harldy ever runs the full course. Their sites are FRIGGIN BEAUTIFUL.

Site flipping is alive and well for sure...

[Michael Oksa]

They also like to say things are "dead" so they can reduce their own competition.

~Michael

[expertcapper]

Awesome, can you post a site that you have sold so i can take a look? That would be great. thanks

[jasonl70]

Originally Posted by Alan Petersen

Thanks for sharing. Personally, I don't think it's dead it just doesn't look very profitable to me. $50 profit for 3-4 hours of work is $12.50 per hour. That's day job wages. Better time spent creating your own info products or affiliate sites. It looks like a good model if you need a few bucks fast.

BTW - great use of PLR!

if you could knock out 1 a day, during the evening, that would be an extra 1500 a month. I always use these analogies - but that's a ferrari lease, or a mortgage payment on a large home (here in the US midwest).

Not bad vs watching TV during those couple hours

[absolutelee]

Hi dmarze!

You're exactly right that website flipping is not dead. As a matter of fact, it's just getting going. Most of the folks who buy websites from me are either buying their first website (new to the market), or they're buying websites to expand their portfolio. The market for well made, ingenious websites is really cooking. The folks who say the market is oversaturated are only looking for easy money, not a real business, which can net you $5k easily in a month.

You've got a great idea, here. I'm going to try it out myself!

[McKay]

dmarze,

THANKS for taking the time to give a step-by-step process to help others see how easy it is to make money. You're an inspiration.

If only the people who want your advice would actually take action on it...

Unfortunately, you can't do it for them.

Keep up the great work and keep posting great advice!

McKay

[dmarze]

Originally Posted by Alan Petersen

Thanks for sharing. Personally, I don't think it's dead it just doesn't look very profitable to me. $50 profit for 3-4 hours of work is $12.50 per hour. That's day job wages. Better time spent creating your own info products or affiliate sites. It looks like a good model if you need a few bucks fast.

BTW - great use of PLR!

I think you are wrong here Alan. It is much better work from home and get $12.50 per hour then have a regular job. I agree with you that you can spent time creating your own products and earn more. There is a lot of people who don't know how to crate their own products. But, they know how to put together simple website. And that is what I want tell you here. It is great start. Anyway if you put together 30 of these sites per month you will earn at least $1800 just from these websites working only two hour each day.

[visit_faraz]

Originally Posted by Droopy Dawg

There's a lady (or guy) that flips sites over on Sitepoint and sells one every day for no less than $600... sites are always purchased vis BIN... the auction harldy ever runs the full course. Their sites are FRIGGIN BEAUTIFUL.

Site flipping is alive and well for sure...

Could you provide a link to one of the lady's auctions?
Would love to see this.

[Terry Crim]

I was talking with a couple people last week about this, they had just recently sold a membership site for 30k though they said if they spent just a little more time on it they could of sold it for 75k.

Flipping websites can be a full time income if you do it right. Work 4 or 5 months out of the year, take the rest off. Depends how you set it up though.

- Terry

[dmarze]

Originally Posted by visit_faraz

Could you provide a link to one of the lady's auctions?
Would love to see this.

I think that is Kate Anderson, but I'm not 100% sure.

[alfa_375]

Thats really good content you had put together, thanks a lot. These things really inspired people like me to take some action.

[dsmpublishing]

I agree there is a lot of money to be made in site flipping i did it for over two years but found that i got bored with it in the end. However if i was desperate for cash i know i could make money from it extremely quickly which is great.