Make money online by selling websites

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I had insomnia niche website and it was sold for $550 on the websitebroker.com.
traffic 3000/month
adsense close to $100/month
PR1
links:3
pages:45
didn't have a list.

I would like to add a list to site like that because I find this very interesting as a business model.Since I sell one per month, I don't have a time to build significant list.

When selling site people always ask for proof of responsiveness and I was thinking to buy cheap list online and then send them something free to download to get that proof.
When selling site with a list people charge $1.50/per lead.

My question is...
Would it be ethical, doable to buy 20,000 cheap leads for $30 and then send some kind of gift download to get sign ups. If just 200 download that gift that would increase selling price for $300. Those leads are not targeted but list would be a great value.
Did anyone do that kind of thing?
#make #money #online #selling #websites
  • Profile picture of the author Linda Van Fleet
    Katarina, I have never had success buying or using another marketer's untargeted list.

    Once I joined one of Ewen Chia's programs and received a bonus list of 60,000. It was supposed to be a list of people interested in IM who had given their permission to be on the list. Results of mailing to that list - a lot of hate mail from people on the list - what a terrible experience that was. I will never do that again!

    Unethical? I wouldn't do it. Take the time to build your own list. That's ethical and of much more value.

    Linda
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  • Profile picture of the author Preben Frenning
    IM rule of thumb: *Never buy lists.

    However, if you find something that works, sure! Keep on rocking!
    - But most likely, you won't find one that works =P

    You COULD buy ad space in some big newsletter. That might work for some ;o)
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  • Profile picture of the author Harry Behrens
    If you want to go this route, make your website a "member's area" where only subscribers can access, that has expanded and better information (like videos, etc) about the information on the public area. You can do this easily with WordPress for instance. (You don't need to charge for the membership, but if you can manage to do so that's even better obviously.)

    Let the membership area gather subscribers while the public area gets its adsense or commissions or whatever. Then sell and expand the price based on the number of membership subscribers.
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    • Profile picture of the author katarina1
      Thanks Harry, that is interesting idea but takes time.
      Ad in the newspaper Preben , that sounds expensive but and I want to keep low cost and sell the site in 30 days.
      alexa_s.they didn't opt in yet,but I will try to give them something free to download ,something anyone would like so they would optin.I don't need them to be responsive all the time,just that one time and then i will sell the site.

      Linda-yes I understand.You tried to build a relationship with them and they didn't respond in a way you wanted.I will not go that far with it. I would explain that they can download interesting free report that will tech them how to make $100 per day , lets say. If they initially opted in as people interested in MLM I think some of them will download that report and that is all I need to sell my site.

      But is it ethical because person buying that list and the site will have to build relationship with them and that will NOT happen for them. Is that my problem? Is this black hat or I can get away with this?
      When buying ad or anything online nobody can promise you great list. I WILL NOT lie to them! I will just show the proof that my list of ~200 people is responsive because yesterday they did download that report.I will have a picture of that. I will NOT sell all the list I buy, just those who respond and download my gift.
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