A weird tactic to increase your income with Flippa

Hey,

Here's something I've found out a little while back when I was selling websites at flippa. This works best if you have a website that teaches people how to make money, and you're selling it off as a site that's generating income.

The process is quite simple.

When you create a listing, and people start bidding, the first thing you want to do is private message them and them them for their bid.

This will open a line of communication with the bidder, which you'll need later.

At the end of your auction, you have two options:

1. The site sells.

or

1. The site doesn't sell.

If it sells, you contact the remaining bidders with two offers. You offer to make them a custom site for the price of their bid (a lot of them will say yes to that) and / or you ask them if they'd like to know what the business model behind the site was so that they could build it themselves (consulting.)

This will bump your per site profit.

If the site doesn't sell, you offer it to the next bidder in line and / or you also suggest to them that you can teach them the business model so that they could build it themselves (possibly cheaper than the site.)

Again, you'll conversions doing this, and increase your revenue.

It's important, as always, to make sure the bidder knows you're legit and care about their success. Try to help them, not just take their money.

Goes without saying.

Have fun!

Seb.