Sold my first website!

9 years ago

Great job, do you mind me asking how much you sold your website for?

My first venture was simply writing articles for people online and that has spread to many other avenues now

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AYCE

9 years ago

Originally Posted by jbmarwood

Great job, do you mind me asking how much you sold your website for?

My first venture was simply writing articles for people online and that has spread to many other avenues now

Sale price was $120. Not very large but I am satisfied with it because at the end of the day it only added to my assets!

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jsmiley

9 years ago

I recently sold my first website this year on Flippa. The sale encouraged me to list a second site. Success begets success.

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AYCE 9 years ago

Originally Posted by jsmiley

I recently sold my first website this year on Flippa. The sale encouraged me to list a second site. Success begets success.

Indeed it does.
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ronyoung

Banned 9 years ago

thats very cool and you can just make more by keep selling more websites

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James 0

9 years ago

Congrats on selling your first website.

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AYCE 9 years ago

Thank you. I'm anticipating rinsing and repeating.
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Jw0847

9 years ago

Originally Posted by AYCE

I've come quite far in my short 10 months of my internet business career. I launched my first eCommerce website back in June of 2014 that dropshipped phonecases (which I just sold it on Flippa.)

It was a great way to start my internet career and gain valuable knowledge. Although the website online did $77 in sales over 6 months + the profit of the sale of the website, this project only earned me money over this period of time.

The website was also self managing. Most of the traffic was passive from Pinterest and all of my sales were from Pinterest traffic.

It was an awesome learning experience and now my next step is to reproduce that method even better and more effectively to generate even more income.

What was your first successful internet business venture?

Where did you find the drop shipper for the phone cases? And was there any profit margin? The dropshippers I find don't seem to leave me enough margin to make reselling physical products work the effort. I appreciate your feedback.

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Michael Shook 9 years ago

Awesome, Congratulations. It is great to read of people having success online. :-)
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AYCE

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Jw0847

Where did you find the drop shipper for the phone cases? And was there any profit margin? The dropshippers I find don't seem to leave me enough margin to make reselling physical products work the effort. I appreciate your feedback.

I just spent some time looking around online and happened to come across them. My margins were OK. Most cases cost about $2 - $4 wholesale and I marked them up between $7 - $12

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AaronBurton

9 years ago

Wow thats awesome!!! I remember my first sale online. I think it was from a company I joined a LONG time ago. Glad I didn't quit haha. More websites to come, keep it up!

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nizamkhan

9 years ago

That's awesome! Congrats and best wishes for more

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ryanbiddulph

9 years ago

Congrats A! Always nice to see the results, even if we're simply in love with the process

Ryan

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AYCE 9 years ago

Originally Posted by ryanbiddulph

Congrats A! Always nice to see the results, even if we're simply in love with the process

Ryan

I am totally in love with the process.
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QueenMelanie

9 years ago

my first successful, or i guess I should say profitable project, was a website that showed different ways to make money online, was using referral links in my guides, and had adsense too.. The problem was with all those platforms that let you earn money, many turn scam after a few months or years, which then made my site appear scammy.. So I moved briskly on from that area into bigger and better things..

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AYCE 9 years ago

Originally Posted by QueenMelanie

So I moved briskly on from that area into bigger and better things..

As we all should!
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olivia69

9 years ago

Its great to hear that you have sold your website at a good profit. Best wishes for you.

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AYCE 9 years ago

Originally Posted by olivia69

Its great to hear that you have sold your website at a good profit. Best wishes for you.

Thank you. There are many more to come!
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vikash_kumar

9 years ago

Wow! Congrats on your success....
The only thing I don't like about selling website is... "Creation of a website just for the purpose of selling it in the future..." LOL!

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AYCE

9 years ago

Originally Posted by vikash_kumar

Wow! Congrats on your success....
The only thing I don't like about selling website is... "Creation of a website just for the purpose of selling it in the future..." LOL!

Well I actually never thought about selling the website when I first created it but since it was a success and I know I can replicate that success, I figured I'd sell my little side hobby and replicate my methods on something more profitable that I'm more passionate about!

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RyanLB

9 years ago

Congrats man, always a great feeling to bring a website from nothing and turn it into an asset.

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optimusone

9 years ago

Thats always cool to make your first sale. You get the boost. I sold my website on DP forum for $250 - When you receive an email from the buyer with money. Ohh..thats the moment!

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Prayeatlove

9 years ago

Congrat OP!that should encourage you to make more websites to sell and keep it up in IM!

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AYCE 9 years ago

Thank you!
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- Murray777 9 years ago
  
  Thats a first of many for you we all need to start somehwere congrats my friend
  
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cinehub24x7

9 years ago

Originally Posted by AYCE

I've come quite far in my short 10 months of my internet business career. I launched my first eCommerce website back in June of 2014 that dropshipped phonecases (which I just sold it on Flippa.)

It was a great way to start my internet career and gain valuable knowledge. Although the website online did $77 in sales over 6 months + the profit of the sale of the website, this project only earned me money over this period of time.

The website was also self managing. Most of the traffic was passive from Pinterest and all of my sales were from Pinterest traffic.

It was an awesome learning experience and now my next step is to reproduce that method even better and more effectively to generate even more income.

What was your first successful internet business venture?

Congratulations!!!!!

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mlpauling 9 years ago

Congrats! It is the success that we have, no matter how small, that motivate us to strive for our goals. I set grand goals for myself for the year, but I break them down into lots of smaller daily, weekly and sometime hourly goals. And I celebrate every victory.
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Edson Buchanan

9 years ago

Congrats Fellow Warrior! Now you need to put it into high gear and duplicate your success. I would also focus on more traffic and faster sites. There are hundreds of people looking for small niche sites you can create and sell fast.

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MMO IM

9 years ago

Hey Mate,

Congratulation to you on your First sale. Wish a very best of luck for your next several sales.

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alxtatik

9 years ago

Feels good doesn't it?

Selling your first website?...

That's exactly how I got started online.

I sold a blog on how to make soap.....I was ecstatic!

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selfdisciplineacademy

9 years ago

My first successful venture started, and is still going..

I just continue to build a big & sustainable list and offer them a balance of free content, and offers, to generate commissions..

Congrats. Great job on your sale? Did you site have a list built for it? A mailing list?

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AYCE

9 years ago

Originally Posted by selfdisciplineacademy

My first successful venture started, and is still going..

I just continue to build a big & sustainable list and offer them a balance of free content, and offers, to generate commissions..

Congrats. Great job on your sale? Did you site have a list built for it? A mailing list?

I did have a means of list building but didn't put a lot of work into it although I should have. So it was in place but was never optimized to collect a large amount of emails.

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alxtatik

9 years ago

Originally Posted by AYCE

I did have a means of list building but didn't put a lot of work into it although I should have. So it was in place but was never optimized to collect a large amount of emails.

I also made the same mistake when I sold my soap blog when I first started.

I was just learning the ropes and did not know the importance of having one.

You at least had implemented something, which is more than what most novices have at first.

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AYCE 9 years ago

I am currently learning and working on effective ways to build an email list for my next venture. I see a lot of potential in the list and email marketing.
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Jimbrown123

9 years ago

Good to hear that you started making money on flipping websites. Congrats on your success.
Wish a very best of luck for your next several sales.

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AYCE 9 years ago

Thank you! It's a great feeling when you can create a business no matter the size from scratch and sell it for a profit!
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  Wow! That's great! I've been looking into trying to sell websites on Flippa, but I think I need to add more quality content. Looks like I need to be more creative.
  
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TeKn1qu3z

9 years ago

Woot! Congrats!

Keep it up and scale up! Best of luck OP

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firstopp

9 years ago

Awesome work!

Always great to here about success stories. Pinterest can be a valuable source in driving traffic, so glad you could leverage it. Now if you can just scale up from there and make the next project a little better!

Roger

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AYCE

9 years ago

Originally Posted by firstopp

Awesome work!

Always great to here about success stories. Pinterest can be a valuable source in driving traffic, so glad you could leverage it. Now if you can just scale up from there and make the next project a little better!

Roger

Pinterest is surprisingly powerful yet seemingly undervalued. Their ad service is outstanding.

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OmarNegron

9 years ago

Congrats on your first sale...

One of my first ever website sales happened over at Flippa a few years ago. Sold a batch of websites that were earning revenue via Adsense for around $10,000.

Again, congrats on your sale!

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bestbuy564

9 years ago

YOUR DOING WELL SON

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AYCE 9 years ago

Originally Posted by bestbuy564

YOUR DOING WELL SON

THANKS DAD
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- Marian 9 years ago
  
  Great work, congratulations! Make more sites and sell more!
  
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christelle

9 years ago

I was looking for some good stories like that! You made my day, congratulation!!

christelle

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AYCE 9 years ago

Originally Posted by christelle

I was looking for some good stories like that! You made my day, congratulation!!

christelle

Thank you! What kind of project(s) are you currently working on?
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- discrat 9 years ago
  
  AYCE,
  Nice. it is good to hear stories coming from relatively new IMers.
  
  Keep it up and keep going forward
  
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daysofdigital

9 years ago

Congrats on selling your first site

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smna1586

9 years ago

Congratulations. I made my first sale around $1630. The next one was $3000 and then omm.....went up a bit.

Keep it up. You'll get there.

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MakeItOnline

9 years ago

That's awesome!

I got into making YouTube videos as a teenager and started earning money a year after.

From there I realised what AdSense was and wanted to manipulate it. I made a Blogger page and placed links in some places that drove great traffic and earnings for about a week.

Then I was later banned by Blogger for having blogs of no value. (Lessons learned!)

I made more than £120 over 4 days with about 5 minutes work, it was crazy. The funny thing is I had absolutely no idea what I was doing back then lol.

Question for OP:
How easy was it to sell your particular website on flippa?

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AYCE 9 years ago

Originally Posted by MakeItOnline

Question for OP:
How easy was it to sell your particular website on flippa?

That's great! I'm an avid YouTuber as well and I've actually made the most using YouTube so far while earning money online. (About $1,100 total)

It was quite easy. Long story short, the buyer was a young kid just starting out and got cold feet so I actually still have the website, go figure. This is the second time where something happened that I didn't complete the sale!

Maybe it's destiny for me to keep it? haha!
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- MakeItOnline 9 years ago
  
  That's a shame about the sale :/
  Selling the sites at that stage would be a great way for me to start earning something solid.
  
  I was hoping it all went smoothly as I'm pretty good at setting up sites and doing the keyword research, on-page SEO etc, relatively quickly. However, I haven't grasped the marketing and scaling aspect yet.
  
  Perhaps you should keep your site and try making it bigger somehow?
  
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TheTrafficOutlet

9 years ago

Congrats friend im in the process of selling one of mine.

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AYCE 9 years ago

Thank you! Selling websites is a lot more fun than I anticipated. There can be hiccups at times but what's sunshine without a little rain?
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karlstech

9 years ago

Originally Posted by AYCE

I've come quite far in my short 10 months of my internet business career. I launched my first eCommerce website back in June of 2014 that dropshipped phonecases (which I just sold it on Flippa.)

It was a great way to start my internet career and gain valuable knowledge. Although the website online did $77 in sales over 6 months + the profit of the sale of the website, this project only earned me money over this period of time.

The website was also self managing. Most of the traffic was passive from Pinterest and all of my sales were from Pinterest traffic.

It was an awesome learning experience and now my next step is to reproduce that method even better and more effectively to generate even more income.

What was your first successful internet business venture?

Edit: Sale actually fell through, it was a young kid who bought it and got cold feet because he had no idea how to host or transfer a website...go figure. But hey still a great experience and I'm sure the website will sell again no problem!

Congratulations, it just goes to show that anything is possible! And hey, you got some experience along the way, which might sometimes be as valuable as money.

With the right experience and knowledge you might viewed as an expert or "know-it-all-person", and that's a profitable concept to earn some money off as well, trading your knowledge for the customers time and money. If it's valuable information that'll help your customer, than it's a win-win!

Sorry, I tend to get into a rant or two from time to time.

Best of luck in your future endeavors!

Karl

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ansobimat

9 years ago

Great sharing! Congratulations! Although it's not huge cash but I think it's the motivation for you to continue your online business. Good luck!

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amateur69

9 years ago

Congratulations man!

I was also happy when i sold my first site in Flippa, the feeling of fullfilment , i bought the tutorial here in Warrior a year back for $9. As of now i was able to sold 50+ sites, not with the same method but i learned from that $9 ebook that i bought here. I owe WarriorForum a lot for introducing me 1 of the endless money making opportunities, still an amateur trying to explore other ways. Once again congratulations to you and don't be frustrated, i was and sometimes still

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