Question: Who is the Website Flipping Guru in your opinion?

Me

I've done at least 5 blog posts on it and I've actually been doing it for longer than the other folks have been on-line.

Can I have my cookie now?

Seriously though - what you need Mike? Be glad to help you.

Justin and Chaunna Brooke at Site fliiiiiiiiiiiing dot com.

I Used to flip websites, but i gave it up when i broke my monitor

"Site flipping guru" becomes a relative
phrase because every experienced site
flipper that is passing value to customers
and making profits is a guru in his or her
own rights. There is certainly no accurate
metrics to measure site flip guru.

From what I know Ed Dale is a "website flipper" at core. He has that Dominiche product that from what I remember is all about making and selling websites.

I used to spend a lot of time on Sitepoint. With Flippa, I go there about every 2 or 3 days and that's enough to keep up with whatever is going on and I have sites listed. It just ain't Sitepoint and now I don't even go to Sitepoint to view all the other listings I used to look at. Flippa is slow moving, and you have to hunt for the info ... and it's an eyesore.

The only good thing about it, is my sites still sell there. That's pretty big, but they've lost me as someone who really monitors the listings for sites to buy and they've lost all my business at Sitepoint for other ads.

As for flippers, there's
Kate Anderson
Suite J
Desmond

That's just 3 ... sure there's a whole bunch more

Mike

Check out Gene Pimentel on Warrior...has to be the expert on Domain Flipping!

Best regards

Matt

Though he usually promotes his blogging work, Yaro Starak talks a lot about flipping websites and his principals are good for doing that in general. Basically if you can get a website going and can flip it, that is all that matters.

The same techniques it takes to get a website popular are the same ones you are going to need to make it valuable to sell. The rest is the small details of selling that website which you can learn pretty easily and quickly.

The Goddess of Site Flipping is Kate Anderson, though Suzanne (sbucciarel) comes in a close second. For the Gods, there's a tie between Swastik, Desmond, and SuiteJ. Never seen Justin's work but I think he knows what he's talking about.

For me, I'd have to say Steven Walk (LMC) right here on the Warrior Forum!

The book he wrote on site flipping is the best I've read, and it's free!

I've had the pleasure to work with him, and talk to him quite a bit, he really knows his stuff!

The "Site Flipping Guru" would be a venture capital firm out on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley. Pick the one that's sold the most billion dollar websites.

Take the partners at Sequoia Capital for instance. They were pre-acquisition/pre-IPO investors in Yahoo!, YouTube, PayPal, Google, Electronic Arts, Cisco, Apple, and dozens more. How many of those did they flip either by selling to another company (i.e. YouTube to Google for $1.65 billion) or selling to the public (IPOs; Google, Yahoo!, PayPal, etc). and make billions upon billions of dollars?

That's some good website flipping.

The gurus you seek are not writing up ebooks and courses for "internet marketers" to consume.

I know it's a little shiny and blurry from inside, but if you peer out of the "IM" bubble you'll find that the most successful businesses, the greatest leaders, the best internet marketers even, are not the names you find floating around "IM" forums.

If you really want to change the world, to build a business that does something unique and lasting, then don't get caught up in the race to emulate the IM "gurus". You'll idolize all the wrong people and end up nowhere (unless your goal is to just be the next guy to sell IM courses to the IM niche).

Use the Warrior Forum and other places like it as a great source of practical advice, but don't be fooled by all the talk of ebooks and article marketing and great gurus with great ecourses. That's all a distraction from the real world.

I'm a personal fan favorite of Guy Kawasaki.

Thanks David!

Suzanne definitely understands flipping, she is also super Awesome!

My vote goes to Justin & Chaunna Brook at sitefling.com! They know their stuff and are very authentic! They give tons of value all the time!

Your only a guru if you can sell a certain # of sites WITHOUT an existing long term list that you've built up. People are referencing people simply because they have been site flipping for a long period of time. But I can guarantee you that none of those people could sell 10 custom sites on Flippa, SiteDeal, or any other market in 1 week without the use of their existing list.

I don't know Sheryl...you might be selling yourSelf short too! You were extremely successful without a list in the beginning...and now you have a membership site!

Go for Justin Brooke hes very good in what he does and is very easy to listen to.

Gurus...hmm a very very wide term.

For me, site flipping guru is someone who has been selling a $50 site up to $100,000 or even more. And don't be surprised, but I know some big guys who are selling sites for income without even being an internet marketer themselves.

The secret to site flipping is really outsourcing.

So, anyway, if you want someone who know some great tricks (sneaky one...hmmm....) I think my friend, Justin Brooke is extremely suitable to be the "site flipping guru".

Remember, a site flipping guru is not someone who sells sites constantly or in big amount -- in fact, a site flipping guru is someone who can turn a ugly, no potential site into a big money maker and then flip it for cash. That is the real site flipping technique.

Thanks for dropping my name in here. I'm flattered

I agree with Sheryl, Suzanne is a badass website flipper and should name herself, but also agree with not being able to really pin down a "guru"..everyone has their own methods and types of flips that they do well.

If you're asking because you're looking to learn from someone though, I do have something important to add:

Choose someone who is actually flipping for profit and making sales on a consistent basis (a.k.a "walking the walk"). There's way too many "expert flippers" who have "products and secrets" but fail to actually show you proof of any consistent/successful sales of their own. A PayPal screenshot doesn't count...don't get me started...lol

Cheers
Jay

Hi Mike,

I'd say Tim Phelan is one of the top flippers or used to be, and was in on it early too like a couple of years ago. I know he sold a high price site to John R, plus other sites. He also sold a site for me. Plus he ran his own forum before he sold that site.

About Flippa - yeah, I have no idea what the owners of SP were thinking when they made that decision to change how the site works, and then transfer the auction onto a different domain like Flippa. It's not a bad domain name, but they had SitePoint already branded, high amounts of traffic, conversions, and happy cutomers. I bet it's like starting over for them at this point.

The thing about changing a name or transfering a brand to another is that often times it doesn't stick as well. There are always losses whether it's time, customers or whatever, and the company ends up working twice as hard at bringing the business back.

Let's hope they don't have much of a loss and jump right back up there.


Mary

I know that Shane Garrison does flipping...I also know that he's a really nice guy.