Website Flipping vs Affiliate Marketing

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I am looking to start an online company that can make a few hundred to a thousand a month. I don't want to do ecommerce since inventory is a pain and contacting drop shippers is as well.

I saw a video by Adam Short where he explained small niche sites that promote affiliate Clickbank products. It looks really neat. Do I need a squeeze page however? Also, what if I have no testimonials or no experience whatsoever with the market or the product?

The other thing I am considering is website flipping,mbuy building up small websites with Amazon affiliate products in place, and then immediately selling the site as a turnkey business. Or I could buy domains such as denvermechanics.com and sell to service or product companies in the local area.

The only issue I have with website/domain flipping is that in order to make money, you have to actually do the work to make the sale, whereas with affiliate, you do the beginning work, and then with search engine rankings, you make money without much work. Also, you can build up a portfolio of sites to increase your cash.

So which has potential to make more money? Also, with affiliate marketing, can you write a squeeze page even if you have no experience in the market you are selling?
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  • Profile picture of the author Ross Cohen
    You just named like 6 business models in 5 paragraphs. I've never been a website flipper, so I wouldn't suggest that. Though many people swear by it. Affiliate marketing, promoting Clickbank products... all of that good stuff... that's my kind of stuff. I'd suggest picking 1 business model, learning EVERYTHING you can about it, set out a plan, and execute it. Don't get distracted by all of the other opportunities. Focus. Find the best products on the business and grab them... as long as they won't break the bank. Some of the free ones are just as good if not better than some of the paid ones too! Don't think about the price... as in cheap doesn't mean junk... it's all about the quality!
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    • Profile picture of the author jtommy178
      Thanks. I'm just confused with types of site to set up. Should it be a lead capture page with a few articles on the site, a review site aimed at a specific brand of product where I would link to the affiliate product, etc. if I don't have testimonials or experience in the market, can I still do it?
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  • Profile picture of the author DotComBum
    You can outsource the website building to others so you can just collect the money when the sites are sold, but that will eat into your profits, it's better to build the sites yourself if you want bigger profits.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Hlatky
    I find it much better to purchase sites that are already have traffic and revenue and you just have to increase it.

    It is much easier than setting up and selling hundreds of "turnkey" sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author ArielT
    Originally Posted by jtommy178 View Post

    I am looking to start an online company that can make a few hundred to a thousand a month. I don't want to do ecommerce since inventory is a pain and contacting drop shippers is as well.

    I saw a video by Adam Short where he explained small niche sites that promote affiliate Clickbank products. It looks really neat. Do I need a squeeze page however? Also, what if I have no testimonials or no experience whatsoever with the market or the product?

    The other thing I am considering is website flipping,mbuy building up small websites with Amazon affiliate products in place, and then immediately selling the site as a turnkey business. Or I could buy domains such as denvermechanics.com and sell to service or product companies in the local area.

    The only issue I have with website/domain flipping is that in order to make money, you have to actually do the work to make the sale, whereas with affiliate, you do the beginning work, and then with search engine rankings, you make money without much work. Also, you can build up a portfolio of sites to increase your cash.

    So which has potential to make more money? Also, with affiliate marketing, can you write a squeeze page even if you have no experience in the market you are selling?
    I'm doing a bit of different things, building an affiliate website, if I see a good domain available that I could sell for more then I buy it inmediately...although currently It's very hard to find good domains availables...

    Personaly I don't like the idea of selling websites nor buying, I would only sell a website if I wouldn't have time enogh, but just as regular activity no
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  • Profile picture of the author FrankMiller
    Creating and flipping websites doesn't really make sense to me. If they are good, keep building them!
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    • Profile picture of the author BloggingPro
      Originally Posted by FrankMiller View Post

      Creating and flipping websites doesn't really make sense to me. If they are good, keep building them!
      The market has seemingly turned into a quick hit and run business.

      Build a website, get a crap-ton of targeted traffic, slap some adsense up and then report the earnings in a Flippa style listing. The market also seems to accept this theory that you can sell your site for roughly 10x your monthly income.

      Thus, if one could just build a site and make $50 for just ONE month, they could theoretically sell it for $500...

      That is why you have seen a proliferation of this method the last few years.

      BP
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    • Profile picture of the author SQUARE NC
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      Originally Posted by FrankMiller View Post

      Creating and flipping websites doesn't really make sense to me. If they are good, keep building them!
      Yeah I've never understood or seen the sense in website flipping.

      I understand some people just want to build a website, flip it, and make a quick return.

      But, wouldn't it make sense to hold on to these websites, build them up and then grow them into cash producing assets of your own? Wouldn't you see much more money that way?

      Each to their own i guess
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexyew
      Originally Posted by FrankMiller View Post

      Creating and flipping websites doesn't really make sense to me. If they are good, keep building them!
      Hi,

      I agreed with you. I only build websites with quality contents


      But It is a way to help the people who want a website immediately without much effort.
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  • Profile picture of the author jtommy178
    But like if I registered a domain denvermechanics.com and offered it to local Denver mechanics, do you think I could get $300 from it? Or even 50. I could repeat.

    I just love the idea of passive income from affiliate marketing. I initially thought a watch review site would be a good idea and link to amazon watches, but amazon pays out a lot less compared to clickbank. Do u think clickbank is the way to go?
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  • Profile picture of the author Miguelito203
    Originally Posted by jtommy178 View Post

    I am looking to start an online company that can make a few hundred to a thousand a month. I don't want to do ecommerce since inventory is a pain and contacting drop shippers is as well.

    I saw a video by Adam Short where he explained small niche sites that promote affiliate Clickbank products. It looks really neat. Do I need a squeeze page however? Also, what if I have no testimonials or no experience whatsoever with the market or the product?

    The other thing I am considering is website flipping,mbuy building up small websites with Amazon affiliate products in place, and then immediately selling the site as a turnkey business. Or I could buy domains such as denvermechanics.com and sell to service or product companies in the local area.

    The only issue I have with website/domain flipping is that in order to make money, you have to actually do the work to make the sale, whereas with affiliate, you do the beginning work, and then with search engine rankings, you make money without much work. Also, you can build up a portfolio of sites to increase your cash.

    So which has potential to make more money? Also, with affiliate marketing, can you write a squeeze page even if you have no experience in the market you are selling?
    I've never done any website flipping, but it and affiliate marketing are both legitimate business models. When you have two legitimate business models to choose from, it's not really about which is more profitable since they both are. It has more to do with which one fits you the best. After that, it's about finding a legit program to learn from and actually implementing what you learn.

    Joey
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  • Profile picture of the author softproducts
    I think flipping is more concreate then clickbank,
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexyew
    Originally Posted by jtommy178 View Post

    I am looking to start an online company that can make a few hundred to a thousand a month. I don't want to do ecommerce since inventory is a pain and contacting drop shippers is as well.

    I saw a video by Adam Short where he explained small niche sites that promote affiliate Clickbank products. It looks really neat. Do I need a squeeze page however? Also, what if I have no testimonials or no experience whatsoever with the market or the product?

    The other thing I am considering is website flipping,mbuy building up small websites with Amazon affiliate products in place, and then immediately selling the site as a turnkey business. Or I could buy domains such as denvermechanics.com and sell to service or product companies in the local area.

    The only issue I have with website/domain flipping is that in order to make money, you have to actually do the work to make the sale, whereas with affiliate, you do the beginning work, and then with search engine rankings, you make money without much work. Also, you can build up a portfolio of sites to increase your cash.

    So which has potential to make more money? Also, with affiliate marketing, can you write a squeeze page even if you have no experience in the market you are selling?
    Hi,

    I am doing website flipping, affiliate, squeeze page, online coaching etc.

    As a newbie, you have to learn the basic and not to jump into something you are not familiar with.

    To me, it is easy to learn how to set up a website and flip it.
    I flipped my simple website for USD1000.
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  • Profile picture of the author jtommy178
    Regarding flipping, can you market your listing to private companies, etc? Also, how long does your site need to be established in order to sell? I am just concerned because flipping profits can be extremely different every time.
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  • Profile picture of the author jtommy178
    So if I were to create a niche site say promoting a golf ebook from click bank, should I have a landing page with a few articles, or should i just create a site about golf.
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  • Profile picture of the author jtommy178
    Could I actually start a company based around website holdings. You know how private equity firms own companies.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dragonfire Wealth
    Don't spread yourself too thin. Choose ONE business model and learn everything about it, throw some money at it, put hours and hours a day into it until you can master the subject, and pull in money. Monetize just ONE business model and master it, then and ONLY then can you try other things, except now you have a TON more resources (money) from the success of your core business. Say you start with flipping small websites, do that for a while until you can bring in a bill-paying income with some extra cash in your pocket. Scale it up and outsource/automate what you can and THEN start exploring other things.

    All I can say is from my experience, Adsense blogs are chump change, and not worth doing but if you choose to, more power to you.

    Good luck and have fun!

    -Paul


    Originally Posted by SQUARE NC View Post

    Yeah I've never understood or seen the sense in website flipping.

    I understand some people just want to build a website, flip it, and make a quick return.

    But, wouldn't it make sense to hold on to these websites, build them up and then grow them into cash producing assets of your own? Wouldn't you see much more money that way?

    Each to their own i guess
    I understand your question and I'm going to settle your curiosity!

    Let's say you make a website that sells "ITEM X", a digital product that is ordered from a supplier for cheaper, thus making profit.

    You advertise on google, 7search, yahoo and the like (PPC) and get...200 sales in a month. For the sake of simplicity let's say each sale profited you $10 after cost of your supplier and adwords budget.

    Right now you have a website with revenue of $2,000/month, you built this website over a few days and instantly monetized it with Adwords. You have 2 options!

    (a) Keep the website, scale it up until you hit the ceiling, could be $2,000 a month, could be $5,000, who the hell knows?

    (b) Back up the website, redesign it, sell the original for $15,000 and do it again THIS month, SAME business model, SAME supplier, SAME advertising method. You got a quick cashout, and you're not losing anything! You still have a website that does the same thing as your last but with a different domain/design. Obviously...rinse and repeat
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