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Best Ideas For a Contest?

by CynthiaC
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I have an electronics review website, its around a year and a half old.

I was originally thinking about selling it and then I thought it might be fun to give it away in a contest or bonus on a sale or something like that.

It doesn't get a lot of traffic now but it was doing ok before and still sells a thing or two. I haven't done any work on it in MONTHS!

I am told I could start the bidding for it at $1500 on flippa because there are 280 pages of unique reviews each is over 500 words.

Another way to go would be to duplicate it and sell off a few at a lower price as PLR sites - but I don't know anything about what I would need to do to call it a PLR.


My Questions to you guys are;
1. What kind of contest would you suggest I have to give it away as a prize?
2. What would I need to do to convert it to PLR (there must be something regarding "rights")?
3. Maybe you have a better idea? I would love to hear it.


I look forward to hearing what you think!
#contest #ideas
  • Profile picture of the author brutecky
    Originally Posted by CynthiaC View Post


    I am told I could start the bidding for it at $1500 on flippa because there are 280 pages of unique reviews each is over 500 words.
    You can start the bidding on it for anything you want. The problem is that setting a minimum bid and getting it are two different things. If it does not get any traffic and it does not make any money online (a thing or two doesn't really count) then its not really worth much. Electronics review sites are a dime a dozen now a days.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim3
    If you decide to sell it will be a mistake to start the bidding with reserve that is too high, you will frighten a lot of potential buyers away, the idea is to try and start a bidding war buy getting as many bidders as possible.


    It would make more sense, at least from where I'm sitting, to update the site and try and get it ranked, get more traffic and increase the revenue to a decent level, and then decide whether to keep it or flip it.

    If a site is making good money with reasonable traffic then you will get considerably more for it.


    Not sure if the PLR route is the way to go, there are dozens of those around and they sell for such a small amount it hardly seems worth the effort.

    Using it a bonus on a (high ticket) sale is a nice idea, but you only get to do it once!


    Competitions?
    I'm tired now, but off the top of my head...

    The best idea to generate $1k month online within 90 days with a $100 budget contest.
    Write me (you) an X page ebook contest (with sole copyright to you)
    Send out a mailing contest, the entrant who generate the highest number of responses for you wins.
    An experienced person who does X days/weeks VA work for you gets the site.

    Hope that helps a bit
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    • Profile picture of the author CynthiaC
      Originally Posted by Tim3 View Post


      It would make more sense, at least from where I'm sitting, to update the site and try and get it ranked, get more traffic and increase the revenue to a decent level, and then decide whether to keep it or flip it.

      I would love to do that but it's lack of time that is the reason why I want to trade/sell/gift it/raffle it ~ away.

      There is still the possibility of outsourcing the work and keeping it but even outsourcing work requires my time.

      I was going to list it last month and then BOOM - I sold a TV
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