I hope you’re all having a happy holiday season! There are a lot of exciting things in store for Flipping Easy in the coming year but I wanted to provide one last useful post for 2008.
While researching the topic of buying and selling websites, I was struck by how little information is offered for free in this industry. There are more courses and eBooks out there than you can shake a stick at but only a handful of sites are offering what I would consider quality information without making you fork over a chunk of change first.
As I was sifting through a bunch of long winded sales letters and product pitch pages, I decided to start collecting all the useful posts and articles about site flipping from across the web into one long list. In the spirit of the holiday season, I figured I’d share that list with you (after checking it twice of course), so without further ado…
Flipping Overviews
- How to Buy a Website and Flip it for Profit – Entrepreneurs Journey
- Flip a Web Site Fixer-upper – Sitepoint
- How to Invest in Websites in Your Spare Time – Entrepreneurs Journey
- How to Make Money from Website Flipping – Net Business Blog
- Buying and Selling Websites Offers Quick Profits – Guardian.co.uk
- Find an Under Valued Asset. Fix It Up. Flip It. – NYtimes.com
- Flipping Websites – An Additional Income Stream for Freelance Writers – All Freelance Writing
Buying Sites
- Buying a Website 101 – BuyEstablishedWebsites.com
- A Few Things to Consider When Buying a Website – WebsiteBroker
- What You Need to Know Before Buying Websites – DigitalWebTalk
- One Tip to Double Your Flipping Profits – BuyEstablishedWebsites.com
- Finding, Evaluating, and Buying a Site – WebsiteBroker
Valuing Sites
- The Ultimate Web Site Valuation Guide – Sitepoint
- How To Sell A Website – How Much Is Your Website Worth? – Entrepreneurs Journey
- Valuation of Websites – WebsiteBroker
- What’s Your Website Worth? – Sitepoint
Selling Sites
- The Website Seller – John Cow
- How to Avoid Being Scammed by Fraudulent Buyers – Suite J
- Selling Websites 101 – BuyEstablishedWebsites.com
- To Flip or Not to Flip? – All Freelance Writing
- Hunting Down Buyers – Suite J
Case Studies
- Flipping a Site for Profit – Sitepoint
- The Anatomy of a Website Flip – BuyEstablishedWebsites.com
- Lessons from an Acquisition – Ask Shane
- Once I Bought a Website – Sitepoint
- Flipping Websites (Week 1, Week 2 and Week 3) – All Freelance Writing
Free eBooks
- Site Flipping for Wealth – SmarterWealth.net
I’ll continue to maintain the list in the coming year so if I’ve missed any, or you find newly published posts that I might not catch, please feel free to drop me a link for inclusion. Just be sure to mention the Resource List in your email so my filter catches it.
(Note: please only send me links to free resources, I’m not going to promote someone’s product with this list).
December 31st, 2008 at 9:56 am
Amazing post, thanks for all the great information I am actually going to start my first flip January 2nd. How is the short sale looking?
reply:December 31st, 2008 at 10:02 am
Nice resource list. Quite a few articles there to read but I am interested in selling. I love the design of your blog but your dad should have used the thesis Wordpres theme and just made your design look like this. Much more search engine traffic. Just my opinion though.
reply:December 31st, 2008 at 10:33 am
@Franklin Bishop: I think we’ll be switching over to the thesis theme at some point but I’ve optimized this blog fairly well and Thesis doesn’t guarantee more search traffic automatically. It just makes it MUCH easier to optimize than any other theme I’ve seen. Thanks for the input though and I’m glad you liked the list!
reply:December 31st, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I’ve been looking for such a list as good was being not so google at the time for looking for such articles. Thanks
reply:December 31st, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Hi, Ben:
Nice resource list, will bookmark and look over on another nite. Happy New Year!!!!
reply:January 1st, 2009 at 1:23 am
@Missy (from G34 Media): Happy New Year to you as well! I’m glad you like the list, be sure to let me know if you have any additions you’d make. I’d like it to be as useful as possible and give some exposure to people sharing quality info in our niche.
reply:January 1st, 2009 at 11:57 am
Hey Ben! Your old buddy Ryan here
Just wanted give you props on that list…very nice, and quite helpful for any skill level. I linked to it from my forum, as it really is a nice resource.
Happy New Year to you and the family!
Ryan
reply:January 26th, 2009 at 9:10 am
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reply:January 26th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Hey Ben,
Nice work! I’ve been doing alot of my own work along these lines recently and was really psyched to see that you’ve been humming along the exact same lines. I’ve got some other theories for site transactions as well. The car metaphor is a good one, and there are some really interesting applications of transaction models that seem so new for website transactions. Definitely a great topic to start defining. Hopefully we can discuss more soon. Keep it up!
reply:February 17th, 2009 at 3:01 am
Hi Ben – this is a great list and just what I need to get me started (for real) on flipping some sites. Been meaning to do it for a while and by the time I have read all of this stuff I should be good to go. Thanks.
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