Flipping Easy

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…

While going to the “school of hard knocks” is often seen as a badge of honor, attending means making and learning from a lot of mistakes. Unfortunately when it comes to buying and selling websites, making mistakes almost always means losing money and all of the sudden the school of hard knocks doesn’t sound so glamorous.

While you should always learn from your mistakes, in flipping being able to learn from the mistakes of others can literally pay huge dividends. To help in that endeavor, I’ve compiled a list of 5 common mistakes people make when flipping sites that will absolutely cost you money.

I recently listed Private Party sales as one of the only two places I would suggest selling a website. Not only can private sales save you the time and money involved in listing a site for auction, they also often result in a much higher sale price and thus, a bigger profit on your flip. Unfortunately, finding people that want to buy their site outside of a marketplace listing can be difficult and sometimes intimidating for people that are new to site flipping. To help you overcome that initial fear or hesitancy, I’ve compiled a quick list of three easy places to find private party buyers for your website.

One of the question that comes up a lot when people first hear about buying and selling websites is “Where should I sell my site?”

To be honest, I find this to be a very simple question, as there are really only two places I would ever, EVER, sell a website. Now obviously there are a lot more than two places out there that will let you sell your site, so chances are I’m going to be stepping on some toes with this post. It’s not that the other places out there are horrible, or that you’d never be able to sell you site. The issue is simply that when selling things, you have to go where the buyers are. And in my experience, the buyers of websites are in only two places.

The following is a guest post by Lee (aka Glitterbidder) of Unique Turnkey Websites. If you would like to guest post here on FlippingEasy.com drop me a line via the contact page.

If you browse through any of the places that sell websites, you’ll notice a wide variety of sites for sale. Generally, you will find that the dominant sellers deal in two types of sites – quickie sites that are usually made by scripts and content sites which typically include premium themes. Obviously, the “quickie” sites are easy to make, however they don’t sell for nearly as much as the content sites which can take a flipper many hours and a few bucks to get in premium condition.

So, this begs the question which is better quality or quantity?

By the time you read this I should be in the recovery room after some minor back surgery to fix a issue I had with a disc. I tell you this for two reasons. First of all, I’ll be out of commission for a while so posting here is going to be a bit more spread out than I’d like it to be. I have a few posts ready and there might even be a guest post or two but even so, posting frequency is going to slow down slightly.

More importantly though, the thought occurred to me that surgery really is what’s often required for a successful site flip. So, in the spirit of embracing the post slowing annoyance also known as a partial discectomy, I’d like to discuss the 4 stages of Site Surgery.

One of the most common questions about selling a website is when to pull the trigger and actually list it for sale. There are so many unknown elements when selling that even once you’ve decided to sell, it is incredibly easy to begin second guessing yourself. In the end, the decision to sell is ultimately one that you will have to make for yourself. However, I thought it might be useful to discuss a few of the questions to consider, that will hopefully make the decision making process a bit less stressful for you.