Website Flipping

When you buy or build sites with the intention of flipping them within the very short-term, it pays to keep your costs as low as possible.  Since the price of new, barely-indexed blogs and informational websites usually go for very low (think $75 to $200), your profit margin will depend greatly on how well you can keep your costs to the bare minimum.

Here’s the rub: if you skimp too much on your new site, it will show.  A stock free template, makeshift logos and PLR content just won’t cut it anymore – you’ll be lucky to sell those properties at cost.  The trick, then, is to give your site as professional treatment as you can, while keeping a tight lid on your spending.

Let’s look at the things you’ll likely need to spend cash on when building new sites:

Logo.  For the purposes of a quick flip, your logos must cost well below industry standard in order to keep you profitable.  Your best chance is to hire an offshore designer or local kid who can give you bulk, original graphics for $10 a piece.  You’ll actually find many takers for this – as long as your order is in bulk.

Scripts/Widgets.  The more experience you get, the more familiar you will be with useful functions and features that add tremendous value to new sites for flipping.  While you can buy scripts at nominal licensing costs, it will pay off more in the long run if you commission custom-scripts that you can use over and over across all sites you create.  Pay once (even if it’s a little expensive), use many times over – can’t beat that.

Templates. Instead of buying a premium template for every site you create, it’s better to just acquire a couple of flexible designs and have a low-rate designer tweak it for every site you make.  There are many designs out there where simple changes, such as a new logo, new icons and different color schemes, can make a huge difference, almost making it look unique.  After the initial investment on a flexible template, you can just hire someone to put in an hour’s amount of work to change the CSS and such for cheap.

Content.  When you’re building a new site, content can make a huge difference.  Personally, I like to use a bunch of second-rate rewritten PLRs (that you can get for ultra-cheap), propped up by 2 or 3 well-written and original content (that you actually pay decent money for).  If you design your navigation right, you will be driving attention to the good content and making the site look packed by inclusion of the second-rate stuff.

You can get everything needed for a quick flip with Justin Brooke’s new Website Flipping Starter Kit; 25 blog themes, 4 pre-made sites, 5 PLR products, 500 free graphics, traffic software, & video training.  So get to it.

Brett

When I first got interested in website flipping I had no idea where to start, how to make a site, where to sell a site, or anything in between. Luckily for you Justin Brooke has created a Website Flipping Starter Kit. This kit will literally provide everything needed to make a successfuly flip, and video training that show you exactly how to do it. Read on to see everything you’ll get…

Blog Themes:
Get 25 high quality blog themes that will start you on the path of blog flipping.  Blogs rank well in search engines, look amazing, are user friendly, and are very popular in the website industry right now.  Put some good quality content, some affiliate link and opt-in forms and you can easily sell these blogs for $100-$300.  A nice blog can easily be put together(even for a beginner) in under a few hours.

Website Flipping Mini Sites:
Get 4 pre-made website templates that you can begin flipping in as little as an hour.  Simply add content, images, affiliate links, and adsense and get your feet wet in the website flipping industry.  Put some quality work into one of these sites and you’ll find out for your self that the average sale price is anywhere from $500-$700.

Pre-Made Products:
Creating products can be difficult, PLR Products enable you to sell others products as if they were your own.  With the Website Flipping Starter Kit you will get 5 high quality PLR products to begin promoting on your new site. **Think about it.  If you simply sell 1 product a day for $19.99 x 30 days equals around $600 a month.  Website usually sell for 7-8 times their monthly income.  600 x 7 = $4200 Flip!!!**

Free Graphics:
We’ve all heard the saying “A picture is worth a thousand words”, and nothing is more true when dealing with a website. A few well placed images can mean the difference between a couple hundred dollar flip and a couple thousand. Hiring a graphic designs can easily cost you a few hundred dollars, with this you’ll get over 500 professionally designed images to add some flare to your site.

Traffic Software:

Creating a nice site is a great way to flip a website.  Making your site profitable is the next step… The only way to do this is to drive traffic to your site, the more traffic the more money your site makes!  Sites like youtube, myspace, facebook are so successful because they know how to drive traffic.  Join the club, start driving traffic with the traffic generation software that is included in the website flipping starter kit.

Website Flipping Training Videos:

Have no clue how to setup the free blog themes?
Don’t know how to add a image to your website?
No clue on where to even start?

No problem, to top it all off this package come with some video training. This training literally is like looking over the should of a professional website flipping showing you exactly what to do.

This start kit was created by a well known website flipper, Justin Brooke, I have learned everything I know about website flipping from him and he creates nothing but great stuff. I highly suggest checking out this website flipping starter kit and explore what you can do.

Wow it’s been too long, sorry for not posting for a while.  I’ve been real busy doing some siteflips, affiliate marketing, and working.  I figured I’d break the dryspell with some good stuff.

As you have noticed I really recommend a lot of Justin Brooke’s stuff because it was his siteflipacademy book that got me started in website flipping.  I followed his exact steps and got sold my first site in just a few days and I was hooked.  Justin has come out with many products & trainings since then and I have bought them all because I know he provides quality content that will make me money.

Justin and his wife, Chaunna, just released their 21 week coaching program and they are offering a $1 trial.  You can’t go wrong with a trial and they are very honest, if you don’t like it you will never be charged again.

I’ve already signed up, there is a limited number of openings and if you’re interested you need to act fast.

$1 Website Flipping Coaching

Some things you will learn:

• How Justin made a $40,000 flip.

• The Secrets his students are using to flip sites in under an hour.

• How one of his students bought 17 websites for $13 each and ended up selling them for $50 a piece without changing a thing.

• A technique used to sell a website for $1 and make upto $250 in affiliate commisions on the backend

Good Luck,

Brett

Sometimes, all you need to look for in a website to make a profitable site flip is a good domain name.  This is especially useful when you’re starting a site from scratch with an intention to put it in the market after a small amount of development.  Even if you’re looking to buy a built site, though, the domain name will play a heavy factor as far as its future marketability is concerned.

These are the things you generally want to look for when choosing a domain name.

1. The shorter, the better

A shorter domain name will be easier to remember, faster to type and easier to brand.  As much as possible, stick to within three keywords or less.   If you can get away with it, do limit the character count to 19 or fewer as well.

2. Stick to the major TLDs

For purposes of flipping, keep the domain name to within the three major TLDs, namely .com, .org and .net.  If you’re considering purchase of a site with a different extension, see if you can buy a major TLD of the same before going through with the transaction.  Otherwise, you may just want to pass.  The majority of people default to .coms when they hear about a website, so as much as possible I grab a .com domain.

3. Cram your keywords into the domain

Having the main keyword in the domain automatically brings SEO value to the site, as well as slapping those vital words right on the brand.  This brings major points once you throw the site back on the market as keywords are among the first things buyers look at when looking for online properties to invest on.

4. Avoid trademark violations

Always check whether a domain violates any trademarks.  The last thing you want is to invest all that time and energy developing a site for flipping, only to have buyers refuse to even come near it for fear of infringing on other companies’ legal properties.

Stick to these few guidelines and you’ll be off to a good start in the website flipping proccess.

WordPress blogs are among the most popular types of properties that site flippers love to turn.  With the wealth of extensions available for the platform, turning a blog from a standard install to a multi-faceted website can be done in a very short time, without requiring a ton of work.

While the number of existing RSS subscribers will likely be your future buyers’ main concern, there are a few other things you can do to give the blog a better chance at making a successful sale.

Add A Premium Theme: Throwing in the license to a premium theme, along with a few well-placed customizations, adds plenty of immediate value to a WordPress blog.  If your custom changes really manage to set the blog apart, the design alone can be a major selling point.

Create Flagship Content: Pay a really good writer to develop some linkable, attractive and flagship content.  These types of features will give the site the timeless content edge that majority of blogs lack, giving potential buyers a major incentive to invest on it.

Add Regular Content: Give your blog momentum by having regular content appear on its pages.  Whether you schedule articles, hire part-time bloggers or produce some short videos, a busy blog offers a more lucrative purchase compared to the lot of sparsely updated WordPress installations peddled on the market.

Get Some Quick Links: Try and get some quick, low-cost inbound links to your site from other blogs.  Hire cheap labor to post a few comments on do-follow blogs, join carnivals and run a couple of social media campaigns to highlight your flagship content.   The more links you can manage to eke out before rolling the blog back out to the market, the more profitable the venture can be.  I usually use this to build some quick, high quality links.

So get started doing the following tasks and see how much value is added to the blog when you cash it in for that payday.

-Brett

ps. site flip academy has some great resource for flipping all types of blogs and website, so check them out here.

Finding a website to flip isn’t that hard. A quick look at popular webmaster forums like Sitepoint and DP are guaranteed to turn up more than a few sites available for cheap that you can easily sell for over twice the cost of acquisition.

If that’s all you’re going to do, though, you’re not going to maximize the inherent profitability of the business model. Sure, picking out a $25 site, tweaking it a little and letting it simmer for a few weeks before turning it over for $200 is a good way to make a small profit. However, it’s neither going to make you rich nor is it a real foundation to a sustainable business.

Experienced website flippers always go beyond “cheap” when looking for properties to turn around. They also don’t restrict themselves to places where websites are normally traded, such as webmaster forums or auction sites like eBay, where competition can prove fierce. Instead, they turn to search results and other avenues, evaluating websites to go after based on their merits and potential.

Finding those sites that are not on the market but may be available requires you to really search deep into the web. The more familiar you are with a particular industry, the more likely you will be able to scope out those under-performing properties that hide within its confines.

Big sites that show up in the first page of search results for that industry are obviously out of the question – they’re too expensive and well-managed on their own that changes you put in may actually be detrimental to it. What you’re looking for are those niche properties that have received some actual attention from their owners but are now being neglected for the most part. Maybe they’re good sites that are badly-optimized, content sites with no structure or decent products that weren’t given any promotion – if they actually carry some value but could use a little more work to make their mark, they will be your target acquisitions.

Take some time and go beyond the typical sources for websites to buy and flip for a profit. With a little work and patience, you can chance upon some real treasures.

-Brett

ps. if your interested in getting started or bettering your website flipping skills I highly suggest site flip academy

Shopping For Websites: What Makes Them Valuable

When evaluating whether you want to flip a particular website, you want to look for certain qualities that will make it a potential hit. Many times, you’ll come across sites with one or more of these factors going for it, with its owners simply unable to capitalize on them.

1. Backlinks

Despite all the  pages upon pages of SEO advice written across many books and blogs, nothing still helps a site up the search rankings better than solid backlinks.  When evaluating a site for a possible flip, check its backlink profile.

If it has many links from social media, adding an authority link from two or three popular and respected sources in its industry will probably be enough to turn it into a goldmine.  The more natural and authoritative links that it already has, the more valuable it should be to you as a potential site for flipping.

2. Pagerank

While many now discount the importance of pagerank, there are few metrics as easy to see that will give you good indication of where a site is at in Google’s graces.   People still pay good money for pagerank too.

3. Community/Users/Subscribers

An existing audience makes a property extremely valuable for any site flipper.  Whether it is a blog with RSS subscribers, a forum with members or an ebook sales website with a mailing list, having built-in users you can leverage right from the get-go makes a site brimming full of potential.

4. Professional Work

Check the layout, the design, the backend, the scripts and other tangible components that comprise the actual website.  Are they professional-grade or low quality patchwork?  Do the articles and databases look like they can be worth a decent amount?  Is it running some custom scripts or CMS that can be worth a good amount on its own?

5. Domain Name

How valuable will the site’s domain name be on today’s market?  Is it brandable and memorable?  You might recognize a site’s name to be related to a popular brand, for instance, on a totally different niche.  If you can buy the site, you can easily overhaul it to  serve that market and sell it for much more based on the name’s value alone.

If you are interested or want to learn more about website flipping check out Site Flip Academy

Site Flipping: A Golden Opportunity

Flipping properties has been an age-old business model utilized across many industries.  There is, indeed, a lot of money to be made in acquiring under-performing assets, dressing them up and putting them back on the market for a nice margin.

The same profitable scheme has also found extensive use online.  Instead of turning over real estate or yachts or cars, however, people have been banking it by flipping websites.

Under-Performers

There are probably millions, if not billions, of websites today.  While some of these browser fares have become all but indispensable in our daily lives, many more are merely languishing in the sidelines for a variety of reasons.

Down-on-their-luck websites like these are no different from real world businesses on their last legs.  While a few of them may have no chance of thriving (like a surf shop on the middle of the desert, for instance), some may have merely been mismanaged, poorly marketed or ignored in favor of more profitable ventures.

An Opportunity

While majority of these websites will likely fade into obscurity, never to be seen again, many of them may actually present an opportunity to someone with a keen eye for potential.  A web-savvy entrepreneur with the qualified know-how can take some of these under-performing properties and turn them into modestly profitable ventures.

Regardless of what kind of budget you’re working with, website flipping can be a golden opportunity for someone with the right skillset and the ability to spot a likely star amidst a sea of unwanted sites.  Do you have what it takes to dive in and be a part of it?

Get on it, and start flipping some sites!

-Brett

ps.  get your feet wet in website flipping with Site Flip Academy, hands down the best resources for your money…

Quick-Flipping: Buying and Selling Websites for Immediate Profit

Most people involved in website flipping take an under-performing site, put some development work into it and seek to maximize its potential before deciding to sell it.  A few, however, may not have the same desire to spend as much time on the properties they buy, looking instead to put it back into the market immediately.

Quick Sale

Some sites sold around the web simply go for less than what they’re worth.  Whether it’s due to plain ignorance of their properties’ actual value or a quick need for liquid funds, the owners are putting it up at a price that makes it a veritable steal.  Knowledgeable website flippers can identify these opportunities, sweep them up and list them up for resale at their actual value, earning a profit with absolutely no work.

Adding Value

While it’s always nice to make a quick buck from directly arbitraging a website without any work, adding a little more value to the property can raise its stock in considerable ways.   In fact, that’s how most seasoned website flippers will approach this same situation.

A few tweaks in some key areas like on-site SEO, backlinks and flagship content can easily double a cheaply-acquired site’s resale value.  If you can quickly implement these changes before the market renders it obsolete, you can be looking at a hefty revenue.

A Challenge

While that may all sound easy, the reality is that quickly flipping a website at a considerable gain is one of the hardest things to master.  The web, after all, is one of the fastest-changing industries in the world.  Unlike the stock market or real estate, your hot new acquisition may only stay that way for the next two months.  If the buzz fizzles out before you can capitalize, you can end up with just another loser in your portfolio.

-Brett

ps. if you need help getting started in website flipping I use and recommend siteflipacademy.

Website flipping is obviously a word derived from the terms “website” + “flipping”. The term flipping in this word is in turn, derived from the lingo of real estate industry which literally means buying a property (website in this case), enhancing it and then selling it on a higher price.

Factors that Affect Website Flipping

a) Website to flip – This is a big determining factor in website flipping. You should buy the right website to start with.

b) Website Development - This is not just an artistic thing, but also a witty step that must be done carefully. You should generate good contents for the website. This will pave the way to high traffic and conversions.

c) Website Marketing – This is the part wherein you have to market the website at a higher price. Normally you could start marketing the website at the same site where you first bought it. Of course, you should sell it in a higher value and remember to keep it at a reasonable price too!

Forms of Website Flipping

a) Set up Website Flipping

Fundamentally this is to create a website from scratch, do some marketing and then sell the site once it has traffic. This category takes more time but gives higher control on choosing the direction, setup and contents of the website.

b) Long-Term Website Flipping

This engages buying a website for its income and utilizing it as a long-term investment. So you investor will hold onto the site for multiple years profiting with its income capacity and then selling once the site reaches its profit boundary.

c) Standard Flipping

This is the universal website flipping – real estate model. As defined above, buy the right website, improve its contents and market it at a higher price.