Website Flipping

If you’re working on a quickflip, usually you want to get things done as quick and for as cheap as possible.  Here is a quick tutorial on how to make a logo for your quick flip in 2 minutes.

1. Goto this free online logo maker

2. Enter your Business or Website Name(For this example we are going with “The Logo Shop”

3. Select your Font and Font Size( I’m going with “Agent Orange” font and size “30px”)

4. Select the other options you want for your logo (Color: I did blue & black, Background: White, No Reflection, Output GIF, No Shadow, etc, etc) You get the point, do what you want for your logo.

5. Click the big green “Generate” Button to see your logo

6. Viola, there is your Logo

Now I know this logo isn’t some crazy design, but it’s perfect for a quick web design and flip.  Check it out, play with the settings and create a logo of your own.

If you don’t already have Google Analytics installed on your website I highly suggest you taking 5 minutes to do so. When you are flipping a website one of the main factors is the amount of traffic your site gets.  If you can’t prove you site has traffic then you might as well be selling it as having no traffic, and you’ll end up taking a big drop in the sale price.

Google Analytics will also give you insight into what your site is ranking for as well as where traffic is coming from.  This will help in the promotion of your website because you can see what is working and where you need to make improvements.  So watch this quick 2.5 minute video on how to install Google Analytics and gain the insight on how your website is performing.

Was this helpful? Let me know if you have any questions.

This post is to show how spending 5-10 minutes using Google’s Wonder Wheel to turn an highly competitive niche into a simple Gold Mine that you can dominate within days…

The Niche: Tomato Growing
I know this is always used but it is a great example of how you can make money in literally any niche…

Research:
Now lets take a quick look at Tomato Growing in Google

15 Million websites to compete with?!?!?!?! I think not, lets take a look at Google’s Wonder Wheel and see if we can find something more manageable.

Using the Wonder Wheel:
While you are still in Google looking at those 15 million results look on the left hand side and click the “More Search Tools” drop down and click on the Wonder Wheel

Now the Google Wonder Wheel is going to show you similar popular searches to your main keyword “tomato growing”.

Below you can see what the Wonder Wheel has generated, and immediately one of them stands out to me… “tomato cage”

So lets take a look back at Google and see what the competition is like for “tomato cage”

WOW, only 386,000 results compared to the 15,000,000 for “tomato growing”.  Goes to show that 5 minutes of research can help you find your next big niche.

My Challenge to You: The next website flipping journey you go on is dedicated to the gold mines you find using the Wonder Wheel.

Let me know your thoughts and some things you find using the WW.

Justin is a very well know website flipper as well as an amazing teacher, he is responsible for tons of people learning how to flip websites – check out some of his great website flipping training products.

Website Flipping Start Up Kit
21 Week Coaching Program (Trial)
Website Flipping Masters (Home Study Course)
Thanks Justin Brooke for the great vid! Check out Justin’s website at SiteFling.com

When buying websites, you’ll chance upon properties that you absolutely must get.  On the flipside, you’ll also come across ones that would be best passed over.  How do you know when an available website is best treated with a brush-off?

Search Engine Problems: If the website is banned by at least one search engine, it’s likely to get in the bad favor of others too.  No matter how good it looks, flipping the site will be an uphill battle – one you’re not likely to win.

Zero Promotion: New sites deserve bargain basement prices.  Even though the owner put in a ton of work on the technical aspects, it’s still a shaky buy, at best.  Unless the domain name is a keyword-goldmine, it’s usually better to pass.

Heavy Competition: If the site being sold is a small fish in a large pond filled with plenty of established players, there’s far too much work needed to bring it up to speed.  Unless you can successfully turn the site’s fate around, future buyers will be wary.

Short-Life Span: Sites about particular products or niches that are bound to be gone in a year or two (e.g. a particular movie or a game) are a losing gamble.  After the buzz passes, anyone who gets it will be left with residual traffic that may not even be good enough to pay for its own rent.

Easy To Duplicate: When you check the bargain basement sections of site flipping, you’ll notice the exact same types of properties for sale – wallpaper sites, proxy sites, arcade games, PLR blogs, etc.  With the right content and tools, those sites can be turned out in mass.  There’s no point buying them – just make ten of the same thing yourself.

Make sure to think twice about any website you do buy, many times if it seems to good to be true it usually is.  Make a checklist and go through it every time you are in the market for a new site.

When it comes to flipping a blog, everybody’s trying to come up with something extra that can prop up its value.  Most every relatively new blog that goes up on the selling block will need something extra if it wants to sell for more than the nominal price.

The Basics

If you’re putting up a blog for a quick flip, it’s almost requisite to have the following things on board:

* a descriptive logo
* a custom template
* several starter articles

Value-Added

While the above additions may seem like a good amount of work to put in already, they’re usually not enough to make your flip extremely profitable.  If you do what everybody else does, after all, you’ll just end up making the same profits as they do (which is not much).

Getting creative and pitching in additional value can really raise a blog’s worth.  Instead of taking the road well-traveled, how about getting creative and adding something in that can really draw attention.  Try one of these two things, for instance:

An informational product for sale.  Since commissioning an original ebook or similar product might actually prove too expensive for a quick flip, try to find a product that comes with resale rights.  Design a custom sales page, add it to the site and launch it.  If you can get even one sale before flipping a blog, you can use that as proof-of-concept to sell the site for even more.

A mailing list.  Contrary to what many beginners think, building a small mailing list from your blog isn’t too difficult a task.  For instance, you can buy some PLR content, split it into several parts and offer it as an email course to your visitors.  Similarly, you can package it as a free report that they can receive via email.  If you can get even 10 readers to sign up before putting the blog on sale, the potential of generating a large mailing list out of it can make more than a few potential buyers look your way.

If you put in some thought behind it, you can come up with different ideas that should give your flip an added allure, setting it apart from the deluge of new blogs available for the taking.

If you want to turn your site flipping into a sustainable business, building a team of people that can help you accomplish your goals is not an optional step.  There’s plain too much work that goes into flipping websites, that you’ll end up spreading yourself too thin, without a team to help you out in various steps.

While you may not be able to afford full-time employees, finding reliable (and affordable) freelancers that you can tap when needed will be one of your most important undertakings.  Having them attend to the nitty-gritty of the site itself, you can put your energies where it’s needed most – finding new sites and selling them.

1. Designer: Having a designer on board allows you plenty of flexibility with your sites’ appearance.  If the suite uses a bad template, you can commission the designer to build you a more intuitive one.  From a new logo to better icons to more appealing color schemes, having a reliable designer (who’s familiar with your tastes) on tap can do wonders.

2. Programmer: Even when you’re using a commercial CMS, you’ll always need custom tweaks performed on your site occasionally. Unless coding is your specialty, even a small change can eat up hours upon hours of your time.  Always keep a programmer on your roster of contacts – you’ll need them for sure.

3. Copywriter: Content is king – that’s what they all say, isn’t it.  That’s because it’s true.  The value of a site with good, timeless content can never be discounted.  As such, having a good copywriter on board can bring a lot of value to your flipping ventures that you otherwise wouldn’t get.

So get to it and start building your website flipping team!

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.

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.