Archive for July, 2009

Smart Ways to Sell Your Websites Online

July 25th, 2009 by Ed | No Comments | Filed in General

If you want to sell your websites fast on the internet you must be able to offer exceptional value to your would-be buyers. And you can do this by building professional looking websites with quality content to match. Images and photos that relate to the niche market website can also increase the perceived market value of the website you wish to sell.

 

Assuming your website is good enough and ready to flip, you can adopt the following smart ways to sell your websites online.

 

Build A List of Websites Buyers Over Time

 

In email marketing, everyone knows the importance of having a responsive list to always relate to when one has a product, service or information to share. Having an affinity with prospective buyers creates trust and credibility between buyers and seller. This is also true for site flip business.

 

If you have a list of website buyers, simply email them your offer and watch how bids will start pouring in. It is a selling strategy that works any day. Online shoppers like to deal with people they know and trust.

 

Make Your Website Selling Price Less Than The Website Value

 

At brokers’ auction sites you will be surprised how much some site flippers expect from the sale of websites. It is ridiculous to expect $1000 from a website that is not even generating $1 a month, full of crap and over-used PLR articles as content and built with free WordPress blogs or free HTML templates.

 

In the same vein, bidders will knock their heads to have possession of a website perceived to be worth more than $1000 but being offered for $800 or less by the seller. The seller will witness buying frenzy and he can turn in profits at a faster rate.

 

Since it is an online business you wish to build over time, you should aim at making big profits from the backend sales. In the long run, you will create a good name in the website flipping niche that is unequalled.

How Selling Websites Can Make You Money Online

July 18th, 2009 by Ed | No Comments | Filed in Selling Website Tips

Selling websites is no longer news on the internet. How much fortune you can amass flipping websites is the big deal today. Many internet entrepreneurs who have foresight have quickly diversified into the selling websites niche and they are making a killing from site flip business. This article discusses briefly the tips and tricks used by successful flippers.

 

Selling Websites is a Business

 

If you are planning to go into the business of websites flipping, you need to treat it as such. To that end, register a keyword-rich domain name and build website for it solely to communicate to your prospects from time to time that it is one of your lines of businesses. Prospective buyers will take you more serious when dealing with you.

 

 

Build Attractive Websites to Sell

 

Selling websites fast is like love at first sight. Buyers are wont to be attracted to websites that are pretty to the eyes. From there, they will have the mind to probe other variables that will inform them whether to buy or not. My advice is that you either outsource website design to a professional if you don’t know how to construct one or use easy-to-use website design software.

 

Use Quality and Unique Content on Website to Sell

 

Successful site flippers have long discovered that websites and blogs that sell fast are the ones were quality and unique articles are used. Website buyers want to be different and unique in the niche market they wish to pursue. These days it is cheap to outsource article writing. You can get quality articles written with as little as $5 per article. And better if you are good at researching and writing articles yourself.

 

Monetize the Websites

 

Selling websites business is all about proving to a buyer how much traffic and revenue it consistently generates now and in the foreseeable future and at a profit too. What this means is that a site that make consistent sales/profits from own product or service, affiliate products and advertising will always have eager buyers more than “plain vanilla” websites.

 

Drive Quality Traffic to Your Site

 

Another point to note about successfully selling a website is getting targeted traffic regularly. Yes, website visitors are the people that will deliver on your site objective of making money online. No web visitors, no sales! To this end, you must drive targeted traffic through article marketing, posting in forums, making blog comments, using pay per click (PPC) advertising, social bookmarking, and other creative means.

 

Think Long Term Rather than Short Term

 

Majority of beginning site flippers think short term instead of long term. They quickly build website or blog, post PLR articles or public domain content and then list the site for sale at auction. No wonder you see bids and sales at $100 or less. That is not a good option of selling websites. Plan to sell a website after 3 months. You make more money because you would have built a solid foundation in terms of revenue and traffic.

 

You can learn how to profitably sell websites by reading my selling websites report here

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