Posts Tagged ‘website cashflow’

How to Sell a Website with a Premium Domain Name

July 18, 2014  |   How to Buy & Sell Websites   |     |   Comments Off on How to Sell a Website with a Premium Domain Name

In most website sales, my advice is the same: Never disclose your website URL in your public listings. The reason for this is you want to keep private as much of the sale information as possible. If the URL and sale price are ...

Verifying that Website Buyers Can Repay Debt

July 18, 2014  |   How to Buy & Sell Websites   |     |   Comments Off on Verifying that Website Buyers Can Repay Debt

The most common form of debt financing in website deals is seller financing. Traditional lenders almost never lend to website buyers. Sellers generally offer financing terms to buyers. There are a handful of specialty lenders that do lend to website buyers. ...

Creating Software Products to Increase Website Traffic

July 10, 2014  |   How to Buy & Sell Websites   |     |   Comments Off on Creating Software Products to Increase Website Traffic

After you buy a website, during your training period with the seller, you must learn every detail of how the seller drives traffic to the website. After you've mastered that, then, and only then, should you experiment with new ways to attract ...

Analyzing Websites with Seasonal Revenue Fluctuations

July 08, 2014  |   How to Buy & Sell Websites   |     |   Comments Off on Analyzing Websites with Seasonal Revenue Fluctuations

Performing proper due diligence on a website is probably the most important step in the website purchase process. Revenue trends are one of the factors you must analyze. However, some website businesses are seasonal and do not have steady month-to-month revenue trends. Therefore, comparing a ...

Website Sellers Try to Sell Websites Too Fast

June 17, 2014  |   How to Buy & Sell Websites   |     |   Comments Off on Website Sellers Try to Sell Websites Too Fast

We often receive requests to sell websites that are less than 12 months old. In some instances, some website sellers look to sell websites that are less than 6 months old. Some are even a few days old. We always decline to take ...

Generalist Websites versus Specialist Websites for Sale

May 26, 2014  |   How to Buy & Sell Websites   |     |   Comments Off on Generalist Websites versus Specialist Websites for Sale

A generalist website is a website that does not require any specialized knowledge to operate the website. A specialist website is a website that requires specialized knowledge to operate the website. For example, a webmaster doesn't need any specialized knowledge to run a ...

Your Website Sales Trend Affects Your Website Sale Price

March 31, 2014  |   How to Buy & Sell Websites   |     |   Comments Off on Your Website Sales Trend Affects Your Website Sale Price

Two websites earn the exact same total revenues or profits in the trailing 12 months but sell at totally different prices. One of the primary reasons for this is they each have different sales trends. Many website owners only consider selling ...

Buying & Selling Fixer-Upper Websites

September 12, 2013  |   How to Buy & Sell Websites   |     |   Comments Off on Buying & Selling Fixer-Upper Websites

Like in real estate, acquiring, improving, and flipping fixer-upper websites can be very lucrative. Some website buyers specialize solely in fixer-uppers. The returns are significantly bigger in websites than in real estate because the cost to "renovate" a website is much smaller ...

Can You Sell a Website with No Revenues?

July 08, 2013  |   How to Buy & Sell Websites   |     |   Comments Off on Can You Sell a Website with No Revenues?

The short answer is it is very, very difficult. We sometimes receive requests from sellers looking to sell websites that have no revenues. The buyers that we work with don't look at such websites so we have to turn them ...