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The data for the Most Actives, Top Sellers, Top Selling Niches, and Most Active Site Flippers is based on the market activity at Flippa.com. As the largest and most popular marketplace for site flippers right now, the market activity there provides valuable insight on what people are buying and selling.
MOST ACTIVES
www.SnoringSolutions.org – 52 Bids
Good to see someone I know have so much success. “Nichescape,” the seller’s Flippa username, is a guy I’ve known for a while now through a couple private forums I used to belong to. This guy is a real pro and an all around good guy. At any rate, I see he’s applying the same selling methods taught in the very popular ebook, “Sell Your Site For More.” Unfortunately, the ebook is no longer available. The seller took it off the market. I won’t divulge everything in the ebook but suffice to say, if you have a quality site and you start your auctions at $1 with no reserve and keep the auction under 7 days, you’ll get plenty of bids. As you can see here, nichescape garnered 52 bids applying this strategy and sold his site for more than 22x monthly revenue! See auction here.
Nichescape did the same for another auction he ran back in the beginning of January where he got 61 bids and sold the site for more than 66x monthly revenue! That’s insane. See auction here.
www.SmellsFunny.com – 41 Bids
Now this is an interesting site. It’s purely monetized by ads and in the first 18 days of January 2010 alone, it received over 330,000 unique visitors! That’s a lot of traffic. With that much traffic and starting the auction with a low bid, there’s no wonder it got 41 bids. See auction here.
www.RussianGirlsCQ.com – 35 Bids
O.K, as a guy and as someone who has a good friend who’s wife is from Russia (who he met online), I have to admit I spent a little more time than usual “analyzing” this site…lol. Let’s just say there is a lot of good looking women featured on this site;) But back to why this site got so many bids. The seller, “ispyppc,” did everything right. He started the auction at $1 with no reserve and he over delivered in his listing. It has every detail imaginable including plenty of screenshots and videos. You can learn a lot studying this listing. See auction here.
TOP SELLERS
www.BloggingTips.com – $60,000
This auction was all the rage last week. I saw a couple tweets about it and Justin over at SiteFling.com even mentioned it in one of his recent videos. This site sold for a whopping $60,000 – almost 55x monthly revenue! Kevin (aka “fonzerelli_79 on Flippa) was the owner of the site and he built one hell of an asset. The site had over 8,000 RSS subscribers and received over 150,000 unique visitors per month. With a great two-word domain and a hot niche (blogging), it was the perfect storm. See auction here.
www.RussianGirlsCQ.com – $14,495
Well I already told you I enjoyed this site, but let’s talk about how much it sold for. At $14,495 it sold for almost 10x monthly revenue. The site’s monthly revenue of $1,500 was mostly from affiliate sales but also had some AdSense revenues as well. The site was established in 2006 and received around 17,000 unique visitors per month. The dating niche is always strong so given the age of this site and the solid traffic and income, I’m not surprised at how well it did. See auction here.
www.SmellsFunny.com – $11,000
I already briefly touched on the insane traffic this site gets but consider this…the site “only” had around 133,000 unique visitors in December 2009. Then in the first 18 days of January the traffic more than doubled to over 334,000 unique visitors. If that isn’t a traffic explosion, I don’t know what is. With monthly revenues of $1,750, the site sold for a little more than 6x monthly revenue. See auction here.
TOP SELLING NICHES
The top selling niches for last week didn’t change that much from the previous week. The Health and Internet Marketing niches were selling well as usual and knocking Investing off the top 3 for last week was the Movies & Entertainment niche. I guess when the economy isn’t doing so hot people turn to movies and entertainment instead of investing.
MOST ACTIVE SITE FLIPPERS
I’m adding a new category to the weekly Market Snapshot – most active site flippers. These are folks that are obviously selling on a regular basis. And if they’re doing this on a regular basis, then they must be doing well or they wouldn’t bother. You should check out their profiles and see what they’re doing. As a buyer you may find a site that interests you and as a seller, you can see what type of site flipping business they operate to give you some ideas;)
*You can view the profiles for these sellers by clicking on their names but you need to be logged into your Flippa account to view them.
htmlserver – had 11 sites for sale
diwi – had 7 sites for sale
duncanmae – had 7 sites for sale
GLANCING AROUND OTHER MARKETPLACES
Warrior Forum
Blog packages seem to be very popular right now on the Warrior Forum. If you take a look at the recent sites for sale, you’ll see most of what’s available are pre-built blogs that come loaded with all kinds of extras (ebooks, unique and exclusive articles, etc.). And most of these packages are selling around $37 each. “Back in the day,” these were called turnkey sites. These are sites that are basically nice-looking templates. Granted, the packages being offered on the Warrior Forum right now are pretty nice. You not only get a great looking site to get you up and running immediately, but you also get the extras mentioned which help.
Digital Point Forum
The Digital Point forum usually isn’t the place to find high-dollar sites for sale but every once in a while something interesting pops up. Last week DropConf was listed for sale for $33,250. There were a couple things that stood out. One, why was it listed on Digital Point? Two, it always floors me when people leave stupid comments on people’s auctions – particularly when they bash the seller’s site. You’ll see what I mean when you visit the listing. Just a tip for you site flippers, please heed your mom’s advice: if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all! If you don’t like what’s for sale, move on. Do you really need to waste everyone’s time sharing your negative opinions? See listing here.
WebsiteBroker.com
NichesInABox.com was listed for sale on WebsiteBroker.com for $1,000,000! The site was fully launched in December 2006 and has generated an average of $500,000 in yearly sales. See listing here.
BuySellWebsite.com
Here’s an interesting twist on website selling. The owner of LostLetterman.com owns the UK domain version of this website. His US-based website is doing very well. It’s so successful that he has all that he can handle. That’s a nice problem to have in this economy! He promises that the UK site will generate at least $2k-$3k per month in time. He’s asking $10,000. For this price the owner will build the UK site for you and share his marketing and ecommerce knowledge that made his US-based site so successful. If what he says is true, snapping this up for $10,000 would be a decent bargain – only 3-5 times monthly revenue. The problem is, selling a “promise” isn’t always the easiest thing to do. See listing here.
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