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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.StressQuiz.org – 33 Bids
Does this guy ever stop? Here is yet another listing by the great “abisko.” He had another site for sale a couple weeks ago that was the most active on Flippa where the site got a staggering 82 bids! This latest site for sale by abisko didn’t yield as many bids but 33 still isn’t too shabby and was enough to put it as the most active auction on Flippa last week. You need to “study” this latest auction because you’ll see he’s doing some very unique things that I don’t see any other sellers doing. He’s now using his listing to funnel potential buyers to his own private buyer’s list. That’s brilliant. He’s also offering bonuses to buyers and he’s highlighting other sites he has for sale. This guy is good. If you want to know how to do this stuff the right way, keep an eye on him! See auction here.
www.AirportFact.com – 32 Bids
Sometimes sites come along that garner interest that you just scratch your head and wonder why. On paper, the seller of this site broke every site flipping rule. His title sucked, he listed it with a starting bid of $1,000, he listed it for a full 30 days, and his listing description wasn’t the greatest. And on top of that, the site itself wasn’t that great as admitted by the owner. Yet despite all that, it still generated 32 bids and sold for $8,600. See auction here.
www.TestMyStress.org – 32 Bids
Are you kidding me? “abisko” now has two sites that hit the most actives list last week on Flippa? Nothing new to say here as I’ve already commented on what this guy is doing. Although I will say this, take a look at the number of views his auctions are getting. This one had 1,576 views. How many potential buyers do you think that is? Let’s say on the low side it’s 500. Of those 500 buyers, how many do you think sign up to be on abisko’s private buyer’s list that he’s promoting on all of his listings? Are you starting to see the picture here? It won’t be long and he won’t need to sell anything on Flippa anymore as he’ll have his own list of buyers to sell to! See auction here.
TOP SELLERS
www.ConquerYourNiche.com – $144,000
Holy sh*t…$144,000? That’s crazy. I’m always amazed at how much much sites can sell for and that’s why I love this business so much! There’s never a dull moment. Still though, the site “only” sold for 12x monthly net profit. For a site that was established four years ago and that gets 17,000 unique visitors per month, I think the buyer got a good deal. I would have expected it to sell for more. The take away from this auction, however, is how the owner made his money – from his list! The gurus always tell you the money is “in the list” and this site is proof positive of that. See auction here.
www.MediaJobs.net – $35,000
Wow, did this guy catch a break or what? He puts this site up for sale a few weeks ago and it sells for a “measly” $10,000. He has to cancel the listing because he disclosed information in the auction that he wasn’t supposed to. I don’t totally understand it but the point is he had to cancel the sale and relist it. The second time around he gets 3 1/2 times more money for the site. Lucky guy;) Now thanks to him I’ll always wonder if I could have gotten more for my sites if I would have just listed it at another time. See auction here.
www.SmokePoker.com – $17,000
I love this auction and I’ll tell you why. The owner told a story about his site for sale and why he’s selling. He was honest about the history of the site, what his strengths were (writing) and what his weaknesses were (Twitter). After reading his auction, I didn’t even have to look at his trust score. I just had a feeling – based on how he described his site – that he was an honest seller and a straight shooter. You can learn a couple things from this auction. First, the guy built a successful site around something he was passionate about and knew something about – poker. And because of his interest and knowledge of the niche, he was able to write quality, unique, and USEFUL content. Second, he was able to “print money” with his list. Are you starting to see a trend here? The money is in the list! Check out what this guy had to say about his list: “When I’ve been in the mood to “sell stuff” I’ve often walked away with a $1,000-$2,000 payday, sometimes more.” See auction here.
TOP SELLING NICHES
Last week’s top selling niches were no surprise with the exception of the web directories niche. The Health and Internet Marketing niches continue to be the most popular.
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.
ippolito1 – had 12 sites for sale
htmlserver – had 9 sites for sale
Legend – had 8 sites for sale
GLANCING AROUND OTHER MARKETPLACES
Warrior Forum
I love the Warrior Forum and I had high hopes when the “Websites for Sale” section was created, but it has quickly turned into a marketplace of template and turnkey sites. Just glancing through the listings in the past week, I see that most of the listings are sites for under $150 – and the bulk are actually under $50. These sites can be great if you just want to pick a niche and be up and running NOW, but for the experienced and serious site flipper looking for a true investment, this isn’t the marketplace for you and will likely never be any time soon.
Digital Point Forum
For some reason there are a lot of tv websites for sale on Digital Point these days and last week was no different. One in particular that stood out was a TV show website that gets 519,000 unique visitors per month and $2,000 in monthly revenue. According to the forum post, there was a bid for $10,000 and it possibly sold for the BIN (Buy It Now) price of $15,000. If it did indeed sell at that price, that’s one of the more higher-priced websites sold on Digital Point in a while.
WebsiteBroker.com
There are always interesting listings on WebsiteBroker.com. It seems that most of the websites listed for sale there are aimed at the serious site flipping investor as you’ll often times see sites being offered for well over $100,000 but they produce no revenue. Take this listing for example that was posted last week; it produces no revenue but because of the potential I’m supposed to realize that buying it for $150,000 is a good buy. Don’t get me wrong, it may be a great investment for the right buyer but it isn’t going to appeal to the average Joe site flipper. You really have to know what you’re doing when buying into speculative opportunities like this.
BuySellWebsite.com
There wasn’t a whole lot going on last week at this marketplace but there was this listing that sparked my interest only because the asking price was more in line with what the website actually earns. Many times you’ll see websites for sale on this marketplace where the seller is asking way more than the site is worth. This guy has a network of AdSense sites that generate $250/month in revenues. He’s asking $1,500 or best offer for them. That’s a reasonable multiplier of six months.
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