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.4OptIn.com – 48 Bids
SOLD: $6,000
Established: March 2010
Unique Visitors: 50/month
Net Profit: $500/month
Description: Sells and rents email lists.
Comments: It seems every week I do these market snapshots, I’m saying, “The money is in the list!” Well this week is no different. This website provided leads via a massive email list – over 8 million to be specific. Websites that provide leads to businesses like this will always do well with buyers. See auction here.
www.ArcticMonkeysUK.com/Forums – 33 Bids
SOLD: $950
Established: June 2007
Unique Visitors: 37,234/month
Net Profit: No revenue is being claimed
Description: Forum about the Arctic Monkeys band with over 4,700 members.
Comments: Forums can be great buys IF you know how to monetize them and IF they are in evergreen niches. Forums are notoriously challenging to monetize. It’s not uncommon to see well-established forums with tons of traffic like this not making any money. The red flag with this website, however, is the niche itself. Unless the Arctic Monkeys were the Beatles or some other “ageless” band, I would not buy a forum about a band as the popularity of bands come and go. See auction here.
www.ImageCheese.com – 31 Bids
SOLD: $575
Established: March 2009
Unique Visitors: 6,000/month
Net Profit: No revenue is being claimed
Description: Offers fast and free image hosting.
Comments: Image hosting sites have always been popular with buyers given the number of unique visitors and page views “good” image hosting sites will generate. Like forums, the challenge is how to monetize the traffic. See auction here.
TOP SELLERS
www.DesignersContest.com – $30,000
BIDS: 11
Established: July 2009
Unique Visitors: 2,100/month
Net Profit: $100/month
Description: A design competition site.
Comments: This website is basically a knock-off of the popular 99designs.com website (which is owned by the same people who own Flippa) except it’s slightly cheaper to run a contest than 99designs. The fact that this site with only 2,100 unique visitors and a net profit of only around $100/month can sell for $30,000 goes to show you how providing a simple service like this can demand a lot of money when selling. Hmmm…what type of marketplace can I create??? See auction here.
www.CraigslistPhoneVerifiedAccounts.com – $24,001
BIDS: 1
Established: December 2009
Unique Visitors: 2,000/month
Net Profit: $7,500/month
Description: Sells Craigslist phone verified accounts.
Comments: Here’s another service-oriented website that did very well – selling at about 12 times monthly net profit. Are you seeing a pattern here? Build a website that provides a service and you might just do well for yourself while you own and when you sell it! My only concern about this website is that it uses a trademark term in the domain – Craigslist. As any reader of this websites knows by now, I’m not a fan of buying websites with trademarks in the domain under any circumstances. There’s just too much legal risk. See auction here.
www.SteelersFever.com – $23,000
BIDS: 4
Established: August 2002
Unique Visitors: 81,830/month
Net Profit: $1,488/month
Description: Steelers fan site.
Comments: Wow – the Steelers sure do have a hardcore fan base. This little gem received close to 82,000 unique visitors per month, and according to the seller it continues to grow. Fan sites are great if you are dedicated to them. They require almost daily updates to keep the news and commentary fresh for the loyal fans – or at the very least a forum of some kind to let fans chat about their favorite team. This website had both – almost daily updates and a message board. See auction here.
TOP SELLING NICHES
Health – (Fitness)
Internet Marketing – (General)
Gadgets
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.
GreenStar – had 7 sites for sale
htmlserver – had 7 sites for sale
deana – had 6 sites for sale
TYPES OF WEBSITES MOST WATCHED BY BUYERS
This metric provides a lot of insight on the website flipping market. These are the types of websites that buyers are watching. In other words, these are the types of websites that buyers are interested in buying today. As a potential seller, this is great information because if your website falls into any of these categories, be sure to tag them as such when you list them. And if you’re a short-term flipper, these are the types of websites you should be building for sale.
Ecommerce: 30 buyers watching
WordPress: 28 buyers watching
Autoblog: 21 buyers watching
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