Peace

When you flip a website that you don’t want anymore do you ever do a quick face-lift or “update” a few things to maybe make a few extra dollars off the site? Kinda like when selling a home?

Lol, I like your response to the spam bot.

I always have this dilemma when I’m responding to my comments as well.

You risk looking stupid if you really reply courteously to a bot.

perhaps I should have paid more attention to the teacher in spelling class

… those who can’t, teach – I just wanted to point out that without those useless idiot teachers none of you would be able to communicate with each other and the human race would probably still be dragging it’s knuckles on the floor. Education is valued so very highly by those in countries where it can’t be gained easily and yet apparently westerners, particularly those who have the privelige of a free education seem to devalue it and those that teach them.

Without at least the basic understanding of the subject be it marketing or site flipping we are all just basically pissing in the wind.

Ironically the original post was suggesting we rush out and buy the site flipping guide, why? so that the author could teach us!! but surely we have now agreed teachers are rubbish so why do we need it? you see we are all teachers to each other in some way and just because someone chooses to devote their life to educating others does not mean that they do not keep up to date or can’t do, it could just mean that they have an altruistic personality, i for one think teachers should be respected not riiculed whatever their subject and whether they are John Reese, Chris Rempel or Mrs sSmith your old English Teacher

On the topic of the post I bought into Domains into Dollars some time ago and although it’s not neccessarily a site flipping guide it is an education in itself of the way the domain & website market works, and judging by the contents you posted above it coves much of the same ground (although probably more expensive for being the more thourough. Using the techniques taught to me i have for the past year been selling domain names and sites on a very regular basis and would agree with you Chris that their is potential in what you are saying.

The other matter was that if you have a site producing 200 per month as stated above, i personnally would not let it go for less than a year’s income i.e. 2400. Of course if it’s only earning 200 it probably used to earn 400 or maybe more, we are only considering selling it because revenue is falling so you may wish to take that into consideration before deciding your price, and always remember your site can have a percieved value to potential buyers, do not be afraid to price accordingly.

I have a gambling blog that is now generating tons of targetted free traffic from search engines for fiercely competitive keywords, i have never paid for traffic its a geniune top ranking site built through good seo and valuable content – i do not monetise that site at all, if i was to sell it i believe it would fetch in the region of 10,000 plus as it is ripe to monetise and ome marketer would be chomping at the bit to pay that much for it and yet it is not earning a penny for me ….YET. the point is the value in your site does not have to be the amount it is making you.

Food for thought for some people i hope

That reminds me i really must monetise that gambling site….

regards
Iain

The overall goal that I lay down in COALSA is to work toward building an entire empire (niche by niche, based on results) with a VARIETY of traffic sources and income.

You start off with mini-sites (kindling sites) to gage the profitability and what kind of traffic is available.

If it’s worth expanding on, then you create your own “web” in that niche, piece by piece, of valuable sites, products, viral tools, email lists, and so on.

Where COALSA thrives is that it shows you how to build and target your sites for MAXIMUM punch.

You can literally get half the traffic and make twice as much as your competitors just by profiling your site correctly to be made available to the visitors who actually WANT to buy something.

This single “switch” is the anchor of everything you do within COALSA.

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To answer your specific question:

Yes, you can use your existing sites to propel traffic and SEO leverage if they’re in a niche with large demand, existing sales-channels and proven products, and a customer-profile where spending money to obtain the solution/product/”thing” isn’t an issue, but rather a central focus on the niche itself.

In other words – you wanna be selling things in markets where lots of people are buying stuff

-Chris

I’ve been reading a lot about COALSA. I hear nothing but great things and coming to Chris’ blog definitely confirms that people are having success with it. So needlessly to say I’ve been contemplating purchasing it.

I don’t mind starting fresh with new websites and with a new way to market. But I currently have 11 BANS (Build A Niche Store) sites. For those that don’t know they are basically eBay affiliate sites.

My question to Chris, or any of your students for that matter is how COALSA works on my already BANS sites. I see a lot of people hear promoting Clickbank products. How would it do with promoting eBay products?

I might be wrong but, I’ve read a lot about making mini sites to promote one large site. With my BANS sites, many of them have no correlation with another, so I’m wondering if COALSA can be used with them.

Like I said, I don’t mind building new websites but it would be a shame if I couldn’t use COALSA for site that already and ready to be promoted.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

When life gives you lemons, sell them!