Can You Still Make Money Selling Websites
….and start selling a business opportunity
The inevitable backlash has started and it’s ugly out there!
A number of forums and blogs I read are all crying poor over the fact that start-up websites no longer sell on flippa.
The writing has been on the wall for a while now. This was an arbitrage opportunity and it was a matter of jump in first, make the most of it and more poignantly, end up the other end with a lot to see it.
Selling websites with little traffic and zero income no longer attract buyers and sellers of these sites are pissed!
What we’re seeing now is a huge pendulum effect. It actually has moved the other way and there is a massive change in the market.
Sites that had sold for $300, now struggle to sell for over than $50!
I feel empathy for folks that have attempted to build a lifestyle around trading these websites, banking on it being sustainable time. People have quit jobs, invested money in business ventures, teaching programs, all based on selling sites that the market will never want again.
Hell, I was annoyed when it ended and I knew it was coming. It really did just fade away over night. momentum moved back so quickly that heads are still in shock, questioning what the hell just occurred.
Since that the flow has dried up, disappointment has fast transferred to exasperation and anger.
Guess who is bearing the brunt of this anger? FLIPPA!
Forums and blogs at the moment are full of conversation re how it’s flippa’s fault that new websites aren’t sell anymore. Flippa doesn’t care, they charge too much, they just want the big bucks, they’re not interested in resolving disputes…blah blah blah.
Wow, Flippa is the reason my ball club hasn’t won a premiership in over 56 years!!!
It’s not flippa’s fault, or the market’s for that matter. Selling start-up sites was never a business in the first pace. I feel sorry for people that have tried to start a lifestyle based on trading these websites, counting on it being feesable long term.
The good news is that now we can take all those skills we developed pumping out site after site, learn a few new ones and start trading websites of real lasting value that will sell for 5 times more than we were getting previously.
I’ve made a few of these sites myself lately and I can’t even get them onto flipa, as buyers on my mailing list snatch them up. (you do own a client mailing list, right?)
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