$2760 per month profit - Selling the site!

[Fanatik]

HIDreview.com for sale. This is the 6th business I've built, made profitable, and am selling.

HIDreview.com FOR SALE-VALUED AT $93,000+! NO SELLING!! - eBay (item 140207912400 end time Feb-25-08 20:29:10 PST)

I've posted on eBay the details. Get it while you can. My last site (Buy Car and Motorcycle Xenon HID Kits) went for just under $3k, I had another bidder contact me right after the auction ended, trying to buy for $5k. Sorry, you got sniped

If you're interested, place a bid. Need more info, let me know.

Jay

HIDreview.com FOR SALE-VALUED AT $93,000+! NO SELLING!! - eBay (item 140207912400 end time Feb-25-08 20:29:10 PST)

[pboychuk]

Just wondering, why do people sell websites that supposedly make more money per month than they can get for the site?

[OnTheWayUp]

If the stats and profit are true, then it looks like a steal.

[Shahab814@yahoo.com]

can u pm me for info

[Fanatik]

PBoy - in reply to your question:
-I build and sell sites; it's what I do. I built and sold BuyXenon.com, which took me about 5 months to build up to the point it needed to be at, to sell it for a good profit. I was making a couple grand per month with it.

Same thing with HIDreview.com.. I started in Dec, and am now ready to sell. The reason I build/sell, is because even though they bring in money - I just don't have time for the anymore, I get bored with them, and I want to invest my interests elsewhere. Plus, it's a quick buck Knowing that I can build another profitable site if need be, is always a nice tool to have in my pocket. Money isn't everything - but it sure feels nice to have some in your pocket!

[thinkaholic]

I do the exact same thing as you do Fanatik and know what you mean about always starting something new and selling off the old. I've registered 4 domain names in the past couple of days to have them ready to be developed (as soon as my dozens of other projects are complete).

I do tend to hang on to a few profitable sites as long as I can, but hey, everything has it's price right?

Good luck with the sale!

BTW, since you sell on Ebay, too, are you going to participate in the Ebay strike?

[Fanatik]

Glad to hear ya chime in! Yep, everything sure does have it's price. On a larger scale - why don't you ask Mark why he's selling his $2,000,000 in sales / $200,000 per yr profit business for $60,000??? He's had it for 8 years, selling hot tubs/spas online and owns 1000+ domains.

You don't know who he is, because you probably haven't invested enough time to research good business sales. Mark is moving overseas and starting another venture, so he's selling for $60k, a business that brings in $200k.

Like most others on this site, Mark wants something else, something new, and something exciting.

Yahoo might sell for $40b - is that different than us selling a business for quick few grand, that brings in triple that? Not really... it's all about perspective.

Thanks for the luck - I think I might need it! haha, I've got some interested buyers - but anyone who's sold a business knows that 'interested' just doesn't cut it sometimes. Oh happy day. lol.

Have a good one, all. BTW - no, I'm not participating in the strike. eBay won't get the message and I haven't got the time to care lol... Hope that doesnt offend anyone. They're just running a business like we all are.

J

[okComplete]

How do you make such little money with only 21-59 unique visits a month? Can i see your traffic for referrers?

Also, can I see more detailed info on the Google Adsense? It seems that you've only made 78 bucks for the entire length of your account.. can i see channel statistics for the site?

wheres the other 2682$ a month come from?

Thanks

[chillspike]

Have a good one, all. BTW - no, I'm not participating in the strike. eBay won't get the message and I haven't got the time to care lol... Hope that doesnt offend anyone. They're just running a business like we all are.

J

Scab...lol

j/k

Some good points about your selling practices...thank you for sharing..

[Fanatik]

How do you make such little money with only 21-59 unique visits a month? Can i see your traffic for referrers?

Also, can I see more detailed info on the Google Adsense? It seems that you've only made 78 bucks for the entire length of your account.. can i see channel statistics for the site?

wheres the other 2682$ a month come from?

Thanks

Are you looking at the same thing I am? You might want to re-check the graphic you were looking at, because it's a little something like this:
-Visits per month-
Dec: 362
Jan: 1446
Feb: 830 (Screenshot taken on 14 Feb)
Total *visits* as of 14 Feb: 2638
Total *hits* as of 14 Feb: 192,884

The main referrers are Google and forums. Just goto Google and type in: hidreview - and you'll see some forum posts. I have to say - you don't make a ton of friends from large companies selling HID's, because this site blows their practices out of the water. My investigative write-ups tell it all on the homepage.

I'm really starting to think you haven't read the auction clearly... I have clearly stated that AdSense is the secondary income, and as of today I have ONLY MADE ~$80 TOTAL FROM ADSENSE ON THE SITE! So YES - you are correct, AdSense doesn't make much at all on the site.

Again - let's do the math, which is again, clearly stated on the auction for how the site brings in money:
23 Advertisers X $120 per ad slot = $2760

The money being made from the site is from MERCHANTS ADVERTISING ON THE SITE. The main ad slot I sell is on the top of the page. You could also charge merchants smaller amounts of money to advertise links on the site, and can change the left adsense skyscraper into an advertisement. It's all managed with Joomla CMS, so it's easy to change around.

Please, if you have questions - read the auction first. I'm more than happy to answer questions, but it's nonsense to repeat the same thing over and over.

womp womp.

J

[alvarab1]

Hi Fanatik,

Do you have Mark's contact info? I would be interested in learning more about his business for sell.

Thanks

[nottsgrad]

Fanatik,

I could be interested in the site, but could you just clarify a couple of things for me:

1) What is the difference between hits and visits? Does visits refer to the number of unique visits?
2) What arrangement do you have in place with the advertisers? Are they on a particular contract?

Thanks,

NG

[Fanatik]

UPDATE ON THE AUCTION:
First Bid Placed: $1000 on Feb 17.
Time Remaining as of now: 8 days
Watchers: 6

Alvarab - Mark's info is posted below, along with a link to the active eBay auction. He has it setup as a BIN/OBO, not an actual auction format. I don't know Mark personally, so it's not a personal endorsement by me in any way.

Web Business Selling Hot Tub Spas Gross +$2 mill/yr. - eBay (item 180215545203 end time Feb-20-08 09:06:51 PST)

Mark's (Lehman is his last name) phone #: (404) 422-6143
Hot Tubs, Affordable Prices - Party Pools is the main site.

Nottsgrad - Visits is referencing the unique visits to the site. Hits is referencing the number of times the pages were accessed. For example, Visitor #250 could have gone to 3 different pages on the site, accumulating 3 hits; 1 visit. Take into account people viewing the site from the same computer/IP (such as univ, library, etc) and the hits far outweighs the visits.

I do not have contractual agreements setup with advertisers. I don't like to bind anyone to any particular constraints - especially in the online market... it tends to scare some vendors away. I simply do a monthly payment. You can do it various ways, such as charging monthly, bi-monthly, offering a complete buy-out of adspace in that slot - so only that ad would be served and no others would be able to buy a slot... but really, I think the best way to do it, is to offer as many rotations/vendor ad slots as possible and dropping the price.

Case in point: When I began the site, I proposed only having 3-5 ads rotating in the top ad banner slot. I was going to charge $250 per vendor... But it scared a lot of them away, and I got negative feedback. Vendors are more willing to pay lower prices and have their ads rotate with multiple vendors.

It's their preference I guess - but I personally would prefer to pay more, have more exposure, and less competition in my ad slot... Lol - whatever makes the world go 'round. Hope I didnt confuse ya.

[LookingforSuccess]

I guess I'll be the skeptic and ask how it is that with as many visitors as you are claiming to the site, you still have a PR of 0. My blog has far less visitors and even I managed a PR3. I am also showing a much better Alexa ranking than your site that supposedly has like 120,000 more hits than mine. I don't claim to know the finer aspects of the Google rankings or Alexa but I highly doubt that either would be this unfair to a site pulling that kind of traffic.

[Fanatik]

I guess I'll be the skeptic and ask how it is that with as many visitors as you are claiming to the site, you still have a Page Ranking of 0. My blog has far less visitors and even I managed a PR3. I am also showing a much better Alexa ranking than your site that supposedly has like 120,000 more hits than mine. I don't claim to know the finer aspects of the Google rankings or Alexa but I highly doubt that either would be this unfair to a site pulling that kind of traffic.

I know I don't show on Alexa, and I'm going to assume your blog is posted on a blogging site, hence you're linked with a major site/source. My site is stand-alone, hence working from the ground up.

That said - I don't know the inner workings either, but I posted the Webalizer stats for all to see. Is there another way you'd like it posted? Maybe not in a small cropped image? As long as there's a world, there'll be skeptics.

When you say "supposedly", you make it seem as if I'm lying about the numbers - but again - the screen shot is there. What businesses have you built and sold? Just curious.