Can you sell an ecommerce business system/idea?

**ubersportz** · 09-24-2008 09:03 PM

Hi, I have developed a very innovative and disruptive ecommerce business system/idea. It has quite a significant target market and is, from my own experiences, quite needed in the marketplace and I developed it based on issues I was having with similar systems that were just too inefficient.

So I have this system up and ready to go and i used it for about 3 weeks and made around $900 from it. However, I'm still in high school, I'm focused on my studies and graduating and I just don't have the time to commit to really marketing it to drive it to the next level and greater success.

It has been set up as a registered and established running business.

Is it viable to sell this system to someone who has the necessary skills and time to devote to it. Over a 3 week period putting it about 3-4 hours each week it made me 900 and I don't have any marketing or technical qualifications, I wish I did and unfortunately I can only imagine the sort of money that this could make in the hands of someone that has the necessary skills.

Can I sell this system?

**jasaunders** · 09-24-2008 09:39 PM

Of course. But if it is easily reproduceable and there are low barriers to entry, it probably isn't worth much.

**flnazrael** · 09-24-2008 10:26 PM

You want to sell something that made you $900 in about 12 hours because you don't have time to work it?

**ubersportz** · 09-24-2008 11:10 PM

Yeah I know it seems crazy but this has far more scope than 900 in a few weeks.

It is in a market with fairly high barriers to entry, I have entred it in a small way but it requires someone who can either market it or spend money on marketing it on a large scale to show the market just how effective it is.

**flnazrael** · 09-24-2008 11:17 PM

At least seriously consider just sitting on it, or working it in your spare time, until after you graduate. There's nothing stopping you from taking a year off after high school and really seeing how hard you can push it, especially since you could still live at home and keep your expenses down.

**canadascoffee** · 09-24-2008 11:21 PM

uber,
contact me... stevof@gmail.com. i'm interested. not so much in buying it, just "renting" and developing it. you can retain ownership and you can keep a great share of the profits while I run it. I'm just a couple years older than you (sophomore in college) but i have more free time and I'd like to help someone like you out.