Browsing Category: "Site Flipping"
The other day when I sent out my weekly updates, I mentioned that I was recruiting a couple of people to join a site flipping team of mine, well, it seems quite a few people were interested so let me give you some more details in general about it.
First, depending on how many people are interested in joining in this will help me determine if I want to start more than one team or simply continue with the original plan and deny all others.
I don’t want to reject anyone because I’m sure you guys are interested in working as a team, learn from the experience as well as make some money (hopefully). Though, I want to be coordinated and have some dedication into these projects. Basically, I’m looking for four or five members for a group and if I get more than that, I will start a second group.
In each group I’m hoping to get a couple of key members:
A Team Leader – I’m sure a lot of you guys were expecting me to lead the team and honestly I don’t mind. Though, since I’m a pretty busy guy I can’t always whip you guys into shape. So, whoever the team leader ends up being, they need to basically keep us on schedule, nothing huge.
A Designer – Though, this is not fully needed, it definitely helps out a lot. Plus, it cuts out additional costs and expenses we may have.
All Others, Bloggers – You don’t have to be a blogger but you need to be able to write with decent enough grammar and punctuation. Also, I’m looking for people to be somewhat dedicated and if that is not you please don’t join. You’ll be wasting both your time as well as your team members and that’s a hassle I rather not get into.
What I’m looking for in team members:
Dedication – I can’t stress this enough, I need some dedication if you’re planning on joining. If you are not somewhat committed then you will slack off with the work and then everyone will complain about how they’re doing more yet we all get the same share of the money.
See, too much drama for me and I’m sure you guys don’t want working relationships and friendships to go sour over something like this.
Communication – If you’re part of a team, communication is what helps everyone succeed. If we’re all on the same page or not, then we need to speak up and share your ideas, thoughts and whatever else that may help the group.
And I know dedication is important but we all understand if some emergency happens and you’re unable to keep up for a few days. But please, communication is important so we don’t assume the worst. For instance, when my laptop crashed.
Because you know what they say about assuming things, you only make an ass out of yourself. Or something like that?
Whoever joins, please have an instant messenger handy. I prefer Yahoo messenger because we can all join in a chat room to toss our ideas around.
Writing Skills – I’m sorry but if your writing skills are horrible, I sure hope you’re a killer designer! I’m looking to split the work evenly among the team so writing posts is part of it.
I’ve had quite a few people contact me already regarding this, and I think I replied back to a few. The others I haven’t because I’m still trying to recover from my laptop crashing and all my information possibly being lost.
If you have Yahoo messenger, feel free to add me (djay182) and we can discuss it there.
Thanks. Oh, and I know the photos are corny but tell me it doesn’t bring back memories!
If you’re one of those people that despise celebrities, well, I’m not asking you to like them. But building a celebrity website is definitely worth it if you’re looking to make some extra money on the side. Plus, it doesn’t take too long to build one and more than likely you won’t have to do any maintenance to it.
If you’re wondering why you should build one, well, it can work wonders if you’re doing it right. I have a few celebrity websites in which I did a one-time setup and I haven’t touched it since. As of right now, I’m making, on average, a couple dollars a day for each website and like I said, I haven’t touched them since I first set it up.
Now, you’re probably thinking “a couple dollars a day? That’s nothing! Give me a break man!” That may be true but if you learn to rinse and repeat the process then those couple of dollars a day could turn into $10/day… then $20/day… $100/day… and who knows, maybe thousands?
And did I mention you don’t have to touch the site ever again and you will get a check once a month?
On top of that, I heard celebrity sites are pretty good to convert affiliate campaigns, particularly the zip and e-mail submit ones. Hey, I’m not the one to judge but I heard that people who go to those types of websites are generally the same ones that think they can magically win a new iPod or TV by entering in their e-mail address.
Okay, so hopefully I have your attention enough to this point. Now let me tell you how to go about building a celebrity website.
Pick Out Your Featured Celebrity – Think of each celebrity as its own niche, its own site. You can pick any celebrity you want, just as long as they’re popular enough to be searched for. (And even if they’re a D-list celeb, there are tons of people still searching for them)
If you want to check if they’re actually being searched for, try going to Google Trends and simply typing in their name. If a graph appears, you have some people searching for them.
Find The Keywords Around Your Celebrity – Your celebrity’s name is good for a keyword but more than likely it’s highly competitive with thousands/millions of other websites. You want to focus more on the long-tail keywords instead. Try simply entering in their name in the SEO Book Keyword Tool and you’ll end up with tons of long-tail keywords.
Yes, it is official. ListLunatic.com was sold to a new owner and what started off from a group site flipping contest ended up being a fun time with new friends. Of course, the money wasn’t too bad either. 
So, most people know that we started this site due to the fact that there was a site flipping contest that was going on at siteflipu.com . And unfortunately, that contest went right down the drain due to the lack of people participating; in addition, I think some people were just intimated by our group.
My group members included Girish, Sean and Forest and it was a pleasure working with all of them. But I think a lot of the credit has to go to our group leader, Girish, because he was the one who negotiated the sale and also he spoke up when we were all slacking off.
The site now belongs to a gentleman named Tom. I haven’t met him directly but Girish says he seems like a pretty good guy, so that was good enough for me. I would like to thank Tom for taking the time out to check out our site and for the purchase but also a special thanks to my group members.
Personally, I will be working with Girish on a site flipping project once again if anyone is interested.
Okay, enough with all the babbling because you guys are probably wondering who guessed the closest to the sale amount, especially since I said I was going to give a small percentage of my cut to whoever guessed the closest.
It was definitely interesting looking at everybody’s guesses especially since I didn’t provide too many stats for you guys so you were guessing blindly. There were guesses on how much the site would sell for ranging anywhere between $50 and $2,500.
First, I finally got my internet back at home so now I’ll be going back to my regularly scheduled posting!
Since we’re staying on the site flipping topic, I figured I’d make this fun and have you guys participate. Well, if you want to. But we haven’t listed ListLunatic.com yet but I’m just wondering how much do you guys think its worth and how much do you think it will actually sell for?
Now, here’s the catch. I won’t be giving you guys any details on the site itself (how much it has made, visitors, backlinks, etc) so you will be guessing completely blindly based on what you see.
But you have to keep in mind that this site is so unique that I’m sure a bunch of people are going to start copying it.
Matter of fact, I know for a fact that people are starting to copy it. Someone actually came up to me and told me that and get this, they wanted me to give them a catchy brandable domain name for them to use. So, in essence, you wanted me to do all the creative aspects of the site and they would just plug in random lists?
You should know my answer was no.
Anyways, sorry for getting slightly off-track there… So, whoever guesses closest to the sale amount will get a small percentage of my portion of the earnings!
Recently, I’ve been getting a few e-mails asking me how much people’s site is worth due to the interest of site flipping. Honestly, there are so many variables to take into account that it’s going to be different for every site. But I’ll go over the generic things so people get the jest of what to focus on to potentially help increase the value of your site.
Is your site unique?
This definitely separates the men from the boys, the people who blend in the crowd and those that stick out like a sore thumb. But the uniqueness of your site can definitely raise the value amount of your blog or site. Essentially, if you are one of the first to create a unique site, everyone will follow in your footsteps.
Just look at John Chow and all the MMO followers.
And that leads to my example… not too many people want a make money online blog because it’s highly saturated and you’ll just get lost in the shuffle with the hundreds and thousands of other MMO blogs. I marketed DatMoney.com just to see the selling potential and the response I got was the fact that some were just turned off by the MMO niche in general.
Of course, if your site makes $x,xxx or more monthly consistently then you should have no problem. Which leads right on to my next point…
