Around 8x your monthly revenue is what I would suggest, although if that site has a lot of valuable content then it could go from 15x - 20x your monthly revenue. Anyways, a lot of the valuation depends on your niche too so that may play a dominant role in how much your could sell you website. A fair warning is to never sell the website with PayPal! The buyer can easily issue a not-authorized dispute which may cause you to loose your money and your website. (almost happened to me once) so be sure to use either a professional broker or an escrow service.
Then you're not who'll buy a site making so much. It really depends on the site, if in 5 years it's making $8k still (or more) than its worth a lot more than site which is just a fad and will die in the ass soon... that factors into the price a lot.
I would not sell a website like this. I preffer to keep it to cover my expensives or to keep all the profits and start a bigger bussiness
Most companies are bought and sold based on the profit more than the revenue. The usual average is 15-20 times annual profit. But I've never heard of a business in my entire career that had $100,000 a year in revenue with only $3,600 in expenses. Must be a special site indeed. I sure wouldn't sell it.
Usually selling price is 8-12x monthly revenue. Taking things like traffic, branding, potential etc into account too.
Adsense come and go, it cant be considered steady income. Be happy if you get 8 months of revenue for it.
That's exactly the question you should be asking! If it's running on autopilot or low maintenance, not much work, etc.. why would someone want to sell it? The answer is most likely - they have exhausted it's income potential and it's heading down. There are some exceptions to that, but be very leery of someone selling an easy site to make $8k/month without a very valid reason.
For a site making just under $10k a month? (assuming stats to back it up)???!? Nigga please. This is more accurate. Sites typically go for 10-24 months revenue depending on a LOT of factors. Membership, or sites that have recurring revenue and content are going to command a premium. Site that are more of an arbitrage or affiliate type model will go for less. The reason being you have to do everything the same to feed a affiliate type of site versus a membership. Some sites will drop off completely if you are not always feeding them, when a membership type of site can sustain revenue longer. Anyway, there are many other factors that come into play. Domain, traffic, revenue, referrals (where traffic comes from), how old the site is, type of site, SERPS, among other things. All revenue and traffic claims need to be backed up and be more than a month old like many of these pump and dumps you see on the boards, and SP.
Wrong. Many people like to develop a property and sell it off. Then leap frog to something bigger. Myself included. I prefer the creative process, and building up a site. Once it reaches a certain level that is becomes 'maintenance' versus trial and error, I lose interest. So it is better to sell it while worth something, then to just sit on some site and let it slowly die milking the last bits of revenue before becoming worthless and you can't sell it. I can always build new successful sites up in another 3-6 months. However, I can't stand doing the maintenance piece. People who make these grand assumptions about things are clueless frankly and probably never owned a high value internet property in the first place. 2 cents
So hire someone for $2000/month to maintain the site. I still have several sites making quite a bit all the way back from 2004. It isn't good business to sell a profitable model. By your same logic, Bill Gates & Steve Jobs should have sold their businesses a long time ago since they are now just maintaining the solid businesses.
What do you think that co-founders Bill Allen (Microsoft) and Steve Wozniak (Apple) did? May wanna bone up on your history there champ. As for "my business model".. I did not say it applies to everyone. I know a lot of people who think you make an asset, and just no longer update it and milk it for months/years until it is worth nothing. For THEM, it is not as easy to build successful sites, or get good SERPS, etc.. However, not everyone has that problem. Nor did I say MY preference for business was the best for everyone. 2 cents
Who is Bill Allen? I know a Paul Allen who did not sell the company, just a portion of his ownership (not all). You can relate that to hiring someone with a portion of your earnings. I'll give you Wozniak. You are right though about it being different strategies. I suppose for me it's more about growing the consistent revenue each month instead of the 'one' big payout.