I told my husband I could sell my site for 6-figures- was I right?

I've always wanted to send out email .. but since I have no working "email" relationship with my members, I dont' want them to accuse me of spamming.

I need advice on how to NOT offend the first time readers.

 

How about a guide to stop making the kids of today so damn lazy and obese?

many american families need that sort of product

But very nice site! I think the value in the site is YOU. Your 98% unique content is golden and your subscribers/readers obvioulsy like the artciles you write.

 

It ain't just American kids anymore

(who bumped this old topic anyway)

 

Everyone's saying 10-12 month revenue, this formula works for a turnkey sites, where no custom coding, depending on how much work has been done to make the site stand out in the crowd(design, scripting, applications, etc) sites can go for 24 months revenue easily.

 

I love that word "easily." From a buyer's perspective, what difference is there between a turnkey site and a custom developed site? A dollar revenue from each is still a dollar - isn't it?

 

I'd much rather have that dollar coming from a nice site than something that would be banned by Google pretty soon.

 

12 months revenue is very low for a developed, custom coded, topical, content rich website with a decent domain.
I think everyone is pigeon holing all sites into the category of sites created to make some adsense$$ and then flip. Or somewhat established sites with nominal earnings and not much of a domain.

Many people have no clue how to monetize traffic. They have a nice site, great info, a good domain and dedicated members and small earnings.
Someone who knows how to monetize will "take it off their hands" and quadruple + the sites revenue.

So, if any of you have sites/domains earning $1 - $20/day and are interested in selling for 6-12 mos rev. PLEASE email or pm me!

 

Who said 6 months revenue?

 

This person

 

Depends on the person, I would neber buy a turnkey site, as I hate them and always trying to have the best one. As mediology said for people-adsense addicted, and all that other stuff just to make money you are probably right.
They wouldn't spot a difference between two.

However, a person who's in this business for 3,4 or 5 or more years would think differently.

 

I've been in this business for seven years now, and while there are obviously benefits to unique, content-rich sites, a dollar is a dollar, and I've made at least as much from so-called turnkeys as I have with unique content sites.

Just my thoughts.

 

Yeap - the last time I checked a dollar from a turnkey site buys the same number of gumballs that a dollar from a custom site buys.

 

In Indian stock market blue chip companies (well established / top 50) are worth 16 times their next years total earnings. (I guess it is the same for almost any stock market). New and small companies are worth only 6-10 times their net profit. So why it has to be different for websites. A website is worth at least 60 times its monthly net profit. (So one should calculate the amount of labor put-in each month and then calculate deduct it from revenue.) Also several loss making companies are comfortably priced to include their future earnings, which may start to come only after 3/4 years (Airlines in India)

The reason why webmasters peg it around a meager 10 months revenue is that
a) revenue figures are always exaggerated by sellers.
b) when considering the labour put in, most sites are not worth their revenue.
c) If one is willing to sell her website, the most likely reason is that she doesnt think it has a great future.

If you own a good site, you will expect atleast 60 months net profit from selling that site. If you own a bad site you will be happy to sell it for 10 months revenue.

 

you're right in many cases, BUT you must also take into accont, that small businesses often MUST sell, because they would struggle if they didn't AND money in the pocket NOW can be invested wisely NOW too... So it's not just apple and egg, it depends and cash today is better than possible cash in the future in many cases, believe me

 

I have never seen a content site sell for 60 months nor would I expect it to. Examples like youtube where net profit was negative are exceptions as it (and others like it) are bought by companies which have the resources to make it profitable or are able to bolster other holdings.

And you need to get the difference between net profit and revenue straight in your posts

 

Another disadvantage of turnkeys is they can stop making money any day(Myspace changing code, etc), they depend on others not on their own. Next, reputation, try to get a good ad client with your turnkey.

I WILL buy a site with 6-10 month revenue, if it's custom coded (seo, admin panel, caching, db optimisation) and with a great design. Let's see how many quotes I'd get.

P.S: I haven't answered on the thread's question yet No, you won't sell it for 6 figures, I doubt 5 figures as well.

 

Although that is true of any site that relies on SE's and PPC for all of their traffic. Wheter it is custome coded or turn key, you are potentially 1 Google update away from losing a chunk of your income.

That is part of the reason that bricks and mortor business's command a higher multiplier (Add to that the type of revenue, most sites don't have anything physical adding value)

 

I think you need to take the domain name into consideration as well.
I have paid far more than 5 years revenue on several occassions.
The value of the domains were worth it in every case.

 

I must say it is a lovely website. This is one of those where one gets a good pleasant fill about it. Old fashioned content rich website. If I had the cash to spare it might had been a possibility.

 

Although I agree in some cases, the domain name itself brought forward in this thread as an example would not add a signifigant amount of extra value