$200,000 for my website, I don't want to sell...

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I am the last person you should listen to. I have a shopping mall type site I've been building for a year and I've made $17.

But I know that 15K visitors is golden. All I see is potential.
 


I say sell it. One shift in your natural rankings and your traffic drops as well as your selling potential. Grab the money while you can. A $1000 beany baby isn't worth crap unless someone is willing to give you the $1000.
 
a little late here but I think you should sell. the idea that your website will continue to be successful for years to come is risky. not many websites last. Make your money while you can and sell!

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I just read the monthly payments thing... that makes me weary. I have a friend who owns a local dry cleaning business. He was just offered $200k for the business and was ready to sell. Then they came back and offered something like $220k but they wanted to be able to make monthly payments of $5000. They own 3 other dry cleaning businesses but don't have their own cleaning center. They actually bring their clothes to his shop and have a deal worked out with him. Well... he knows how many clothes/customers they get because of this and luckily backed out of the deal. Now we heard that they're planning to sell THEIR business.
 
Well you're right... always avoid monthly payments. But in this case, they offered a cool 100K up front and offered to go monthly with the balance. This is still ok, I'd go into the deal thinking "All I'm getting is 100K" and actually be pleasantly surprised if they stayed in biz long enough to produce the other half...

This was a tough call, I've thought about it from my own perspective with some properties I own. There are sites I LOVE WORKING ON, that do so-so, and sites you may have to drag me with rope to work on, that kick ass. I guess if one loves doing what he's doing, is in no immediate need of financial assistance, and has belief in himself to take his idea to the profit summit, we applaud him.
 
Even if you only see the $100k - that is more than the site would likely be worth on the open market, especially with a worthless domain name. Take the money, be happy if you see any of the other $100k and invest in something more solid.
 
Well, at your current levels it's 5 years revenue. I would sell any one of my sites for 5 years revenue, I don't care if the site is my baby. That's five years of time I can spend developing multiple other projects.

I'm in the sell camp.
 
Definitely sell.

If a site is under a year old and you can get a year's worth of its current income sell. If it took that little time to create a site like that, you should be able to do it again, and this time with much more startup money. So many things could go wrong, and there is nothing that indicates that the site will make more money than it is atm.
 
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sell it now... take the money and run...

almost all of your traffic is coming from search engines... you could be left making close to ZERO on the big G's next major update... your income is not solid, it is dependent on the whims of the search algos...

if you have stupid corporate money being thrown at you, take it, put some away for retirement and use the rest to build new businesses...
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This happened to me last year. I was offered a very good amount of money for a network of mine that dominated a very lucrative niche. I turned it down because I wanted the long term money.

Today, Google has trashed half of my network and Im only making about a quarter of what I was monthly.
 
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If someone see's value in your site, you should too. If $200,000 isn't too much for them, I think you should invest more time into making the site grow.

Heck, even try PPC, facebook, etc.
 
keep the site and grow it ... maybe when the US gets out of the recession you can get more.

Also, take payment in FULL ...

If they want to pay you over 2 years, then ask for 300k considering inflation and the dollar tanking or tell them you live in the UK and ask for pounds or euros :)

good luck
 
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It's a buyers market now, not a sellers market. I'd wait it out - I am.
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It's only a buyer's market when supply is up and/or demand is down. If somebody is willing to pay 5x your yearly profit then they have a high demand for the site. A buyer's market only applies at a very general level and has very little to do with this potential sale.
 
How much time are you currently spending on your website now ?

I think you need to ask yourself, what would you do with the 200k ? Say you can pay off your mortgage etc and be debt free, do you have any ideas what you will do with your time ?

Start another website ? or another business ?
 
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