Flipping a Website Pt. 2

tavin

tavin

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I can't get into my thread in the Enlightened Members section.

http://www.wickedfire.com/enlightened-members/168063-flipping-website.html

So i'll continue it here.

I've received many messages over email, skype, and other platforms from so many great people telling me how the first thread helped them. Showing me their flips. I hope this one is just as good.

After a year away from WF of grinding and working.

Quick update:

Here's 3 website flips for $2 million dollars, i've completed in the last year or so (i've sold 40+ other sites on top of these over the last 4 years)

https://feinternational.com/buy-a-website/2268-digital-fitness-magazine-28k-net-mo

https://feinternational.com/buy-a-w...rsonal-style-blog-85m-pageviews-mo-29k-net-mo

https://flippa.com/5594317-fightstate-com


The $2 million doesn't count the revenue the websites earned while I operated.


I'm back to pay it forward, and try to help anyone I can. Just like those in the past that helped me.

I'll do my best to answer all questions
 
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Yeah that's the link. Thanks for that.

Love hearing stuff like that. Really makes me happy.

If you have any other questions, i'm here.
 
I have a question.

How do you move from 50k views per month to 1 million views per month? Any tips?
 
Hi tavin,

Congrats on your flips, looks like you're doing something right. I always like to see other businesses succeed and do well :)

Not sure if you addressed this in your other thread but I have a few questions if you would be so kind:

1. Do you go in with the intention of flipping the site?

2. Do you start from scratch or do you start with a site that you buy and revamp?

3. Do you ever hold a site? What would make you hold it vs choose to sell it?

4. Do you run each site on its native framework (Wordpress, etc) or do you rebuild them to run off a common framework or set of plugins that you maintain?

5. What kind of team do you have? Where do you fit in?

6. How do you determine what market to enter?

7. What's the most important thing you look for when starting/buying a site?

Appreciate and look forward to all your answers!
 
secretagentdad said:
Y u got such a hard on for early stages? Seems like you're in the habit of leaving just as the parties starting based on the revenue graphs.
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I was wondering the same thing. Seems to be a trend among sites on Flippa and whatnot... just as soon as the supposedly good money starts flowing it's time to get the fuck out, which makes me think the numbers are fabricated.

Beyond that, I look at a lot of the sites that have supposedly sold for big numbers and often it looks like the buyers don't do anything with them.
 
slayerment said:
Hi tavin,

Congrats on your flips, looks like you're doing something right. I always like to see other businesses succeed and do well :)

Not sure if you addressed this in your other thread but I have a few questions if you would be so kind:

1. Do you go in with the intention of flipping the site?

2. Do you start from scratch or do you start with a site that you buy and revamp?

3. Do you ever hold a site? What would make you hold it vs choose to sell it?

4. Do you run each site on its native framework (Wordpress, etc) or do you rebuild them to run off a common framework or set of plugins that you maintain?

5. What kind of team do you have? Where do you fit in?

6. How do you determine what market to enter?

7. What's the most important thing you look for when starting/buying a site?

Appreciate and look forward to all your answers!
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would love to see these answered too, especially #2.

That MMA site blows my mind. I checked on archive.org and it's only 2 years old. I have no clue how you were able to build that type of authority with both humans and search engines in such a short time unless you bought a domain that already had authority and age.

Amazing job though. Congrats. I'm not a domainer (and probably never will be because I have my hands full with multiple other projects) but I'm trying to build a multi-faceted team and I'd love to have a junior domainer in my team learn from you.
 
Fatbat said:
I was wondering the same thing. Seems to be a trend among sites on Flippa and whatnot... just as soon as the supposedly good money starts flowing it's time to get the fuck out, which makes me think the numbers are fabricated.

Beyond that, I look at a lot of the sites that have supposedly sold for big numbers and often it looks like the buyers don't do anything with them.
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The quick answer to that is: it's simply not his business model. He would rather have a lump sum of money now rather than wait X amount of months/years to potentially get that sum (no guarantee there). If you need cashflow to fund new projects or investments, then it's probably the best way of doing it. It's two different schools of thought.

As far as the numbers go, it seems legit. He ranks 1st page for a lot of high traffic Ronda Rousey related keywords ("Ronda Rousey Nude" gets 165k monthly and he's right up there, along with many similar keywords).
 
Doesn't look like this is what you do, but if you're selling sites for this amount you probably know people who do. What are your thoughts on Amazon affiliate sites in this day and age?

I'm thinking of starting a podcast around a certain niche and directing people to a product-focused site every podcast. I also think I know how to get people to produce content for me. I plan to email certain people and will publish their responses.
 
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