Comments on: Flipping blogs

By: Ebay Secretos

Ebay Secretos — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:30:01 +0000

some real good advice here for when selling your site. I like the part about having good original content…excellent! Nice weblog btw.

By: doolally

doolally — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:53:52 +0000

@imjeremystein

People buy.
Domain age
Content
Accumulated Links
Readership
Members

By: Curly Tree Money Blog: From Employee To Entrepreneur

Curly Tree Money Blog: From Employee To Entrepreneur — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 06:13:00 +0000

[...] Flipping Blogs: What in the world is this and why would anyone do it? Since blogs = cyber real estate, it’s no surprise, but it seems just so…faddy. But it’s happening. It’s not one for those who are more emotionally invested and rooted in their own little piece of the net. You’d less likely flip if your blog is an extension of yourself or if you use it for creative expression. [...]

By: Helping bloggers make money online tips

Helping bloggers make money online tips — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:44:51 +0000

[...] Flipping Blogs? It is means a person who builds a blog site, name a price and then selling it after a while. This infomation i was getting it from Flipping blogs was written by Ben Bleikamp. This also means a person can earn much on a blog, it is another site income revenue. Here is some idea Ben gave : You need to be 100% honest with your potential buyers. Do not leave out any detail that could influence someone when buying your website. When I sold The Poker Blog my auction included warnings regarding the legalities of advertising poker in the United States, I included an image of the web stats, 3 images proving that the revenue information I provided was true, and I explained my reasons for selling the website. Be as open as you can. [...]

By: Blogs: money, great content, or both? at Flush the Toilet: Young Entrepreneurs

Blogs: money, great content, or both? at Flush the Toilet: Young Entrepreneurs — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:26:14 +0000

[...] Over the past few months I have been working on a little side project at Classhelpers. I originally created the site after being inspired to flip (re: build and sell for a profit) the site after reading an article over at College Startup, but now I am considering holding onto it. [...]

By: Jason Brown

Jason Brown — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 03:42:53 +0000

uhmm.. after being in the web development industry for over 10 years.. there is not much I haven’t done or seen in IT or online.

A blog is a website, no way around it.. and a website can be a business, and many are a business. Example: Sitepoint is a portal, that is a website, which also has blogs, that is a business.

People buy business, people buy websites and domains, people buy blogs.

I don’t know how to put it any easier than that. Essentially, flipping a blog is flipping a website, which is flipping a business.
So all this talk about ‘who would buy a blog and not the blogger’, or ‘people buy teams and not blogs’ is just plain stupid. People buy business ( or sites ) all the time, fire all the management and workers, and start over with a new ‘team’.

I think if you build a site or business, work at it, and then sell it.. you’ve done something many people in world only wish they could do.. congrats your now enlisted in a very lucreative group of people in the world!

The price doesn’t matter either, you sell it for what you think it is worth yourself. I know when I was in college, just getting 100.00 dollars in my pocket was hard. If I could have built websites back then, found a good market/buyer, and got $2400.00 for it, I would have lasted all summer and most of the upcoming semester on it.

Congrats on your sell

By: How to: Purchase a website at The Blog Courier

How to: Purchase a website at The Blog Courier — Wed, 24 May 2006 14:00:32 +0000

[...] Ben Bleikamp wrote about selling blogs back in December, and I thought it would be interesting to take a look at it from the other side of the coin. I purchased Mobile Herald last week and this is some of what I learned about website buying. [...]

By: Kelley Ritchey

Kelley Ritchey — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:53:08 +0000

Thanks for your informaive post.

I wrote up several post about the small business branding post and would like to feature your poker blog sale also in the next few days, especially as both the buyer and seller have provided good insight into their process.

By: Enthousiasmeren » Blog Archive » Snel geld verdienen? Verkoop je weblog

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:19:19 +0000

[...] Leer meer over het verkopen van een weblog op CollegeStartup – Flipping blogs [...]

By: pok.erati — So who really bought the Poker Blog?

pok.erati — So who really bought the Poker Blog? — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 10:13:54 +0000

[...] Deep down I think Ben must be a genius. Ok, I know he is. He is the former owner of ThePokerBlog.net, recently he sold it. He made a nice sum on it. And walked away. Losing the value right? Nah. See Ben joined Erati Media a division of BlogMedia Inc. He also brought his writer with him. So we get the writer, and the owner. So while Andy Haggans bought a blog, we got the better end of the stick and spent a lot less money. It was truly my best hand of poker ever. I could have bought ThePokerBlog.net, in fact our network made a deal on it. But didn’t get it. Instead we got the owner, the blogger, and didnt spend a dime. Now they are apart of our great team. [...]