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A Business Whose Employees Work For Nothing

The holder of this auction thinks that his profit is 90% of his revenue.

“How much is your net profit?”

I work alone, so maybe around 90% after Elance commission, payment processing fee and monthly membership.

So Elance commissions and payment processing are the only outgoings of this business? Wrong! Continue reading

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Siteflipu – The Hot Potato

There is something I find insanely funny about the new auction of siteflipu. Yes, the new owner is selling this gold mine after owning it for a mere two weeks. You might be forgiven for thinking that those two weeks have yielded massive profits for that lucky owner and he is now retiring from the game. Alas, the implausible truth real reason is that he now has a “government position that requires seven days a week away from home”. Continue reading

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How Not To Sell Your Site

All Hype, No Details Skip to the auction details I saw this auction last month and was stirred by the sales pitch! But not in a good way. I don’t know about you, but the spiel really gets my back … Continue reading

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Seeing A Website’s Potential

Sellers Love To Tell You About Their Site’s Potential Sellers love telling you their site has ‘potential’. Many believe that this potential increases the value of their site. What they don’t tell you is that it’s your hard work, money … Continue reading

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siteflipu.com Sold

Skip To Auction Details SiteFlipU – A Marketing Master Stroke You don’t need a paid subscription to the blog flipping blueprint – if you assess what the savvy owner of SiteFlipU has done, the blueprint is right in front of … Continue reading

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amarsodyssey.com

My Thoughts This is a space exploration nut’s paradise! 1,100 (count them!) high quality articles. These highly researched articles were commissioned exclusivley for the site. The site is on a WordPress blog making it very usable for the (next) owner. … Continue reading

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boatclassifieds.com

My Thoughts Skip To Auction Details This seller is being very optimistic when they specify a minimum bid of $15,000! I wonder how they arrived at that number… Why not $20,000? The site went live on September 4th 2008 and … Continue reading

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dreamweaverspot.com

My Thoughts Skip To Auction Details I like this one a lot. It’s got 41 posts and the quality of the posts is quite high. Unique, high quality content is hard to come by at an affordable price. If you … Continue reading

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QuoteTotal.com

My Thoughts Skip To Auction Details I can’t work this one out. Why would someone invest time, money and effort into creating a site that doesn’t differentiate itself from other big players out there. From what I can tell, it … Continue reading

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kids-iq-tests.com

My Thoughts Skip To Auction Details Where do we start? Firstly, this is a really interesting site in a niche not often seen on Sitepoint. It gets good traffic too. That’s the good stuff. Now the bad stuff. You have … Continue reading

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