It’s no secret that one of the fastest ways to make money online is through buying and selling websites, which is a process that is often called “website flipping” and other variations of that phrase. Many people are using this method to earn a lot of money online every day. If you are looking to make money online very quickly then site flipping should definitely be something you are seriously considering.
The amount of money that you can potentially make through site flipping is virtually endless. You can make anywhere from a few hundred dollars to $10,000 per flip, and sometimes even $50,000 or MUCH more if you do it right. There are people who make a very good living just from flipping websites, and relatively speaking it doesn’t require a huge time investment.
If you are wondering how to go about buying and selling websites to make money, I will give you some basic information about it in this post so you can get a better understanding of the website flipping process.
The key is to start by buying low, improving the site design, building up traffic, and increasing income so you can then sell it for a hefty profit. There are a lot of people selling websites that have a lot of potential for very cheap. A lot of time these websites just need a little work and they can be sold for a huge profit on a single flip. You can sometimes even find sites that do well already but the owners can no longer keep them for one reason or another, and are willing to sell them for less than they are worth, or they just need a little work to increase the value tremendously.
Here are a few of the best places to buy and sell websites:
1) Flippa.com – One of the most popular marketplaces for buying and selling websites. You can get some great deals here on sites that can be fixed up and flipped. Or you can also sell your sites here once they are ready to flip.
2) EmpireFlippers.com – These website brokers are very good at what they do. If you have a valuable web site then this is the place to sell it.
3) eBay – Not as good as the two above but you can often buy sites for cheap and the huge amounts of traffic that ebay gets can also make it a good place to sell.
Some good advice to remember before you buy a website to flip is to do some research on the marketplace to see what kinds of sites are selling and how much they are going for.
Website flipping isn’t for everyone but it can be done by almost anyone with even a little bit of internet marketing or web design experience because it doesn’t require much in the way of special skills. Most people looking at site flipping as a way to make money online probably have enough skill to do it, or are at least have the ability to learn how to buy and sell websites for profit.
Jenni Jooster says
Great post! Very informative and straightforward with a lot of helpful tips about buying and selling websites for profit. I’m just getting into site flipping so this helps a ton.