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Are Some Webmasters Financial Masterminds?

I just finished reading a great book called Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki. And I thought that I should write about the financial intelligence of some webmasters.

Many of the people that daily are active in the buy/sell website forums, they have understood what it is all about. They are financial intelligent, so to say.

Here’s the reason for my statement:

• They are always on the looking for good investments
• They buy websites for the revenue generated by their websites
• They improve the websites to generate higher revenues
• They sell websites for more than they were bought for

This means that they constantly improve their cash flow by improving their website portfolio. And thereby become richer every day. The webmasters are not working for money anymore, the money are working for the webmasters.

Considering that websites typically sell for amounts around 12 months of revenue, this is also a very attractive market. If you’re constantly buying new assets for all the revenue generated by those you currently own, you’ll be experiencing an amazing growth.

Also remember that if you have a corporation for your business you won’t have to pay much in taxes (maybe even nothing) because you get tax deductions for your purchases / investments.

Of course webmasters don’t have to invest in new websites, they can just as well invest in the growth of their current websites.

Tags: website assets, online investment, website investment, website cash flow

4 comments April 20th, 2006

Are webmasters losing a lot of money right now?

At the True Blogging Forum I just read that Adwords and Adsense seems to be down. How much money does webmasters lose in the moment due to Adsense only showing Public Service Ads? It is probably a lot.

I certainly hope they’ll be up and running again quickly, or I might also lose a decent amount of money.

And we shouldn’t forget that all the people who base their business on Adwords traffic also has problems making money right now.

Tags: adsense, adwords, make money, losing money

Add comment January 27th, 2006

Website for Sale: DropWatch.com, $4193.21 december revenue

A new website just went for sale at Sitepoint. It is DropWatch.com which is a service that provides real time stats for expiring domains information for estimating traffic on expired domains.
The website had a revenue of $4193.21 in december 2005, but it is this far the highest revenue obtained. According to the revenue details provided by the seller, there has been a steady increase since january 2005 (the stats don’t go further back). The revenue is generated through member subscriptions, and is based on a monthly fee, so there is a good reason to believe that the revenue will increase further.

The auction starts at $140,000 which is too much, and the BIN is $233,500 which I think is absolutely unreasonable. Imagine what you could build with that much money… But who knows, he might be open for lower offers. Anyway there is definitely a good market for expiring domains, so if this website gets marketed well, there will probably be a very good pay off.

Tags: website sale, web business, buy website, expired domains

1 comment January 15th, 2006