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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

Popular Arcade Website for Sale, ~30,000 daily uniques

OnlineGames.net has been put up for sale at SitePoint. This is a very popular flash games website with many sorts of games - from sudoku games to action games. It has about 30,000 unique visitors a day. The site makes near $3,500 monthly through Adsense, YPN, Casale Media and Fastclick.

The traffic has been stable for several months according to seller, so it - as he says - should be a good investment. The starting bid is $45,000 with a BIN of $120,000. I’m not sure it is worth the BIN, but then again a website with this kind of traffic is often worth A LOT MORE than the “usual” 12 months of revenue.

Tags: web site for sale, arcade website, games website

Add comment March 17th, 2006

MySpace Site for Sale, $400 monthly revenue

The site is krustie.com which is for sale at SitePoint. It is turnkey but it has traffic of about 140,000 monthly pageviews and revenue of ~400$ trough adsense.

The adsense is very aggressively positioned, so I wouldn’t expect on improving revenue through those. But if you already have a deal with a CPM based ad network, you might be able to increase revenue by implementing such, at the same time as having adsense.

As I understand it, most of the traffic comes from peoples MySpace profiles, but the seller also talkes about SEO and some rankings, so I guess there is also some search engine traffic.

The website is for sale for $3000, which seems okay if it is the kind of site, where it is not hard to keep the traffic at the current level. I think that one would be able to earn back their investment.

Tags: myspace website, myspace editors, myspace avatars

2 comments March 1st, 2006

Should you tell when you see a potential scam?

If some of you are browsing forums and other sites looking for potential website investments, then I would guess that you look into the details for some of them.

Some times you have noticed that not everything seems right. It could be that the stats are manipulated. Maybe some parts of the website is copyright by someone else than the seller. Or it is that there is just something of general interest to potential buyers that you know, and they might not.

Then what do you do…

• Close the browser window and move on?
• You post it for everyone to know?

In most cases - if I find it being important - I will let everyone know about it. And I have my reasons to believe it is the better thing to do.

• I see other website buyers as colleagues, and real people, so I don’t like them to get ripped of. Getting the best deals isn’t a war between me and them. If I help them they will hopefully also help me. This not only being to warn me about risks, but some might even “get to know me”, and tell me if they see something of my interest for sale.
• If what I point out is indeed a mistake by the seller, he will apologize and clear things out. Now the sale can go on and everybody knows that the seller is a nice guy, who is just as human as you and me.
• In case I’m wrong, and what I point out as “not being right” is actually correct. Then I will apologize and let everyone know that I was wrong, and help the seller to repair it, if damage has been caused.

Tags: buying websites, website scams, trading websites

1 comment February 25th, 2006