How to Make $250 for Free by Flipping a Website
There are a lot of people getting into buying and selling websites these days because site flipping is such a hot topic right now and a great way to make money online. Sometimes there are people who are trying to sell a website or blog and for whatever reason they need or want someone else to do it for them.
There are many reasons why a person would need help selling their website or blog…
- Maybe they aren’t very good at writing up an auction that will sell, or they have never done it before so they don’t even know where to start.
- They might need money really bad and must sell their site now but they are new to site flipping and haven’t built up a reputation yet, so they want help from someone who has.
- It could also be that they simply don’t have time and are willing to pay someone a percentage to just do it for them.
…Or maybe they have another reason for needing help with their site flip.
Whatever the reason is, you can step in and sell it for them for some very easy money!
I recently sold a website for an online business acquaintance of mine because he needed the money fast and thought that I could sell it much faster than he could and get more money for it. He agreed to pay me 10% of whatever the site sold for. I calculated the value of the site being around $2500 so that’s what we decided to set the Buy It Now (BIN) at. Within two days we got a BIN bid and the site was sold.
The site owner handled the domain transfer, site transfer, answered all the questions, and everything else. He even paid the Sitepoint fees for listing the auction. All I did was write up the auction listing and sell the site. Although I did offer to handle the transferring of the domain and site files and would have done it, but he did it himself instead.
He sent me the $250 and it was done. That was about the easiest money I’ve ever made! And it was completely free money other than the hour or so I spent writing and listing the auction.
Flipping websites is a fairly easy way to make money online itself but this was even easier because I didn’t have to buy or build the site, or do much else.
There are plenty of people out there just waiting for someone like you to help them with their site flip or blog flip. Go make some easy money!
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I found your money making blog very informative and extremely helpful. I will recommend it to my friends.
Keep the blog flipping information coming!
Good stuff! Website brokering is a great game, especially if you get into the higher priced sites and charge a little more % for your time and effort once you have built a list of buyers, etc.
Luckily, this was your friend, but if you’re doing it for a stranger, or even an acquaintance/online friend, be sure to get the deal in writing from both buyer and seller. Also, have it in writing that the site is not transferred until you get paid! :)
Cheers
Jay
Hi, found a link to your site on michelle-adams.com. This is an interesting post, and I hope to get into a bit more of this as I get more experience buying and selling websites. Website brokering could be a great way to pick up a few bucks.
If I have a website in my hostgator hosting and I want to sell it. Do I have to transfer the website to the hosting of the person who will buy my website?
Hello,
It depends…if you don’t want or need the hosting account any longer, you can transfer the whole account to the buyer. So then you do not need to do anything else other than change the credit card information and login for the hostgator account. This is the easiest way to do it.
But if you want to keep the hosting account, then you need to get the website off of your server. If you do not know how to do that there are a few things you can do. You can:
pay an outsourcer to do it – maybe $20.
do it yourself
if you can’t, write on the sales page that the buyer must do the transfer and that you can’t help. I think it may make the price of your site go down a little because most people are simply lazy and don’t want to deal with moving a site.
you can make a note on the sales page that if the site reaches a certain price, then you’ll pay for the moving of the site.
Hope this helps!