I'm exasperated at website brokers. Today, for the umpteenth time, I've contacted a broker about a site that's been on their books for several months, filled in the NDA, did all the paperwork,
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The higher the price of the business, the more the following apply.
1. Clear your diary. It's going to take a lot of time whether you do it yourself or use a broker. Whatever the outside limit of time you estimated, multiply that
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You've bought the site. Do you transfer it or do you leave it where it is? And if you do want to transfer it, where do you start?
To Transfer Or Not To Transfer, that's the question
If the seller recommends his hosting company highly, the history shows they've treated him well, the site has had little to no downtime (check using Netcraft), support questions were answered promptly and efficiently, and the charges are reasonable, there is the temptation to stay put.
The status quo implies
- no stress of moving. For some sites you'll have to move not just files and pages but databases and programs - can be tricky.
- dealing with the devil the site knows. While another hosting company
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There are numerous ebooks and blogs on how to increase the price you get when you sell your site. Unfortunately, most of them are targeted at the low-end $100 sites. Top tips tend to be on
- What day to list your site on
- How long to list for
- How to "bump" your listing thread to get more people seeing it
- How starting the bidding at $1 will attract more people to your auction
etc.
Word on the street is that Flippa got hacked (headsup, Flipfilter) about a week ago. Nice image of the Flippa admin screen at the is-hacked.com link. The alleged sequence of events is
We know that escrow.com is not the safest option for the transaction of buying/selling a website. First of all, they don't actually handle the buying and selling of sites
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