The below is an extract of what I've posted in our VIP Lounge:
Glossary of Online Business Terms
Affiliate – A person or business who sells products and services on behalf of merchants. The merchant provides a code, known as an affiliate link, which the affiliate then places on their website. It enables the merchant to track
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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Baron, let's see if I can help some by expanding on the business valuation structure I have dealt with over the last several decades. It may be a long post, but if you're dealing with
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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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It is the simultaneous strength and weakness of WordPress that it offers simplicity for the user, and opportunities for the knowledgeable to exploit the user's lack of technical knowledge.
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yes - increasingly people are using mobile / tablet as their only computer...
if you have access to email / calendar / google / facebook / twitter / youtube from your phone - what else do you need?...
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