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Website Flipping

Sun, Jun 29, 2008

Business

Where have I been? I get frustrated when I visit blogs and the first post in over 2 months is a weak attempt at an explanation and/or excuse for laziness, so I won’t bore you with the details, except to say that I was anything but lazy during the hiatus.

On to website flipping! As I’ve been exploring different avenues of internet marketing over the past several months, one of the areas I am getting the most enjoyment out of is website flipping. I’ve had a successful track record so far with the majority of the small deals I have made.  Most have made profit in the hundreds with a couple making me thousands in a short period of time.

For example, I purchased one site for $350 and ended up making a total profit of approximately $3k with minimal work. Within less than a week, I basically redesigned the site, added some basic SEO and did a bit of link building.  I started getting sales and a month later, sold the site for 12x the monthly profit.

So how do I do that every week? Or every day even? Well, I’m glad you asked! I’m about to find out by entering a site flipping contest over at SiteFlipU.  The contest runs 30 days while Bryan Clark, the site flipper extraordinaire, walks you through the entire process of a build and flip.  Unfortunately, I only stumbled across the contest a few days ago, so I have to rush to get prepared, but I’m looking forward to the competition! They seem like a great bunch of guys and it’ll be fun to learn  something along the way. Wish me luck!

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5 Comments For This Post

  1. theaffiliatepost Says:

    So J….looks like you have been holding out on us?? A site flipper already eh? I enjoyed reading your blog and look forward to doing battle with you!!!

  2. Jay Says:

    Haha, I wasn’t holding out. I’m not sure if I can consider myself a bona fide “site flipper”, but yes, I’ve flipped a couple.
    I still have a lot to learn and hopefully I’ll pick up some good pointers from the site flippin’ veteran. I look forward to the battle as well!

  3. Bryan Clark Says:

    Awesome post Jay. Can’t wait to see how you do in the contest… :)

  4. theaffiliatepost Says:

    and there was me thinking I was way behind on this one. Looking forward to seeing what you have been up to!!!

  5. Jay Says:

    @ Bryan:

    Thank you for having the contest and lighting fire under our asses!

    @ TheAP: I commented to that on your site, but here’s another response, cause I don’t want you yellin’ obscenities at me.

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