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Buying & Selling Websites Training Returns

My “world class training product” (well I think so anyway) is now available to the public again!

I have been getting a bunch of emails from people who missed out on my training class from 3 months ago. I’ve also had people asking me for resale rights to the course since I was no longer selling it.

I got to thinking, since the videos are just sitting in the members area, why not let other people make money from them since the content is already made.

So, I’ve decided to open up the course again and let affiliates make money from it.

I won’t be advertising the website myself, so you will have no competition from me.

I’m basically just opening up the existing content so you and other affiliates can make money from my hard work and knowledge.

Since I’m not going to be as involved with the day to day training like I was before, I’ve dropped the price down to $99 and I’m paying a 60% commission to affiliates who want to promote the course.

If you have a website related to making money, have a blog or email list, you can make about $54 for every person who signs up for the class.

I’ve set it up through Clickbank, so it’s very easy for you to get started making money from the course. You can get your affiliate link from this page:

http://www.buyingandsellingwebsites.com/affiliates.php

You probably know by now that the value of the education I’ve provided to students and you know it’s worth WAY more than $99. But, since I dropped the price, it will make it a lot easier for you to sell.

I’m letting you know about this first so you have the first chance to begin promoting it before anyone else. Usually the first people to promote an affiliate program are the ones who make the most money.

I let the buyers of the course have first crack at this affiliate program last week, and one of my students has already made $378 in commissions from the product in the first 4 days!

Here is the sales letter so you can see where your visitors will go after they click your affiliate link:

http://www.buyingandsellingwebsites.com

Anyway, just wanted to let you know what is going on.

If you have any questions, let me know.

Talk soon…

Buying and Selling Basics

Believe it or not, buying and selling websites and blogs for a profit was a fairly foreign concept to me before deciding to sell Blogging Experiment. Since then however, I couldn’t help but learn a few things about the subject. Today I’m going to cover a few of the basic premises of flipping a website. Don’t worry, this won’t be too in-depth (I’ll leave that to Max, if you haven’t yet watched his video you should) but hopefully this will get the old juices flowing and maybe even give you an idea or two.

The Search

This can be easy or hard depending on the market. The internet does go through little spells of ups and downs and in the process some good websites get sold quickly at a bargain price. This would obviously be an ideal choice for the flip. You buy it, hold it for a bit, get some revenue on record, and then sell it when the market gets stronger. Unfortunately you will not find this too often. You’ll have to fight some of your base instincts and look for a bad website.

The Exam

This doesn’t mean you should buy complete trash. You’re going to have to look for a website that has some horrible mistake, one that just jumps off the screen and makes you want to close it. This can be a poor design choice, an awful color scheme, an incomplete menu, etc.

If you find this then take a minute and examine the content to see if it’s any good. In general you won’t find it worthwhile to fix bad content. Adding new information to a half-decent website makes sense, so don’t be turned off if the website doesn’t have enough. Rewriting the entire website is going to be incredibly time consuming though. Unless the domain name is golden then you would be in almost the same place as if you just started from scratch. In all honesty, there isn’t an ugly site or blog out there that can’t be repaired with some tender loving care. So, if the content is decent and the domain name is workable the next step is to start working the math for it.

The Math

Doing the math will help you to figure out how much the site will actually cost. I can’t really work out a scenario that will apply to everyone. Different problems require unique fixes with unique costs and no two websites are going to present the same problems. You’ll just have to work out the estimates as best as you can. The important step is to etimate the damage the last owner has done to it and decide whether you can fix it yourself, and if not, how much the proper coder will cost. You’ll probably want to have a better design and make the menu look more stylish. The header and logo almost always need a revamp on flipped sites too. Also include the cost of any marketing you plan on doing as well as any operating costs (paid authors, hosting fees, licenses etc) and you’ll have a pretty good flip estimate.

The Finish

Use your estimate to decide what you’ll bid and set a firm cutoff in your mind. While you’re at it see if there is a similar finished site for sale somewhere else and get a realistic idea of the possible sale price once you’re done with it. Flipping depends on selling the website at a good profit. This is obviously much easier if you don’t pay an arm and a leg for it in the first place. All that’s left for you to do at this point is watch and wait for the auction to wrap up. If you lose, just move on to the next opportunity. If you win, throw your plan into action and let the flip begin.

As I said, this is a VERY basic overview of site flipping and I’m far from an expert. But if this sounds like the type of thing you’d like to try, consider signing up for the course Max is offering. A small investment early on will save you a lot of time and money in the long run.

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How To Retire In 15 Months

I don’t know about you, but I have no desire to “work” until I’m 65 years old like many people are required to do. In fact, thanks to my internet ventures, I am technically retired right now.

In other words, I don’t have to work another day in my life if I don’t want to. The reason I’m in this situation is because of our success in buying and selling websites.

When you sell a website for 6 or 7 figures, you can take that lump sum payment and invest it in various investment options such as stocks, real estate, etc. If you sell your website for a $1,000,000 and you take that million and invest it, you can literally live off the earnings/interest of that investment.

The stock market historically returns an average of 8% per year, so on a million bucks, that’s about $80,000 per year, every year for the rest of your life. The nice part about it is YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORK to earn that money! Your money does all the working, so you can retire and do whatever you want.

Isn’t that everyone’s goal in life?

We work so hard for 30-35 years at a job we hate, making less money than we deserve, just so ONE DAY we’ll be able to finally retire and “enjoy life”…

Why wait until you’re old and gray to retire? You can literally be retired 15 months from TODAY if you want to put in the effort to make it happen.

I just created a video that shows exactly how you can retire within 15 months.

You can check it out here.

Think I’m crazy? Go watch the video and see what I mean. Open your mind just a little bit and see what happens…

Seriously, go watch it right now. It’s only 9 minutes long. Come back here when you are done and tell me what you think…

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Training Class Registration Now Open

Just a real quick post in case the email I just sent gets tossed in the spam folders…

For those of you interested in learning the real life, step by step process my partner and I use for buying and selling (or building and selling) websites, the training class registration is now open.

A quick recap:

The class starts on Monday, April 28th 2008.

Only the first 20 students who register will be part of this “test class” (explained here).

Since this is a test class, the tuition is reduced from $400 to only $200 (with full money back guarantee also).

Registration closes on April 27th or once 20 students register, whichever comes first.

You can register for the class at the link below

http://www.buyingandsellingwebsites.com/welcome2.php

(Sorry, there is no super slick sales letter for the class. If you’ve been reading my blog posts, you know the class will have killer content. If you need a professionally written sales letter to convince you, then you probably shouldn’t sign up!)

I’ve been getting some great questions about the class, so I’ve posted my these and my responses on this FAQ page.

This class in and of itself will be a great internet business lesson. What you are watching right now is how you can start from nothing, build credibility in a new market, launch a new product and make money all in less than a month (class students get to see the behind the scenes stuff I’m doing right now).

If you have any questions for me, please leave a comment below or email me using the contact us form on this site.

On A Different Note:

I’ve been testing a super easy money making strategy the last couple days and it looks promising. You may have heard of it before, maybe not.

I wouldn’t call it a full blown internet business, but so far in my testing it looks like it has the potential to make at least $1,000 per month with about one hour per day in “work”, if you can even call it work.

I’ll put together a video explaining this business and showing you REAL LIFE RESULTS in the next couple of days.  Just want to let this experiment run a little longer to make sure the income is not some kind of fluke.

Talk with you soon…

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