Finding prospects for your websites on sale can either be easy or time-consuming for the new internet marketer. It’s always key to target your market with the website you are selling. If you can, always try to sell a few different websites at the same time so that you can put your marketing efforts into more than just one website for sale.
Try to familiarize yourself with the many forums online that can be geared towards your websites for sale. If you have a very unique niche, you can be certain to find a place that you can list it at. For example, if you have a guitar WordPress blog, you will be able to find many, many websites geared towards guitars but narrow in on the kind of guitar blog you have. If it’s specifically about learning the acoustic guitar, you can find online forums that cater to this. You will be able to focus on potential buyers who are interested and looking to buy this kind of blog. Know your market and where you can find them.
DigitalPoint has many business type websites for sale as well as buyers. If you familiarize yourself with the forum, there seems to be a popularity with business, dating, and more saturated website niches for sale and being bought. Of course there are unique websites up for sale and those who are looking but make sure you know who frequents the forums. You may be able to catch someone that said they were looking for a fishing type website and this time, you have it. Keep an email list of potential buyers and what they may be looking for. Let them be the first to be notified with your asking price.
It’s always smart to have an asking price but it’s even better if you make room for offers so do markup your price by a percentage that you’re comfortable with. When you leave it in the buyer’s hands to make an offer to you, this makes them feel that they are in control and that you may take their offer if they they know you want to make a quick sale.
Always use Paypal or another online method to eliminate any snail mail options. If you’re from one country and the buyer is from another country, cheques should never be accepted. For one thing, the potential buyer may never send the cheque and if they do, it could get lost in transit. As well, once the cheque reaches your bank and it’s from a different country, it can take a large amount of time to clear if it ever clears.
Make it easy for your potential buyer by sending them an invoice on the settled price. Once the payment has been received, do keep your end of the deal and transfer their website over as quicky as possible. This will ensure that you get a good testimonial if you’re looking for one and will more often than not, send referrals your way.




















December 1, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Hi, nice post. I really like your suggestion to market a website to the same community that might use it. I am a bit surprised you didn’t mention Flippa, which is the biggest website to list a site for sale.
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December 2, 2009 at 7:34 am
I just added a new post that mentions Flippa and some others. If you know of other feel free to add them to this post and I will be happy to review them.
Thanks.
- Cory
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