Website Flipping or Growing the website?

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June 6, 2016, 6:59 am

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Website Flipping or Growing the website?

Suppose you have a website which is earning decent money for you every month. The revenue from the website is constant despite you spend very little time in promotion/SEO. You know very well that if you spend some time with the website, revenue will grow in future. But you don't get enough motivation. In this situation what will you do, will you flip the website or you will put more time to the website?

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MasterA

MasterA

I would put more time into the website. Since you know that revenue will grow in the future, this means the website has potential and you should keep it unless you get a very good offer. Money is motivation so you will just have to try to motivate yourself. If you increase your revenue and then sell it, you will get a much higher amount for that website for a bit more of your time. Not to mention, you also get the extra income you get monthly. My recommendation is to put more time on it and maximise its value before selling it.

9 years ago

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anwebservices

anwebservices

Well little bit tricky question. Depend what kind of website it is. Future of any business or website is risky and decisions like this have to be made after summarizing all your income, outcome, goals etc. but still it involve risk in making that decision. It also depend on how much it can be sold for. Because once it's sold, it's gone and you have to think about another source of income for future....

BUT, there is a lot of people who building such websites for sole purpose to flip it as soon they can get smaller or bigger sum of money for it. I have seen many of these sold on Flippa in the past.

I experienced both situations, flipping and keeping. Because i had different websites in different niches it was different situation for each of them. Once i decide to pull out auction of my website and keep it, then few months i realized i was wrong, because my business dropped drastically on that particular website,

So at the end i have to say, there is big calculation to do and risk is involved when you making such decisions

9 years ago

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overcast

overcast

I think it depends on your efforts. If you are into passive income state then growing website makes sense. If you want to make quick bucks on specific duration of efforts. In such case it'd be reasonable to have the website flipping mode. Because that seems to be working for many. And it'd be reasonable to say that it does work to some extent to some users. But I am guessing for each one of us it could take some time as well. I guess website flipping sounds like a reasonable job in that case.

7 years ago

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Soulwatcher

Soulwatcher

I think passive income is the way to go. If you can get a website to keep earning and increase revenue why would you not want to keep it. Sure selling it will give you a lot of cash fast but once that money is gone where are you? I like to think long term and future income =)

7 years ago

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itommy

itommy

Depend on you, if you want to have fast income online then Website Flipping is a good choice but if you want to earn money in long term then Growing the website is your choice!

7 years ago

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augusta

augusta

Its just human nature to always need a fast and easy way out and we exclude the future though it an individual and it up to you actually but I will prefer you keep, grow and nurture the site for more earning especially for future.But if you insist to sell then add even more value before selling, that way you would not just flipping the site for less.

7 years ago

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vinaya

vinaya

I think Growing a website is more profitable. I have a website that I am trying to sell. I have priced it $750. If I work on this website and let it grow, I can earn more than $150 every month. The website had a good potential. However, I am selling it because I don't have the patience to wait for profit to come, I am already suffering from the financial crisis by paying for domain renewal, hosting services and marketing.

7 years ago

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Kakashi2020

Kakashi2020

If I'm in your situation I'll just let it be because it's earning income so that's like passive income and it's good. And when you have some time to spare try to optimize it by doing some of the simple stuff to get more traffic. This will upgrade your income a bit .

7 years ago

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Corzhens

Corzhens

If you have lost motivation in maintaining your site but as in the premise your site is earning good money consistently then it is foolish to sell it. I know that website flipping is getting popular but a site that is like the goose that lays the golden egg should be protected and kept. How about hiring a virtual assistant to handle your site and you split the earnings between the 2 of you?

6 years ago

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