I was reading a post last week about flipping niche websites and decided to give it a go with a few BANS websites that I have that aren’t making enough money.
I am currently in the middle of selling one of them for $500 with the stipulation that the buyer purchases the bans software license via my affiliate link before I hand it over. This method not only allows me to benefit from the sale of the site but also from an additional affiliate sale of the BANS software .
With a little more discussion, I found that the buyer doesn’t have a hosting account either. So I suggested Hostgator through my affiliate link and even gave him my blogs coupon code to get $9.94 off his initial order. This sounded too good to be true for him and I made an additional affiliate sale.
So lets tally this up. The BANS software I purchased has already paid for itself as I can use it on an unlimited amount of bans affiliate store creations and they have made more than enough combined to pay for itself. The domain name only cost me $7.15 and I am selling it and the affiliate store for $500. I get an additional $44 from the affiliate sale of BANS and $50 from the affiliate sale from Hostgator. That gives me a total of $594 for one niche site and I only spent $7.15 creating it. Not a bad days work there.
Following with this line of thinking, I decided to start putting together BANS affiliate stores that I plan on flipping. I will design the header myself, do the SEO work and submit the sites and then I will let it stew for a month. That way I can see if its niche is going to create enough or not enough revenue for me to decide whether to keep it or flip it.
Spending some time on a BANS site can determine how much it will make. Adding information pages, product images and a knowledgebase or FAQ section can help your site bring in more traffic. To the potential buyer, he will see this an opportunity to add to and improve the site and in return, bring in a better profit than the site was previously earning.
I am working with an individual right now that I am going to have specialize in custom BANS theme designs for under $100. I will be offering a few of them for free here for my visitors to use and I will be allowing you guys use of my designer if you want to use my method of flipping bans sites.
I will be writing a separate post on his services so stay tuned.
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I don’t think I’ll ever use bans. I create my own layouts unless it takes a long time to create like a forum layout or wordpress layout.
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It is a real easy way to pump out sites quickly for turn around profit or for flipping.
I agree Jason, why would you not want to flip a bans site. I just didn’t think people would want to buy one.
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Feel free to contact me with all of the BANS stores you are planning on flipping, as I am going to be investing in buying about 20 of them over the next 6-12 months. They must be making at least $150/m (only $3/day).
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The BANS sites are doing well! I have been working on a few for myself, but flipping them does sound interesting!
Oh, just an FYI, you can actually make more than $50 per HostGator sign up, if you use the links from Commission Junction. I get $100 per host gator account sign up!
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Unfortunately, I worked for Hostgator and the only way I could be an affiliate for them is through their program so they can make sure I don’t exploit the system.