Yes, it’s true. You can sell your blog for 10 times the amount you earned into the last month. Means if you spent 10 minutes for your blog I am guessing you made $10 with it. Do you know that a blog that made $10 is worth $100? And that a blog that made $100 is worth $1000? And so on… It’s where blog flipping comes in mind.
There are people trying to sell you methods to “effectively” sell your blog. Well, there is no such thing. Either you sell it or not. What we are trying to archive here is to sell it. Not stay with what we made using it. We want 10 times that amount. So how do we do it?
The first step is to think like buyers. Where do hungry buyers go? They usually end up on marketplaces like the dp forums or sitepoint. That is where we should setup the blog. Before starting to sell it you should make sure that it has a pretty decent design and quality content. The next step is to make sure where you want to sell it. There are 2 options available.
1st option: Digitalpoint Forums - Free
The dp forums is a nice place to sell a site or blog but I won’t suggest it for making a neat sale. You can get around $200 maximum there for a blog. That is why the second suggestion sounds better.
2nd option: Sitepoint Marketplace
One of the greatest ones. I’ve seen sites go for more than half a million bucks there. But it isn’t free. The fee is $20-40 I think. It depends on the category you place the blog into.
Whatever your choice is make it right. I am telling you from my personal experience as I’ve spent hours into those places flipping websites. It’s your choice.
Whatever you have chosen you’ll need a good sales latter to get bids. The main reason why you are there is to sell the blog. You function there is to converse people to buy your blog. Tell them why should they buy it… why is it worth investing… why is it profitable. Also post screenshots of traffic and earnings. A good sales latter makes it all. If you don’t know how to write it good check out other auctions that ended up as “Sold”. Copy the text and change with your own. It’s called “ripping off”. But it’s better to do that than just throw money and not get any bids.
And the last step is to finish the sale. After you got the bids make sure everything ends up well. Use a secure service like escrow so you won’t end up with chargebacks. I would never ever suggest using paypal for larger transactions. They’ll probably freeze your account. Damn, I remember how many times I ended up with a limited account after I sold a site for good money. Make sure you use escrow so that the buyer feels secure too.
And last, offer the buyer to move the blog yourself. Not knowing how to do it? This one makes it easy - http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
I wish you luck when selling your blog!
