buy | sell websites; is it like buying any other business?

BoomBust

Back not so long ago, there were the boom-and-bust years of the WWW when companies paid big bucks for what appeared to be unprofitable online businesses/websites. A sort of gold fever gripped investors: some became almost instant millionaires and others, well many others went the other way, in a big way!

Since the bubble burst, however, the online market has established at a more measured and sustainable pace. Trends show that there are sites that continue to increase in value across the board and the trend remains upward.

This environment presents ample opportunity for successful speculation. Just like the physical property market, the online property market is rightly being regarded by many as a great place to make not just a quick profit, but—potentially—a living.

As with a property, you can buy a web site and have it increase in value over time without having to do anything but maintain it (although the value of physical property depends on the scarcity of real estate, which is unlikely ever to be a problem online!). [“Flipping Websites for Profit“]

As with any business purchase, there are steps to this process:
1. Locating an online business you want to buy
2. Negotiating and completing the sale
3. Adding value to the business
4. Making the decision what to do next – do I keep it? or do i sell it?
5. If part of an existing business’ online strategy, is it doing its job? has it lived up to expectations? is it time to buy another one perhaps?

Lets look at Step 1.
How do you find an online business to buy?
Do you know of one being sold, that you’re interested in?
How do you know what you’re looking at, really? How do you analyse it?

I’ll into more detail about these points next week…

TEMpting; How Business Buyers and Sellers Have Been Tempted This Week…

How Saleable is Your Business in 2014?
How Saleable do you want Your Business 2014?
What are you waiting for? GET YOUR SCORE…

Spent much of this week working on one particular sale and continuing to explore the sale option with a number of Business Owners keen to chat.

There is a growing sense that now is the time to buy a business, especially is looking for a capped price. The reason being is that as more quality businesses come on to the market (as they are predicted to do), the prices will rise. So if you want to talk to me about your long held wish of being a business owner, seems like now would be the time to do so…

GOT A WEBSITE FOR SALE?

If yes, please email me at dhall@businessbrokers.com.au

And you…what does 2014 bring?
If any of the following tickle your fancy, please email me at dhall@businessbrokers.com.au, letting me know which one it is…


FOR SALE…

BS30 Online Venue Business

Completed Sellability Score
2 new inquiries have come through and waiting to hear back from them

BS43 Tourism

Deposit locked and loaded. Settlement set for February 10.
When it’s a good thing, it pays to act quickly.

BS49 Home Help…

One party is very interested. The potential has been well and truly revealed so it’s down to price and the level of comfort required to “pull the trigger” as they say in the classics!

BS53 Balloons! and all that goes with them…

Such corporate appeal, so untapped. It’s waiting for the savvy operator that can see past the retail component and tap into it’s possibility as a warehouse servicing the larger players. And it probably needs to be a local. Shall do a database trawl and see what that reveals too.

BS57 Online Business

Signed good to go. It’s making money and it dropships! Have received signed authority’s and in the process of developing the IM now. Stay tuned.

OR
Are you interested in

  • a particular event
  • event management
  • corporate cleaning offering
  • specialty educational toys

If yes, let me know as these revealed themselves this week…

 

Exploring the Sale Option?

GET YOUR SCORE…

Onwards and Upwards!

TEMpting; How Business Buyers and Sellers Have Been Tempted This Week…

How Saleable is Your Business in 2014?
How Saleable do you want Your Business 2014?
What are you waiting for? GET YOUR SCORE…

Spent much of this week working on one particular sale and exploring the sale option with a number of Business Owners keen to chat. Who knows where it may lead…

Also had a great Session One with a Woman Business Owner looking to start a family. We’ve commenced plotting and scheming that transition too. This is of course one close to my heart!

GOT A WEBSITE FOR SALE?

If yes, please email me at dhall@businessbrokers.com.au

And you…what does 2014 bring?
If any of the following tickle your fancy, please email me at dhall@businessbrokers.com.au, letting me know which one it is…


FOR SALE…

BS30 Online Venue Business

Completed Sellability Score
2 new inquiries have come through and waiting to hear back from them

BS43 Tourism

Deposit locked and loaded. Settlement planned for February.
When it’s a good thing, it pays to act quickly.

BS49 Home Help…

This is an interesting one. Mainly because it is playing in a growth industry but the players looking at it are playing small. The revisit of the presentation certainly worked, had a great meeting this morning with a most eligible buyer which continues!

BS53 Balloons! and all that goes with them…

Such corporate appeal, so untapped. Potential buyers have stalled a little now. It’s waiting for the savvy operator that can see past the retail component. Needs to be thought more of as a warehouse!

BS57 Online Business

Signed good to go. A true online business at that ie all is in place, it’s making money and it dropships! In the process of developing the IM now. Stay tuned.

OR
Are you interested in?

  • photographic studio x 2
  • skin care range and premise
  • a particular event
  • event management

If yes, let me know what these are what came in this week…

 

Exploring the Sale Option?

GET YOUR SCORE…

Onwards and Upwards!

do you have a website for sale?

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Whilst each of you are determining your own Online Business Strategy, I’ve been working on mine. That is, I am now in hot pursuit of Online Businesses and websites as a potential purchase for myself and/or my network of potential buyers… Do you have one?

Is your Online Business/website:

  • profitable?
  • traffic savvy?
  • niche driven?
  • older than 12 months?
  • ready to be sold?
  • priced to buy?

If yes to any of the above, please contact me at sell@theentrepreneurialmother.com advising the above details and the best way to contact you?

TEMpting; How Business Buyers and Sellers Have Been Tempted This Week…

How Saleable is Your Business in 2014?
What are you waiting for? GET YOUR SCORE…

The most interesting conversations continued this week with Business Owners looking to GET OUT. Guess the deadline of the festive season will do it every time!

A few Business Owners have touched base again, realising the end of the year is nigh. A few Business Buyers have popped their head up too, especially after having been retrenched recently.

Already determined what 2014 will look like for me, so looking forward to it already…

And you…what does 2014 bring?
If any of the following tickle your fancy, please email me at dhall@businessbrokers.com.au, letting me know which one it is…

FOR SALE…

BS30 Online Venue Business

Completed Sellability Score
Looking for our new plan of attack on this one… maybe a 2014 resurrection is on the cards

FOR SALE

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BS43 Tourism

Deposit locked and loaded. Settlement planned for 2014.
When it’s a good thing, it pays to act quickly.

FOR SALE

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BS48 Pet Grooming and Shop

The trial is in play with settlement due shortly. What an end of year present! Fingers crossed all goes well.

FOR SALE

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BS49 Home Help…
This is an interesting one. Mainly because it is playing in a growth industry but the players looking at it are playing small. In the process of revisiting the presentation to be more appealing to those with a larger appetite.

FOR SALE

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BS53 Balloons! and all that goes with them…
Such corporate appeal, so untapped. Potential buyers have stalled a little now. It’s waiting for the savvy operator that can see past the retail component. Needs to be thought more of as a warehouse!

FOR SALE

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BS57 Online Business
Signed good to go. A true online business at that ie all is in place, it’s making money and it dropships! In the process of developing the IM now. Stay tuned.

 

Exploring Sale Option…

GET YOUR SCORE…
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The “Sellability Score” reports continue to dribble in each and every week.

More calls to make as a result and more emails to send 🙂

Onwards and Upwards!

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