Hey everyone,

Today I am excited to announce that I have had my first BIG sale from a website. Through the selling process I learned a few things and I just had to share it all with you!

Selling a website on the internet can be risky so be sure you only sell to a quality buyer. If you do get scammed I do apologize but don’t give up because the best is yet to come!

30 Days Prior To Sale

Before you sell your website you need to ensure a few things are in place to get accurate stats for selling purposes. The more organized and easy it is for people to know what your site has to offer them the easier the sale will go (plus people are suckers for graphs and pictures on a sales thread).

Google Analytic’s – While your web hosting provider may in fact have some sort of stats software already available, people have come to trust the Google analytics screenshots the most. (I did not have this with my sale but it would have helped sell I assure you). You can Signup for Google Analytics and install the code on your site. It is fairly simple, here is a quick video showing you how to do it:

Remove Site Errors – Another thing you should do is ensure your site does not have any obvious errors on it. Nobody wants to buy a ugly or broken website, take the time needed to fix what is not working.

What to list on your Sale

It is actually mind baffling to me how many people list the stupidest things when trying to sell there website. If that’s not bad enough sometimes they list almost nothing at all which is even worse. Remember these rules when listing a website for sale.

Be Direct With Your Text – Your sales copy should be short, to the point and persuasive. These are normal selling techniques. Don’t be afraid to ask a question to start a conversation about your sale (it gets people looking).

Show lots of images – As I said above earlier, people are suckers for graphs and images when it comes to a sale. Even if the numbers are low the fact you have images gives you an edge over another website for sale (you are not the only one).

Colors – When it comes to coloring the font (DON’T). It distracts from the site your selling and gets annoying. Be smart, professional and use plain black text. It makes you look pro even if you are not.

Price – When it comes to the pricing of your ad there are several approaches you can take. I have found making your starting bid about 10% of the actual sale price you want just seems to make sense and work really well. So if your final sale price that you are wanting is $2,000.00 your starting bid price should be $200.00. This technique will eliminate people without much money from wasting your time and gets the big boys looking. You also should set a reserve price which is the absolute rock bottom you would take for your site (WORST CASE SCENARIO).

Final Thoughts 4 Selling

The main final thought I want to leave you with is communication. When it comes to selling it will take leg work and time to answer every potential buyers questions. Don’t count anyone out of your auction. Give yourself and your buyers the allotted time to really make a good decision. Never rush a sale.

And lastly SELL that thing!

Hey Guys,

First off I do not generally make 2 posts on the same day, however sometimes I like to change things up. Here it is, the second post for the day!

Today I was browsing through some of my favorite make money online blogs and I just happen to see a Guest Post by Block Blohm on JohnChow.com. First off if you see this Block, AMAZING POST. I really enjoyed reading it! I would love to pick your brain sometime.

You can see his post about Residual Income For Life VS. No Residual Income For Life. It was a very good article and video he made for Johns blog. (This is how a guest post should be guys).

In his post he talks about how Adsense is not residual (I 100% agree with him) but the very first comment on the post is someone saying how after its optimized, Adsense becomes residual. I actually replied to that comment (out of character for me, I never really comment on Johns Blog. However for some reason I felt compelled to.).

I simply said and I quote: Actually Adsense is not very residual. I make about $150/mo off adsense on my site but all that money is dependent upon the fact I continue to post good content. If I stop, the money stops (its not truly residual).

I just wanted you all to see and know that Adsense is not now nor will it ever be a residual income maker. That’s why Adsense doesn’t have an affiliate program (they would lose to much money). Google is smart. Very Smart.

Readers from the East Coast of the United States ankle-deep in floodwater are sure to disagree, but the news cycle was supersaturated with coverage of Hurricane Irene last weekend. Come on people – it was a Category 1! That’s just a little worse than a bad storm. Relatively speaking, Hurricane Katrina was a Category 5. Regardless, the areas Hurricane Irene affected seemed only halfway prepared and the damage, not to mention the loss of life, is nothing to make light of.

But honestly, it was just about impossible to ignore the incoming storm considering how many people live in its trajectory. More specifically, it was impossible to ignore due to the number of Tweets, blogs, and other social media posts churned out by those experiencing the bad weather.

The citizenry of every city on the American East Coast from DC to New York was bracing for Irene’s impact inside personal storage unit-to-shelter conversions. That’s millions of social media accounts and hundreds of thousands of blogs. The Internet access came and went here and there, and power is still out for many regions hit by the hurricane, but for the most part, the web was and still is being jam packed with real-time updates of on-the-grounds experiences in the form of Tweets, posts, and blogs.

This doesn’t offer much in the way of making your blog more popular. Creating content on the hottest topic of the hour is unlikely to draw your attention from the far more popular web sources featuring the identical content. This is, of course, the “echo chamber” most bloggers must learn to avoid. But it does say something about the power of the real-time blog and social media connection, especially during times of disaster. It says that these days there’s virtually no story without it.

Traditional press sources are currently being lambasted by the public – ironically often through blogs – for appearing preemptively on American coasts clad in raincoats for every hour of the day possible. This criticism of the media’s reaction to the hurricane in fact became news itself. Imagine Irene without the blogs and the millions of New York Tweets. It would have been nothing but wind-whipped reporters on wet beaches and not the story itself – that is the real-time experiences of those in the middle of it.

When starting a blog, don’t underestimate the modern role it plays in the propagation of information. Respect the power it has to relay the story in real-time, but more importantly how easily blogging can become the story itself.