You would have probably heard of www.flippa.com, if you are planning to sell a website. It is the largest online marketplace for websites. The tryth is most people who list a websites for sale there end up selling cheap or not selling at all. You may wonder why should that happens since flippa is the biggest online market place for buying and selling of websites.
Most of the times, the seller didn’t work on the website very well before listing it. These 10 tips will be immense help, if you
want to maximize your chances of selling at a point:- Make sure your website is making money. this is the most important factor. If you want to sell a website successfully, it must be making money. Listing your website when it has not started to make money would be bad decision. Sure you can be able to sell it; if the inbound traffic is high but what you will get will be far below the real value of the website. So monetize the traffic and work it till the earnings become good and tangible. Remember you will need to show proof of earnings and that most buyers will calculate to know if it worth it.
- Make sure you have Google analytics data. Most serious buyers will want to see your Google analytics data before they bid for your website. They will use this to verify your traffic levels and to make sure the pattern is compatible with earning you are claiming
- Work on your trust rating each member on flippa has a trust rating, and most buyers will check it before placing their bids. In other words, the higher your trust rating, the higher are your chance of selling a website.
- Set the auction length for 7 days in my opinion 7 days is the optimal length for an auction at flippa. With that length of time you are sure that most buyers will see your auction; even those that only during the weekends and you will create a sense of urgency on those who are really interested. A lot of people make the mistake of setting the auction length for 30 days and as a result of which their auctions becomes dead as a consequence.
- Set a low reserve and high minimum bid. If you set a low reserve price, your auction will display the following message: bidding open and reserve price has been met, in a bright green coor. This is a big encouragement for potential buyers and it stimulates them to bid. And don’t worry about the site selling less than what you think its worth. You set a high minimum bid. Apart from protecting you from low bids this strategy will also filter th non-serious buyers out.
- Set a reasonable buy-now price. The buy it now price is there for a reason. It should allow a buyer who is very much interested in your website, avoid a bidding war and buy the website immediately by paying whatever you think it is worth
- Don’t hype up your description. The more you hype up your description, the more people will think that you are desperate to sell and that your website ia not as solid as you claim. Here are some of the remarks that you must avoid in your remarks: huge ptent, a lifetime opportunity, my loss is your gain. Secondly do not hypothesize what the website could be earning. Some people go on to say: this website has the potential to make $4000 per month easily, when they are listing a website that currently makes $10.00 per month. This will prompts the prospect bidder to ask why do you want the sell the website
- don’t fail to answer any question. Even if you write a crystal clear description, people will still have questions and thy will ask them in the comment area. It is important that you answer every single comment, as this will not only encourage the commenter to place a bid but it will also increase your ver all credibility of your auction. Secondly don’t delete a comment unless it is absolutely necessarily that you do so.
- Have a good reason for selling. one of the first things that people will want is why you are seling. They will assumke that the website is going through bad time and that you are desperate to sell it before it becomes worthless, if you don’t have a very good reasonfor selling. Infact, I would be good if you include the rason for selling in the description for the auction, itself.
- Invite qualified buyers. You can in vite qualified buyers directly, if you want to get more bids on your auctions. First of all browse through the marketplace ooking for website that is similar to yours. Once you find one, browse the coments and try to find user with a high trust rating that were asking questions about the auction. Send them message and invite them to view your auction because they are qualified buyers.
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Sincerely thanking for the wonderful article you have posted in the site. This will surely impress the people who don’t have any knowledge about Flippa or Website Marketing. The 8th point “Answer to Every Comment” has inspired me a lot because until we don’t give answers to the query of the customers, it will doesn’t have any meaning that we are solving the problems faced by them due to us.
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