Comments for Site Flipping University

Comment on Blog Flipping - Researching, Negotiation, and Purchasing by theaffiliatepost

theaffiliatepost — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:07:10 +0000

I did my due dilligence too I remember your advice before, about reading between the lines and thats just what I did. The suspense is killing me and I look forward to seeing a sale through to completion.

Cheers Bryan!!

Comment on Blog Flipping - Researching, Negotiation, and Purchasing by Bryan Clark

Bryan Clark — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:24:47 +0000

Thanks AP. I’m glad you got some value out of a non-sale! Hopefully the next one will be a winner and I’ll get to show you a bit more

Comment on Blog Flipping - Researching, Negotiation, and Purchasing by theaffiliatepost

theaffiliatepost — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:26:54 +0000

Super follow up post Bryan, I feel a lot of people will learn from this. I like your style as far as negotiations go…..”I was telling hime I am not interested in his price withour saying I’m not interested in his blog” BRILLIANT!

Like you said in your previous post….it’s about prospecting. Finding that value that others can’t see! Obviously you are going to have bigger winnners from time to time but as I always say, ‘You are never going to be poor if you know how to make a profit’

Comment on Blog Flipping - Researching, Negotiation, and Purchasing by Bryan Clark

Bryan Clark — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:14:04 +0000

Offering the $100 was just my way of trying to close the negotiation with a take it or leave it offer. His original offer was for $300, and the blog is worth that. However, if he drops 40% of the backlinks (by losing the sitewide link), it becomes worth much less. I’m willing to take the chance, just not for $300. So, basically I was telling him I’m not interested in his price, without telling him I’m not interested in his blog. $100 isn’t much to risk, so if he loses the backlinks, I’ll be a little upset, but I’ll still make more than $100 off of it. I doubt he’ll reply… but you never know.

Comment on Blog Flipping - Researching, Negotiation, and Purchasing by CouldItBe

CouldItBe — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:42:36 +0000

“If I had to estimate, I’d say that your blog would go for no more than $100 in an open auction. Feel free to email me back if you are willing to take that.”

Sorry I got kind of confused by you still offering one hundred dollars. Do you expect him to just refuse your offer?

Comment on Blog Flipping - Researching, Negotiation, and Purchasing by Bryan Clark

Bryan Clark — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:16:27 +0000

Actually, I think you misread. I DON’T want the blog for fear of losing the backlinks. And I can’t vouch for all buyers, but I would guess most of them just want numbers. I can’t pull the trigger to buy anything over $100 or so without research. I’m the definition of a tight wad when it comes to my business.

Comment on This Guy Is Off His Rocker! by Bryan Clark

Bryan Clark — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:14:35 +0000

You’re alive? I’ve been trying to contact you for, ummm… roughly 17 years or so. Yes I’m up for some TGI Fridays. Mojito’s on me! Send me an email with your new email address.. I guess you stopped using the old one. bryanclark 82 at gmail dot com

Comment on This Guy Is Off His Rocker! by Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:53:36 +0000

Wow Bryan! Pretty spiffy site here! Up for another TGI Friday’s sometime???

Comment on Blog Flipping - Researching, Negotiation, and Purchasing by CouldItBe

CouldItBe — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:42:07 +0000

Very interesting read. My question is do the standard blog buyers actually research into backlinks like you do or is it just all about the numbers to them? What made you still want the blog even knowing you might lose a good 40% of the backlinks and the anhors are no good. Are you not worried about having to put more time in to the site then you originally intended? I am looking forward to what the response will be from the owner of that site. Good luck with this one.

Comment on Blog Flipping - Prospecting For Gold by Bryan Clark

Bryan Clark — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:35:43 +0000

You mean “self hosted” Blogger blogs. Those are fine. It’s just like having a self hosted Wordpress blog, like most of us have, only with Blogger. However, I personally don’t care for Blogger. It doesn’t have the features, themes, usability, or customization options that Wordpress has.

Thanks for the comment about the Alexa rank, however, it’s still climbing! It takes a few months for your Alexa to balance out due to you starting in the 15 millions somewhere. So, my weekly average is right at 160k, and 15 million is where I started… it takes a while. They use an AVERAGE so the 15 million will still come in to play for around 3 months. As far as it improving at this rate, it’s largely based on promotion and commenting on other blogs. Fortunately, I started with a pretty large “fanbase”, and they’ll follow me just about anywhere.

As far as the comments, there already is that option. Check out the banner where it says subscribe to comments. It’s an Rss feed for comments only.