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How to Value Your Digital Website

  Digital Website Value Digital product businesses are often a great opportunity for aspiring online entrepreneurs, and with good reason. The startup time for this model might take a bit longer than an affiliate or Amazon Associates business, but it also offers a great scaling opportunity once that initial product launch uncovers what improvements can grow the net profits further. When compared to an eCommerce or Amazon FBA business model with inventory and storage fees, digital product businesses offer much higher margins, as these types of fees are not applicable. Other than creating the product itself, your time or the expense involved in outsourcing the development of the product you plan on selling is usually the biggest startup investment required. These digital products might be the latest search engine optimization (SEO) plugin for WordPress or a complete hosting service with optional paid upgrades. Investors enjoy the simplicity of these digital product monetizations d...

How To Maximize Your Brand

  Brand Maximize Trying to spread the word about your online business?  You’re probably aware it’ll involve digital marketing. After all, over 4.5 billion people worldwide use the Internet on a daily basis. There’s a small misconception that digital marketing is all done on the Internet. Digital marketing refers to promoting your products or services across a range of digital platforms. It’s usually done online, but there are offline methods as well, such as radio and television. What’s great about digital marketing is that advertising is easily scalable and accessible to businesses of all sizes. If you own a shoe company, your ad could appear next to Jimmy Choo’s sponsored ad on social media. Small companies would never dream of having their ads next to big brand names via traditional advertising like primetime TV slots, but digital marketing makes this possible. It’s also pretty cheap to start a digital marketing campaign. That said, you might be wondering why everyone isn...

Step 6: Commission Structure

  Our New Commission Structure After a successful sale, Online Business Sales take commission depends on the list price. Here's the breakdown of our commission fees: 15% for business listed for up to $1M. Our new commission structure works on a sliding tier system based on our valuation of your business: 15 percent for any business under a $1 million list price 12 percent for any business between a $1 million to $2 million list price 10 percent for any businesses between a $2 million to $5 million list price 8 percent for any business above a $5 million list price While the majority of our businesses currently listed won’t be affected by this change, bigger businesses can rest assured we are the brokerage for them now. This is also part of our growing strategy as we hone, refine, and expand our processes to meet bigger business demands. We are currently the largest team in our industry, and with over $90 million worth of businesses sold on our marketplace, we are als...

Buyer FAQ

  Buy Website: Website Buyers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Buying websites isn’t easy, but we want to make it as simple as possible for everyone who visits our marketplace. We noticed a lot of the same questions get asked and we wanted to compile them all into one resource to have any questions you may have answered. Below is a short video that explains our buyer process in full details. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ:) Why don't you reveal the URL's on all of your listings? We hide the niche and URL on our listings to protect the (future) buyer from additional, unnecessary competition. We sometimes have thousands of visitors in one day to our site – some of whom are searching the web for profitable niches and websites they can copy and replicate. While some websites are deeply entrenched as market leaders in their niche and are defensible (i.e. an eCommerce business with product sourced in China that has great press, brand recognition, etc.) others are earlier in their l...