I should have done this sooner, but I finally got around to setting up my next attemp at a site to flip. This one is a site selling an e-book.

Again my costs are minimal - $8.41 for the domain and $10 for the Sitepoint auction. The product is again one I received full resale and PLR rights to through my membership at NicheRockets [aff] and hosting is on my existing reseller account. Time spent is again minimal - about 1 hour all in all.

Starting price is $40 with a higher BIN than last time of $150.

You can see how the auction goes here.

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My first attempt at making a site to flip is ready. I used a product received through my NicheRockets [aff] membership to set up a basic one page salesletter type website selling the product (which is a pack of adsense ready wordpress themes).

Time 

It took about an hour to set up including registering the domain, setting up hosting, creating some new header/footer graphics, changing the colours slightly, setting up the delivery mechanism and creating the auction. I didn’t bother re-writting any of the sales letter as I figured this had been professionally done already.

Costs

Domain - $8.41
Sitepoint listing - $10
Product - FREE (through my NR [aff] membership)
Hosting - FREE (on my existing reseller account)

Total costs: $18.41

The Auction

I’ve set up the auction on sitepoint. You can see the listing here. I set the minimum bid to $40 with a buy it now of $100 and to run for 7 days.

Notice in the description, I have explained fully how the site works, what is included in the auction and offered to be as helpful as possible (1 month free hosting, help transferring and setting up the site). I’ve also included the up-sell of continued hosting for $5 per month.

I’ve really no idea if this will sell or not and, if it does, for what price. But that’s the point of an experiment, so wish me luck…!

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After a year or so having a bit of a break from the whole niche/internet marketing world, I’m back and trying to catch up on developments in that time.

What’s new?

• Keyword Avalanche has become Niche Rockets and the monthly membership is a massive $147.77 per month. Wow! Now, I do recommend this site but not at this price. It is the only monthly membership I currently hold though and I’m keeping my membership though because the forum is useful and they do provide a decent amount of content each month. Fortunately for you guys, you can try before you buy, plus get a discount on the monthly membership:

Niche Rockets $1 7-day trial & $50 off the monthly price thereafter [aff]

• There seems to have been some kind of storm about selling links on web sites which I’ve totally missed. From what I can gather, nobody really knows if it’s ok to sell links using TLA anymore or what effect it has on your rankings/pagerank? Can anyone update me on this?!
• “Web 2.0 properties” seems to be the current buzz phrase
• Videos are all the rage

What’s the same?

• Good one-way links are still important
• Content is still king
• Article marketing still works to some extent
• “Gurus” still don’t actually tell you how to make money
• Stupid prices are still fashionable (see $147.77 above)

Anyone have anything to add to these lists?

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