$5,000 and I’d be happy!

He already bought my blog, so guess I am out of the discussion

On the other hand, I must have been asleep when I came up with that price. I really think I would have asked for at least twice that amount…

Have you been approached by someone wanting to buy your blog, that email sound familiar…

lol yes it would. I’d be lucky to get $5 though hehe

Great blog here. I enjoy it every time I visit.

$10k would be enough to travel the world and leave enough to reinvest online, so that would be my price. If he asked again in a month it would be at least $12k.

$16,244 is my price.

I’d like about the same amount as “MeAndMyDrum” please. About the same Alexa rank right now. But I think that is high.

The last one I sold had a package price of $20,000 (CybersMusic.com). So we sold low at 20 times value. I have seen some sell as high as 60-100 value, but they have to be real hot and sell it at the apex.

And put no faith in those blog calculators, that ain’t the way it really works, lol…

$23,100.69

David,

How long it did take to build the blog before you sold it? 3 months, 6 months, more or less???

Site flipping really suits my personality type, so I am very curious about this.

Thanks,
George

That site is not a good example for flipping, it was a site started as test project (test was successful) and it was 14 months from start to sell. It was never intended to be sold.
Flipping is a whole different game. Do you want to flip established sites? or, relatively cheap and undervalued sites?

Undervalued or just create a site, get it established then sell it (not really flipping). I was just curious, it’s one of several things I plan on testing over the next year for fun and profit…

The metrics have changed a lot with Web 2.0, but I have found that 1,000 unique visitors a day is the mark where a site is standing on it’s own, and should be profitable. When you hit 5,000 than everything just kind of snowballs.
So, my experience is, 3-6 months to get to 1,000 and from there up to a year to get to 5,000. Sell it anywhere along the way.

David,

Do you create and sell sites regularly?

Thanks for your advice.

5000$ will be fine for me .

Garry, good points on “value perception”. There are usually 2 main questions.
How many unique visitors a day do you get? (and supply proof)
How much money does it make a day, month, avg? (and supply proof)

Price is gonna be based on value, and value is how much you make, especially for a blog. You may wheel and deal some, but unless we are talking about a major site you can pretty much take your income and extrapolate it out to 20-40 months. Same applies to hosting, if you host sites and want to sell that to another ISP, they will basically do the same thing at the going rate. I sold my hosting for 15 times value because it was low at the time right after 911.

$3,599 and it’s sold! It would be hard to sell, as I am attached to it, but I can always start another.

Great post!

@ Kyle,

Sounds like a good price… would you let it go for any cheaper? Consider the situation… you have a guy that is totally serious about buying, but warns you… don’t piss me off by giving me a crazy figure… If you were just one dollar to high… he’d bail. $20k sounds cool… but would you be nervous that this fly by night buyer would walk and you would have nothing? If someone walked up to your front door and handed you $15,000 dollars and said lets go to your computer right now… and transfer the domain name to me… would you take that offer?

Good point, but at the rate my traffic/income is growing, I would probably ask for about 20k and be firm about it. We have some extra debt from college days and that amount would be enough to pay that off and take my wife out to dinner

I wouldn’t really consider my personal blog (MattHuggins.com) to really be sellable. Clearly if someone wanted to buy it, they would either need the same name as me, or else write as if they were me in an effort to take advantage of whatever following/community I’ve built.

As for my new blog (Facebook-Developer.net), I think this website has very much potential. In fact, it has already started receiving a fairly significant amount of organic traffic on top of the referrals it’s receiving from other sites. As such, I’d be more inclined to let this blog build a bit more rather than selling it right away. However, I think it’d be hard to resist a few thousand (5+) considering that it would be such a huge percentage return. That is, as long as I didn’t have to sign a non-compete clause or anything.

One more factor, Blogs are a lot different from websites, directories and portals. What makes a blog special? The writer! So, if you buy a blog, what have you bought? Basically a shell, unless you have a great match for a writer. If you want 20k for a blog, it needs to be making at least $1,000 a month consistently.

Well, like George said, that guy already bought mine, but what a surprise that would be if my blog really did sell for that. I most likely never would have come up with a figure that high because I tend to be a little more conservative. Sometimes that’s a good thing, sometimes not.

This is too easy. I would tell him it’s not for sale. If I cared about the money I’d have ads on it. I could never get enough for me to be able to justify the amount of time I have invested in it.

Depends on which blog he’s interested in buying. Most of my blogs are my babies, and I have no intention of ever letting them go. Even if I don’t update them daily, I still check on them everyday. I could never put a price on any of my blogs. That’s like deciding which of my kids I’d be willing to sell.

That’s disgusting. I can’t see how a mother could sell her child, for any amount of money.

Proof that some people should not breed.

Isn’t there a site that actually lists how much your blog is worth if sold?