2007.04.20

12 Hours left..

Posted in General at 10:49 pm by admin

Until I’m done all the exams for my masters degree… Wish me luck.

I’ll be back posting on CyberWyre in a few days..

Best wishes,
Matt

2007.04.04

What is Your Site Worth?

Posted in General at 9:44 am by admin

As the TV show “Flip This House” is becoming a huge success, the thought of buying an established website or blog, improving upon it, driving traffic and forging advertising deals, and then selling it for a profit is becoming more popular. Websites and forums geared towards connecting buyers & sellers together such as Sedo are popping up, and blogs for sale can even be found on eBay.

So what determines a site’s worth? Well like any investment, you hope to recover your initial purchase price within a given amount of time, and then hopefully continue to make an income stream afterwards. In the real estate market, buying a property for an income stream such as a hotel, a gain of 10% annually is considered quite good — that is, you will recover your initial investment through income from the hotel after 10 years; A $1,000,000 hotel should hopefully give $100,000 annually in profit. As income from blogs is still considered to be more unstable than other investments, a full recovery of an initial investment after three years is a fair requirement.

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