In our never ending quest to make cwire a great resource for internet entrepreneurs, we are proud to announce two new tools to the cwire website.
Internet Monetization Calculator - Although the math is not too complicated, we created a simple tool that allows you to compare the different ways to monetize your website (CPM, CPA & CPC) and allows for you to calculate potential earnings.
Selling a website is something that is always on the mind of Internet entrepreneurs (and is what causes some to launch websites). This post will go into a few of the easier ways to sell a website, above and beyond letting your users know that the site is for sale. It is primarily intended for websites whose estimated value is under $100,000. (to check the value of our website try out our website value calculator).
There are several strategies to buying websites (and domain names), for this post we will just be focusing on selling websites; future posts will discuss what to look for when buying websites.
Here is a simple grid that provides a high level overview of some of the services that we are aware of, feel free to contact us if we left any great sites off or if you would like assistance with selling your site:
eBay
Summary: You can find anything on eBay, why not websites? Ebay has a category for Internet Business and Websites for sale.
Description of Users: Everyone! eBay is one of the top 20 websites on the Internet.
Pros: Essentially open up your website listing to Ebay’s traffic base. Established feedback system that could add confidence that you will receive payment. Good buyer seller question opportunity.
Cons: Lots of junk websites, targeting the unsophisticated buyer. Real value may be missed as the business/technology crowd may not be checking eBay for listings.
Summary: One of the original places to park domains (a way to make money off of programs like Adsense), Sedo has become a hub for domain resales and sale of websites.
Description of Users: Good crowd, domain buyers, domain parkers etc.
Pros: Sedo requires that sellers put a piece of code on to their site that acts as third party verification for traffic statistics. Offers negotiation services for buyers.
Cons: Poor communication system between bidders and sellers that require bidders to make a bid before asking buyer questions. Web 1.0 look / feel. The 10% fee can also be quite steep!
Fees: 10% of sales price.
SitePoint
Summary: Originally designed as a web developer resource, has seen growth in the amount of listings. Simple forum style listings, easy to navigate.
Description of Users: Hard Core Technologists. SitePoint is focused around a Web Developer community.
Pros: Inexpensive option for selling your website. Sophisticated audience that has most likely had experience with websites or web development. Easy listing process, comment system, and auction set up.
Cons: None, let us know your thoughts.
Fees: $20 per listing ($40 for premium listings) with several add-ons like colored listings for additional fees.
DNForum
Summary: A giant forum with 45,000 members who list domains and sites for sale constantly. Some parts of the site are only accessible to paying members.
Description of Users: Similar to SitePoint, DNForum has experienced domainers, web entrepreneurs, developers, traffickers, etc.
Pros: Once you become a member, there are no other fees for listing or posting. You can learn a lot from this site and even get help just valuing your web properties.
Cons: No formal auction set up. Must be a member to post in sales areas of the site. This is necessary to offer a web site for sale or post comments of interest.
I have closed my position in Amgen for a very slight loss and picked up more QuickLogic @ $5.30/share. QuickLogic is the leader in low power VLSI design — the subject which I will be studying throughout my computer engineering masters degree.
I placed a buy order for QUIK at $5.00 / share this morning. QUIK is a leader in the FPGA industry, and currently makes some of the lowest power consuming FPGA chips on the market.
FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Array) are used as key components in cellular phones, PDAs, and many other applications. They are basically a blank slate, programmable electronically at any time, or designed for one-time programming in the factory. A single FPGA can take on many different roles: it could be programmed as a microprocessor, for DSP, or programmed for robotic control or any other application.
When I started this site, I never expected to receive comments to any of my blog entries. To say the least, I’ve been shocked by the many many quality comments the site has received. I believe that reader interactivity is crucial to any successful blog, and often times, the author of a comment may have more authority on the subject than the auther of the blog itself.
I’d like to invite everybody to show their cards. What are you currently invested in, and why? Below is the contents of my online portfolio. Overall I’ve been performing at a level that I am content with, and of course there have been some mistakes to learn from.
Recently, Apple announced that it will start producing computers with Intel’s (INTC) dual core processors approximately three months earlier than initially expected. Because this news was received earlier than expected, I don’t currently believe that the added benefit to Intel has been fully factored into it’s current trading price of slightly below $26. There have been no major marketing campaings started yet (that I’ve seen anyway) advertising this fact, and suspect that once awareness grows Intel will become more attractive.
I also do not think that the arrangement between Apple and Intel will stay strictly in PCs. I am hoping to see other new exciting devices, possibly hand held media players, enabled with Intel technology in the coming months.
For these reasons, I will be making a buy for INTC tomorrow morning at the opening trading price.
The way that we watch TV and consume entertainment has changed dramatically from where it used to be only a few years ago. With personal video recorders and downloaded TV shows exploding on the market, consumers have the mindset that they should be able to watch what they want to watch, and they should be able to watch it now.
Video on demand is only starting to reach consumers recently, and primarily through the cable companies. The price of fiber cabling is dropping dramatically, and it is predicted that within 2-3 years the general population will have the option to inexpensively have their home wired with fiber lines. Competition will be fierce between the telephone and cable companies, forcing competitive rates for multiple phone lines, broadband Internet, and video on demand TV all through one fiber channel to the home. Consumers will enjoy a whole new multimedia experience, and be willing to shell out even more than the current average of $200/month on entertainment.
One such company that cought my attention in this growing sector is Harmonic Inc. (HLIT), which is currently a leader in design, manufacture, and sale of digital video systems for transmission of digital video over fiber optic systems and IP networks. If you want to learn more about what they do, check out their website or click here for Yahoo! Financials. I am currently holding a core position in HLIT and am hoping to see some growth in 2006 as VoD really starts to ramp up and enter mainstream.
I have closed my position in SIRF at $31.20 for a nice gain of 25.19%. I have read quite a bit of significant insider selling which prompted the sell — two weeks before the earnigs call makes me a little bit suspitious.
If the stock drops down around the $24-26 range, I will pick it up once again.
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