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Website business tanked, what to do next??
JackieBlue
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JackieBlue10/13/2008 10:36 AM
http://websitebroker.com/
http://www.sitepoint.com/marketplace/vi ... tegoryid=1
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdis ... f5e4f&f=52
JackieBlue10/13/2008 10:36 AM
JackieBlue10/13/2008 10:37 AM
You`ll have to look at your website and objectively determine if there`s really anything of value. If your site has new functionality that your competitors don`t you may want to keep the code and license it to your competitors. If you`re code is not readily visible by visitors you may be able to protect your code as a trade secret and just skip formal copyright registration altogether. Either way you`ll be able to license the code with a good licensing agreement.
If you don`t have any intellectual property rights you may just want to sell the domain or the site altogether. I`ve never worked with a broker before, but a straight website sales transaction shouldn`t be too difficult to do. I`ve negotiated domain name/website sales agreements for cilents before and it usually doesn`t take a lot of time to close.
Best of luck!
JackieBlue10/13/2008 10:33 AM
You know it all attitude doesn`t appear to be profitable, is it? I have gotten advice myself that I felt was useless, but at least I had the common courtesy to give a short thanks and move on.
JackieBlue10/13/2008 10:33 AM
I agree, I don`t think you will need a broker either.
I just sold a site via dealasite.org to a person in Russia. I asked them to pay using google checkout, then I transferred over the domain name and emailed them the entire site in a zip file. I sold it for $600. At the time I sold it I was getting about 40-50 visitors a day and had a google pagerank of 4. I really didn`t have any trouble selling it. I gave all the rights over to the person who bought it. I mainly sold it so that I could spend more time on another website that seems to be drawing more attention and traffic. Of course if you really have a gut feeling that your site could one day make millions or hundreds of thousands of dollars, I would write up an agreement before selling the site to include that you at least get some type of royalties should the site go "platinum"!