FlipSquare Blog - Your guide to buying and selling websites & domains

Some people make a living telling others how easy it is to start, market, and run a web site profitably. For the most part, that's just not true. Finding an unsaturated market to profit in is hard enough and even if you succeed at that, you have months if not years of hard work ahead of you in the way of marketing, SEO, and site development before you have anything to write home to mom about. If you're up to the challenge of starting from scratch, more power to you. But if you're looking for a way to quickly get involved with online business, you have an option:

A couple of times a week Flip Square will feature some of the best listings in the domain name and established websites categories of our marketplace. There are some pretty good domain names and sites for sale currently and are just waiting for a perfect home.

Established Sites:

1. WordPress Lounge:
   A great wordpress focused blog that has 2,500 visitors per month. Its starting bid is $50 and the buy it now price is $500. Not only that but it has a great domain name. http://www.wordpresslounge.com

2. Alcohol Treatment information site:
   Looks to a solid site with well written original articles, decent traffic and good income potential. The site has already earned $350 and makes $2-$7 per day. The site also has a strong keyword domain. http://www.alcoholtreatmentclinics.com.

So I’ve come up on my 1 year anniversary of domain name investing. I’m by no means a pro, full time domainer nor extremely successful. After 1 year I’m probably $900 in the hole but I’ve learned a lot and see that there’s money to be made if you’re smart. So hopefully this short article will help you avoid some basic mistakes that I’ve made. To give you some ideas of where I’m at as a domainer here some rounded portfolio stats.

My Portfolio Stats:

Domains: 375
Earned from sales or parking: $1,100
Earned from developing: $400
Spent: $2,500

Total: -$900

So here is my list of I-wish-knew-this-before mistakes …