Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Flip this site

great article in the NY times.com about flipping websites

Dave Hermansen did not own a bird or a cage when he bought bird-cage.com, an online store, for $1,800 three years ago. He simply saw a Web site that was “very, very poorly done,” and begged the owners to sell it to him. He then redesigned the site, added advertising and drove up traffic. Last December, he sold it for $173,000.
Mr. Hermansen, 30, is among the latest wave of entrepreneurs who, like the day traders and real estate investors before them, are looking to make a lot of money without much effort.
More here

Anyone know of any other Web Site Marketplaces apart from http://marketplace.sitepoint.com


Cheers,
Dean

1 comment:

  1. Also a podcast of interest from NPR last month:
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91054770

    -Andy

    Andy Parsons
    CTO, DigitalRailroad.net

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