Online Machining Marketlace For Sale

Description

Hello and thank you for your interest-due to unforeseen events I am forced to liquidate some of my online businesses/websites.
For sale is a online manufacturing market place. Established Machining Marketplace providing referral services between machining service buyers and suppliers (manufactures).
Marketplace has been ever increasing in popularity and is in top 3 natural ranking for highly competitive keywords like machine shop quotes.
It is next to the 2 biggest guys in industry mfg.com and sourceauthority.com which are turning tens of millions each month.
Having background in machining,enginnering and web development I wanted to create the ultimate business for me combining those two extremely beneficent industries.
Currently the business includes front end with descriptions aimed towards both buyers and suppliers, a description of our own manufacturing capabilities and back end marketplace with admin using ilance. With great insight into the industry I wanted to stand out from the big competition by providing free sign ups, free quote requests (auctions) and extreamly low commission structure. There is great need for this kind of service and we provide the solution.
As of now the idea is to have buyers post quote requests and suppliers "bid" by quoting the job. If you are familiar with machining industry you will know that many contracts/jobs are in tens of thousands of dollars and hundredths of thousands.
With that in mind I implemented paid per results commission structure combined with recurring commission per results. In short if the supplier is awarded a job he pays us 5%-4% commission of initial quote and 2%-3% of each an every additional job the supplier receives from the buyer he found tru Machining Partner. This creates continued recurring income, also the terms of service protect Machining Partner by allowing us to conduct audits and request statements from both buyers and suppliers to ensure suppliers and buyers are not circumventing the commission and terms
. As the popularity increases you may be able to charge monthly subscriptions, enhanced listing fees, factory inspection, reviews, design services, engineering support and more- possibilities are limitless.
Due to lack of money and time I have not been able to market this business, all quality traffic is from natural search results. This is business where one costumer could be worth tens/hundredths of thousands.
Due to Machining Partner and off line experience in this field I am currently trying to match a defense contractor who was awarded 700mm from department of defense to upgrade Bradley's army vehicles with local manufacturer ( Bay area) to sub contract.
Honestly,as of now this is functioning but there are few things and glitches that can be made including marketing, custom programming, costumer service, enhancements.
Site does not get much traffic about 400 uniques a month with 70% search engine, 15% direct and rest referral sites, over 90% USA,5% Canada and rest international.BUT
please remember the target audience are lucrative businesses and not the average joe stumbling upon "train your dog" website.
Site is fully SEO optimized internally formost competitive and targeted keywords
This business has extreme potential and in the right hands with little work and "the edge" is destined to be one of the most profitable opportunities.
I have not made much money - due to lack of time,money,marketing and programming but i made about $2400 reffering a quote request on Machining Partner to local shops.I know
Again please consider this is a real opportunity in right hands and not a fly by site, inflated value and Chinese traffic.
Serious bidders only, I am also open to partner ships,joint venture,investment or other ideas.
Included in sale is everything : website . domain, content,images marketplace-license – I will provide as much support as I can for 30 days-more if needed.
60% upfront rest after transfer-
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