Category: Case Studies

What I Learned From Being A Geek In The Adult Industry

by Ophelie Lechat -

Pile of CashPhoto Credit: 401(k)2013

Today’s post is by Brad Gosse, a self-taught marketer from Ontario, Canada. Brad started his web business in 1997, and has learned a lot from an unexpected source: his work as a self-professed geek in the adult industry.

Before Google, Paypal, Clickbank and even before Facebook, at the very start of the web, there was adult entertainment.

Adult entertainment was the main driver of early Internet technology. Streaming video, credit card processing, cheap web hosting even affiliate programs were all pioneered by adult companies. As everyone knows, sex sells!

That’s where I got my start.

In the late 1990s, if you wanted to make money online, the easy road was to sell adult content. I was a webmaster and I knew how to build and manage websites but it was hard to find people willing to pay for such services.

So I built a really small porn site, then another, and before I knew it my girlfriend (now wife Claire) and I had built thousands of adult websites, each generating traffic and revenue.

That’s what we did for over 10 years. Adult entertainment.

Continue reading...

Case Study: When Experienced Site Owners Meet.

by Ophelie Lechat -

Tweet What happens when two experienced Flippa users meet on the marketplace? One fantastic transaction! Since it’s just about midterm season in the Northern Hemisphere, we’re bringing you a case study of a site that’s sure to see a lot of traffic these days: StudyGuide.org. The seller, Tommy Noonan, is one of our top sellers [...]

Continue reading...

Case Study: An Experienced Site Builder Finds A Gem

by Ophelie Lechat -

Tweet We love to see great, exciting auctions here at Flippa. While quick Buy It Now purchases and Private Sales are good, they don’t quite have the edge that auctions offer! That’s why we were particularly enamoured with the auction for WeLoveWP.com five months ago. Have a look at this video tour to see how the [...]

Continue reading...

Case Study: A Hidden Gem Pays Off

by Ophelie Lechat -

Tweet   Sometimes an afterthought purchase winds up being worth a tidy sum. That’s exactly what happened to Chris when he acquired Paid2Review.co.uk, a directory for paid surveys and cashback websites,  as part of a bigger website purchase. “We bought a larger business based on the websites, database and income potential. Paid2Review was a bonus, [...]

Continue reading...

CASE STUDY: Honesty is the best policy

by Ophelie Lechat -

Tweet   When Patrick needed to quickly turn an asset into cash, he decided to sell a website he had been working on, Reorder-checks.com, on Flippa. “This was my first consistently profitable site. It was exciting to build, and its revenue was up to around $2000 a month. Up until October, I had no intention of [...]

Continue reading...

CASE STUDY: First-Time Website Seller Finds Success!

by Andrew Knibbe -

Tweet Robert Birming isn’t one to shy from adventure. So when the bricklayer-turned-musician-turned-web entrepreneur received requests to create an English-language version of his Swedish site Smidigt, he jumped right in. “I couldn’t have asked for a better start,” Robert explains. “Many of the major blogs posted about the fact that an English version of Smidigt, [...]

Continue reading...

CASE STUDY: Keeping it in the Family

by Andrew Knibbe -

Tweet Boise-based Dave Hermansen, with brothers Kevin and Mike, didn’t plan to sell PitchingMachinesNow.com when they built it. These brothers have the process of building, launching, and monetizing ecommerce sites “down to an art”—they’ve created more than 50 stores over the last few years. Yet the promise of a new venture convinced the brothers to [...]

Continue reading...

CASE STUDY: The Serial Investor Strikes Again!

by Andrew Knibbe -

Tweet Designer/developer Calvin Froedge might have built his business, Creative Logic Media, on a base of great web projects, but by the time he landed a large programming gig in 2010, he knew what he wanted. “I started Creative Logic Media over the summer when I was 16 … selling websites to local businesses,” he [...]

Continue reading...

Juggle.com Acquires Debate.org Debating Community to Expand Online Reference Footprint

by Andrew Knibbe -

Tweet We’re thrilled to hear that growing online encyclopedia and reference aggregator Juggle recently finalized their purchase of Debate.org.  Juggle acquired Debate.org for a six figure amount after an intensive bidding war on Flippa very late last year. Debate.org was developed by Philip Ferreira and the team at WebCorp, LLC in 2007 as a social [...]

Continue reading...

Mark Zuckerberg’s FaceMash.com Sells for Over $30,000 on Flippa

by Andrew Knibbe -

Tweet The blogosphere went wild in early October this year when Rahul Jain listed Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook predecessor FaceMash.com on the Flippa marketplace. Last week was a case of history repeating when the likes of Forbes, Mashable, Yahoo News, IT World and the LA Times all ran with the news that the site had successfully [...]

Continue reading...