Flippa Blog « Case Studies

  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, really [...]

  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 selling, [...]

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, GeekAlerts.com, [...]

This is a guest post by Dave Hermansen, the seller in the recent PitchingMachinesNow.com case study and an all-round whiz on buying and selling e-commerce websites. Back in 2005, I built a little e-commerce store that sold bird cages. My site ranked “okay” in Google and I was turning a decent profit, but certainly not [...]

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 sell [...]

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 says. [...]

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 platform [...]

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 sold [...]

PR8 Biography site, s9.com sold on the Flippa website marketplace last month for over $400,000 – effectively breaking the earlier high-end websites records set by the likes of www.readprint.com and retweet.com ($250,000). s9.com had some intense bidding in its final days with the website auction attracting 61 accepted bids in total.

We recently caught up with David Jenyns, serial Internet entrepreneur, SEO guy and infrequent seller on Flippa.com. Dave tells us how he’s been cleaning out his website portfolio – selling his websites on Flippa and some great selling strategies. How did you come across Flippa.com? I actually started to hear about Flippa through a few [...]