Flippa Blog « due diligence

This is a guest post by Martin Gessner, author of the ‘Site Buying Method’ – a guide to understanding how to research and purchase sites for sale. One of the great things about buying an online business is that there is a great deal of information that is publicly available. You can do market research [...]

We’ve recently been in contact with a number of website buyers on Flippa who have voiced concerns at the number of brand new, start-up sites on Flippa with seemingly robust traffic performance. One such buyer known on Flippa as CallMeFlipper suggests that while it is technically possible for start-up sites to get good traffic in [...]

We’re very excited to announce the release of the new Due Diligence page. The Due Diligence report page combines a truckload of useful data gathered from authoritative sources. The page is intended to help buyers assess opportunities in the marketplace without having to trek all over the web collecting important due diligence data from other [...]

Due to the popularity of one of our previous post on Flipping Aged Domains, I thought we’d have a chat to one of the experts, and the man behind DomainFace, Kenny Goodman. Originally cutting his entrepreneurial teeth dominating the lead-generation side of some of the most hyper-competitive industries around – Finance, Telecommunications, Nightclubs and Skip [...]

Here’s a new feature, just launched!  We’re always looking to help sellers out in providing detailed information for buyers, so sellers now have the ability to enter month by month revenue information for their website’s historic earnings. When you advertise your website for sale on Flippa, you now have three revenue reporting options: Monthly timeline [...]

The following video will show you how to perform initial domain and keyword research on websites for sale on Flippa. Most of the statistics provided by Market Samurai can be found via other freely available resources, however when you’re regularly researching websites to buy, Market Samurai will save time. Download a Market Samurai Free Trial [...]

Whether you’re buying a website or selling one, clearly specifying what’s included in the sale will save complications during sale completion. For higher value sites, we recommend a contract of sale, but for lower priced sites, clarifying what’s included in the auction listing will often suffice. Let’s consider what you’re buying when you buy a [...]

A great tool to add to your website due diligence arsenal, the Wayback Machine is a digital archive of web pages across time. A website time line if you will, the Wayback Machine gives you the ability to see how a website has changed over time and lets you cross reference the website established date [...]

If you’re not familiar with Firefox, it’s a great browser alternative to Internet Explorer for many reasons.  One of the great features of Firefox is all the extra add-ons available to extend its functionality.  Here are 5 Firefox add-ons that will help you investigate a website’s credentials before you decide to bid on a Flippa [...]