24 Hour Site Flipping Contest. Crackhead Style.
By Normal Joe | August 21, 2008
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Site flipping case studies gone wild
So, there are quite a few people that have something to say about site flipping. If you don’t know what that is, it’s basically like flipping a house. You buy a site, fix it up, and sell for profit. But site flipping also includes the creating and selling of brand new sites.
This weekend I linked to a post from Jim of thenetfool.com talking about flipping sites, in my blogger link love post. Well he drew a lot of feedback, and few of my readers went over to check it out.
Enter the crackhead
So, I don’ t know if this person came from my site to Jim’s post or not, but he ended up causing quite a ruckus. Calling Jim stupid, talking about his hair…giving him a wedgie…all kinds of barbaric hogwash.
Don’t know what I mean? Check it out here:
Checkout the contest
So, if you want to see the crackhead contest in action, head on over to siteflipu.com and watch the 24 hour site flip contest between siteflipu and thenetfool.
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Man, I used to like the sponsors you had. I think the hot sauce sponsor was probably my favorite. I’m not watching the video so I’ll have more to say once I get done seeing it.
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Hahahahaha, man that was awesome. I need to eat what you’re eating for all that energy!!
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No sponsors, that sucks Joe! Come on, don’t let the people get to you. We need the sponsors!
That is an interesting contest. Great idea to drive traffic because I am mad interested.
I know I am going to try to flip some sites because I am always interested in trying something new. But, I know if he gets close to selling these 5 sites for $250, I AM ON IT! Str8 up!
I’m with Joe!
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HAHAHA!
Joe. Thank you.
Seriously, there is some crazy cat trying to flip five blogs for $1,000 in one day…. what a crackhead move
Let me make one thing clear. There is no way he could possibly create 5 new sites worth a net $1,000 in 24 hours. It’s not going to happen. If he does manage to do it, all that would mean is that he’s in his basement right now writing up content, making his templates, all that except for the domain names… which he has researched and ready to go.
If you prepped for an entire week, which I would expect he is doing, than it is POSSIBLE to sell some sites. Possible. At any rate, I’d probably pay $1k not to have to sit in my room for 24 hours straight. Dude’s probably going to be stuck to his computer chair when this is all over.
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Haha great post joe
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Joe man…I don’t know what to say. I’m upset about this. I don’t know how your friends could do that to you man. Now, because of their antics, your sponsors have pulled out??
You better get flippin’ websites yourself to make up for that Chimichanga change you’ll be missin’ out on now!
You know I’ve done a bit of flippin’, and although I’m far from an expert, I got a few tricks for a new dog.
Hit me up or drop in on Flippin’ Fridays. I’m still learning, but I’m going to be giving up stuff that’s helped me and hopefully get some people droppin’ by to share some of their flippin’ insight too.
Will Big B-Crackhead flip 5 sites in 24 hrs? I couldn’t do it, but it did get my wheels turning and thinking of what could be done to make it happen, and I think he could pull it off. I do agree with Jim in the sense that it requires “preparation” though. Either way, this is a fun challenge to watch and I’m glad it happened.
AnywayI hope you can find a way to at least get the Griddlecakes back man. Although the video rocked, I’m left feeling a little empty with no sponsors.
Cheers!
Jay
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Joe,
Bring those sponsors back!
This is definitely going to be interesting to see. I think it’s possible to do so, but it’s going to be like The Net Fool said above, “Dude’s probably going to be stuck to his computer chair when this is all over.”
Unless he has a team of people working with him (if he’s smart he will), he would be stuck in his room all day working on these sites.
But, hey, whatever it takes to get it done right?
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That video was PRICELESS. Thanks for the mention!
On to the contest. Jim is right that it’s gonna be tough, but I think I’ll pull it off. The sites will be built entirely in one day, but the “preparation” that Jim talks about has been done to an extent. I outsourced the content, and I have 5 new headers being made by my designer buddy. I’ll get the psd’s so that I can change the text depending on what URL’s are available when I get started. So, that’s the preparation, but nobody really expected me to write content for 5 sites in one day did they?
Other than that, the rest will be done on the fly. I’ll put up a post at SiteFlipU today with my gameplan if anyone wants to see it.
Jim, I’m gonna eat your children…
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Hey Joe! Sorry I missed you on skype! Ok, I liked your video post. First, I read something yesterday someone wrote - that your video posts were so entertaining he watched them like a TV series. The man is correct.
I agree with him - and you should post more videos. You are so funny. …now about your post and “site flipping.” I started out working online by doing this - through ebay. I saw a mortgage website that was pretty bland looking (really boring compared to your designs jk) and it sold for $5,000. I was shocked. It was a boring old mortgage and loan officer website. I didn’t know anything about SEO at that time, but the site was optimized and getting targeted traffic. But, I copied the idea and concept and create a template that I used (to resell these sites over and over again). Sometimes they sold for 100 dollars, sometimes 500 dollars, normally 70 or 80 dollars. I made pretty good money until my brother started stealing my work (seriously) and selling as my competition (my own stolen designs) for 20 or 30 dollars less. So the price kept getting lower and eventually others started copying as well. Ebay was no longer a place for me to use to sell it - but there are tons of opportunities and niches open to do this with. Over the past few years I have create a lot of niche sites that are at top ranking for specific keywords that people are paying money for ads for. I tried to sell one such site to the person who was paying the most for google adwords ads, but he didn’t buy it. It’s still at the top ranking…I Just haven’t had time to do anything. Hey Joe I have a bunch of sites like that - if you want to find the venues and sell them - I will split the profits with ya 
…we’ll have to talk!
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Ok Sponsors need to come back yesterday ok do not deviate from your flow cause its just you, people come here for you not what others want you to be.
On the siteflip contest I have to say that the larger challenge is not to create 5 sites to flip for $1k it is very possible, the task for him is going to be to create the illusion of value, which in this market is not that hard, cruse sitepoint and check out some of the stuff there. I can not wait to see what happens, and who buys what.
I am a site flipping newbie as well Joe and I think we ought to do something in a JV to take care of that!
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I just recently learned about site flippin from Suite J’s site. Now all of a sudden the game has been raised to 5 sites flipped in 1 day. How am I ever going to catch up if the bar keeps getting raised? I’m still trying to learn how to do keyword research!
I cant wait to see how this turns out.
Talk to you soon,
T
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Very interesting contest…and great post…it caused me to follow some links and I ended up signing up to 3 different blogs cause of it.
hilarious video man!
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@Enkay Blog -
Hahaha….fret not man…I’ve talked to a few and…there may be hope of sponsors. You’ll just have to stay tuned to see if they make a come back!
@Freddie -
I tell ya man, duuudes round here talking bout how much my site sucks…freaking hot saaaawce GONE, sammiches…NOPE…biscuits…SEE YA…they don’t want no part of it man! But…negotiations have commenced again…..But yeah, this will be cool to watch, as I want to get into site flipping myself.
@The Net Fool -
Hahahaha…man, I dunno dude…it will be fun to watch. I know nothing about flipping a site at all…so…yeah, we’ll see how it goes. I know one thing, you need to setup your sezwho so we can see your mug on here!
@Nick Throlson -
Thanks big Nick, glad you liked it.
@Suite J -
Yo, I tried to reason with them…they was just emotional and pulled out on me. We are talking though, so…hopefully we’ll see something.
Yeah…I’m watching you too man, I know you got some flipping skills, I want to try my hand at it too. The crackhead has some skills though…but, he’s still crazy!
@Luis Gross -
Hahaha…I’m trying to convince them to come back man! As for the contest, well…it will be very educational! I’m watching closely!!
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@Blog Flipping -
Yeaaaaaaah boyeeeeeeee, this joint is gonna get ugly! If you do this man…you will be a freakin legend…it will start a trend..people will try to beat it, there will be site flippin crackheads everywhere!
@Holly -
About the site flipping…this is something I at least want to try my hand at…and any opportunity to work with you is an honor I can NOT pass on! About your brother undercutting you….that’s harsh! I can’t wait to see what Bryan does with this.
My dear Holly, thanks agian for the encouragement. I’m sure we all can learn a thing or two from you! I just wish more people really knew how special you are
@Big Ben Patton -
Dude…they walked on me..I had no choice…my sponsors wouldn’t stay
As for the contest, I think you are right…but we all have to recognize who we are dealing with…Bryan C Clark….c stands for crackhead but the man has skills
@T Edwards -
I feel you T, SuiteJ is the man too…there is so many dudes and ladies to learn from it’s crazy, and so much to learn it’s crazy! But, I’m with you…I”m ready to see what happens
@Keith@Web Affiliate Program -
Glad you found some new folks to read man…these dudes are great. Thanks for the compliments Keith…you know you tha man too!
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Ya’ll are bugging man. I’ll give anyone 2-1 odds on Jim. Meaning, if you don’t think Bryan can do this, and he does, you gotta give me $500, if he loses I’ll give you $1,000. Ya’ll are crazy man, dude is gonna do this easy, in fact, I’m so confident, I’ll pay you if he only matches 1K. Dudes a monster, he’s my boy so I hear about most of his flips, but dude has bought sites for $200 bucks, and then flipped them the next day with an extra zero on the end.
Come on, to make a site worth $200 bucks isn’t real hard, and if you can’t do it, then you probably shouldn’t be in the game. Come on, think about it. You get a nice domain name, and throw in some hosting. There’s a good $50 bucks, you throw a permium theme on there (maybe even offer one or two in the backend to drive that price up) there’s another $100 bucks, and you offer a product they can sell … BAM, you got a site that is easily worth $200 bucks. They got their domain, hosting, and a permie theme, along with a way to generate a passive income.. It’s not rocket science. The hard part is finding the stuff to sell on the site on the low so you can make that money.
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Oh, and Joe, I didn’t forget about you man. I got you, I just got busy yesterday and couldn’t get everything made up in time. Imma hop on it tonight, I got your email so I’ll send it by tonight.
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If he doesnt make $1000 he technically loses the contest, but as long as each sells for over $20, then he proves NetFool wrong….
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@Nick -
I will NOT be betting against a crackhead man….they can do some amazing things when they need to! Lol, seriously though, I don’t really think it’s going to be a problem, I know what this guy can do. The thing I think is crazy, is creating them joints and flipping them all in 24 hours….that’s bannanas…a 24hour work day!
@Baseball Blog -
No probs dude, hit me on the email and let me know what’s good yo. I am putting a new system in place that I have been playing with on my test blog, so the exact location may or may not change depending on my skills….but, not to worry…it will still be in the same vicinity lol…..get at me man…oh yeah, my boy is feelin your site dude! Thanks for the help!
@Debt Aim Debt Help -
Exactly….if you really think about it though…200 for a site isn’t THAT hard for someone like B the Crackhead…. he does this type of stuff all the time! I just want to see him create and then flip them all in one go…gonna be nuts…
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I already told him that it will fail because Godaddy takes 24hrs just to update once you re-point to your correct nameservers!
Done! Gameover.
LOL
On a serious note, let’s say I wanted to sell my site (I certainly don’t) but how do you transfer everything if you are hosting multiple sites on your server?
Do you just zip it and email?
(yep, I’m a novice )
“flippin’ sites like griddle cakes or burgers” Nice Joe!!!
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@Allyn Paul - Hi Allyn, I can answer your question for you. If you are going to sell an entire website, and it is created with Wordpress (or something else that uses a database) then you will need to:
1. Zip the entire website - all files and folders in /public_html/
2. Export and save the .sql file for the database
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Once that is done, it is pretty easy to get the site URLs corrected and functioning. The .sql file for the mysql datebase (for example) will contain several occurrences of the domain name or URL that it was installed on (and extracted from). You will need to replace the old URL with the new one that you are installing the website on. Also, make sure the wp-config. file contains the correct database information.
I setup wordpress websites for people every day (ones that are already packed full of the newest SEO-related plugins, the newest release of wordpress and about 30 themes that I love) - and originally I setup each site manually. It would take ages to upload the zip file with the website files within it. I now use a script that takes less than 3 minutes for to install the website. I never heard of this practice being referred to as “site flipping” before but I see people are really getting into it. Maybe I will sell the script
it could save people a lot of time. It is just one simple file. 
Anyway, hope the response helps you!
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A crackhead indeed! I did a post about a month back called “teaching a crackhead affiliate marketing” and why having a team of hungry crackheads to run your campaign would ensure you success - providing your reward to them was a giant boulder of crack.
5 sites in 24 hours? maybe… 5 quality sites in 24 hours - not a chance.
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@Holly -
Good info, Holly! I see why Joe speaks so highly of you. Will be checking your site out as well hoping to learn a few more of the jewels you are dropping. I came by your site yesterday, but didn’t have time to really look around. It is professional and clean. That is always good.
Anyway, see you around!
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@Allyn Paul -
Yeah, they can take long sometimes! As for the transfer, it’s pretty simple, blogs get a little more complicated I would think. I’ve never flipped before, but I’ve had to move sites to new hosts.
@Holly -
Thanks again lady! Wonderful stuff, we’ll have to talk about that there script you got.
@Elijah -
hahaha, yo man, I guess it depends on what you mean by quality? I’m sure he will produce some quality sites…thing is, this dude does this stuff daily, maybe not 5 brand new in a day, but I know the value will be there…will it be enough? We shall see
@Freddie -
I told you Freddie! haha, that’s why…you should see her book…just make sure if you order you go to my top tools page and use my link lol. Nah, she’s wonderful man, I can’t say enough about her and how she continues to help me…most gurus won’t get personal like that, and yes, to me, she is a guru. She just doesn’t act like the rest of them…but her success is more than worthy of the guru title!
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Heh, I’m excited to know the results! Well right now I guess I better finish my own site flipping projects.
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@Freddie - Thanks Freddie!
Your site looks really nice too - could hardly tell it was Wordpress! 
Good job! I noticed the links - and you might want to use the All In One SEO Plugin - it makes a huge difference with SEO/website gaining a high ranking. 
Anyway, I just wanted to say it is nice to meet you and hope you stop by the site again sometime. Take care!!
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@Lucas -
Yeah…it’s gonna be ugly man! We’ll see how it goes, dude is a monster on site flipping, it will be very interesting to see.
@Holly -
I like Freddie’s site too, has some very good information on it.
More sage advice from one of the greatest
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“Why would you challenge Jim? He’s a Ninja man!”
“You will see me flipping sites like they were burgers”
Man you made me laugh, funny video like usual JK
On a more serious note, I do agree it sounds a little crazy and I’m really curious to see the outcome…
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He’s already at $380 bucks, and the deadline hasn’t even come up. If nothing else, he already smashed Jim’s original statement.
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@Holly -
Thanks for the info and the kind words. I think I had trouble installing that plugin, but will definately try it again. I really appreciate the insight and will not waste it by not putting it to action.
I am getting there with my meager web skills. But I am lifting the weights of code and slowly figuring it out. Just moved to Wordpress about a month and a half ago. First time working with PHP and I don’t think that I am doing to bad. Glad to see that it is really just an advance HTML, which I am decent at.
Anyway, thanks again and please if you ever want to share any more tips with me BRING IT ON!
I’m with Holly….& Joe!
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@Holly -
Thanks for the advice on the All in One SEO plugin! It is great and I just installed it. That wasn’t the one I had problems with. Nevertheless, it is in and I am appreciative. Don’t think I had come across that one, but I can see what it just did for all my post.
Now if I could figure out how to change my post from that ?=page12 crap to /post title, I would be in the game.
I know what to do, but I cannot get Wordpress to access my .htaccess file and it is driving me crazy. I have the permission set to 666, but just will not work for me. I am going to get because….IT IS A MUST!!!
Thanks again and I will be seeing you around the Internet!
I’m with Holly….& Joe!
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@Ben@SEO Horror -
hahaha, well..Bryan is the site flip king so, it should be interesting, it’s already going good
@Baseball Blog -
Yeah I know right! I just want to see the final outcome.
@Freddie -
Hmmm, I never had that issue when changing my permalinks. You may need to check on the wordpress site for some tips. I usually just set it to custom and put in my format lol
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Haha. That was crazy! I didn’t even know it was going on!
Sly
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August 23rd, 2008 at 7:43 pm
@Sly from Slyvisions dot Com -
Yeah man…it was a crazy contest but Bryan stepped up to the plate…he came out like “raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah” and Jim was like….My kung fu is superior…don’t front on my mojo
Bryan was like “let’s do it”
Jim was like “dude…if you wanna do all that work, I’m down..I don’t have to do anything”
lol, nah, it’s cool though
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@Freddie - Hey Freddie! Glad I could help. The .htaccess file might need to be set to 777. Then after you do that, go into the settings for the Permalinks and choose a permalink structure that you want. I use a custom structure like this: /%postname%/
and it just create a SEO-friendly URL from the name of the post. Then below that it says, “Category Base” - and I put the word “topics” there. So, for my site category pages the URL will be: http://www.honestholly.com/topics/post-name/
I think if you change the permissions to 777 it will work! I will create some posts about this on the site. Not everyone knows about that plugin but it is the best - I have 5000 or something pages indexed since i started using it. Once you go to make a post or page, below the post or page you can add a custom Title, Description and keywords. Always try to remember to do this and it will help a ton!
Take care Freddie!
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@Holly - Good info Holly, I didn’t think to tell him to chmod the file to 777, as I didn’t think that was something you’d want on that file. I personally never had to make any chmod changes to setup my permalinks. As for the category base, I don’t think I messed with that at all either. My stuff just shows up as site/categoryname/postname
And I also don’t know whatsup with your comment, I had that happen to one other person before, I don’t know if it’s the comment luv plugin or what, but when I check it in the admin panel none of that junk shows up! lol…ahh well..
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Hey Joe! Well, I’m curious to know how many of the websites created to “flip” are sold. I hope you keep us updated. And I want to be a part of the next competition ok!
lol. I love the idea of site flipping, but not if it involves doing a ton of work. That’s the way I did it when I was selling the mortgage sites on ebay. Then, to transfer the site was a nightmare and the buyer would email me asking me for assistance, etc. It becomes way too much work for $20 dollars or $50 dollars. I think there are a lot of markets for this - away from internet marketing. Example: many people have kids, and it is very hard to find a decent wordpress theme or design for a family website or for kids websites (like for a mom who is about to have a child or for documenting the young years of their kid, etc.). So, if you were to create a handful of really nice looking wordpress-based sites, already packed with features, and then sold and re-sold them - you could make a ton of money. Do the work to make the design and have it as you like it, zip it up. Then anytime someone chooses that design, you can install it (I use that install file I think I should start selling 
lol) and then it’s setup. Hand it over with an email that explains the basics of getting around. You could optionally offer technical assistance and updates for 10 dollars per year or a set amount per time. You can also require that they use your web host and you can make 90 commissions off each customer - since they all need web hosting. I think it is extremely profitable - even if you gave the site away - if they use the host. 
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@Holly -
Just put it on my “tab” lol
I definitely think about stuff like that all the time! It would be a nice little income stream, I just need to squeeze that file out of you
You are right though, very easy outside of the IM niche. The sites are looking good, I think they will all sell, total value of all the auctions is around 400+ so far, and it’s the first day!
Giving the site away for a low price in exchange for using your hosting provider is the way to go, but, you know that already! There are other things you can do like that to get people to sign up for hosting. Offer personal coaching, an ebook, a special video…website setup, so many things to do.
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Thanks an amazing video mate…..you should more video posts
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August 23rd, 2008 at 10:27 pm
@WebTrafficROI -
Glad you liked it dude, I try to do a few each week, just having some fun.
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Hey Joe and Freddie, I forgot to mention - after you change your permissions to 777 or 775 for the .htaccess file - THEN change it back to something stronger like 660 or 664. Then no one will be able to access it and the correct settings will be saved to it as well.
If it still doesn’t work, wordpress has some details here http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks that could help!
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@Normal Joe - Joe Joe Joe all ya need to do is ask! LOL. It is a really simple file. Since this site flipping is so popular, it is a perfect time to do something with this little script. I hope we can talk later - I am open to ideas
…I know we are both busy but if we don’t take advantage of the opportunities someone else will!
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