24 Hour Site Flipping Contest: Update
By Normal Joe | August 23, 2008
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The Crackhead Prevails: 24 hour blog flip is a success
So, it seems the crackhead actually knows what he is doing. He created 5 good looking sites and got them listed and they are already getting bids. What’s the price? Well, they are all currently above the 20 bucks that Jim from thenetfool.com said he couldn’t get more than. So it seems Bryan knows whatsup, and it’s safe to say I will be trying to learn a little more. He laid out his plan and everything, showing what he planned to do to make this happen. Good job Mr. Clark on the 24 hour blog flipping contest.
No matter what the final price, it’s more than $20 per site. Maybe it’s because blog generate more value, maybe it’s because he included ebooks with the sites, creating an instant monetization possibility. Whatever it is, it’s more than $20 bucks, even though there was much work put into it, and he has tons of experience, it’s great nonetheless.
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Why is everybody misquoting me and saying that I said $20? There’s a difference between using a low ball number for exaggeration and making a statement of fact, haha, seriously.
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@The Net Fool -
Cuz that’s what you said, that was the example. No matter if it was an exaggeration or not, that’s what brought the crackhead out, so that’s the reference point! Anyone who knows you and your site, knows that was a number thrown out in the midst of a post to make a point and not a fact, but…that number is what the crackhead was responding to lol….that’s what made Bryan put up the challenge.
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Yeah dude, this crackhead is nuts, haha
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@The Net Fool -
Indeed lol. He’s a good guy though, both of you are cool in my book. Dude, when you gonna setup sezwho so you’re not the man with the orange head anymore?
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Joe,
Cute kids man!
I love those BK Hershey pies — I’m on my way to get one, BK’s down the block from here —
Ay man, he really did do it. All those sites look real nice and 4 out of 5 of them got bids. All together the bids surpass $400!
So, he definitely already passed $20.
This was an exciting contest to watch, thanks for sharing it with us Joe.
And I’m glad some of those sponsors are back!
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Innovative contest…thanks for sharing
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Hey Joe, another awesome vid man. I don’t know a whole lot about this “crackhead” guy, but, awesome looking kids dude. Looks like you have a great family. Cheers bud, take care
Davin
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My man, Joe is back with his sponsors! Well, alright!
The contest is about the 5 sites selling for $1,000 after being built in 24 hours.
Yes, Clark put together 5 outstanding sites. I have been flowing it like a crackhead myself. I guess I am infatuated with this concept of site flipping. It is outstanding.
The Net Fool put me on, Clark is taking me to the next level, and Joe put me in touch with them all. Joe you are the man because everyone that you have recommended or I found through your site has been HIGH quality. Good stuff and I am loving it.
The children are outstanding and I am not mad at baby girl for smashing that pie. You might have to watch her in the future. From now on be sure to put the pie on the top shelf in the fridge.
I’m with Joe!
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August 24th, 2008 at 1:30 am
You saw my blog before Joe? My hero.
You know you have to be “I’m With Jim” before you go “I’m With Joe” on me.
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@Luis Gross - Make Money Online - Yeah man, I been eating them joints for years yo lol, bangin! Yeah, he made them look real good and no doubt he’ll get a nice chunk of change for them when it’s all said and done
@WebTrafficROI - Glad you liked it man, they seem to be having fun with it
@The Davinator@Viral Marketing Strategies - well Dav, he’s not really a crackhead hahaha, I just said that to make fun of his attempt to work for 24 hours creating and listing 5 sites
@Freddie - hahaha, yeah man..you been on it! It’s very fascinating yo, and I will be trying my hand at it sometime soon. B did a great job man..and when it’s all over I’m pretty sure it will be close to or greater than that 1G mark.
As for baby girl…she just likes to mess with me…it became evident to me that I had consumed the pie myself a few days earlier on a late night binge lol
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I don’t quite understand the whole idea why anyone would want to waste their time flipping a site for any amount under $100 dollars. It’s just not worth the time invested. Firstly, the domain name will cost around $5 dollars, average price for hosting will also run the same. Listing in SitePoint.com has their share of fees…
Time will need to be invested towards setting up the blog, SEO’ing it, writing content or paying for content and importing it… after it’s all said and done, anything less than $100 dollars is a loss. If you sell the site for $100 dollars you may draw even, depending on what you value your time / hr.
In my opinion, I think the level where it would be worth my time in flipping a blog the price would be around $500 minimum. Otherwise, I’d just keep the blog myself and forget about it as I score AdSense clicks.
The concept of flipping blogs does interest me. Within the last few weeks I have flipped two and made quite a bit of money doing it. The problem I have is when I see other people flipping garbage and getting thousands for it while cheating their buyers.
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So he actually did it huh. 5 sites within 24 hours. Even with a price of $20+ for each site, it’s still a great feat to sell all of them within the time range. I can’t wait to see the final results of how everything went.
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Who ate my piiiie? lol
Nice to see a sponser. Hopefully they hooked you up with a few free slices.
As for flippin’….. it’s pretty obvious even before Clark did his crack flip, that a super quick site can be sold for 1-200. (yeah 24 hours is pushing it). The people who talk about it being impossible obviously haven’t checked out the daily listings in the marketplace.
Is the majority of it crap that you and I wouldn’t want? Yes, but it sells.
I haven’t checked the auction status on the crack flips yet, but I heard he’s pushin’ a $800 combined?
Anyway, thanks for another funny update Joe!
Cheers!
Jay
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@ Gary Conn - I’m with you 100%.. it seems to make any decent income vs time invested you’d have to put in some serious man hours to flip a site for a decent piece of change. I say pick a few sites, develop them for a year, and sell them for $5000-$10,000 a piece - look at ashley morgan from upstartblogger.com, bought the blog for $15,000 and has already made his investment back… buddy who sold it to him made a killing with a blog a little over a year old.
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Thanks for the mention Joe, glad to see you’re following along!
Elijah, did you actually do the math for this? It makes very little sense to do it your way and then believe you are getting a higher return. I’m already over $800 and I have no reason to believe I won’t break the $1,000 mark.
Let’s say that instead of doing 5 sites in a day, that I spend 24 hours throughout the course of the week to flip these sites. Let’s do some simple math here, and we’ll use $41.67 per hour (1,000/24 hours) as a starting point.
24 hours (worked per week) x 52 (weeks in a year) x $41.67 = $52,004.16
I just gave you the key to a full-time living working half the time that most work at their current job. If you wanna make some real money, double the number and treat it like a full time job. $100,000+ per year!
That’s quite a bit more than your $5,000-$10,000 blogs that you sell after a year. You’d have to work on 5 consecutively, and get $10,000 each just to come within $2,000 of the example I just gave. Wanna make $100,000 a year? Hope you can provide content and manage 10 blogs at a time. Good luck!
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Joe,
Your videos get better and better! But lemme’ tell you this: you need some help with that lawn! I am really upset about that! LOL j/k
Thanks for the updates on the site flip… I enjoy reading and watching your point of view.
AL
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@Garry Conn - I hear you G, but I can’t say I agree. If you sell it for anything more than you invest, it’s a profit. Some people just want a website. It’s not always about the MMO/Blogging niche either. Some just want a site to get started on. The investment for a domain is minimal. Then, the install…well, we know how much work that takes lol. Then, you can write some content. If you invest 50 bucks and sell for 80 it’s a profit, even 10 bucks is a profit. If you outsource it all then you really start getting into some easy money. There are many ways I see to do it…but I look at any profit as just that…more than what I had when I started lol. Thing is, what some think is garbage, others don’t..it’s all subjective really. Maybe you wouldn’t buy what another person would, but that doesn’t mean the value doesn’t exist to the person that bought it.
@Sly from Slyvisions dot Com -
Man, he sold one for 400 bucks lol, dude knows what he’s doing. I don’t care what anyone says, it was a success, and I’m sure he’ll come out making more than he invested, which is what it’s all about anyway.
@Suite J -
Indeed man. The thing is, there is always a customer. Maybe for you it’s not worth x amount, but to the guy just getting started it’s a deal! That’s all marketing is man, giving people what they want, it’s the convenience of it really.
@Elijah -
I think it really depends on what you’re trying to do. I mean, if you want the big boy profits, yeah, you need to develop it for a while. If you want to make some quick smaller profits, then all that really isn’t needed because if you can find a niche or topic that people are looking for, and want a quick site for, you’re good. The profit margin will be small, but small margins add up when you do it multiple times.
@Blog Flipping -
excellent post Bryan. Again, it all depends on how you look at it, and I love the fact that you turned it into 24 hours per week instead of one 24 hour period. Someone with the right tools, content, and outsourcing contacts could do this quite easily. As for me, it would be just one aspect of the big picture…but a pretty nice one once you have a little experience. It seems if one is wiling to put in the work, it can happen.
@Allyn Paul -
Glad you’re diggin the site man, I love having you around.
Leave it up to the grass man to notice how bad my lawn looks in the small amount of time it made a guest appearance! hahaha, truthfully, if you could see it, you really would say that! I’m not a lawn guy, I hate cutting grass and tending to my yard. Once I get some good revenue coming in, that will probably be one of the things I “outsource”
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Joe,
You are nuts and I love the way you documented this little comp…
$1000 for 24 hours!! Hell that’s quite a return in my books….
As soon as my work load dies down I gotta get i on this.
I actually have a few sites I need to sell up so am going to go over all this and see where I can match up and clean my b-list sites up ready for sale.
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@Forest - It was cool man! Bryan came out swinging man! He’s already pretty close man, and It looks like He’ll make it happen. If a persona adapted this and just did it on a weekly thing, it would still be quite impressive lol
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Hey Joe, Your site is really kicking! You’ve got a great talent for delivering your content. You’ve done an awesome job with the videos. I’ve been checking the flipping challenge out for a few days and found it both entertaining and full of great content.
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@Jerry Moore -
Thanks Jerry, welcome to the site! Hope to see you around a bit more. Yeah man, the contest is pretty cool, Bryan did a great job with it and it created a good amount of buzz for his site.
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@Normal Joe -
I’m on the same page as you Joe. I sell lowball sites.
As long as the time spent vs. profit ratio is worth it to me personally, then it’s all good.
When I said the low sites (that have a free template and 10 articles) with no stats, etc. might not be worth it to me or you, it’s because it probably wouldn’t be. We can do it ourselves.
I agree with you on a site’s worth being relative to who’s buying. One man’s junk is another man’s gold (hey, I used to buy/sell collectibles for a living!)
However, there are people who are being taken advantage of as well. Marketing is one thing, but I don’t think it’s cool to make a new site owner think they’re getting something they’re not. Of course, as a marketer, you have to highlight the positives, and push the potential, but there’s a line I try not to cross that I see others leaping over.
I guess I might be sitting on a cool 30 mil if I thought differently, but you gotta sleep at night, right? lol
Cheers!
Jay
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@Suite J -
Oh I agree, don’t be deceptive, but I’m just saying. For example, the low sites that sell, to me and you, they aren’t worth it, we could make them ourselves. But, to the newbie, or…non web savvy, it would be a great deal right? Yeah, I know you get it man lol…you the J with the big head avatar, you da man!
It’s just a matter of having a nice system in place, if you can get the content written, and create the sites fairly quick…why not do it? So what, you profit only 20 bucks when it’s said and done? You can turn around, reinvest in your system, and increase your output. 20 bucks is 20 bucks, as is 30, 40, 50, or 1000 lol, if it’s more than you started with, then that is a success in my book.
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@Normal Joe - I was thinking about calling out another blogger and challenging them to a “Five Dollar Big-Headed Avatar Battle”. What do you think?
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August 24th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
@Suite J -
Dude that would be sweeeeeeet…maybe I can find someone to do one for me.
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I like the concept of site flipping but I think you have to build a ladder of sites that you can flip much later once the traffic is there. 24 hour flip seems nuts to me.
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August 26th, 2008 at 11:18 am
It just depends on what you are trying to do. Sell a new site, or actually make a larger profit form selling an established site.
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