Are you having a harder time than usual flipping your websites? If you are like many internet marketers over the course of the past year you have started flipping websites for quick cash. Like the rest of those marketers you have noticed that it has gotten harder and harder to flip your sites.
Website flipping exploded in 2008. There was even an article about it published in the New York Times technology section in July of 2008. This article was probably responsible for introducing thousands of new aspiring marketers to flipping websites. Sitepoint.com which was specifically mentioned in the article received thousands of new visitors to its marketplace during the weeks that followed the publication of the article.
If you were listing sites on sitepoint.com’s marketplace at that time you would have noticed a significant increase in the number of sites for sale. This competition forced many established site flippers to lower their prices and to diversify into other types of sites.
I’m going to share with you a strategy that will help give you a better chance of selling your websites. That strategy is to post your websites for sale on more than one marketplace at a time.
This strategy will require you to manage your auctions carefully so that you only sell your website once. However the process that I show you will allow you to keep control of the auctions.
The first step is to decide which marketplaces you will sell your sites on. I typically have used four sites in the past. These sites are eBay.com, SitePoint.com, DealaSite.com, and forums.digitalpoint.com. If you are doing this for the first time I would only try this strategy with two auctions sites.
The second step is to determine the length of your auctions. You will want to set the length of each auction to have the same start date and end date. This will allow you to keep control of the bidding.
Simply posting your site in multiple places for sale at the same time will give you a better chance of selling your site. You will have more potential buyers looking at your site. Remember to review the rules of each site before posting.
The third step is to post your site for sale on one of the following sites: Sitepoint.com, eBay.com, or DealaSite.com. The next thing you want to do is create a new auction thread for your site on forums.digitalpoint.com in their marketplace.
When you post your site at digitalpoint remember to remind buyers of the auction end time. Also set the “Buy It Now” (BIN) to the same as the BIN in your other auction. Inform bidders that bid at digitalpoint to place their bids officially at your other auction on SitePoint.com, eBay.com, or DealaSale.com. As bids come in to those sites be sure to update your thread on DigitalPoint with the current high bid.
As soon as you get an acceptable bid or a BIN then be sure to immediately update both auctions and close them out so that no more bids are placed.
By following this strategy you get more people involved in your auctions and more traffic to your auctions. This will help you to move your sites faster.
Kitwana Akil is the author of the best selling ebook Pimp My Flip: How To Create a Customized WordPress Blog You Can Flip For Quick Cash. If you would like to learn more about flipping websites go to http://PimpMyFlip.com


