600 dollars already!!

[GreenSmoothieGirl]

Have had possession of my new site for a couple days now - already earned 600 dollars!!!

Just wanted to share my success with others - so excited

[ancksunamun]

Well done! Must feel great.

Did you buy an existing site?

[azmat]

Wow, thats awesome. Congrats.

[bluestar]

Hey! That's good! In 2 days. How did you do that? Are you selling some hot items? I'm looking into opening a superfoods/herbs website soon (don't know if it will earn that kind of money straight away though!)

[Curtis2011]

Originally Posted by GreenSmoothieGirl

Have had possession of my new site for a couple days now - already earned 600 dollars!!!

Just wanted to share my success with others - so excited

Well, give us the details!

[Kaie]

Tapping fingers and waiting impatiently

[GreenSmoothieGirl]

Hey Guys,

Yes I did buy an existing site - lol - I wish I could say that it's a brand new site, in which case this would be extremely impressive.

Paid 3000 for it, and am already on my way to paying it back.

This site could be earning me my full-time income eventually. It has really high conversion rates, and the profit on each sale is enormous. You need a few hundred hits a month to make decent money. That being said, there's no organic traffic, and it relies on traffic from forums. I'm also going to be experimenting with adwords.

It's 3 months old, with almost no articles and a pR0 site so there's going to be a huge amount of work getting it to the point where it's placing high in the search engines. But, I'm excited to give it a go.

The first month it was live it made $150. The second month it made 778 and the third month it made 778. This month I'm hoping it'll earn close to 1500.

I don't want to put the name of the site, because it relies on it's reputation, and I've put things here that are very private and I really don't want my website associated with what I've told people about me.

It's crazy, but this site could be my full-time income I've been involved with multiple sites in the past, and I found the same thing with each of them - in order to earn money, I would have to wait months and months just to see a very slight increase. For example: on a site that was earning 150 adsense dollars, I might have to wait 3 months just to see a 50 dollar increase in profits.

So long as I keep my reputation up, and people like what I'm selling - I can expect that increases in traffic mean increases in income.

Anyways, I hope I don't sound like I'm showing off. I'm just really excited to be in a position where I might be able to be self sufficient. I have so many dreams and I feel like this site is going to help me get there.

[Acidify]

Congrats on your success. My website is only a few days old, and I am experiencing some early success from it also. I am not making big money like you yet, but hopefully my earnings will continue to increase.

[Lucidism]

That's amazing that a PR0 site with nearly no articles is generating so many sales. Can you share the details of the buying process? How did you know it was for sale? How did you know it would be profitable?

[GreenSmoothieGirl]

Well I've been searching for that perfect site for ages now. I've been absolutely desperate to find something that will let me work from home and have financial freedom(eventually). I bought a few sites that relied on adsense, and realized that I was going to be fighting for a very long time to get them to the point I wanted. So when I saw this website, I knew that it had potential.

The owner put her heart and soul in to it - I doubt I could have come up with anything remotely as nice. Also, as soon as I went to it, I wanted to purchase from the site, and so did my family. That was a good indication to me that it was a site that could sell, because I don't want to buy things online very often.

I got the site early on, before it had a chance to take off (only three months old and pr0) so it's value was considerably lower than it would have been had it have been an older and higher ranking site.

I also realize that it isn't exactly my passion, so I'll probably end up selling it eventually when the right offer comes along and start a site that I'm in love with. Looking for something I can do for 5, 10 or more years - a stable longterm thing.

Will probably keep it 3 - 4 months until I can bring it up to the point where I can get a fair amount for it and flip it.

So far the highest month, it received three hundred unique visitors. I can only imagine how well it'll do once it receives 2000 or more!!

I love reading stories about people's success on the forums - I find it so motivating. I especially like Rebecca's story with world-of-lucid-dreaming - can't believe she's making her full-time income off her site :0

[GreenSmoothieGirl]

Oh and to answer your question, she had posted it for sale on a private forum.

[ssandra]

have you considered creating a facebook page for it, and using facebook ads to create more traffic?

From what I can gather it is an inexpensive way of creating more traffic and targeting the right customers.

How to Promote Your Business on Facebook

Edit: Not my link, but something I found online and found to be very helpful

[Fred Tracy]

Very nice! That makes me want to create an affiliate site. My blog gets a lot more than 300 uniques a month, but I'm not making bank just yet. I suppose that's the nature of a blog.. and.. not selling anything, lol.

I oughta create a product. Thanks for the inspiration, and I wish you luck!

[Humancure]

this is pretty awesome!

I have sites that have 1,000+ visitors and one health site with 4,000 visitors, but I never see such sales.

I guess I only have adsense and a few affiliates on it... im going to do some changes and see what I can do with it.

this is really inspiring, your making money with that many visitors, thats pure quality! =)

[Acidify]

I am currently using ad sense. I can see it making a good amount of money, but $600 with only 300 unique daily visitors is amazing. I don't really know what kind of product I can sell on my website. Do you use some kind of affliate program (someone else products for commission) or do you sell your own products?

[Justin Mazza]

Whatever you are doing it is working for you.

[danthony]

Nice, that site could pay for itself in a few short months. Work on getting quality backlinks and submit good quality articles pointing back to the site. All of this will help your site in the SERPs

[ron7519]

What's the site? Can you provide a URL?

[Yosako]

If I ever had 300 clients on one of my "products" on a given day, I'd make a killing.

[GreenSmoothieGirl]

Ron, I don't really feel comfortable giving the domain name because I've shared a lot of personal things on this forum, and I wouldn't want it to be connected to my website.

Thanks everyone for your encouragement So excited to see where this takes me.

[ellie]

Congrats GreenSmoothieGirl, sounds fab...well done

I wish I had the knack for understanding all the technical jargon like placing it "high in google rankings"...this is the stuff that does my head in. Sounds like your quite good at understanding how to aggregate content, and gain traffic...great skill to have.

[Weena]

GreenSmoothieGirl, that is EXCELLENT! I'm soooo happy to read this thread, because I never see anything inspiring in this section . Keep up the good work, and keep us updated!!!

Originally Posted by ssandra

have you considered creating a facebook page for it, and using facebook ads to create more traffic?

From what I can gather it is an inexpensive way of creating more traffic and targeting the right customers.

How to Promote Your Business on Facebook

Edit: Not my link, but something I found online and found to be very helpful

Sandra, do you use this yourself? I was soooo off-put by the idea of paying per click (yeah I'm stingy there, or rather, I prefer to buy things that will 100% make money and I'm not sure an "ad" would. Thoughts? AND should I start a topic about this?)

[ssandra]

Created a new thread: Using Facebook page and adds as a promotion tool for your website

[GreenSmoothieGirl]

I received a private message from someone wanting to purchase it. My initial reaction is no, but part of me wants to say yes

[ssandra]

Originally Posted by GreenSmoothieGirl

I received a private message from someone wanting to purchase it. My initial reaction is no, but part of me wants to say yes

I'd say; go with your gut reaction. If there are buyers for it now, there will be buyers for it when you got your initial investment back, and your own site on the way....


I'd suggest keeping this one, improving it, while working on your passion and only once your passion starts making decent money, selling this one (if you still want to).

I believe having a few hundred extra a month without any conscious work is worth way more than having some extra cash in your hand right now....

(unless they offer you a huge sum like $20.000 dollars or something In that case... SELL!)

[GreenSmoothieGirl]

haha - not even close to 20,000! I wish - I don't think I'd hesitate if it were that much.

[Mounds]

I don't know what your experience is with the web but if it was my site, I wouldn't sell it for a while. If the future looks good and I've got the time, I'd be hanging onto it.
I'm fairly green in the IM department though.

[Weena]

Originally Posted by GreenSmoothieGirl

I received a private message from someone wanting to purchase it. My initial reaction is no, but part of me wants to say yes

It's a good sign you have found something great. Hang on to it.

[bluestar]

I wouldn't sell. This could be your income. Everyone needs income.
Great stuff, by the way!

[Mounds]

Once it's paid for itself, then it's generating straight profit. Why in the world would you give that up?

I've learned many a time that when you sell something, it's gone. Someone should invent the term, "seller's remorse".