In order to get a lump sum payday with real estate, you'd have to risk tens of thousands of dollars to buy a house, spend countless weekends of sweaty toil fixing up it's problems, and then list it with an annoying realtor while hoping that it sells for more than you paid. To get the same lump sum profits, you COULD just build a crappy website, like the one seen in this video.

Websites provide much higher returns, without the hassle of being a landlord. A website making $1000 a month can often be purchased for $10,000 to $15,000, especially when the buyer is not dealing with marketplace competition. This is an annual 70% - 120% ROI, and that’s assuming that the income never increases.

There've been a lot of questions about making your first $1,000, and it's not that hard when you’re getting lump sums from site sales. In this walkthrough, you'll see how to build small sites that can be sold for chunks of cash.

In in the midst of the economic recession, School-Grants.org sold for its BIN price of $80,000. Getting a full 22-times the monthly revenue is no small feat, but it is even more impressive for an Adsense-only site. School-Grants.org was monetized only with Adsense, and 100% of its traffic came from search engines.

Adam and Alen from Niche Profit Classroom stopped by and revealed their incredibly simple strategy that enables them to build and grow a huge empire of cash producing sites that can either be held for long-term cash or sold off in chunks for large paydays.

Ryan Moran has been buying high-end websites since 2007 and has turned them into extremely profitable ventures. In this case study interview, he explains his process for finding and monetizing his purchased sites.

In the midst of the economic depression, while traditional real estate was plummeting in value, School-Grants.org sold for $80,000 on Flippa.com, even though it did a lot of things wrong. In this case study, we’ll break down why this tiny site was able to pull so much for a sale price, and we’ll examine how you can duplicate the results by providing valuable assets to investors.

It all starts with my favorite section of the Flippa.com marketplace. The "Ended Unsold" tab. The reason it's my favorite place to shop, is because you can really find some fantastic deals in it. Most people read that tab and think, "oh, those are the sites nobody wants, so I guess I'll ignore them." DUMB MISTAKE. Take note of the below section of the marketplace....

Advertising can be advantageous for Snowball Sites, because the revenue is relatively stable as long as the traffic is consistent. It is the easiest way to suck easy revenue from a website, because it can be plugged in at will using a third party service like Adsense or Adbrite. However, it is much more profitable to work out private advertising deals or selling affiliate products with the same banner space.

After you have developed your seed money by using the Site Snowball method, that money can be reinvested into larger sites that you can either buy or grow yourself. With just a few sites at the focus of your attention, you are able to spend more time growing them and developing them into large income earners.

The websites that you purchase need to be carefully calculated and examined and fit directly into the flow of your business. Never be satisfied by the revenue numbers alone.

[tweetmeme] One of the most frustrating things for many would be web site investors is finding the right site to purchase. Everyone is looking for something different that will fit their investment model. Some people are really into ClickBank sites, others are looking to add to their empire of article directories, while others are simply looking for a web site that generates a certain amount of money each month from the sale of physical goods. Combing through the various market places each day to find "the right one" before it gets snatched up by another buyer can be time consuming, and tedious. It's for that very reason, we're SO thankful for the Flippa.com Search page.

Flippa Search Page: Click Here On the search pages, you have many different filter options to choose from to help make your search more targeted to what you're looking for by selecting your criteria from the options in the sidebar. Let's say you are looking for a site that earns over $2,000 per month from the sale of services...not products or advertising. You also want a site that gets over 7,000 unique visitors per month, with a Google Pagerank of at least 3, and DMOZ listed. But lets say you wanna drill down even further. Perhaps you're looking for a site in a particular market. After setting the parameters for the site you wish to invest in, you can add a specific phrase targeted to the market you're looking to enter in the search box, and click search. Now, you'll only get sites returned with the minimum qualifications you specified, that also have the keyword phrase you typed somewhere in the description. The beauty of the Flippa Advanced Search page is that you have the ability to save the custom search criteria. That means that if you are actively looking to purchase web sites with these characteristics, you can simply pull up the same search tomorrow without having to create it again. Having a tool like this is really helpful, but only if you've already defined the type of site you're looking to invest in. For experienced eTycoon's, looking to expand their portfolio of web properties, identifying their ideal markets, monetization methods, traffic sources, content type, and overall business models that work well for them is crucial. If you're not exactly sure what to look for, and this article on the Search feature in Flippa strikes you as, "cool, but so what", perhaps its time to take a step back, and identify exactly what you're trying to acccomplish, and what your growth model is. We encourage you to take some time to answer the all important question, "what kind of business am I looking to grow anyway?" For an even more advanced search engine to find good site deals that expands beyond just the Flippa Marketplace, sign up to try the eTycoon Flip Finder. It's only $1 for the first 30 days!
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This site sold for a few reasons: it had solid search engine rankings, it was monetized using standard methods, and it had a ton of room for growth. Even though the site was only a few pages deep, it got ten times is monthly revenue. While that's not a bad day for the seller, we think the buyer got an even better deal...

You see, there a few things that I hate about internet marketing: designing websites, making products, entering niches when I don't even know if they'll be profitable... you know - the HARD stuff. I found that I spent so much time doing the hard stuff that I barely had any time to actually build a sustainable business - I was so focused on building a good website, or making a good product, or picking the right niche that I never really picked up steam.

This is a principle that most internet marketers have heard before, and those who abide by it, typically make a lot of money. The principle holds true in the web site flipping world as well. So lets take a look at how it breaks down for those who are into building to sell, or "flipping" existing sites for good money.

Websites that make as little as $50/month can be sold to buyers for many times the monthly income, so each dollar that is earned on a monthly basis is worth $5 - $10 when the site is sold. Once the income is earned (as quickly as a few days), then it can be reinvested into more small sites, allowing the "snowball" to grow.