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The Other Startup Exit: SitePoint Marketplace

13 points by naish 18y ago

redorb 18y ago
Sitepoint, is a burial ground most things sold on there consist of snake oil or clones. It doesn't even deserve the name of 'exit'. More of a liquidity place to re-coop bad investments..
- DenisM 18y ago
  In other words, it's an exit. :-)
- bootload 18y ago
  "... Sitepoint, is a burial ground most things sold on there consist of snake oil or clones. It doesn't even deserve the name of 'exit'. More of a liquidity place to re-coop bad investments.. ..." I don't think so. Sure the content, technology and articles might be lower end commodities: tutorials, design, php with a focus on sites. I know Mark ~ http://www.sitepoint.com/about/ http://www.sitepoint.com/about/ we worked in another startup in Melbourne pre-2000. What Mark co-built is a business selling "information" that people want and are willing to pay for. While this business is growing, selling boring old web focused tech resources, technical book sales are falling. Make things people want, right? What do you make that people want?
  - redorb 18y ago
    sorry for any offense; I'm sure he is a great guy. Right now I make service that my employer wants to pay me for ;) (doesn't count?) I'm also working for a new way to sell cars online with a included way to advertise that your selling your car..
    - bootload 18y ago
      ".. sorry for any offense ..." There was no offense taken. What I tried (poorly) to point out was that "where there's muck, there is money".
petercooper 18y ago
Sites that seem to perform well on SitePoint are those that are old and undeveloped. A lot of search engine marketing specialists are scouring those boards looking for older sites and domains that have some sort of standing on Google. They know they can load them up with new content and quickly reposition them! So.. if you have a site that's been around for several years, isn't making much revenue, and that you don't want to develop, give it a go. Talk about your PageRank, talk about the link backs you have, and talk about the domain's age.. and you could make a pretty serious amount of money compared to your existing revenue.
berecruited 18y ago
If you are open to trying SitePoint, DigitalForums tends to attract similar audiences / traffic. Listing is free too - though you need to 'qualify' with 25 forum posts.
simianstyle 18y ago
I sold my first site on this for $2k about 1.5 years ago. It was just the kick I needed to tell me that I could actually build stuff people wanted.

13 points by naish 18y ago

Sitepoint, is a burial ground most things sold on there consist of snake oil or clones. It doesn't even deserve the name of 'exit'. More of a liquidity place to re-coop bad investments..

DenisM 18y ago
In other words, it's an exit. :-)
bootload 18y ago
"... Sitepoint, is a burial ground most things sold on there consist of snake oil or clones. It doesn't even deserve the name of 'exit'. More of a liquidity place to re-coop bad investments.. ..." I don't think so. Sure the content, technology and articles might be lower end commodities: tutorials, design, php with a focus on sites. I know Mark ~ http://www.sitepoint.com/about/ http://www.sitepoint.com/about/ we worked in another startup in Melbourne pre-2000. What Mark co-built is a business selling "information" that people want and are willing to pay for. While this business is growing, selling boring old web focused tech resources, technical book sales are falling. Make things people want, right? What do you make that people want?
- redorb 18y ago
  sorry for any offense; I'm sure he is a great guy. Right now I make service that my employer wants to pay me for ;) (doesn't count?) I'm also working for a new way to sell cars online with a included way to advertise that your selling your car..
  - bootload 18y ago
    ".. sorry for any offense ..." There was no offense taken. What I tried (poorly) to point out was that "where there's muck, there is money".

petercooper 18y ago

Sites that seem to perform well on SitePoint are those that are old and undeveloped. A lot of search engine marketing specialists are scouring those boards looking for older sites and domains that have some sort of standing on Google. They know they can load them up with new content and quickly reposition them! So.. if you have a site that's been around for several years, isn't making much revenue, and that you don't want to develop, give it a go. Talk about your PageRank, talk about the link backs you have, and talk about the domain's age.. and you could make a pretty serious amount of money compared to your existing revenue.

berecruited 18y ago

If you are open to trying SitePoint, DigitalForums tends to attract similar audiences / traffic. Listing is free too - though you need to 'qualify' with 25 forum posts.

simianstyle 18y ago

I sold my first site on this for $2k about 1.5 years ago. It was just the kick I needed to tell me that I could actually build stuff people wanted.