throwawayValue

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by throwawayValue 10y ago
It's a great feeling knowing that you've built something which is used by thousands of people, but even better when it's generating revenue to cover the costs (your time, hosting, etc). However, to put things in perspective y
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by throwawayValue 11y ago
You're right - it is my responsibility to sell it and so far I've just been listening to offers and haven't countered because I wasn't interested in selling at those times. However, I now would counter all offers with a
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by throwawayValue 11y ago
Based upon my own experience, make sure your site is responsive and place at least 2 responsive ads per page. I don't turn off ads for registered users and I've never had a user complain. Also, find out how many of your users are
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by throwawayValue 11y ago
You're exactly right - different buyers will value my business in different ways and selling to a buyer like the one you described would make no sense. At a minimum, I'd be better off keeping it on auto-pilot.
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by throwawayValue 11y ago
For the past 30 days the bounce rate has averaged 43% and traffic has roughly doubled.
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by throwawayValue 11y ago
AdSense RPM, which I assume is the same as CPM, was $4 for 2015 and for about 6 months in 2013 it jumped up to $12. Would be very nice if that happened again.
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by throwawayValue 11y ago
That's basically what I've been doing the past few years and the reason why I've rejected previous offers. My thought process has been, why accept $XXXk when I'll just earn it anyway within X years and I'll still ha
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by throwawayValue 11y ago
Excellent idea - you sir/ma'am are a genius!!
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by throwawayValue 11y ago
You are correct - different buyers will value the business differently based upon their intentions for it. Some would be more interested in growing the SaaS side, so far all of the offers I've received are related to this, whereas othe
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by throwawayValue 11y ago
Thank you for taking the time to respond. So far all of the offers that I've received, some from "known" companies, value the business based upon it's traffic, users, brand & future potential within the real estate i
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by throwawayValue 11y ago
Great questions and for obvious reasons I don't want to be very specific about the site's niche within the real estate industry, but the service that it provides will always be in demand by the general public & industry profes
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by throwawayValue 11y ago
I've heard of them and might contact them, but I'm not really interested in paying a broker fee unless they could get a premium price.
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by throwawayValue 11y ago
It took a few years of working on it evenings & weekends while I had a 9-5. During that time I always thought of my salary as VC money.
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by throwawayValue 11y ago
Business was created prior to 2013 and apart from a few tweaks here & there, it's pretty much on auto-pilot.
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24 points by throwawayValue 11y ago|39 comments