Jul
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July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
It stumps me as to how people come up with the guts to post some of the sites I see for sale, and even more so all the information (read BS) they provide to explain away what appears as a scam. The scam being a site that is sold under false pretense, most popular is […]
May
16
May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment
You’ve gotta love this. A person selling a website states revenue and traffic data, and it looks pretty good. Turns out that if you don’t read everything carefully, you might miss the fact that the data pertains to a different site with similar characteristics. You see these kind of shananagins (sp?) all the time. “Another […]
May
6
In an earlier post I was talking about some results from recently purchased websites. A video game related website that I bought came in at $34.44 it’s first month (March). The previous owner claimed about $38/month in revenue…all from adsense.
Apr
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April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment
It goes without saying that you should have a concern if a website seller seems reluctant to provide any information required for due diligence. Some website buyers may not take this seriously.
Apr
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April 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment
One of my undergrad finance professors was discussing methods of analyzing corporate financial statements when he summarized one technique as spotting “the funny looking kid” in the crowd. Sometimes when looking at data, you may not know exactly what may be wrong, if anything, but you have to dig somewhere.
