The Minisite Flipping Business Plan

Many people read these Make Money Online Blogs looking for tips or ideas on how to make money online.

Personally I read them just find like minded people's stories. This post might be considered juicy if you are struggling to make any money online but would like one idea.

The following is a way I think someone could make some money online that could provide a nice little income for someone living in a country with with a lower priced currency. When i say lower income I'm talking maybe $600-$1000US per month.

There can be many variations of this basic idea.

The Basic Idea Of Flipping Minisites

Ever day there are dozens of people that buy websites, many of them very small sites with only a few pages. For instance visit this webmaster forum and look around.

I'm suggesting that you build a minisite, with a cost of $7 and your time, hold onto the site for 90 days until it matures, gets pagerank, and gets a few visitors, and then sell it for a profit.

How Much profit? How Often?

$20-$30 profit per site seems realistic to me. You should receive this from the sale of a site every day.

Simply start building a minisite every day. The first 90 days you won't make a nickel.

However every day after 90 days you should have a domain that has come of age and is ready for selling. And since you started building one minisite per day, you will now have one minisite to sell every day.

Of course, you need to always build one minisite per day, but after you create a system you might be able to do all of them on a Sunday or one day of the week for instance.

Why 90 days?

This is just a guess at a rough guide that the site would have time to gain pagerank, some alexa rank, get a few visitors, and maybe make a sale or two (if you are lucky).

What should the site look like?

That's up to you! Creating a half dozen pages of unique content might be the most time consuming (but create the most value) or you might want to pull an ebay rss feed for your pages or a news feed or whatever you can think of.

The main goal will be doing some promotion to make sure you get in google's index and also gain some pagerank.

Promotions

It doesn't take much to get a minisite indexed. A few backlinks should do it.

Even without the site making a nickel in 90 days it will still be valuable because the site is established. People will pay a premium to buy an established domain instead of starting from scratch.

Of course if the site shows income at the end of 90 days you can charge even higher for it or keep it yourself ;)

I've Tried It A Few Times

I've built and sold about a dozen minisites over the years. Usually I would sell them for $25 to $50 after investing only $7 in the domain.

This wasn't waiting either, it was buying it and selling it almost within 24 hours. However if I were to do it seriously I think it would be much easier to make a profit if the sites had some pagerank and a trickle of traffic already.

That's it. Take the idea and spin it around to work for yourself. It won't make you rich but is a concrete way to make a small internet income, or at least get the wheels spinning.

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