The Dangers of Multiple Brokers

Categories: Buying Web-based Businesses, Marketplaces and Brokers

by Justin Gilchrist, Q4 2014

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Two months ago I published the Centurica Website Buyer’s Report, containing guide prices and example listings for several categories of internet businesses listed over the previous 12 months.

It was mostly met with praise, but this broker didn’t quite agree on the grounds that the figures ‘lacked advanced metrics’ and caused ‘stronger businesses not to enter the market’. Naturally, I set out to prove him wrong. Guess what happened next?

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The golden rule of buying a solid internet business – with Justin Bieber

Categories: Buying Web-based Businesses

by Justin Gilchrist, Q4 2014

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In the year’s strangest twist so far, Justin Bieber is at the centre of a scandal that teaches us one of the most valuable rules of buying an internet business – never make an investment into a site that so heavily relies on organic traffic, or things could go very very wrong.

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Killing Flippa Three Years On

Categories: Marketplaces and Brokers

by Justin Gilchrist, Q4 2014

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Three years ago, Flippa completely dominated the industry for buying and selling sub $200K sites. I wrote an article back then that looked at what a company would need to do to be a serious threat to the then market leader.

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