Private Site Sales With Affiliates

The last strategy that I want to talk to you about can be one of the easiest ways to sell your sites, although it may actually be the least profitable. However, if you need to sell a site fast, don't have the time to do it yourself, or need help with the whole process, then this may actually be the best way to go.

The idea behind this strategy is simple: just contact an Amazon product developer to sell your site for you. You may actually be able to get a complete service from it so all you have to do is collect the paycheck.

Think about these different aspects of selling a site to consider whether this option would work best for you. Can you do the following?

1. Collect information needed to sell a site

2. Write some type of sales letter/page/information to attract interest

3. Find potential site buyers

4. Transfer a website to a new hosting account

5. Transfer domain name DNS

6. Transfer domain name ownership

7. Transfer ownership of additional properties included in the sale

8. Potentially provide short-term guidance/support for the new owner

If you cannot do all of these things, you may want to consider this option and go for someone that can do all of these things for you and find a buyer for your site for a single price.

Personally, I would be willing to do something like this for anyone that has gone through this course. Just submit a support ticket to me to talk more: http://ryanstevensonplugins.com/support/

As long as the person selling the site is going to collect at least a few hundred dollars from a sale, they would likely be willing to devote at least one promotion email to it. For additional services like handling the sale for you, transferring the website itself to the new owner, etc, you would likely need to go up a bit higher.

For a site that would sell for $1,500, paying a third to the affiliate is reasonable, although there will be a lot that will simply want 50% just for sending an email to sell it.

The main thing to consider is what you benefit from the deal and also whether it is worth it to the Amazon developer to promote it. Even someone with an average newsletter size like mine can make $500+ from a single email, so a site sale that would only pay $100 would really not be very worthwhile for myself or other Amazon developers (go for Flippa for cheaper sites).

Getting paid from a deal like this could potentially be tricky, especially if you do not necessarily know or trust the person who is selling the site for you. You have to consider whether you will be accepting the payment from the buyer and paying the seller their commission or the other way around. Then, you also have to consider what will happen if the buyer decided to file a chargeback or dispute on the purchase.

One option to avoid payment issues is to use an affiliate network for the sale. This will eat up more of the profits in fees, but it can be worth the peace of mind.

For an affiliate network, I would recommend JVZoo for this purpose. You could set up a listing for your site and simply not have it shown in the live marketplace. In fact, you could probably just get the Amazon developer to handle this part of it for you, since they would likely already have an account there and be familiar with how to create a listing. You could then just be the “affiliate” and have the developer promote with your link.