My $100 Investment to $400

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  1. Guest

    Guest Guest

    So today I made $400 on the :computer:. and I thought I would tell you all how I did it because heck, sometimes I think it's important for me to spill the beans (trust me.. I was actually planning to do an e-book, but I don't have the time, nor the patience to write a long e-book today)..


    So anyway..

    1. I bought a forum with about 4k posts, on DigitalPoint (a marketplace like the one we have here at GF) with a partner for $200.
    2. We held onto the forum, without doing much work (I posted maybe 50 times)..
    3. We went to Flippa.com, Yesterday, listed it with a BIN of $850. Within 12 hours, it was binned.

    Obviously after fees, and my partners cut I made $400..

    Just goes to show you, how your ONLINE investments can turn for the better.

    Caleb
     
  2. Bundy

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    What kind of forum? How long did you own it? How much traffic was it getting?
     
  3. Guest

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    3 Months.. I think.

    Traffic? 30-40 a day I think.
     
  4. Bundy

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    30-40 members a day? Or visits? And what kind of forum?
     
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    Visitors. Graphic Design (powered by vB)
     
  6. Bundy

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    Damn $850 for that?

    I could sell my forum then for like $3k haha
     
  7. Guest

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    Yeah Kev,

    Pretty Much. As long as its well advertised on Flippa you can kill it :D
     
  8. Bundy

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    Sell it for $3k for me and I will give you $300 lol
     
  9. Guest

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    I'd sell it for you , for 1k. if it sold for 3k. Not fair? obviously.. it's because Flippa is so easy to use :D
     
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    I'ma try it some point ;)
     
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    I'll post a video later about how to use flippa :D
     
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    Ah, my old explosivegfx.com? Good job :)
     
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    I'm glad the site is still alive, I don't agree with the tactics some of the owners have used. The old skin was much much better, the vB4 update killed the site, I hate the way they ALL forced emails, (I have it set to off, and I received Calebs, Dans, and this new guys emails.. twice.) But at the end of the day, I'm happy that it's all good. I bought that site when it was a spambot haven with around 500 posts, I built it up and made a good profit. It appears you've made even more of a profit ;)
     
  15. Guest

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    Mikey.. You have no idea how much it killed the site. He didn't even do the update right, so when I took over, passwords broke, and nobody could login. It was in shambles, I had to hire someone to repair it.

    Sorry about the newsletters, I'm not into vB as much as you, so I didn't know how to fix that :P...

    Anyway, yeah it was a nice profit, I did have a partner in it so yeah :)

    Hopefully this guy means it when he's taking it over for good, but he's now sent me 2 e-mails and its getting annoying :P
     

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