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To Flip or Not to Flip?

By Jennifer Mattern on 24th December, 2008Filed in Making Money

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Uh oh. I’m facing a slight dilemma. I’ve started preparing my quick flip sites to be sold. They all have their new themes, and this evening I started adding content and ads to one of them, dealing with free online courses.

That’s what I’m supposed to be doing, right? So what’s the problem?

The problem is that I’m falling in love with the site.  It’s not the theme, domain, or any of that. It’s the niche.

I’m a total education junkie. I love to learn new things. This site is about free online courses you can take, and I set it up to cover a pretty broad range of subjects. I believe I’ve added about 7 courses / posts so far.

I think I’m getting sucked into it, because doing the digging for the posts is allowing me to find courses that I’d love to take myself (telling the site site really has the potential to be useful).

Right now, they’re just course descriptions. Before I sell it, I’m thinking I’d like to actually take a few courses and do reviews in the posts as well.

I’m pretty sure I’ll still be able to bring myself to part with it when the time comes (because I have a better domain with a stale directory on it that could be used for a similar type of site). I’m just not sure how “quick” of a quick flip this one’s going to be. I have a feeling I’ll add at least one course for each subject in the categories, and maybe a few others set to post in the future (so the site is “automatic” for the new buyer when they first get it setup on their server).

If you’re going to follow the quick flip on any of the sites I listed in my earlier post here, don’t let it be this one.  I’ll probably do my first real quick flip either on the blog about green living or saving money tips. After Christmas I’ll get some initial content up on them and then do a general “quick flip plan” kind of post running down the process.

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About the Author: Jennifer Mattern

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Jenn Mattern is a professional blogger and freelance business writer. She owns All Freelance Writing as well as several other sites and blogs covering PR, small business, and related topic areas. She is also currently writing a nonfiction book for freelance writers called The Query-Free Freelancer, and is the author of the Web Writer's Guide e-book series.

6 Responses to “To Flip or Not to Flip?”

  1. Samar

I fell in love with it too! How to prepare a business plan with SBA sounds very interesting. So does the marketing one. Thanks so much for the link! I love taking classes (I’m weird that way) and courses etc so this seems like a godsend!

Personally, I hope you keep it for a while and find more gems before selling it.

  • Jennifer Mattern

    • I think it’ll be the last one I sell if I do sell it. I’ve decided to at least hold onto it to see if it monetizes or not (meaning it’ll be a slow flip instead of a quick flip if I sell it at all).

    I know where to find hundreds more where those courses came from (from top schools to government and business organizations), so there’s no shortage of things to be added – put up a few more courses today.

  • Peter Sullivan

    • In the dog-rehoming forum I’m involved in, there is an expression “failed fosterer,” i.e. someone who takes a rescue dog on a temporary basis, but who “fails” and ends up adopting it permanently instead. Are you in danger of becoming a “failed flipper”? {grin}

  • Jennifer Mattern

    lol Yeah, definitely in danger. The key will be whether it monetizes or not. If it starts to earn enough to justify spending the time on it, I will. If not, the novelty will wear off quickly, and I’ll sell it off without a problem.

  • Flipping Easy

    Yeah, I’m having a bit of an internal debate myself about whether to sell one of the sites I have slated to hit the auction block. If it’s just the niche you like I would say sell it and you can always jump back in it with another site as you mentioned. However, if you have a great domain name along with a love for the niche or the site’s content it becomes a much tougher decision.

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