If you don’t mind telling me, how did you determined this site value is $250?

@ Donnie congrats on getting your site up for sale. Let me know how things went.

@ Lynn by template Dreamstime are referring to one design that you would sell multiple copies of. For example I gave away two free themes to hundreds of people recently and that is considered a template. (I didn’t use licensed images. )

For a theme/site that you will be selling only one copy of you have the right to use images purchased under the royalty free license. You then have the right to use that same image in another way in another website, print material etc as outlined in their royalty free license terms.

Let’s say you purchased an image of a dog and use it in a header design. You cannot sell that header in multiple copies without purchasing the extended web license (usually costs $50 per image.) What you can do is sell that header once. You can then use the same dog image in let’s say a post, ebook cover or anything you can think of pretty much…so long as you don’t use it as a ‘design once – sell hundreds of copies of the exact same thing over and over.’

I hope that helps clear things up. If you are making ‘unique’ designs each time you can simply purchase under the royalty free license.

You’ve asked a great question.

I tend to ‘over deliver’ on as many aspects as I can when I build a site to sell so if I can quickly pull together a unique design then I will. It gives me another thing to highlight to potential buyers.

Do I expect to get a higher sale price? No not necessarily…what I’m aiming for though is a way to increase the chances of the site selling.

Some regular buyers are so tired of seeing the same old themes therefore a unique one might help with the appeal factor.

The other concern some buyers have is whether the ‘free’ theme on the sites is being sold legitimately. Not many buyers are concerned about this but again, I like to cover off as many bases as I can.

I find Artisteer a breeze to use and I’m proud to offer buyers something unique too. But don’t agonise over your theme design if it’s going to stall your progress. Just grab a free theme that you know is allowed to be resold and go for it.

If you have any further questions feel free to post them here.

A few others are an autoresponder account via AWeber or GetResponse, content/article writing for the site if applicable, marketing services, general coaching on how to take the site forward and of course custom orders for similar sites. There really is a very long list of opportunities only limited by the imagination.

I don’t personally offer all those or actively seek them out but they are a few that can really boost the profit per site sale.

@ lothar I work well if I have a sequence to work from so to write this ebook in one hour was quite easy but I also had a reasonable amount of knowledge about Twitter already. Also there were many images in the book as it really was about signing up to various programs and showing the reader how things ‘worked’.

As far as the graphics for all those things you mentioned, I did them myself. It can take quite a bit of learning to get graphics to a standard where they don’t scream amateur but my work is still a far cry from expert. I believe anyone can learn it to a point, obviously graphics that are mind blowing are in my opinion created by the very very talented artists.

You can find many new designers who are building their portfolio so will happily make graphics quite cheap. You can put a job up at Elance.com and even find designers at the Warrior Forum.com to name a few.

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.

You mention back end sales.

I also flip sites and love it. There is plenty of room for us all in flipping sites.

But I’m interested in the backend. What type of products would you offer in backend sales ?

Thanks
Robert

In terms of income, the general rule that is repeated constantly is that sites will fetch somewhere between 10 to 12 times monthly income. This is true to an extent but I’ve seen sites with little to no income sell for quite a few thousand dollars.

As I always say, it’s not an exact science but nothing much is, is it.

Thanks for your question.