sale

another day at the office…

When i woke up yesterday urldwarf.com didn’t exist - the name, the logo, the script, the design… nothing.

Less than 12 hours later i’m receiving a $110 BIN bid for it

It took 180 minutes to complete, cost $16 in promotion and domain expenses, so all in all it means i earned $34.67 for each of those 3 hours i spent working on it

The sale comes off the back of a $100 imagehostme.com sale and a $140 sawurl.com sale both last week.

This thing started out as a ‘challenge‘ but it’s in danger of turning in to a war. Me -v- Me. How much can i make? how quickly can i make it? Can i beat last weeks income? can i set a new monthly record income?

I’m now at a stage where i can quite obviously make money creating websites if i try… that’s very comforting for me, especially at a time where i’m at my most stretched financially (with all my cash tied up in online projects - the vast majority in BeerChief).

Re-investment is key and as you seen last week with my .me buys - i’m ALWAYS looking to the future. So despite all these sales, i don’t really think of the money - i try to get rid of it ASAP before i spend it offline on stupid things. By ‘get rid’ of it of course i mean invest it wisely

It’s taken 2 years and a lot of work and learning, but i can finally say that i can now easily create a site from scratch sell it for a price that’s well worth my while.

Not only that, but i can do it in style - although nothing sensational, my logos and site designs recently have been very web 2.0 and very stylish and it’s really noticeable when my sites go head to head with similar sites up for auction.

I know for a fact these sales of mine are gonna spur some of you readers on a bit and make you say, “well if he can do it…” - but it’s not as easy as that. First of all it DOES take money despite what people will tell you. For example, i had to spend $16 on urldwarf.com before i got anything - no guaranteed i’d EVER get that $16 back - i had to be prepared to lose it.

Although it’s small money, you also have to be prepared to lose your time and morale if it doesn’t sell. So despite the easy picture i might be painting, it’s not all fun and games and you need patience, confidence and skill, plus *some* money

Anyway, bigger and better site to come and i’ll roll another one out today - don’t know what it will yet

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SawUrl up for sale

Another day, another site up for sale.

This time it’s sawurl.com and it’s on sitepoint

I’ve set a BIN of $140 on this one. Mainly due to the fact i’m actually pretty reluctant to sell it. I toyed with the idea of hanging on to it. The domain name, i feel, is excellent. The script is also pretty smooth and AJAXy and the whole site is just so simple and clean…

So if this one doesn’t sell i won’t be too disappointed. If it sells for the BIN, i will of course be delighted as it’ll be more cash in the bank and will beef up my 3 sites a week / minimum wage project.

But domains like this are getting harder and harder to come by. 6 characters dot com, relevant, easy to remember… 10 years down the line i may regret selling these hot domain!

Hot off the production line

I’ve spoken about stupiddrivers.net before…

Now it’s complete, as part of my ‘3 sites a week challenge’. Here’s a break down of the time it took;

• Logo - 20 minutes (did it a few weeks ago)
• Theme - 2 hours
• Content - 20 minutes
• Installation/Set up - 20 minutes.

So this one took about 3 hours from start to finish - not bad… if it sells for over $40 it’s job done

It’ll be going up for sale later, BIN of around $90. This domain also has a pagerank of 2 for some unknown reason, so i’d imagine i’ll have no problem selling this one.