Comments on: Blogsavvy up for Sale – an Interesting Opportunity

By: BlogSavvy

BlogSavvy — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:54:39 +0000

Darren, I’m proud to say that the New BlogSavvy site is up and running, check it out! Christoph

By: Bob Brancato

Bob Brancato — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:53:19 +0000

He’s the income producer, not the site. It’s worth the price of the domain name. No more, no less.

By: Mr.Gadget Australia

Mr.Gadget Australia — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:05:24 +0000

All the best with your sale James Farmer!

By: John Rocheleau

John Rocheleau — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:25:16 +0000

I’m a little confused with the Alexa rank on that site also.

It is 1,248,402. Maybe I don’t understand Alexa ranking as it relates to traffic, but my art portfolio site (linked to my name above) has a rank of 902,909. it was below 800,000 a while back. I get about 600 unique visitors per month. How can a site ranked at 1,248,402 get 3500. I also use AwStats as James does, so it apples to apples–or isn’t it?

Just curious,
John

By: Sangeeta Sinha

Sangeeta Sinha — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:21:51 +0000

An amateur publisher like me cannot even think about it. But, I am sure lot of bidding will be going on.

By: Scott Y.

Scott Y. — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:12:48 +0000

I don’t get it. $2,000 per month is NOT passive income! It is like buying a consultancy firm without their gun consultant, i.e. $10,000 just to buy the brand (and a relatively low traffic website). Unless you are Deloitte or EY, do people come to seek consultancy these days because of the brand or because of the person?

By: James Farmer

James Farmer — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:06:43 +0000

I’m selling it because I make a lot more money from http://incsub.com and http://edublogs.org :)

By: Contact Management Blog

Contact Management Blog — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:08:43 +0000

Interesting link, Darren.

I, too, agree with Opi about the Alexa rank. It’s going to be difficult to locate an interested buyer who has the time to offer blog consulting services as well.

It’s a tiny niche business since most bloggers cannot afford any decent hourly consultant wages.

But I’ll keep an eye on it. Looks interesting enough!

By: Nick's Traffic Tricks

Nick's Traffic Tricks — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:27:25 +0000

I looked up blog consulting on WordTracker and very few people seem to search for that term.

http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/gtrends/?seed=blog+consulting&adult_filter=remove_offensive&suggest=Hit+Me

#3 on Google is nice but if no one searches for it then it’s not worth much…

By: Hector Henry

Hector Henry — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:15:37 +0000

Funny for me.

My question its , why he will sell it?

To have a blog that earns so much money its a dream for some blogger but my question its why you sell a blog that apparently its really good in money erning.

By: Manish

Manish — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:46:48 +0000

Probably someone who buys it can earn through consultancy and can also start putting advertisements on the blog.

By: Opi

Opi — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:16:33 +0000

Hmm.. am I missing something here?

The Alexa rank is 1,258,000

It is top 3 in search for “blog consulting” but according to Google there aren’t that many people searching for that term.

Is PR alone really commanding such a premium?

By: James Farmer

James Farmer — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:56:57 +0000

Good question guys… basically the new business http://incsub.com brings in more business that we can manage at the moment and I cant be bothered to subcontract extra work / smaller jobs that come through this. So the $2k could be way way more (if I followed everything up) but in the end is just an average of the few jobs I’ve accepted through the site).

And then there’s the small matter of http://edublogs.org which keeps me pretty busy too :)

Whoever buys it is welcome to the archives as well.

By: Warren of Zen Problog

Warren of Zen Problog — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:46:25 +0000

Here’s a logical question: if it is bringing him in around $2k a month, then why is he so eager to sell it—even having a buy now option that would be equal to his earnings in 5 months?

By: Jordan

Jordan — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:30:57 +0000

I’m a big confused by the second response here . . . You do know that savvy is a real word that’s spelled with two v’s, right? Or did we miss the entire Pirates of the Caribbean craze? Somehow deliberately misspelling the name of your blog for supposed “domain strength” just doesn’t seem . . . savvy….

By: Money Never Sleeps

Money Never Sleeps — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:50:16 +0000

very interesting…I think that this blog would sell better on Ebay!

By: Travis Miles

Travis Miles — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:44:36 +0000

So if he is earning $2,000 per month through the site $10,000 is a great price for someone to buy it at. It might in fact be a little bit low. Almost anyone could afford to buy it, in terms that they would probably have to borrow the money, although I am not sure how one goes about borrowing $10,000 for a website. It will be interesting to see how much it sells for.

By: etavitom

etavitom — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:01:18 +0000

good value for someone who knows how to leverage the name…

By: autodope

autodope — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:58:45 +0000

This might be a deal if you can get it cheap on auction but the buy it now price has you paying about $10 per user / per month, if the Compete stats are to be believed:

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/blogsavvy.net/?metric=uv

By: Samantha

Samantha — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:41:51 +0000

This sounded interesting at first, but his numbers on Compete don’t look that impressive. It would be one thing if he had thousands of visitors per month, but he’s only got something like 400+/-. I know, I know…with a little work and time and effort it could go up in the coming weeks and months…