Stats Show That Startups Are Still Selling Within The Website Flipping Niche

If you are part of the website flipping community

, then you most likely know that there is a divided opinion on how successful startup websites are. In case you are new to website flipping, the word "startups" is meant to define newly-built websites that earn close to nothing and have little or no traffic at all.

One group believes that startups are slowly dying and have no place in the market. Before, startups were a big hit with flippers, and were selling like hotcakes, but the circumstances are different now.

On the other side, some internet marketers claim that building startups and then selling them is still a strong method to earning a living online. They say, more than a few people have found financial stability just by creating and designing websites.

So, the only way to establish which side is right is by getting the facts. Here is some statistics from Flippa.com. Again, if you're a newbie to the website flipping niche, Flippa.com is the most widely-used and largest place in the flipping market to do business.

The following are figures on websites which had zero revenue and no traffic and were listed in November 2009 until the present.

There have been 5,260 websites listed since November 2009 and of this number, 3,426 got sold off. Percentage-wise, this means about 65% of the sites were sold. Not bad taking into account that Flippa's total sales is only about 55%.

It was simple enough to compute for the the percentage, but in order to get the exact median and average price, an elaborate cut and paste process of the websites' figures would have had to be performed. So to get a result more quickly, 800 sample sales data was used and here is the outcome: the average price of a startup website over the 7-month time period is $130 and the median price is $100. Many of the sales were between $100 and $200.

For the course of this study it was noted that it is even possible to earn greater than a couple of hundred bucks from a startup website. For example, a ClickBank ready site, eMillionaireBluePrint.com, sold for $1,800. Other big-ticket sales include AttorneyGuideSite.com and PhoenixForexCode.com which sold for $1,997 and $2,900 respectively.

At the low end of the spectrum, some websites slumped at lower prices than what Flippa charges for a listing, with some even dropping to $1 apiece!

So after taking a closer look at the statistics behind startup websites, it is apparent that buying them isn't as popular as it was before, but the business still has promise and shouldn't be left in the dust.

by: Travis Van Slooten.

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