Seller’s Description

With the unemployment rate in the U.S. still hovering around 10% and many individuals seeking information on home based work, the market for paid survey information is very strong in a weak and recovery economy. In alignment with this trend, this group of paid survey information membership sites and newsletter database business is proving wildly successful. With profits up over 4x in 2010 from 2009, the business is experiencing explosive growth! Members pay a onetime fee to access links and information on earning money with paid surveys from home. The business earns money from membership sales as well as redirecting members to survey companies. The survey companies pay for new leads. The business model allows for high ticket direct sales to the consumer as well as lower ticket lead sales to marketing companies. One of the online business's is currently being developed into a site with viral & social networking features and will have aspects that allow it to grow organically on Facebook. This set of websites can be operated from anywhere and is an ideal home business. The owner spends about 8-10 hours per week providing email support, monitoring the site's hosting and running weekly promotions. There is no inventory to handle as all offerings are accessed online upon receipt of payment. Sale includes a database of the world's leading marketing research companies, mystery shopping and focus group companies. Most of them pay the seller for leads. Although the database contains information of survey companies worldwide, the site is positioned for US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand mainly. During this time, the websites have amassed a customer database of about 6,000 paying members and a Newsletter subscriber list of around 75,000. 67,000 of those subscribers joined after September 2009. They keep coming at a rate of about 1000 a day. The websites use the Click Bank network to market their products and process payments. This system greatly simplifies operating the e-commerce side of the business by providing merchant account/credit card processing and comes equipped with its own network of e-product affiliates ready to market and sell the product. In addition to ClickBank lost sales are captured with TrialPay and Plimus. This is a great opportunity to purchase a set of websites in a growing industry that requires little time to operate and is experiencing tremendous growth as a business with much on the horizon to continue this trend!

Competition

In addition to a member area that is large and rich in content, its products are competitively priced allowing this group of sites to continue to grow amidst any industry competition. By offering bonus gifts to their own pay sites, the owners can grow their email database which can be further monetized as leads.

Growth and Expansion

With a solid foundation in place, the group of sites included can maintain profits on a nearly auto pilot basis. There are enough new products in the pipeline to ensure future growth. There are tremendous opportunities for growth in the pay per lead field, co-registration opportunities and in monetizing the company's huge developing world traffic (Indonesia, India, China). This group of sites still has plenty of potential and room for growth. Some other ideas to continue its growth trend include: signing up with additional networks, increasing link popularity and further SEO work.