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Strategic Buyers: These are often individuals or companies that operate as competitors, customers or suppliers to your business or within the larger marketplace. Their goal is to strategically integrate your business into theirs to achieve their goals, among them: increased scale, growth, efficiency, or to adopt proprietary or unique processes or technologies you may employ. …
So you’ve invested your hard-earned money, time and know-how into building a successful online business. Now it’s time to sell an online business, and reap the rewards of all that hard work. The question is, where do you start? Though the world of online businesses can seem two-dimensional compared to a traditional brick-and-mortar operation, the…
Often, owners have so much equity tied up in their business - financial, emotional, intellectual - that they never even consider the thought of one day selling it. It’s their baby. While selling your business may not be on your radar right now, the fact of the matter is that it should be. Keeping the…
What’s Unique about Online Businesses? On the surface, online businesses seem very different from traditional "brick and mortar" businesses. However, at Website Properties, we believe they’re actually very similar. Most of the considerations that apply to conventional, offline businesses also apply to online businesses, although there are a few additional steps that aspiring business owners…
Website Properties has become synonymous with successful website sales, excellent closure rates, and accurate financial valuations. Now your website brokerage can be part of that. Our co-broker program allows you, the website broker, to use our groundbreaking platform and industry-best tools to sell your clients’ websites. Small Business Sales Today While the numbers for 2019…
You have done some due diligence and decided that it may be a good time to sell your online business. Several paths can be taken when you decide to list your website for sale. You’ve decided that the services of a website broker may be advantageous in your situation. Even though you are considering a…
For many entrepreneurs, the end game in building their e-commerce website is the eventual sale of the business. It starts with a product idea or maybe an affinity for a marketplace platform like Amazon.com, it grows into a profitable online business through finesse and hard work and ultimately ends up leading to the question “how…
Bitcoin: Then and Now Bitcoin, both the currency and its underlying blockchain technology, gained significant credibility as an accepted form of payment in 2017. The currency's value skyrocketed, rising from $1,000 per coin in January to a high of $18,000 by mid-December. More recently, Bitcoin reached a peak just shy of $69,000 before declining. This…
These days almost every ecommerce business derives some portion of its revenues from an Amazon.com sales channel. In fact, over the past 5 years it has become very common for clients to approach our website brokerage firm wishing to sell their online business that operates exclusively on the Amazon platform. Understanding a little bit about…
There is no one key that unlocks the door to success for business owners. Instead, operating a successful business often requires getting a number of fundamentals correct. Below are some tips specific to running an internet business that does not guarantee a victory, but when executed properly can go a long way on the road…
