Let’s talk about the 800 pound gorilla in the room, the one that you never want to address the one that deals with you not being happy with your job. If you are like most people then you already know deep down that you absolutely hate your job. The constant annoyance of your boss standing over your shoulder. Well I am here to give you good news, I am here to tell you that you can quit that 9 to 5 job and go to work for yourself. How is this possible, well I will tell you all you have to do is go into the business of buying and selling websites and within no time you will be making a comfortable living.

Now I know what you are thinking, you’re thinking that this is just a pipe dream and that no real money can be made doing this. That is where you are wrong, you can make money and no it is not a great dream. The truth of the matter is this the internet is becoming more part of our lives and if you don’t act on the trend someone else will. Despite many startup businesses there are no real cost involved, all you really need is just a small amount of money to buy your first site.

The first step is to locate a website that you can setup for resale. You have a couple of options: 1) purchase a domain name, build a website yourself, and get it hosted; or 2) locate an already-established website that you can buy fro is owner. If you choose the latter option, you might want t look at Site Snipe, which is a service that provide you information on all of the niche domains that are currently available for purchase. For example, you may want to try to market and sell a site centered on stock-car driving Labradors. You simply consult Site Snipe and it provides you with leads on every website for sale that meets that description. While you may later discover better methods for locating prime web real estate, you should seriously consider using this type of service during the initial stages of your website reselling efforts

OK now you are in the saddle as you have decided as to what your niche will be and you have found a site that is all about dancing poodles, you have shown interest with the site owner that you want to buy the site. Wait though before you go and just drop your money on this site you will need to know somethings about this little spot of internet heaven that the site is taking up. You will need to know what is it’s SEO potential and it’s page rank on sites as Google and Yahoo. If the site is a dud then you will not want to buy a site that has not received and probably will not receive any real traffic. The whole purpose of this site is to have a site that will sow to future buyers that it has earning potential.

Because of that, part of your research will entail getting the necessary information and documentation on the website’s traffic patterns. Most owners should be able to provide you with that information, but if not you will have to resort to doing your own keyword searches. You can accomplish such a search by determining how high the site appears in the Google rankings. Even if the owner provides the documents and statistics you request, you should still test the site yourself to ensure that the information is accurate.

Now you have bought the site and you now own it outright. Now comes the time to design the site in a way that will make it pleasing to a potential buyer. Now I know you are sitting there and saying that you have no knowledge when it comes to programming and site design. That’s ok you don’t need to remember all the code in the world to have a good looking site. All you need is a little imagination and the desire to take your ideas and apply them to your site. There are several ways that you can design a great looking website and not have to be web savvy in order to make it happen.

Now we have acquired a name, designed a site now comes for the cherry on the sundae finding a host that you can host your site on. This is the easiest step out there as there are several upon several hosting companies out there that offer hosting plans that fit every need and every budget. Everything from free hosting, to moderately priced hosting. In my personal opinion I would go with a hosting company that offers you a good deal on hosting with the option to have several sites hosted at once, after all this is your new found career. If you are going to do this then you will need and want to do it the right way otherwise you will wind up failing and end up with that dead end job that you hate or even one that is worse in the long run.

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