By Dom Wells
It’s essential to learn due diligence if you want to get better at buying online businesses. We improve our own skills every time we look at a site, and we’re still learning. This doesn’t mean that you’ll never be capable …
By Dom Wells
With the current turbulence in the traditional markets, it makes sense to consider what might happen to the website investing space if (when) a recession comes. This is something I’ve been considering since early 2019, and while I don’t have …
By Dom Wells
In days gone by, you only had to fear a Google update if you were doing something overtly wrong, like over-optimizing your content, performing questionable link building tactics, or being otherwise spammy. If you played by their rules, you were …
By Dom Wells
December is always a time for looking forward to the new year, and looking back to the year gone by. What better way to do the latter, than by brain-dumping everything we’ve learned from buying sites throughout 2019? If you’ve …
By Dom Wells
Many people call websites “Digital Real Estate”. To some, this may just be a clever name or witty reference to a website as an online “home”, or a domain name as a tradeable asset. To others, the reference is a …
By Dom Wells
This is a follow up to our previous post about maximising returns while reducing risks. Let’s call it part 2 of our “Having cake and eating it” series. Just like reducing risk while maximising returns may seem a pipedream, reducing …
By Dom Wells
Conventional wisdom suggests that you can’t have your cake and eat it too. In the investing world, you need to either choose high returns, or low risk. If you could find a method that allowed you to have both, everybody …
By Dom Wells
One of the questions we get the most from potential investors, is whether larger sites have less opportunity for growth than smaller sites. For example, right now we are in discussions with our investor list about pooling funds together in …
By Dom Wells
It’s a big challenge learning to run one successful website. It’s even more of a challenge when it comes time to consider expanding your portfolio. You’ll eventually reach a point where you know you need to hire. This comes with …
By Dom Wells
Right now, it is very much a seller’s market in the content site space. Demand for quality sites is so high that many sites sell within 24 hours of being listed at brokerages. This means that a lot of the …