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How to Sell a Blog for a 6-Figure Profit Without Leaving Money on the Table
How Much Value Does Your Blog Bring to the Buyer?
What Do You Need to Sell a Blog?
You can sell your blog online at the following locations:
Motion Invest: Another good option for selling your blog through a broker.
How to Make Money from a Blog Sale
The concept of launching a blog with the hope of generating enough income to leave your regular job may seem like an overly optimistic fantasy; nonetheless, it is indeed achievable.
Online assets are emerging as the next frontier in the global workforce, according to many aspirant entrepreneurs. Writing content is often a stepping stone for those getting started in the space, and blogging has quickly become a great source of side income for those who jumped on this opportunity early on.
If you've been blogging for a while and have begun to consistently earn money from affiliate links or clicks on display ads, you may be wondering what to do next. According to numerous sellers we have interacted with, you typically reach a plateau in your capacity to scale the business at some point. You may also feel a loss of interest in the subject you’re blogging about, as many sellers have told us.
In this instance, the best course of action would be to hand the reins over to someone who possesses the capital and drive to expand the company beyond what you are capable of or desire.
Often, blog owners who’ve been growing their audience for several years eventually hit cruise-control mode, in which things seem to run on autopilot. Those of you who might be using your blog as a steady cash cow to keep semi-passive income streaming into your bank account monthly might wonder:
Why sell it in the first place?
We hear from a lot of blog owners who want to sell their business for a big gain that they have a combination of life events like buying a house or expecting a child and looking for other opportunities in bigger acquisitions. Before we break down how to sell your blog, we should cover the time frame you can expect it to take to receive a six-figure offer on your content-based business.
Timing
As a general guideline for the rest of this article, let’s assume you’ve been growing a blog for more than two years and have more than 100 blog posts. Based on data, we know that you need to be making about $3,000/month in average net profit for a 12-month period before you can justify a six-figure listing price.
The first question is, when is the right time to sell?
If you happen to be generating less than the 3k/month in net profit mentioned above, it can be incredibly difficult to “time the market” for when you should sell your blog. Because buyers often have their own characteristics regarding what, when, and why they acquire a new business, you may have difficulty finding a buyer willing to pay six figures or more for something that doesn’t meet their specific needs.
No matter what your blog is generating in net profits, after you’ve reached your own personal plateau in the blog’s growth, it’s always better to pass on the torch before the business collapses completely due to negligence.
How Your Blog Is Valued
A common formula people use is EBITDA × Your Multiple.
One of the most important parts to understanding how your blog is going to be valued and what it will ultimately be sold for is knowing what goes into creating your multiple.
Finding the right multiple for your content business involves a lot of work, perhaps more than this article can cover in depth. Here are just a few considerations besides net profit:
Age of the blog
Traffic diversity
Variation in revenue
Brand names and trademarks
Operational systems in place
Social media engagement
The multiple that your blog receives from the valuation tool ultimately depends on these factors and other details that are checked related to the blog’s current state and its relation to similar assets on the market.
A lot of these are based on common sense but also reflect the business’s growth trajectory. When you reach that plateau in growing your blog, you must put yourself in the shoes of a buyer and ask yourself why you would invest in growing this business further.
How Much Value Does Your Blog Bring to the Buyer?
Building on your business’s growth trajectory, you need to have a clear, detailed road map to success before buyers will even consider your blog at this price point. Also, if you’re looking to make a deal without the services of a broker, you need to prepare much further in advance.
A buyer who wants to buy your blog won't care about vanity metrics. Important factors are your traffic and revenue numbers, whether niche popularity is growing or declining, and how much work goes into the business.
These are all questions that you should have answers to, along with any additional information you feel sets your blog apart from any other content business these buyers may have their eyes on.
Who Will Buy Your Blog?
When it comes to growing and scaling a blog and, more specifically, a content business, your content itself is the asset. Not every buyer is looking for something that requires a huge amount of sweat equity, but neither is everyone looking for something optimized to the point that there’s no room to scale further.
Find a happy medium between plenty of room to scale and having high-quality content as a foundation for a buyer to build on. Doing so will move you toward making that six-figure exit much sooner.
How to Sell Your Blog
This section is for you if this is the first time you've thought about selling your blog and you want to know everything there is to know about it. Here are a few ways you can stand out from the rest to increase buyer interest in your blog and increase the multiple while doing so.
Act Like a Media Company
In order for your blog to catch the eye of those willing to shell out $100k+ for a content business, you need to have the right mindset. You need to think like a business owner who’s looking to sell a valuable asset, not a personal blogger who’s doing it just for fun. Your blog should run more like a media company than a personal blog, and having that mindset is key to reaching your goals.
When you shift from the personal blogger mindset to the content business owner mindset, you start treating your hobby turned business as a valuable asset that buyers are willing to pay serious money for.
Your blog might have started as something fun that you did in your spare time, but now it presents serious potential to content-site buyers as a real digital asset. If you haven’t already, you need to establish a voice that you become famous for among your target audience.
However, if at all possible, avoid being the “face” of the blog or content you provide, because being that face makes it much harder to sell to a potential buyer who knows that if you leave, the audience might also leave.
Get Your Documents in Order
As a business owner, this is one of the most crucial actions you can take, yet many online business owners neglect to do so. Having a detailed profit and loss (P&L) sheet for every expense and dollar made is important not only for you as the blog owner, but also for those seriously considering acquiring your business.
You should have clear details regarding the exact figures for all expenses, profits and losses by channel, and any other important business costs that were needed to get your blog to where it is today.
These important metrics will be used in all your future negotiations and any deal structuring that may come into effect should a buyer present that type of offer. Your analytics information can be analyzed using account access, but your P&L takes a more manual approach to track correctly. Any other documentation, including asset purchase agreements and trademark details, should be collected and ready to present to buyers well before any negotiations begin.
Have a Set of SOPs
If you haven’t yet created standard operating procedures (SOPs) for your blog, you’re holding yourself back from that six-figure exit down the road. Because of the nature of content sites in general, a set of SOPs is a huge value-add for those looking to acquire an established blog.
Having detailed instructions and step-by-step guides for each process that can be used to further scale the business is worth far more money to you than your cloud-storage fees.
When you lay out the entire process you’ve performed for your blog from start to finish, you give a potential buyer a more turn-key solution than a new business venture they’d need to learn from scratch.
Having the operational details in writing and easily accessible to outsourced virtual assistants (VAs) means that the buyer can focus on their core skill to scale the business, and their VAs can follow your procedures without needing to receive an in-depth demo from the blog’s new owner.
Three Paths to Selling a Blog
When selling a blog, you have three ways of getting there. I’ll be talking more in depth about each of these three paths in the guide.
The three paths you can take to selling a blog are the following:
Sell Your Existing Blog
If you already have an established blog that is earning money, you are in the perfect position to sell your blog!
Start A New Blog To Sell
Starting a new blog with the intention of monetizing it and then selling it is another option. This is what I have done with several blogs, and I was able to sell them in as little as six months after starting them.
Buy A Blog To Flip It
The final choice is to purchase an existing blog that is not monetized or under-monetized, increase its traffic and earnings, and then flip it for a profit. Like house flipping, but with a website!
Now let’s get into how to sell a blog using each of these three methods!
How Much Can Blogs Sell For?
Before I get into the process of actually selling your blog, let’s talk about the question that is probably on everyone’s mind right now.
And that is how much can you actually sell a blog for?
The answer is… like with everything… it depends!
But I know you want actual numbers. So, generally, you can sell a blog for anywhere from 24x to 48x its average monthly income. This is calculated by either taking an average of the income over the past six or twelve months.
Therefore, if your blog has been generating an average of $1,000 per month for the past year, you might be able to sell it for between $24,000 and $40,000. Various factors affect the multiple you can sell your blog for.
Some factors that warrant a higher multiple are the following:
The blog has very stable traffic/income
The blog's income and traffic are rising.
An email list is included in the sale
Social media accounts are included in the sale
Some “red flags” that could cause a lower multiple are:
The blog has extreme fluctuations in traffic/income
The blog has experienced a downward trend in traffic/income
Bad SEO practices have been used on the blog
The blog has experienced penalties from Google
So as you can see, many factors go into play when determining the price to list a blog for. Ultimately, how much you sell your blog for is up to you, but choosing a realistic multiple will help you actually get an offer and close the sale.
Now onto the three ways you can sell a blog…
Option One: Selling Your Existing Blog
Do you already have a blog that you’re thinking about selling?
Maybe you’re burnt out and you want to sell your blog to start a new venture instead. Or maybe you’ve just worked hard on your blog for several years, and you’re ready to “cash out” with a lucrative exit opportunity by selling.
If you already have a blog that is earning income, you can sell it now.
While it’s possible to sell a blog that isn’t earning money, it’s much harder, and you will most likely not get more than a few hundred dollars for it.
Better to get your blog monetized first so you can sell it for maximum profit!
One thing to consider when selling your blog is the timing of it.
For instance, if you typically see an increase in both traffic and revenue around the holidays, you might want to postpone selling your blog until right after that to ensure that you are working with the highest monthly average income possible.
The same goes for if your blog is currently experiencing an upward trend in income. You might want to hold onto it for a few more months to make sure that you can sell it for the highest multiple possible.
There is no perfect time to sell, though. At the end of the day, the “best” time to sell your blog is the time that feels right for you!
Read on to find out where to sell your blog.
Option Two: Starting a Blog to Sell
Starting a blog with the intention of later selling it is another great option.
I have now started several blogs with the express intention of selling them later. They were always temporary projects for me with an end goal.
The basic steps to starting a blog to sell that I always follow are:
Getting a domain name and web hosting. (I recommend Bluehost because it’s only $1.99 a month and you get your domain name for free.)
Identifying a profitable niche for the blog.
Installing a premium WordPress theme on the blog.
Writing 30-50 high-quality blog posts as quickly as possible.
Getting traffic through Pinterest and SEO.
Monetizing the blog with affiliate links and ads. (The Amazon affiliate program is something I recommend because it works for almost every industry.) Selling the blog once it’s earning a consistent income.
To elaborate on getting traffic and monetizing the blog:
I ALWAYS use Pinterest to get traffic to a new blog, because in my opinion, it is the easiest and fastest way. SEO can take 12+ months to start working, whereas with Pinterest, you can get traffic to a new blog in as little as a month.
Affiliate links and advertisements have proven to be the quickest and easiest way to monetize a brand-new blog.
Option Three: Buying a Blog to Flip It
The final method of selling a blog is buying an existing blog, fixing it up, and selling it for a profit.
It’s a good option for anyone who does not already have an existing blog and who does not want to put in the time and effort of creating a new blog from scratch. But it does require an upfront investment of capital.
Where can you buy a blog? You can buy blogs from the same marketplaces where you can sell them, which I talk about further down in this guide.
Once you have acquired a blog, the intent is to see where it’s under-performing and needs improvement and then fix it up. Like a house, this blog might have “good bones," but it just needs some renovation.
This could include things like:
Enhancing and updating previous blog posts Writing new content to increase traffic
Improving the RPM of advertisements, addressing areas where the blog has been under-monetized, such as blog posts without affiliate links, Updating the design of the blog to look better
Building a social media presence for the blog
Let’s say you buy a blog that’s earning $100 a month for $2,600.
Then you work on it for six months and improve the traffic and income, so it is earning $300 a month. Now you sell it for $8,400, for a profit of $5,800.
See how that works? This can be a great opportunity for you if you are willing to make an upfront investment in acquiring an existing blog. It can also be faster than trying to grow a brand new blog from scratch.
What Do You Need to Sell a Blog?
Now that I’ve talked about the different paths you can take to selling a blog, let’s talk about what you will need in order to sell a blog when it’s time.
A profit and loss (P&L) statement is probably the most common requirement. A P&L statement just shows your earnings and expenses for each month. This is something that any prospective buyer will want to see.
Your blog's traffic will also be important to potential customers, so ensure that Google Analytics is active and installed. You will also need to be able to verify the money you make from your blog, usually by taking screenshots of the money you make from affiliate programs, ad networks, and other sources of income.
If you sell your blog through a brokerage, they may have a very thorough vetting process to make sure you’re legit.
Where to Buy and Sell
The next essential aspect of selling a blog is where to sell it. There are a number of places you can sell and buy blogs.
You can sell your blog online at the following locations:
Niche Investor: This is my top recommendation for a great broker to work with when selling your blog!
Motion Invest: Another good option for selling your blog through a broker.
Investors Club: With very low fees, they sell websites that earn at least $500 per month.
Additionally, they conduct thorough background checks on each and every buyer before accepting them.
Empire Flippers: They sell blogs as well as other online businesses.
Flippa: Not a broker, but a marketplace for selling online businesses, including blogs.
Use more caution with them since it’s an independent marketplace, meaning they don’t vet buyers or websites that are for sale.
If you sell through a broker, you will be required to pay them a commission, which is typically between 10 and 20 percent of the sale.
However, I believe it is well worth the money because they handle finding a buyer, drafting the contract, and assisting with the sale. You can also sell your blog independently through Facebook groups or, if you have one, your own audience. Just be careful when going the independent route!
How to Make Money from a Blog Sale
I hope this guide taught you everything about how to sell a blog!
Selling blogs can be a great way to earn money, whether you want a lucrative exit opportunity from your current blog or you want to “flip” a blog for profit.
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