I did it! My site flipping experiment worked! I sold 5 web sites for around $1500 in 2 weeks. And these sites weren’t even memberships sites! I’m really excited now!

Even though I did buy a site on one marketplace and took the template and tweaked it, optimized the code for the search engines and promoted it to all the top social bookmarking sites and then flipped it on another marketplace, I think I will develop from scratch the majority of the sites that I will sell online.

So now Dane and I have to make the process of creating and selling sites as automated and as efficient as possible. It might be time to revive a project of ours that’s been sitting on the sidelines for years… I need to talk to Dane about it before I give away the details.

So, what am I doing right now? I’m learning how to use Joomla, a content management system. Supposedly it is much better than Wordpress, which is more of a blog management system. Even though Wordpress is the best blogging tool that I’ve used, I’m always spending way too much time with plugins that don’t work and templates that have too many bugs. The key is to know which plugins and templates to use. I’ll write more about Wordpress some other time.

I think Joomla will be the platform to use to create high-quality, membership sites and get some traffic and revenue and then sell them online. If you’re interested in learning more about Joomla I highly recommend this site… How to Build a Free Sophisticated Website with Joomla. Also, here are some Joomla videos and here are the extensions to use recommended by the SiteFlip Academy to use: Fireboard, Group Jive, Community Builder, Marketplace, AEC, Sigsiu Business Directory, Ion Files and All Videos Plug-in. I don’t know much about these extensions but will try them all out and let you know.

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