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Threewords.me is up for private auction

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Re: Threewords.me is up for private auction

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Post by axod »

citricsquid wrote: post #19
roschdal wrote: post #16

How much revenue is generated from Threewords.me? Is it even profitable? Also, I'm wondering how the process of transferring the actual website would go? Will the buyer usually take over the servers which the seller has setup?

Haha, hey everyone this guy thinks profitability with this matters! Everyone point and laugh! I highly doubt even Mark thinks this product has legs with monetisation, it's a fad at best. He's clever for cashing in now, it'll be dead soon unless the new owner works out how to expand.

fourwords.me ?

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Post by neworbit »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #2

Why not sell through Flippa?

He always has the option to go to Flippa later if he doesn't get the value he wants here. From my limited experience, Flippa is kind of a liquidation market more than a source for competitive bids. Your mileage may vary.

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Post by markbao »

jacquesm wrote: post #9

Very smart move this, rather than to figure out how to monetize it monetize it by selling it while the growth curve is still exponential. Also, looking at alexa it seems as though the period of hyper fast growth is already a bit past: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/threewords.me Still, it should fetch a pretty penny and to the right party it might be worth quite a lot of money.

+1 — figuring out a monetization strategy on this for me is too much of a time investment that I don't have, but someone else does.

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Post by markbao »

neworbit wrote: post #23
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #2

Why not sell through Flippa?

He always has the option to go to Flippa later if he doesn't get the value he wants here. From my limited experience, Flippa is kind of a liquidation market more than a source for competitive bids. Your mileage may vary.

This, exactly.

Re: Threewords.me is up for private auction

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Post by jcfrei »

It's hard to estimate a reasonable price for this if you don't have any revenues. Whereas you could usually discount future cash flows, in this case you would need to estimate the goodwill - which probably means what you're willing to pay for maintaining this site as a hobby.

BTW. does this page still get a lot of hits? I've seen on my past projects (albeit on a much smaller scale) that those services usually spike for a few days and then quickly die off - what are the current usage statistics?

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