Ready to sell your Web 2.0 company yet and move on to your next project? We were last year with Huckabuck.com, and our only channel for getting the word out there was to create an auction and list it on eBay. The eBay as an exit strategy has been us…

Was checking out Steve Poland’s new Web 2.0 For Sale website after seeing it mentioned on Techcrunch.
Great idea, but the low price ($10 for a month’s worth of listing) seriously negatively impacts quality.
Right now there’s mostly lo…

A link to a service isn’t a post.

Andrew, in the real world its very very difficult to sell websites even for 2x earnings unless you can convince some public company to buy you or can make connections with some clueless private equity desperately in need of a web play in their portfolio

The number of posts - which may or may not have anything to do with this marketing move - is irrelevant. What IS relevant is the ethical situation.

BS Meter - there are two separate disclosures in the post. But based on the number of new listings, I’d say this audience found it relevant.

another FOM post that should be disclosed.

- No links to samples - how do i know what my board might look like? That’s a pretty big piece of information.

- The frequently asked questions on the main page of the site aren’t customized for potential buyers - they are for existing users.

The service is probably pretty cool - but I can’t for the life of me figure out why they don’t try to do a better job selling it on their own site. Just my $.02 as a site owner…

For a classified ad for a business? Right.

Das weiß doch jeder: Web 2.0 Sites haben zumeist nicht wirklich ein Geschäftsmodell im Petto, mit dem man mittel- bis langfristig Geld verdienen können.
Das eigentlich Geschäftsmodell der Startups = schnell online, schnell populär, schnell verkau…

First I posted my ad and typed in the security code at the bottom of the page to preview - there were clearly upper and lower case letters listed, so I followed accordingly. It told me that the security codes were entered wrong and left me on a page guessing what to do next (so I hit the back button a few times). At this stage of the game, it seems rather odd not to have a user-friendly solution to common errors like this that do not disrupt the path to conversion.

Then, once I got that straightened out, I wanted to preview my ad - this is where it really got bad. It changed all of the formatting and jumbled HTML code with my listing. I had to play around with it for almost 30 minutes to make it legible enough to post (even opened up another window and searched Google for some basic HTML tips to try and solve these issues).

The idea behind the site is a good one - create a marketplace for new tech companies to buy and sell their projects, but the barriers that I faced in simply posting an ad would have drove less-motivated folks away real quick. Sites like SitePoint, DigitalPoint and the like, have the traffic and buyers that make this kind of service valuable, and many of them use the tried and true bulletin board services that serve thousands of communities and millions of people on a daily basis.

There needs to be some added value that advertisers will get, beyond the traditional outlets, to give a service like this real staying power.

http://web2.0forsale.com/item/.....rl=forsale

There really is no efficient market for selling sites like these. My sites make around $20,000 a year in ad revenue. Not unreasonable to sell them for 5x earnings. But finding a buyer, very difficult.