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ExcelTip.Com + ExcelForum - High Traffic Excel Community Sites for Sale

High Revenue / Traffic Site with Explosive Growth

  • URL: http://www.exceltip.com/
  • Established: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:00:00 GMT
  • Uniques/Month: 800,000
  • Page views/month: 3,000,000
  • Monthly Revenue: $2000
  • Google Pagerank: 5
  • Listed: Sun, 11 May 2008 16:23:11 GMT

Description:

ExcelTip.com and ExcelForum.com are premium destination community sites for Microsoft Excel users to interact, learn and discuss.

ExcelTip.com features close to 1400 articles and tips/tricks. A highly customized version of osCommerce is fully integrated and offers eBooks for sale. The mailing list includes over 95,000 recipients and continues to grow daily.

 

ExcelForum.com is a Vbulletin Forum system. Over 1 million posts and 96,000+ members large, the forum is the largest of its kind and is managed in assistance with an active moderator community.

* Please note that the eBook products are not for sale as part of the offerings.

 

Traffic:

The sites average 3 million+ page views per month with 800,000 uniques (see graphs)


Revenues:
The site is currently making $2000/month via advertising (Google ~ $600, Kontera ~ $400, Direct Advertising ~ $1000, Amazon ~ $50)

Potential:
Both sites have an incredible opportunity to make a signficant amount of money. The sites passionate community and traffic are positioned for growth.

 

PLEASE PM for additional details. If you are a serious buyer - we'd love to hear from you.

Revenue Details:

The site is currently making $2000/month via advertising (Google ~ $600, Kontera ~ $400, Direct Advertising ~ $1000, Amazon ~ $50)

Traffic Details:

Organic Traffic Only. No PPC Whatsoever.

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  1. Posted date:
    Sun, 11 May 2008 18:10:45 GMT
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    How long does it taake to maintain the sites and what kind of knowledge is it required?

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    Sun, 11 May 2008 21:06:07 GMT
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    The sites run by themselves. There is almost no work in terms of maintenance.

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  3. Posted date:
    Mon, 12 May 2008 07:47:10 GMT
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    1) is escrow a payment option?
    2) why did you reject the previous BIN?
    3) do you not update exceltip.com?
    4) where do those excel tips come? are they user submitted or did you add them?
    5) how come there is basically nothing about excel 2003 and 2007?
    6) what are the server specs?

    Either reply here or via PM. Thanks!

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  4. Posted date:
    Mon, 12 May 2008 09:02:44 GMT
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    Hi,

    Pls could you also send me the answers to hostlead's questions. Also, would the direct advertisers stay after the sale? Is the traffic of the websites trending up or down?

    Thanks.

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  5. Posted date:
    Mon, 12 May 2008 09:10:28 GMT
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    looks like it's trending up: http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/attachments/30570.png

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  6. Posted date:
    Mon, 12 May 2008 10:46:36 GMT
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    Why are you stating 800k and 3M page views a month? I don't see that anywhere in the screenshots. Is there something I am missing? How far back do you have Google Analytics?

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  7. Posted date:
    Mon, 12 May 2008 11:42:40 GMT
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    1) is escrow a payment option?

    > No. We will issue a formal contract drafted by a lawyer to execute the agreement.

    2) why did you reject the previous BIN?

    > We are looking to capitalize as much as we can and want to open it up for bids. That said, we are looking for serious buyers with a track record and history.

    3) do you not update exceltip.com?

    > We still do but not as frequently. We have moved on to other projects.

    4) where do those excel tips come? are they user submitted or did you add them?

    > Both. We wrote most of the tips and solicited members of the community to submit others.

    5) how come there is basically nothing about excel 2003 and 2007?

    > There is a quite a bit about both (in fact a lot). Look through the site.

    6) what are the server specs?

    > They are dedicated servers from nexcess.net. Nothing too fancy in terms of hardware. If you are looking for specifics, please PM and I will try to get the info.

    7) Would the direct advertisers stay after the sale?

    > Absolutely. We will provide the contacts so the buyer can pursue other opportunities with the advertiser(s).

    8) How far back do you have Analytics

    > We have at least 12 months.

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  8. Posted date:
    Mon, 12 May 2008 19:32:33 GMT
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    Hi,

    I have a question about the Forum, I see that the forum is in association with public.excel groups, what sort of association is this? "The messages in the forum will be replicated in google groups", does that happen with replies to the posts as well?

    Just want to understand how is this forum associated with google group of Excel. This is for me to understand and predict possible maintenence requirements of forum.

    Thanks
    Ankur

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  9. Posted date:
    Mon, 12 May 2008 19:56:07 GMT
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    @Ankur - The two systems are tightly integrated and are self sustaining.

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  10. Posted date:
    Tue, 13 May 2008 03:34:04 GMT
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    I placed the BIN here. Then seller turned down my offer when I asked for income proof? No explaination at all? Do you expect people close a deal like that w/o any further info? Something definitely wrong here!

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  11. Posted date:
    Tue, 13 May 2008 04:19:21 GMT
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    @fredn - you have zero history the site and failed to provide infomration on who you are. We are a serious organization that is looking forward to doing busines.

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