Flipping Websites – Leasing Websites… Which is best?

Hey Offliners…

As some of you may remember, I attempted to employ the “lease-a-site” model

So I chose roofers in RI….

I wasn’t really getting anywhere UNTIL I put up a Google Places listing…

Then I start gettin’ calls from customers…. and calling roofers to pass out the leads…

And one guy even gave me a kick back for job he got from it!! … So I started sending out postcards and cold calling roofers….

I’d tell em “I designed a roofing site for an online class, and now people are calling me… yada, yada, yada…”

Then this one roofer guy called and said “let’s talk” and basically just wanted it…
$197 — and he wants it for 5 years.

leasing-websites

Actually I think I coulda got more, but it was an “expereience.”

P.S. When I changed the google map listing (and put his number on it) it
disappeared for now… which I had a feeling it might… I’ll see what happens.

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JIM

Iman Yusef-Yahya | July 25, 2010 at 4:14 pm | Reply

Hey Jim,

Are you saying that you sold him the entire site for $197??? Also, you created a Google maps listing BEFORE you had a client for that particular site???

Iman
offlinemarketer | July 30, 2010 at 11:56 am | Reply

I LEASED the site for $197… per month — each month.