Offers christmasinfrance.co.uk

[martin-s]

christmasinfrance.co.uk (1,900 exacts)

Offers invited for newly registered christmasinfrance.co.uk (by pm please)

1,900 exact match searches
3,550 allintitle competition (allintitle:"christmas in france") so very achievable rankings

Great potential as a high value sale affiliate earner.

Will take an £x,xxx offer or sit it in the queue for development (am in the niche already so it's a good portfolio fit)

 

[martin-s]

Rejected an offer for £400. Does anyone think I'm I asking too much?

 

[SFSF is verified member.]

Way to much!

 

[martin-s]

Hi DB,

Appreciate the feedback. My thinking was..

* Very tight niche
* Clear buying phrase for high value sale
* Decent number of exacts (and we're nowhere near peak season)
* Easy pickings top rankings
* A similar site is making just under £1k on affiliate commissions every month

I suppose I'd priced it for the end user, i.e. someone who's going to develop the niche rather than pass the domain on.

How would you have priced it?

Martin

 

[SFSF is verified member.]

Hi Martin

Who goes away at christmas? its about spending time at home with the family, and France?? I would honestly value this around £5.00

If you can get any more Good luck.
Sean

 

[martin-s]

France is the most visited country on earth..

That said, I spent last Christmas in the Maldives - and lovely it was too!

 

[WalkinDude]

Appears you've seen a similar site that's 'earning 1k a month', and decided because your domain isn't any different your's is £x,xxx.

Every domainer offers that line of reasoning, but take a look around, hardly that much evidence of people buying into that reasoning and for good reason.

I don't think ChristmasInFrance.co.uk is worthless, it's actually a nice little niche idea but the sheer workload involved to turn it into a proper earner probably runs into hundreds of man hours and quite a bit of financial investment also.

Your pricing as if you've done this work [I've thought the same way in the past but it doesn't wash, so not having a go at all]. As a stand alone domain I'd price it low £xx, if you did the work, presented a credible quality web on it, got some traffic in, and if you set up all the cms, plus set up the affiliates THEN you could be looking at £x,xxx but bare in mind it's a seasonable web probably only in business for a quarter of the year and that counts against it too.

From what I can see [newbie too], no one is buying hopes and dreams anymore, everything is valued based on guaranteed earning potential [i.e Loans.co.uk would find buyers queuing round the block], or work done on content plus domain and/or actual income.

It's a long shot but that domain sounds like a half decent marketing campaign for a travel agents, so could go that route, but won't be easy there either and wouldn't bet on it cos it's far easier for them to simply register XmasInTuscany etc than pay you £x,xxx for yours. These people appear to prefer chucking money away on TV/Radio ads than a good traffic producing domain name.

Hopes and dreams domains are struggling to fetch even £xx. When pricing a domain name it's best to think of all the reasons no one will want it, with as much enthusiasm as you think about all the reasons someone might want it.

Hope this helps and with it was written with that intention.

 

[martin-s]

Appreciate that feedback, thanks. I can see where you're coming from.

If a site is earning £1k a month, any sensible 'whole business' valuation would be put at a multiple of annual profits. On that basis, it's not illogical to put the primary asset at four figures.

Actually, I was looking at acquiring another business recently. The whole concept was based on an exact match domain name which also happens to have 1,900 searches each month.

Admittedly the owners have spent the last three years developing the business themselves, but they were expecting to achieve upwards of £800k for it on profits of around £160k pa.

Unfortunately, my feeling was it was about to go through a whole bundle of growing pains, so I didn't want to take it any further.

Back to the domain name, I own a web/software development company and have several other assets in this vertical, so we'll probably just stick to the plan and develop it.

Thanks though - always interested in feedback and the opinions of others.

 

[chrisduggan]

Put a site on it and leave it for 6-12 months. Don't expect a good return on a domain flip. It rarely happens. Best of luck

 

[roweash3]

Can I ask what the 'other website' is? - That's earning the 1k a month.

 

[SFSF is verified member.]

"dreamer" or reality which one are you?

 

[martin-s]

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