So I went on over to siteflip to see what it is all about. By the way, I wondered why they didn’t register a real domain instead of getting a free one through blogger.com. Then I thought that perhaps they owned the real domain and had just started a blogger.com blog for more publicity. Upon further investigation, it appears that siteflip.com is a website for a cheap web hosting provider and doesn’t appear, at first glance, to be related to the blog. I immediately question the veracity of a site if a free domain name is involved. If you have something worthwhile to say then fork over the ten bucks for a real domain as well as the additional costs for real hosting especially if you are going to talk about buying, improving and then selling websites for profit. By the way, do you really own anything with a blogger.com blog? What if you wanted to sell your blogger blog? You probably couldn’t sell it.

In siteflip’s recent posts they also have posts related to house flipping. Is this just a way to try to tap into the house flipping viewers? Flipping houses and websites don’t seem to be related so adding a section on house flipping detracts from his website flipping message and makes me further question this website.

It appears that part of the site flipping scheme is to buy a website and then further monetize it thereby increasing its value and then sell it with these new revenue streams. Interestingly enough, Site Flip doesn’t seem to have much in the way of monetization going on. Shouldn’t we practice what we preach.

I can’t seem to find any information on where you would sell your website once you’ve refurbished it. I immediately think of ebay but there must be other places. I’m waiting on his website marketplaces directory to load – another problem with blogger.com. It finally came up – several places to flip your site our listed. Ok, now this is finally getting interesting. I’ll dig into it more and report later.

1 – I offer viewers the opportunity to sign up for my email list right on my website or blog. You can further encourage people to sign up by including a link after a compelling entry on your blog. For example – Do you want more information on how to make money on your blog? Then sign up for my email list to receive notifications for further information on how to make money on your blog. Insert sign up box here. You’ll have a few people sign up for your email list through this method.

2 – Another method for growing your email list is to post examples of your e-newsletter on your blog or website so that people can see that it is a valuable publication. With your newsletter include something like – like what you see then sign up below. Insert sign up box here.

3 – If you sell a digital product then indicate that as part of the product the buyer will receive a free subscription to your monthly e-newsletter. With each paid order, add the customer to your email list. If you do this, just make sure that the customer has an easy way to unsubscribe if they decide they don’t want your e-newsletter.

My current email list has almost 3500 subscribers. I hope to have it at about 5000 by the end of 2008. How does having an email list generate money? Think about it. If I include a promotion where I can upsell my past customers on another product for $20, how much money will I make if I can get 1% of 5000 subscribers to buy? $1000 – not bad for sending out an email. With each percentage increase, I make another $1000. That’s just one example of how you can make money from an email list. I’ll explore more in a related post.