I am listing this sale on behalf of a friend, who will be deailing with all questions and offers.
URL: www.business-students.com
Age of site (months): 12
Revenue details :
Initially there was some revenue from adsense...but I had to remove it soon as the website was being supported by my University, so I had to show them that it was a Non-Profit venture. They offered support for 1 yr, hence I have put adsense back on some places, but there is a lot more room for advertising. If you want I can send you further traffic details via Email.
Wih www.cool-scripts.com I never really got down to advertising it, but sold a lot of copies of the Mods...through referrals, advertising on forums, and many forum owners enquired about it when they saw them applied on business-students.com
Monthly page views: 25000 (See Stats Below)
Indexed pages (Google): 1900
Google page rank: 3
Selling business-students.com
I have decided to sell www.business-students.com as I have been finding it practically impossible to manage the site from the last few months. The site is basically a Business Forum and resource centre running on PhpBB, Ezportal, EasyCMS and other packages. There are tons of add-ons and modifications on the site, which are detailed below, under the Features list.
I am selling this site as part of a package which also includes www.cool-scripts.com and Master Re-sale rights to the scripts on this site. These scripts are mostly PHPbb Mods, which were custom made by us, have been very successful and have been applied to business-students.com. To see what else you get as part of this package, please see the package details below.
As you will see from the Memberlist, (the last few pages), the site manages to get new members virtually every day, but one reason why a lot of potential visitors are not turning into members is because the forums have been quiet recently, due to no moderation.
If you read through the posts, you might realise that we did have quite a few members who visited and posted regularly, but during the last few months, the forum has been dull due to my own negligence and inability to spend time on the site. Although with a newsletter to members, and with some moderation, the forum should pick up very easily, and most of the regular posters should come back.
This site is ideal for anyone, who is looking to take over a well established and indexed website and take it to the next level, with proper marketing. Some knowledge of business would also help in keeping the forum busy, although you can also hire moderators to do the same. Other than the forums, there are numerous other valuable resources for members. The forum has nearly 400 members and is still growing.
Statistics
The homepage has a Page Rank of 3.
The number of pages indexed on Google are Approx 1900 as on Jan 29’06
Number of forum members approx.– 400.
Here are visitor stats for the last 12 months
Avg. number of visits per month on the basis of last 6 months approx = 6400
Note: The reason for a slight downwards trend in November 05 is because the website was down for a while. This happened due to a mistake by our web host who made server changes without properly backing up the website. This resulted in some posts being corrupted, as you might notice, but the bulk of the posts were saved, and all the member data was safe and unaffected.
Features
• Forums: Business forums with various categories.
• Articles: The articles centre is a very good resource centre for business knowledge. There are articles on various topics, and new articles can be added from time to time. Through the admin panel, new categories can be created; categories can be brought up or down, and you can decide on things like number of articles per page, comments, use of avatars and lots more. As these articles are content rich they are a great way of generating PPC revenue, and increasing content on the website.
• Business Tools: This section has various tools which can be helpful for small business owners or to anyone in general.
• Very Good Search Engine Optimization: This is one of the most important aspects of this site. A lot of emphasis has been laid on SEO. We made our own Custom made SEO Mod, which has been very successful. The MOD was sold through cool-scripts.com . You will also get Master Re-sale rights to this mod. Some of the things this MOD does is convert the Entire forum into HTML. We have even applied this to the articles section of the website. Add keywords to the URL, so for e.g. the article title is “The Big Bang Publicity Campaign”, the URL will be something like http://www.business-students.com/for...ign-va115.html . More details on what this powerful mod can do can be found out on http://www.cool-scripts.com/view_item.php?ItemID=2 .
• Amazon Search: People can search Amazon through our site, and you get commissions on purchases they make at Amazon.
• Refer A Friend: A very good viral feature. The referral system is once again custom made and quite advanced. You also get the Master resale rights to the script. You can also run monthly referral competitions among members and give them incentives to refer people. Top referrers can be seen through the “Top Referrers page”.
• Many more exciting features such as, “Special effects shop”, “Exciting points system”, “Virtual Bank”, “Site Tour”, “Medal System”, and “Feedback System”. Things like points system and medal system are a great way of giving incentives to people to stay active on the forums. To know more about these features, please check them live on the website.
What you get with the Package
• Business Students Website – www.business-students.com
• www.cool-scripts.com
• Additional Banners for Business students advertising.
• Exclusive Resale rights (Master Resale Rights) to all the scripts being sold on www.cool-scripts.com . All these mods have been made by us, and have been applied on www.business-students.com .
• Documentation & Ideas: We will provide you details and give you documentation on the future plans of the website. What sort of new features can be added, and Marketing advice.
• Marketing support material – Excel list of websites for article marketing with re-sale rights. This list consists of links to several article submission databases, which you can use for article marketing, and also re-sell to generate further revenue.
Income Potential
I believe the income potential for any website depends on how well it is marketed, and the creativity of the person running it. Although, some of the ways in which money could be made through these sites includes:
1. Adsense program or any other form of pay per click advertising can be used on the forums, articles and many other places on the website.
2. Forum sections can be sponsored.
3. Amazon affiliate revenue.
4. Sale of scripts through cool-scripts.com
5. Paypal Donations
6. Selling ad space
7. Joining other affiliate programs
Payment Method
If in the UK: Paypal
Personal Cheque
CHAPS Transfer
Direct deposit in the Bank Account
International Buyers: Paypal Only
If you have any questions please feel free to email me at ash.monga at gmail.com or PM me. Please note the sale of this package is subject to personal discretion and receiving a reasonable offer.
URL: www.business-students.com
Age of site (months): 12
Revenue details :
Initially there was some revenue from adsense...but I had to remove it soon as the website was being supported by my University, so I had to show them that it was a Non-Profit venture. They offered support for 1 yr, hence I have put adsense back on some places, but there is a lot more room for advertising. If you want I can send you further traffic details via Email.
Wih www.cool-scripts.com I never really got down to advertising it, but sold a lot of copies of the Mods...through referrals, advertising on forums, and many forum owners enquired about it when they saw them applied on business-students.com
Monthly page views: 25000 (See Stats Below)
Indexed pages (Google): 1900
Google page rank: 3
Selling business-students.com
I have decided to sell www.business-students.com as I have been finding it practically impossible to manage the site from the last few months. The site is basically a Business Forum and resource centre running on PhpBB, Ezportal, EasyCMS and other packages. There are tons of add-ons and modifications on the site, which are detailed below, under the Features list.
I am selling this site as part of a package which also includes www.cool-scripts.com and Master Re-sale rights to the scripts on this site. These scripts are mostly PHPbb Mods, which were custom made by us, have been very successful and have been applied to business-students.com. To see what else you get as part of this package, please see the package details below.
As you will see from the Memberlist, (the last few pages), the site manages to get new members virtually every day, but one reason why a lot of potential visitors are not turning into members is because the forums have been quiet recently, due to no moderation.
If you read through the posts, you might realise that we did have quite a few members who visited and posted regularly, but during the last few months, the forum has been dull due to my own negligence and inability to spend time on the site. Although with a newsletter to members, and with some moderation, the forum should pick up very easily, and most of the regular posters should come back.
This site is ideal for anyone, who is looking to take over a well established and indexed website and take it to the next level, with proper marketing. Some knowledge of business would also help in keeping the forum busy, although you can also hire moderators to do the same. Other than the forums, there are numerous other valuable resources for members. The forum has nearly 400 members and is still growing.
Statistics
The homepage has a Page Rank of 3.
The number of pages indexed on Google are Approx 1900 as on Jan 29’06
Number of forum members approx.– 400.
Here are visitor stats for the last 12 months
Avg. number of visits per month on the basis of last 6 months approx = 6400
Note: The reason for a slight downwards trend in November 05 is because the website was down for a while. This happened due to a mistake by our web host who made server changes without properly backing up the website. This resulted in some posts being corrupted, as you might notice, but the bulk of the posts were saved, and all the member data was safe and unaffected.
Features
• Forums: Business forums with various categories.
• Articles: The articles centre is a very good resource centre for business knowledge. There are articles on various topics, and new articles can be added from time to time. Through the admin panel, new categories can be created; categories can be brought up or down, and you can decide on things like number of articles per page, comments, use of avatars and lots more. As these articles are content rich they are a great way of generating PPC revenue, and increasing content on the website.
• Business Tools: This section has various tools which can be helpful for small business owners or to anyone in general.
• Very Good Search Engine Optimization: This is one of the most important aspects of this site. A lot of emphasis has been laid on SEO. We made our own Custom made SEO Mod, which has been very successful. The MOD was sold through cool-scripts.com . You will also get Master Re-sale rights to this mod. Some of the things this MOD does is convert the Entire forum into HTML. We have even applied this to the articles section of the website. Add keywords to the URL, so for e.g. the article title is “The Big Bang Publicity Campaign”, the URL will be something like http://www.business-students.com/for...ign-va115.html . More details on what this powerful mod can do can be found out on http://www.cool-scripts.com/view_item.php?ItemID=2 .
• Amazon Search: People can search Amazon through our site, and you get commissions on purchases they make at Amazon.
• Refer A Friend: A very good viral feature. The referral system is once again custom made and quite advanced. You also get the Master resale rights to the script. You can also run monthly referral competitions among members and give them incentives to refer people. Top referrers can be seen through the “Top Referrers page”.
• Many more exciting features such as, “Special effects shop”, “Exciting points system”, “Virtual Bank”, “Site Tour”, “Medal System”, and “Feedback System”. Things like points system and medal system are a great way of giving incentives to people to stay active on the forums. To know more about these features, please check them live on the website.
What you get with the Package
• Business Students Website – www.business-students.com
• www.cool-scripts.com
• Additional Banners for Business students advertising.
• Exclusive Resale rights (Master Resale Rights) to all the scripts being sold on www.cool-scripts.com . All these mods have been made by us, and have been applied on www.business-students.com .
• Documentation & Ideas: We will provide you details and give you documentation on the future plans of the website. What sort of new features can be added, and Marketing advice.
• Marketing support material – Excel list of websites for article marketing with re-sale rights. This list consists of links to several article submission databases, which you can use for article marketing, and also re-sell to generate further revenue.
Income Potential
I believe the income potential for any website depends on how well it is marketed, and the creativity of the person running it. Although, some of the ways in which money could be made through these sites includes:
1. Adsense program or any other form of pay per click advertising can be used on the forums, articles and many other places on the website.
2. Forum sections can be sponsored.
3. Amazon affiliate revenue.
4. Sale of scripts through cool-scripts.com
5. Paypal Donations
6. Selling ad space
7. Joining other affiliate programs
Payment Method
If in the UK: Paypal
Personal Cheque
CHAPS Transfer
Direct deposit in the Bank Account
International Buyers: Paypal Only
If you have any questions please feel free to email me at ash.monga at gmail.com or PM me. Please note the sale of this package is subject to personal discretion and receiving a reasonable offer.
