Re:Ask HN: Best marketplace for passive income businesses?
by sharemywin on Thursday August 24, 2017 @12:31PM
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I bought a coupon site on flippa and realized a lot of the traffic was from images of coupons. that linked to the site.
Re:Ask HN: Best marketplace for passive income businesses?
by sjg007 on Thursday August 24, 2017 @03:01PM
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No way to do due diligence before hand?
Re:Ask HN: Best marketplace for passive income businesses?
by sharemywin on Friday August 25, 2017 @08:20AM
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You don't know what you don't know. the traffic lasted a couple months. only spent a $1000 on it. I just wasn't willing to put copyrighted material on the web linking back to my site to get traffic.
Re:Ask HN: Best marketplace for passive income businesses?
by dawnerd on Thursday August 24, 2017 @01:12PM
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I find it kind of funny how many sites on flippa make tons of money but the people just "don't have time" for a "no maintenance" site. And when you look at the charts it's, of course, all traffic leading up to the listing and nothing more.
Having said that, finding a true "passive income" business that is profitable and someone wants to sell is challenging. Most of them (that I have found) end up being scams. Do your due diligence and scrutinize their income and expense reports, traffic figures, etc. I can usually "smell" when something isn't right.