I made a monumental mistake of selling a site (it was a portal I had put together for Wales). This was a few years ago, I put the site together, it went like crazy, as it was all over the web at the top spot for all the regional searches. Advertisers were queuing up to join in, and a company asked me to sell it. The offer was way too good, so I took the money and ran.
They didn't have a clue what they were doing, they re-designed to make it more 'professional' did away with 'the clutter', and subsequently fell to nowhere in the search engines thanks to their 'professionalism' with regard SEO.
What has this to do with me your probably asking? Well I felt really bad that my area (Wales) was losing out, that the advertisers who had paid me and trusted me, were now getting zip for their money thanks to these clowns. It was a mistake, and one I will not make again. I have been offered 5 figures for my rugby forum, crazy I know as it only has 300 or so members, but it is the quality of those members that matters to the person who wants me to sell the forum.
You see in rugby we have something called the British Lions as well as our national teams of Wales Scotland Ireland & England. The Lions travel once every 4 years down under, this week they fly off to New Zealand to play them. and around 9000 Brits will fly with them at a package cost of between £4000-12000 each. So as you can see it is big money. The Welsh team also fly out for a tour of North America and Canada, again a few thousand supporters will go with them. Will I sell? will I hell, I don't even run ads on there as it is my baby lol.
So there ya go, bit of a nothing story really, other than a lesson learned with regard what I intend to do with a site concept when I create it. ie, is the business plan to keep or sell it?
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