DealFeed finds online businesses for sale from Empire Flippers, Investors Club, Flippa, Motion Invest, Quiet Light, and other business brokers.
DealFeed Signals™ found 331 online businesses with 102 new listings over last 7 days, and 101 aged listings. 83 deals had recent valuation changes. 51 deals had recent changes in multiple. Average monthly multiple is 34.24X.
$2.4K Per Month Display Advertising Site in the Home Niche
Food & Beverages, Home
Empire Flippers
$99,568
$2,392
$2,074
48
List Price
$99,568
Average Monthly Revenue
$2,392
Average Monthly Profit
$2,074
Multiple
48
Niche
Food & Beverages, Home
Age
1
Broker
Empire Flippers
Our Commentary
Broker Description
This listing is for a display advertising and Amazon Associates business created in March 2020 in the home and food & beverages niches. The WordPress site features informational and review-type content related to cooking and home appliances. The site’s traffic is spread amongst multiple pages and the business requires minimal time to maintain.
This business generates revenue from Mediavine display advertising (93%) and Amazon Associates (7%).
Traffic comes primarily from organic search (93%), direct (5%), and social (2%). The top three countries driving traffic are the US (56%), the UK (15%), and Canada (7%). The top three pages make up 12% of total site traffic, contributing to 5%, 4%, and 3% of traffic respectively.
SewingCrafter.com - 1-Yr Old Content Site in Sewing Niche
Sewing
Motion Invest
$40,050
$1,331
$1,331
31
Price was adjusted to $40,050 (reduced by $174).
List Price
$40,050
Average Monthly Revenue
$1,331
Average Monthly Profit
$1,331
Multiple
31
Niche
Sewing
Age
1
Broker
Motion Invest
Our Commentary
Broker Description
This sewing website has been around for just over 1 year and 6 months. ✔Site is ranking for 2,786+ keywords, with some good buyer intent keywords.✔This site has lower earnings in July as the site dropped down in traffic for the first 14 days after the update, but has since bounced back. Has since increased in both traffic and keywords after that.✔The site has two 301 Redirects (see Q&A section).✔The top article accounts for only 13% of the overall traffic. ✔The current owner has not spent much time on this website for the past few months. ✔Site is currently monetized via Amazon(USA, CAN) and Share A sale with the opportunity to expand into other monetization methods.
GearHonest.com - 3-Yr Old Content Site in Automotive Niche
Automotive
Motion Invest
$8,673
$281
$281
31
Price was adjusted to $8,673 (reduced by $37).
List Price
$8,673
Average Monthly Revenue
$281
Average Monthly Profit
$281
Multiple
31
Niche
Automotive
Age
3
Broker
Motion Invest
Our Commentary
Broker Description
This automotive website has been around for just over 3 years.✔Site is ranking for over 9,500 keywords.✔ Sale comes with a Facebook page with 574 followers (see Q&A section)✔Traffic is a bit down from the same time last year, which is why this is being done at the last 6 months income average instead of last 12 months. ✔Around 90% of traffic to this site comes organically.✔Around 60% of traffic to this site comes from the USA. ✔Site is currently monetized via Amazon and Adsense with the opportunity to expand into other monetization methods.
$11.8K Per Month Amazon FBA Site in the Automotive Niche
Automotive, Equipment
Empire Flippers
$53,982
$11,767
$1,542
35
List Price
$53,982
Average Monthly Revenue
$11,767
Average Monthly Profit
$1,542
Multiple
35
Niche
Automotive, Equipment
Age
1
Broker
Empire Flippers
Our Commentary
Broker Description
This listing is for an Amazon FBA and FBM business created in June 2019 in the automotive and equipment niches. The business is registered through Amazon Brand Registry and features 2 SKUs which are accessories used for a specific automotive purpose. The products have 4.6 stars across 1300+ reviews. The business has experienced strong year-over-year growth and requires minimal time to maintain.
This business generates revenue from FBA (99%), and FBM (1%). There is one supplier, who ships inventory to a 3PL in the US. 60% of inventory is kept at the 3PL and the rest is shipped to Amazon fulfillment centers.
*This brand was under a large master account, but was split out into a separate account. As such, there is a second tab in the P&L named 'Old Master Account USA' showing the sales under the old account.
*The owner of this business has a team running multiple businesses with their time spread out across all businesses. The hours shown are the Seller's estimate for how much time they spend actively managing their team for this particular brand.
10-Yr Old Content Site in the Education Niche - Net $1.7K/Month
Education
Investors Club
$58,555
$1,673
$
35
List Price
$58,555
Average Monthly Revenue
$1,673
Average Monthly Profit
$
Multiple
35
Niche
Education
Age
10
Broker
Investors Club
Our Commentary
Broker Description
For sale is a decade-old, established site focused on the ASL interpreting services sub-niche. The site is mostly monetized by selling digital courses, and partly by affiliate marketing and display ads. It is a well-established business with a huge social media following. The niche is evergreen and the published content is really good. It has a solid backlink profile and a good mix of both buying intent and educational content. All in all, the site presents a great opportunity and could be further optimized for even better traffic and revenue numbers.
PortableCorner.com - 2-Yr Old Content Site in Portable Niche
Portable
Motion Invest
$7,148
$251
$251
29
Price was adjusted to $7,148 (reduced by $33).
List Price
$7,148
Average Monthly Revenue
$251
Average Monthly Profit
$251
Multiple
29
Niche
Portable
Age
2
Broker
Motion Invest
Our Commentary
Broker Description
This portable website has been around for just over 2 years and 4 months. ✔ Top 10 organic keywords dropped sharply in June 2022. That is why the listing is starting at a lower multiple (29x).✔ There are 80 out of stock products the site is linking to on Amazon and 8 missing Amazon affiliate tags.✔ More than 70% of traffic to this site comes from the USA. ✔The current owner only spends about 2-3 hours per month on this website. ✔Site is currently monetized via Amazon and Ezoic with the opportunity to expand into other monetization methods.
CordlessGuy.com - 2-Yr Old Content Site in Tools Niche
Tools
Motion Invest
$15,804
$550
$550
29
Price was adjusted to $15,804 (reduced by $73).
List Price
$15,804
Average Monthly Revenue
$550
Average Monthly Profit
$550
Multiple
29
Niche
Tools
Age
2
Broker
Motion Invest
Our Commentary
Broker Description
This cordless tools website has been around for just over 2 years and 3 months.✔Traffic has dropped from where it was in May 2022. It is doing better than where it was at the same time as last year though, so we did this one using the last 12 months income average. We ended up subtracting $100 from the original 12 month average ($650) to get the new average of $550. The $550 gets it closer to where the new normal is for the site as compared to the $650.✔Top 10 keywords sharply dropped in June 2022 according to Ahrefs. This is starting at a lower multiple to better take that into account (29x).✔Around 75% of traffic to this site comes from the USA. ✔ Seller has only used Ezoic for 9 months, so there is some value for the buyer (as this is done using the last 12 months). ✔Site is currently monetized via Amazon and Ezoic with the opportunity to expand into other monetization methods.
TechConsumerGuide.com - 3-Yr Old Content Site in Technology Niche
Technology
Motion Invest
$10,860
$362
$362
30
Price was adjusted to $10,860 (reduced by $2,630).
List Price
$10,860
Average Monthly Revenue
$362
Average Monthly Profit
$362
Multiple
30
Niche
Technology
Age
3
Broker
Motion Invest
Our Commentary
Broker Description
This technology website has been around for over 3 years and 5 months.✔This site was hit hard by the May-June 2022 Google update. Prior to this, it was making over $1k per month on both Amazon and Monumetric. ✔We have only included the Monumetric earnings in the evaluation and did not include the Amazon earnings. This gets us closer to what the site has made over the past 2 months via both Amazon and Monumetric. ✔The site is linking to 609 products on Amazon, of which, 80 are out of stock.
GrinderReviewed.com - 6-Yr Old Content Site in Kitchen Niche
Kitchen
Motion Invest
$1,740
$60
$60
29
List Price
$1,740
Average Monthly Revenue
$60
Average Monthly Profit
$60
Multiple
29
Niche
Kitchen
Age
6
Broker
Motion Invest
Our Commentary
Broker Description
This kitchen website has been around for over 6 years.✔ Site saw a drop in the top 10 keywords in June 2022. Top percentage of traffic also comes via Organic Social in Google Analytics.  ✔Seller bought this site in 2020. ✔The site is linking to 45 products that are out of stock, fixing these could help to increase income.✔ Site comes with a Pinterest account with 2.2k followers (see Q&A section). ✔Seller only spends about 30 minutes per month on the site over the past year. ✔Site is currently monetized via Amazon, Ezoic and Adsense with the opportunity to expand into other monetization methods.
BikeFinest.com - 1-Yr Old Content Site in Bicycle, Sports Niche
Bicycle, Sports
Motion Invest
$83,550
$2,387
$2,387
35
Price was adjusted to $83,550 (reduced by $12,166).
List Price
$83,550
Average Monthly Revenue
$2,387
Average Monthly Profit
$2,387
Multiple
35
Niche
Bicycle, Sports
Age
1
Broker
Motion Invest
Our Commentary
Broker Description
This bicycle website has been around for just over 1 year and 5 months.✔Top 10 organic keywords sharply dropped in July 2022 according to Ahrefs.✔The site was on originally on Ezoic and then made the switch over to Mediavine in late March 2022.✔Traffic is nice and spread out among the articles. ✔There are 16 missing affiliate tags on the Site Buddy report that could be fixed for a small win. ✔Site is currently monetized via Amazon(USA) and Mediavine with the opportunity to expand into other monetization methods.
You can use our proprietary tool, DealFeed, to find a business for sale but before doing that, you need to educate yourself. Here we breakdown the different business models available for sale, how they are monetized, and why they are attractive.
Content Websites
Niche content websites are a popular and profitable type of online business. These sites are commonly around one general niche or topic (though not always), are based around large amounts of informational and buying guide articles, and are monetized through ads, affiliate offers, digital products, and Amazon affiliate.
These are not only good for building up passive income but often offer opportunities where you can buy a website, grow it, and then sell it to receive a lump-sum payment.
Ecommerce & Dropshipping Stores
There’s a huge upside with a good e-commerce or dropshipping store. These sites sell products directly, often using dropshipping to produce the goods and fulfillment services like Amazon’s FBA to have the products ordered and delivered.
These online businesses have a very high revenue potential because instead of getting paid per click or a small percentage as an affiliate, being the provider of the product means more potential revenue (and profit) per sale.
Newsletters
Newsletters can be an incredibly effective online business because they are designed around providing excellent information in a very specific niche to people who wanted and signed up for, that newsletter.
This means an engaged audience looking forward to the next release. Monetization could be from paid promotions, sponsors, partnerships, or even the development of your product.
Amazon FBA Stores
Amazon FBA is an extremely popular program offered by Amazon where items are stored at their warehouses. The person lists the products and the prices, while Amazon takes care of storage and shipping to the customer.
These involve a successful online presence, require rental fees for the Amazon warehouse space, but then Amazon acts to fulfill the orders.
Lead Generation Websites
Lead generation websites are all about bringing in traffic from people already interested and then funneling them towards making a decision like filling out a contact form, setting up an appointment, or even giving an email for further contact.
The right high-end businesses can pay a lot for a hot lead because a single client or sale is worth an enormous amount to them. A single new client for an attorney can be worth many thousands of dollars. A real estate agent closing hot leads can make six figures.
A good lead generation website has enormous revenue and profit potential.
Amazon KDP Businesses
Kindle Direct Publishing isn’t talked about nearly as much as other online business models, but it can be very profitable whether focusing on fiction or nonfiction. Amazon KDP businesses could be in the form of a pen name used for a wide array of fiction books, or it could be a large series of books on nonfiction topics.
The royalty potential for this type of business is excellent, especially for good writers or business owners with a good team of writers.
SaaS Businesses
SaaS businesses provide an excellent solution to common problems that businesses need to solve. A good software product can lead to a multi-million dollar business. The software could be to manage workflow, team management, internal linking, or help aid on-page SEO.
As long as the software is good enough and solves a common problem the potential is there. This does require either high technical ability or a tech-savvy developer to make it work and maintain it, but the pay-off can be huge.
Online Service Businesses
There are some services that will always be in high demand, and good online service business can build up a large customer base when it is well run and developed. Online service businesses require a lot of work but can pay off in a big way.
4 Reasons To Own A Digital Asset
While online assets were once seen as highly risky or outside the norm, there’s a reason online businesses have gone much more mainstream. Many excellent benefits come specifically from investing in an online business.
1. Excellent Return on Investment & Cash Flow
Online businesses have an unusually high ROI and a high percentage of total revenues as cash flow. It’s possible to start a niche website for $70 in year one, and that can be a site that eventually makes five figures a month. Examples of this are covered in our niche site case studies.
The return on investment is often in hundreds or thousands of percentage points, and it’s possible for an online business to have 80 or 90% of revenues as incoming cash. That’s normal for online assets but very hard to find anywhere else.
2. Locational Freedom
An online business can be run from anywhere that has a steady and reliable internet connection. That freedom of location means you can work from wherever you are most productive, or wherever you wish to live.
There are even online business owners who travel the world constantly because that’s what they want to do - and the right online business setup makes that completely viable.
3. Dynamic Workload
You can take up more work to scale a business. You can put systems in place that let you cut back on hours. Systems can be created to shift where your attention needs to go and what can be more or less put on autopilot.
Online businesses are surprisingly dynamic and can be reshaped and recreated in different forms or processes to make a workload that is more appropriate to your goals, schedule, or simple convenience.
4. Ability To Outsource
Online businesses in particular are well-positioned for outsourcing. Because the service, the framework, and the business itself are online, it’s possible to train others to run the business. As long as they can jump online, they can do anything that you are currently doing.
Outsourcing writing to freelance writers is a common step in scaling content websites and is just one common example of outsourcing as part of a growing online business model.
Buying vs Building an Online Business
Should you build an online business from scratch or buy an existing online business? I’ve done both, and pros/cons exist for both strategies.
Benefits of Building From Zero
One of the biggest benefits of building from scratch is learning the process inside and out. When you know every problem that comes up, how to fix those issues, and need to learn the creative solutions or workarounds yourself, which makes it easier to create excellent training for later outsourcing.
Learning these skills firsthand also increases your ability to spot potential deals when buying a business in the future. Since you’ve built from the ground up, you can see where others are making mistakes or not optimizing.
Spotting those easy wins can help you spot a great deal when you do shift to buying in the future, and you know you have the skills to build that online business up after purchase.
The major benefits of building an online business from zero are:
Learning every aspect of an online business and how it works
Better ability to produce teachable systems or effectively outsource due to this knowledge
Increases ability to spot easy wins for future purchases
Much lower initial monetary investment
Benefits of Purchasing an Existing Online Asset
The largest immediate benefit is cash flow. If proper due diligence has been performed, the business acquired should be profitable from day one. The best online assets will be profitable with cash flow and have multiple easy wins to scale up.
Major benefits of purchasing an existing online asset include:
Immediate cash flow
Good infrastructure setup
Can focus on revenue-generating easy wins and scaling versus necessary setup and foundational work
How To Do Due Diligence When Buying an Online Asset
Due diligence is crucial when buying an online asset. While there are many great opportunities, there are many listings that are less than honest.
Getting the right numbers and finding the good deals, and avoiding the bad ones, are important for long-term success.
7 Critical Due Diligence Metrics
There are multiple things to look at in due diligence, but there are seven metrics, in particular, to focus on before going for a deal.
Those are:
Business age
Niche
Revenue
Operational costs
SEO
Partners & vendors
Valuations
These factors tell a lot about an online business, how firmly established it is, and what work can be done to make it even more valuable. These factors give all the information needed to see if a deal has potential or not.
Hire The Website Flip For Consultation
Having someone familiar with the business type is crucial. There are professionals who specialize in doing full due diligence and finding the not as easy to find information on online businesses.
Having experienced consultants who can parse through the data, try to spot problems you might have missed, or find hidden potential that you missed is invaluable. Build a good team around you.
Looking for help with due diligence? We've performed due diligence on 1,000+ deals. We will analyze the site's revenue/traffic, backlinks, niche, and more via a video walkthrough. More details here!
Where To Find Online Businesses For Sale
Multiple options exist for buying an online business. Multiple brokers specialize in providing online business opportunities, and private sales are also an excellent way to acquire online businesses with a huge amount of potential.
Finding the best website broker depends on what you’re looking for, the type of business, and budget, among other factors.
The advantage of going through a broker is that businesses are often at least initially vetted (Flippa is a notable exception) and they are openly on sale from owners who are looking to sell. Having processes in place can certainly help for a smooth transition.
Private Sale vs Broker
The disadvantages include often having to compete or pay a higher price because the public listing is going to get attention from like-minded investors also looking for a good acquisition.
A private sale opens up more options as you can approach online businesses that aren’t even publicly for sale. This also increases the chances of finding a good deal but makes due diligence even more important to confirm any numbers before pulling the trigger on a deal.
Empire Flippers Broker
Empire Flippers is one of the most popular places to look for profitable online businesses for sale. They have a reputation as being one of the best marketplaces for proven profitable businesses and have an excellent system in place for protecting both buyer and seller.
Flippa is the world’s largest marketplace for online businesses and is considered by many to be one of the best places to find an online business for sale under $10,000.
Flippa has the largest array of listings and types of businesses or online assets, but due diligence is crucial as none is provided by the site.
FE International Broker
FE International was one of the early website brokers and focuses on digital businesses that are in the six figures and above. They have a long-established group of buyers, which in turn attracts sellers with online businesses that can demand those higher prices.
How To Value Online Businesses
Valuation is an important part of the online business biosphere whether you are looking at buying or selling. The biggest issue is that the different styles of online businesses will have different formulas for valuation.
Using Valuation Formulas
Valuation formulas are a great way to get at least a good educated guess as to what an online business should reasonably sell for. If there is a common market way of valuing a type of business a simple Google search will help you find the right one.
Don’t use that as a hard and fast rule for valuation, but put some numbers through a website value calculator and see what comes up as a starting point.
Figuring Out a Reasonable Multiple
Sellers want a higher multiple. Buyers want a lower one. Finding a reasonable multiple that is high enough to acquire the business but low enough to still give room for scaling and improving revenues is crucial.
The old saying goes that the profit is made during the buy, and there is definitely some truth to that when purchasing an online asset.
Keep in mind that paying an unusually high multiple can make sense if the business is underperforming, but your experience lets you identify enough easy wins that you are confident you can multiply the revenue of the business so that it’s worth it.
Growth, Potential, & Stability of an Online Asset
When you’re looking at a profitable business to buy don’t just look at revenues. Those are important, but you should also look at how stable that income is, what the potential for growth is, and are there any easy wins that could help you quickly make that business more valuable after purchase?
These factors can drastically alter the way you look at a potential digital business purchase. Is stability your main goal? Flipping for a large profit?
All of these are details that can change whether a deal is good or not based on your specific goals.
End Goal - Flipping or Passive Income?
Your end goal for the business can make a big difference in which models are most attractive to you.
If the goal is passive income then you are looking to buy a profitable business that has a long track record of stable or growing income. This history and income stability will matter more than further potential.
A business with maxed out potential, but a safe steady income level could be a great buy if passive income is the main goal. This same business would be a terrible buy for someone looking to flip.
If the goal is to sell a website for profit, you want to see easy wins. What’s the potential of the online business? What haven’t they done that could easily boost profits? How much room is there for growth if smart planning and extra actions are taken?
Those questions lead to online acquisitions that are better for flippers because that room for growth times the common multiple is their potential for profit on that project.
Actionable Takeaways
Finding a good online website business for sale isn’t impossible. There are many great options out there whether the goal is passive income or a big flipping pay-off.
Figure out what your end goal is (passive income vs flipping)
Buy sites that play to your knowledge, strengths, and experience
Due diligence is crucial
Better to wait for the right deal than jump the gun on the wrong online match
To find the best deals check brokers and look for private deals
Follow these tips and the online websites or businesses you find for sale will be more likely to match your goals and pay off.