Buy a Website

Finding a quality website to acquire is more difficult than most people understand.

At Quiet Light Brokerage, we place a strong emphasis on only representing websites that are above average and to offer you, the buyer, a safe and profitable acquisition. The vast majority of website owners who ask us to help them find a buyer for their website are turned away because they do not meet our strict requirements.

You will quickly find that buying a web based business from Quiet Light Brokerage is a straight-forward, matter-of-fact process in which you are given honest, verifiable information. Our goal is to broker transactions that make sense for both the seller and the buyer, and that means that you need to be comfortable with the process from your first contact with us through the finalization of the sale.

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Online Retailer Sells Paints - Established 1999 - Year to Year Growth - Get More Info
Asking Price: $700,000

This is your opportunity to get an early look at a very well established business just waiting to be brought to the next level by implementing simple marketing practices. On line since 1999 and well established as the leading online paint and paint supply retailer. Offering 10,000 products from over 200 major manufacturers, with 24 hour online order processing and shipping to all 50 US states. The business has well defined, effective systems with an outstanding reputation with its customers and suppliers alike. Growth has been consistent with plenty of room of for further growth still remaining as little to no marketing has been done.

• Consistent revenue growth year over year
• Well designed, functional and easily navigated website
• Fast, efficient order processing and shipping systems
• Return authorization number required, plus a 15% restocking fee keep returns to a minimum, consistently at less than 1%
• Efficient business model requires only two people to handle all tasks including shipping requirements. Could potentially be switched to drop ship or fulfillment model.
• Business is approximately 75% residential homeowners and 25% to businesses and contractors
• Solid growth history with 15% revenue increase being achieved organically without increased advertising investment
• Further growth potential in the contractor market
• Established relationships with over 200 major manufacturers providing direct links with referrals and recommendations for many of the top searched products
• Most products offered rank in the top 3 on Google organic search results
• Extensive past customer database with full product and purchasing history
• No prior knowledge of industry required

Huge Recipe Website - 200,000+ Members - Get More Info
Asking Price: $650,000

Established in 2002, this is a recipe site that gives users the "secret recipes" of famous foods that they can get in their local restaurants. For example, members can lookup a recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken's famous original crispy chicken recipe.

The heart of this site is a web community. There are over 60,000 people registered in the forums and over 200,000 subscribers to the email list. Both the forums and the newsletter are growing at very good rates (over 1,000 new forum members per month, and far more newsletter subscribers per month).

All of the content and recipes are generated by the members, so an owner does not need to have any experience in cooking to be successful with this site. The site is also growing on its own due to its very strong and growing membership base.

It is rare in these current economic times to find a site that can boast of growing revenues. This site is an absolute cash cow and will continue to generate a strong income for years to come.

Retail Website, 4 Yr Growth History, Immediate Positive Cash Flow, No Special Expertise Needed - Get More Info
Asking Price: $420,000

The business has shown consistent year on year growth over a 4 year history online. Best of all, no product specific expertise is required to run - immediate positive cash flow – plenty of room for growth.  Large selection of high quality wigs & hair pieces ranging from $15.00 - $300.00+  Average margin is 60%  Volume sales allow pricing to remain low, beating out the competition and generating both repeat customers and referral revenue  Ebay store [included in the sale] sells at a higher margin and also drives traffic and revenue to main site  Well established vendor relationships with multiple long term suppliers - two new suppliers ready to come online increase variety of styles available  Over 2400 registered customers  No specific or wig related expertise is required to run the business. All vendors have telephone and or email support to answer any questions or concerns customers may have.

Highly Popular Greeting Cards Website For Sale - Get More Info
Asking Price: $325,000

ghly popular greeting cards website founded in 2001 that boasts nearly 10,000+ members with recurring revenue. This greeting card business competes with the biggest sites in its field (e.g. bluemountain.com) and is poised to be able to move into new markets for further growth. A great market and could benefit with the addition of jibjab type content. This company has over 24,000 active clients.

Profitable business sells air purifiers, water purifiers, and portable air conditioners - Get More Info
Asking Price: $295,000

Established in 2003. This is primarily a drop ship business with 8 primary vendors that sells air purifiers, water purifiers, and portable air conditioners. With an average ticket price of $250.00 and 4-5 thousand customers, seller has over 203k in sales for 2007. Seller currently spends about 25 hours a week on this business. The owner has multiple businesses and must divest.

Well Established Auto/Truck Parts Site - 100% Dropshipped - Get More Info
Asking Price: $160,000

Well established Auto/Truck accessory site, since 2004. It is Amazon’s largest automotive retailer. Consistent growth over last four years. 100% dropped shipped. Current owner spends around 3-5 hours per day. Has done $0 in advertising and still maintains it’s marketshare. With a bit more TLC and some time, this business could be blown up to the next level. The company was one of the first companies to get into this industry. The competition is doing exactly what this company is doing but spending way more on advertising and this company is still getting a share of the market with paying out $0 in advertising. Because of the length of relationship with vendors, this company can always beat the price of it’s competition.

Authority Niche PC Reviews Website-180k Visitors per Month - Get More Info
Asking Price: $150,000

This is an authority news and review site for the niche PC market for tablet and ultra mobile PCs.

• This site has advertisers that are some of the biggest names in the PC manufacturing and mobile PC products industry
• This site sees over 180,000 Visitors in an average month, 390,000 Page views. This traffic can be monetized in many different ways
• After 3 quarters of 2008, Revenue is up 24% & Net Income is us 42% vs. 4 quarters of 2007.
• Advertiser relationships are contractual vs. many sites in this space that are not. This provides additional assurances of the stability of this site
• This site always has fresh, professionally written content, with an average of 6-10 new articles each day. The majority of articles are written by authorized writers, with a minority written by the owner of this business. Fresh content is what keeps the readers coming back again and again to the site.
• All traffic to the site is unpaid traffic either coming from Organic Search, Direct-In, or from referring sites. The simplicity of traffic volume to this site means a new owner will not need to be an expert in online marketing to drive traffic.
• This site serves an industry that most everyone in the PC world believe will be the “next boom” for the PC world (Tablet PC & UltraMobile PC’s/UMPC’s)
• This site is about to enter a strategic relationship with one of the largest and most well known PC Manufacturers in the world. First year contractual relationship has a $100k value @ a 75% margin
• The site earns an average between $800-1200 monthly on Google Adsense alone!

The Next Craigslist - Get More Info
Asking Price: $145,000

This business provides quality advertising opportunities for businesses interested in reaching today’s online consumer. For the past 12 years in business, the majority focus has been placed on serving the automobile dealerships primarily in Oregon. However, in late 2006, the website was completely redesigned, allowing the business to provide quality advertising opportunities for virtually every well known business segment. ( A complete list of those opportunities will be displayed later in this prospectus)

Extremely Automated-Keyword Search Service-124% (TTM) Growth - Get More Info
Asking Price: $102,000

This online Web site service provider has been in business since November 2006 and has shown tremendous growth in the past twelve months! This business provides unique keyword search and list generation to Web-based businesses who are looking to increase their traffic via search engines picking up on keywords that (currently)no other keyword search service can match! Subscription to the services are also drastically less than other keyword search services in addition to offering expanded keyword list services. Extremely automated; current owner spends approximately one hour per week in maintenance, including answering customer emails. This business has a built-in advantage over other similar service providers, has an established customer base and affiliates, and has growth potential. Key points: 124% growth from May 2007 to April 2008, offers keyword search service that no other keyword search service is offering, pre-existing customer base and affiliates. This business has not been marketed recently. Current traffic to the site comes directly from old marketing and/or through affiliates. The growth potential is huge; with a little marketing effort such as advertising the services of this site on Web site hosting providers pages and/or along with Web page creation software vendors, online Web-based business industry publications and in searchable Web site services provider directories would easily drive a tremendous amount of traffic to the site.

Community Based Online Strategy Game - Good History - Get More Info
Asking Price: $97,000

This website is a lot of fun to run! This is an online, community driven game which has members competing against each other for "world domination". When a new member signs up, they represent their own country. Members compete and fight against each other to see who can build the largest country. Members can join or start alliances, modify their profiles, and immerse themselves in this alternate reality.

As the owner of this site, you not only have the opportunity to modify the gameplay to create new challenges, but you will also earn a nice side income. This site has 3 years of revenue history and is showing nice growth. In addition, the site shows plenty of new growth opportunities. Click the "More Info" above or call Mark Daoust at 651-587-4018 to learn more information.

Niche, Profitable Appraisal Directory For Sale - Get More Info
Asking Price: $97,000

This is a national directory for appraisers across the country. Lenders who need appraisers can quickly and easily find a local appraiser through this directory. Appraisers pay a nominal, annual fee to be included in the directory. For an appraiser this fee is easily justifiable as just one referral over the course of the year will pay for the cost of being included in the directory. As the directory grows in size and its ability to send referrals, this is an area that a new owner could conceivably increase rates. This is a very straightforward web directory in a strong vertical niche market. A new buyer will find a website that has built a solid foundation and is ripe for further development, automation, and growth. At only 8 months old, this site is still in its infancy. Reason for Selling. The current owner owns and operates multiple websites. This specific site is not the main focus of his attention and as it is experiencing very strong growth, he would like to put it in the hands of another owner who can continue to develop, grow, and market what he started. Web directories in strong vertical niches, like this one, that incorporate renewable membership fees frequently find asking prices that are four times the annual net income. However, due to the fact that this website has been live for less than 1 year, this site is currently being offered at just 2.6 times its last 12 months of net income.

Online Security Products Store - Solid Website! - Get More Info
Asking Price: $90,000

Own an online business that has a consistent income stream over the last 3 years. This is a wholesale source for all personal and home security needs; specializing in home alarms including nanny cams and security monitoring. Pepper spray, stun guns and all personal protection items. They have a loyal client base with competitive and diverse products and they provide a high level of customer service. They have a big advantage in that they provide a greater variety of products over there competitors. Products are provided from 5-6 unique manufacturers/wholesalers while the said competition generally draws from only 1-2 suppliers. This biz has a stellar reputation among customers, and has plenty of room for added growth. They have processed 10,000 + orders since its inception. The right buyer is someone who wants to take a great framework with well established business supplier relationships and take it to the next level. A little effort could take this business to a 6 figure income. Current owner spends about 20 hours per week maintaining it. Summary of Benefits • Consistent revenues and net income over the past 4 years. • 15-20% of business is from repeat customers. 6500 customers. • Very strong relationship with the suppliers and distributors over the past 6 years. • Customers are in all 50 states and 20+ foreign countries • Average sale is $75 • Average orders per month is 191 for the last 12 months • Plenty of room to grow. Current owner feels the business can be expanded more by utilizing more resources in promoting the business more aggressively. • Extremely satisfied clients. The return rate is approximately 3 for every 500 orders; the exchange rate is 5 for every 500 orders. • Efficient business model. This biz has a big advantage over there competitors as they provide a greater variety of products. They provide products from 5-6 unique manufacturers/wholesalers, where the competitors use 1-2 • Competitive and diverse products with a high level of customer service.

Fully Outsourced Web Design SEO firm - Get More Info
Asking Price: $70,000

This firm is a full service web design and development firm that offers everything from SEO, PPC advertising, website design, to SEO copy. The company is current ran by one person with all work being outsourced. The owner specifically focuses on the sales and marketing of the company, not the actual work of doing the coding etc. ≈20,000 in contracts to be collected and completed for a new owner. Favorably priced.

Niche E-Commerce Store Sells Fabrics - Get More Info
Asking Price: $56,000

This is a very niche e-commerce store that sells fabrics. Originally started as a brick and mortar store, the owner converted the business to a website-only operation in 2003. Since that time the site has shown very predictable growth and continues to do so. Much of this is due to her high rate of return customers (she only has roughly a 1% return rate on orders). This website is perfect for someone looking for a simple operation that they can mold and grow into something bigger. This site has the history, reputation, inventory, and model that will be great to build upon!

Canada Recreation Website - Subscription Income - Immediate Growth Opportunity! - Get More Info
Asking Price: $38,000

This biz was started to promote wilderness travel in Canada. Loaded with pages upon pages of high quality content, this biz receives all of its traffic from organic sources (search engines and 3rd party websites voluntarily linking over). Owner has over $20K in programming including custom store and databases (sql and contact manager dbf). The website has three sources of revenue: listing revenue, an online store, and advertising revenue. The listing revenue is far and away the most significant portion of the business. Interested companies can have their businesses listed for $120/year (multiple listings come with a discount). In addition, some companies opt to take on additional advertising for greater exposure on this site. They also sell topography maps through an online store. Potential to grow to 200 customers and 400 paid listings with increased marketing effort. Traffic: 14,000 to 18,000 unique visitors each month. This is non-paid traffic, but rather traffic generated from organic places (search engines and voluntary incoming links). Marketing: The directory has two levels of listings: enhanced – which are paid for and include photo, description and links, and general – which are name, address and phone only. There are close to 688 general listings on the directory that form the major focus of marketing efforts to attract new paid enhanced listings. Key Benefits
Strong recurring revenue
60% growth from 2005 to 2007
Easy to run directory
Very strong search engine representation
Stable source of traffic from existing inbound links and search engines
Long established website (8 years history)
Turn key operation
Renewal fees range from $120 for single listings to $180; $240 or $300 for multiple listing categories
Main advertising is with Google $20.00 per month
Database of prospective listing advertisers of 700
Recurring listing customer base in excess of 700 and growing with over 200 paid listings.
Recurring loyal banner advertiser also supplies contest prizes
Marketing database of 3,670 visitors
Very low operating cost.
Greater store potential to sell many other items.
Potential for more regular banner advertisers with increased traffic.

Price Reduced - Niche, Profitable Web Directory For Sale - Get More Info
Asking Price: $25,500

This niche web directory is a popular lingerie & clothing shopping directory. It was founded in 2005 complete with custom scripts and features. The site has many streams of income, including: affiliate sales, annually renewing directory listings, lifetime directory listings, Google Adsense revenue & advertising. The site was created exclusively to catalog select online retailers selling lingerie, footwear, fashion accessories, swimwear, beauty products & women's clothing. It was designed with a twofold purpose: 1. To afford the convenience of comparison shopping from a single destination. 2. To provide shopping outlets a platform to launch their stores and the opportunity for online visibility. Revenue is generated by natural search engine positions on Google & Yahoo as well as traffic from the 500+ home page image and text links on related websites.