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S02E05: Initial Website Evaluation

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Subscribe to our VIP LISTContinuing along with our Season 2 buyer series, we’re following up on last week’s episode regarding where to find websites to purchase with the next step in the process – a way to quickly determine whether a site is right for you or not.

Instead of putting a ton of hours into due diligence up-front, it’s better to create a framework that allows you to quickly and easily determine whether a business is a “go” or “no-go” right from the beginning.

We dig into our process for the initial website evaluation in this episode with the hope that you’ll walk away with some tips that will help you build out your own framework.

 

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What You’ll Learn From This Episode:

  • Looking At The Seller
  • How Do You Consider The Niche?
  • A Quick Dig Into The Website
  • Digging For Discrepencies

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Ep #15: Legal Considerations When Buying & Selling Online Businesses

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Subscribe to our VIP LISTAce and I have talked quite a bit about both the buy and sell side of a deal, but wanted to take an episode to discuss the legal ramifications of buying and selling websites and online businesses.

In today’s episode, Ace sits down with David Rubenstein from Creditshout.com to discuss some of the legal concerns on both sides of the deal.

“What due diligence issues or gotchas should I watch out for?”

“What can I do to negotiate a better deal?”

“Do contracts really protect buyers and sellers?”

If you’ve been wondering how to protect yourself legally and want to hear an attorney’s thoughts, this is the episode for you.

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What You’ll Learn From This Episode:

  • Due Diligence from an attorney’s perspective
  • Negotiating from a buyer and seller’s point of view
  • Importance of contracts when making a deal
  • Closing the deal from a legal perspetive

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Ep 14 : A CPA’s Take On Buying And Selling Online Businesses

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We get questions about the tax implications of buying online businesses all the time.

“Should this be a stock or asset sale?”

“Can I roll my sale into another purchase in a calendar year to avoid taxes?”

“What part of the sale is personal Vs. capital gains?”

We both have experience in buying/selling websites and online businesses, but when it comes to parsing thousands  of pages of tax code to find your loophole – that’s not really something we can do!

But there are people who CAN do that for you and today we sit down with one of them…

In this episode, we sit down with CPA Mario Lucibello to dig into the ins, outs, and upside downs of buying, selling, and investing in websites and online businesses. This guy’s a pro and we get into quite a bit.

Not the most exciting subject, but I had so many questions I just had to keep hammering him for the full hour. Sit back, relax, and let’s talk accounting when it comes to our industry.

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What You’ll Learn From This Episode:

  • Business Structure + Setup
  • Due Diligence With Buying Online Businesses
  • Taxes With Buying/Selling Websites

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Ep #6: Top 7 Last Minute Deal Killers

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Subscribe to our VIP LISTLosing a deal can be a gut-wrenching experience you’ll want to avoid at all costs.

Getting deep in the process only to have the deal fall through last minute is a huge waste of time, effort, and energy. The emotional swings can make it tough to get back on the horse.

In this episode, Ace and I want to give you a run through of the top 7 deal killers we’ve run across and share some of our personal experiences in losing deals on both the buy and sell side. We’ll look at some of the personality conflicts we’ve run up against, what happens when a change in earnings/traffic happens mid-closing, and some of the signs you might not be working with the best buyer/seller.

We’re hoping that sharing our experiences here will help you avoid losing your own deals at the last minute.

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What You’ll Learn From This Episode:

  • Too many unnecessary employees and loose relationships with contractors
  • Personality conflicts
  • Vendor or wholesaler requirements are too stringent
  • A last minute decline in revenue or traffic
  • Pending Legislation (or Litigation)
  • Seller is CRITICAL to the business
  • Seller had a litigious past

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Ep #5: Negotiating The Deal

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Subscribe to our VIP LISTTrying to negotiate a deal from either the buy or sell side can be one of the most exciting, exhausting, and rewarding parts of closing the deal on a an online business purchase.

Having closed more than $10M in deals combined, we’ve definitely had our fair share of breathtaking wins and devastating losses here.

We’ll be covering some of our experiences in this episode and walking you through the pre-negotiation steps, discussing points of negotiation you might not have even considered, and then finally sharing some of our best negotiating tips and tactics to get a win-win deal for all parties.

 

If you’re looking to hear some real-world experiences when it comes to negotiating online business purchases, this is the episode for you – hope you enjoy!

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What You’ll Learn From This Episode:

  • Pre-Negotiation – Break out your Critical Vs. Non-Critical points
  • Points of Negotiation – Total Sales Price, Seller Financing, Stock Vs. Asset Sale
  • Negotiation Tips – Find out what the buyer/seller wants out of the deal

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