How does one go about placing a cash value on website?   Content, Data,
Administration and support?

Yahoo and Google are worth Billions, and I assume some of the Adult ones
are worth at least a million or more.  But,what about the average website? H
ow
do they come up with a cash value for those websites?

Is there an organization or website that keeps track of what various website
s
are sold for?

...absolutely any direction or information is greatly appreaciated.

Thanks

Mark C.
mconley2006@yahoo.com

In article <mN8Lf.55859$id5.1142@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
mconley2006@yahoo.com (Mark) wrote:

> How does one go about placing a cash value on website?   Content, Data,
> Administration and support?

I'd start with traffic and go from there.

leo

--
<http://web0.greatbasin.net/~leo/>

Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> In article <mN8Lf.55859$id5.1142@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
>  mconley2006@yahoo.com (Mark) wrote:
>
> 
>
>
> I'd start with traffic and go from there.
>
> leo
>
I'd take a more traditional approach.  Start with cash flow, and go from
there.  Just like any business sale, it's not just the assets that are
being sold, it's the future revenue.

--
Theg

Theg wrote:
> Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> 
> I'd take a more traditional approach.  Start with cash flow, and go from
> there.  Just like any business sale, it's not just the assets that are
> being sold, it's the future revenue.

I'd go with that.

The very first website I worked on (back in '95) was doing 16
Gigs/months (that was when 14,400 was a fast connection and bandwidth
was expensive) when we shut it down.

It wasn't making much money though!

Cheers,
Jeff

In article <FQaLf.15112$gh4.10456@trnddc06>, Theg <no@email.please>
wrote:

> I'd take a more traditional approach.  Start with cash flow, and go from
> there.  Just like any business sale, it's not just the assets that are
> being sold, it's the future revenue.

I wasn't thinking properly. Apologies to Rastus. You are, of course,
correct. I simply forgot what makes money. Doh!

leo

--
<http://web0.greatbasin.net/~leo/>

Fleeing from the madness of the TMG Inc jungle
Mark <mconley2006@yahoo.com> stumbled into
news:alt.www.webmaster,alt.www.webmaster.xxx
and said:

> How does one go about placing a cash value on website?

As others have suggested, one applies the same processes as when acquiring
any business or asset.  Perhaps two, maybe three years profit is a good
place to start - all is negotiatable.  In the end it comes down to:
o what is it worth to the buyer
o what value the seller places on it

the transfer can only take place when common ground is reached.

--
William Tasso

whither a trophy?