Here is another way to do it with some great benefits to both the seller and the buyer:

1. Set-up a FREE Web Hosting account

2. Build your site.

3. List your site for sale. Offer FREE Web Hosting as an added benefit to purchase your site.

4. When sale is complete, ask buyer to sign-up for their own free web hosting account at the host.

5. Submit help desk ticket to the host and provide the buyer’s name and account email and request to transfer your package to them.

6. Help Desk transfers the account and sends email to the buyer with login information.

That’s it!

Benefits:
1. No up front cost to build the site (except for domain name).
2. Added incentive to purchase your site by offering free web hosting.
3. Easy transfer of website ownership.

It doesn’t get any easier or cheaper than this…

Do you just setup the sites, add content, monetize the site with adwords then it’s ready to sell? Are there any metrics you should hit before trying to sell the site? Thanks!

But a great thing to show my coaching clients on good ways for simple money…

-D

In regards to widgets, I simply use the widgets in the WordPress editor. If there is something more complex I’m trying to achieve there is usually a plugin for it. For example an image slider comes built into premium themes but for Artisteer I’d use a plugin. Hope that helps.

For your widget question, sharing my experience: after playing around with Artisteer and saving a WordPress theme, I uploaded it and activated it on a blog of mine.
Then went into WordPress widget section (right under the themes section in Appearence) to see that I can drop widgets in the sidebar.

So do I understand you right, with your theme, you cannot drag and drop any widget into the sidebar (make sure the sidebar’s box is ‘dropped open’, meaning you see a drak header saying “sidebar” and dark grey box below to drag the widgets in). Please let us know how things look on your side?

Some plugings you can “let work” if you copy/paste a line of code (explained in the plugin help file – or so it should – ) into the sidebar.php that’s in your theme.

Hope Michelle will answer more and if anything not well explained by me, please ask again.

From experience I learned that forming a small group of like-minded people accelerates reaching the goal they are aiming to.

Who is interested in forming a small mailing group where flippers can ask questions and get answers, with some experienced member like Michelle (e.g. a private yahoogroups, or simple cc emails) ?

Aim of the group is to share experiences in emails, meaning everybody can email and participate.

Aim is not another list where 1 guru tries to sell this or that – with all respect to your IM model guru Josh

Who is intersted as well? All feedback welcome,

Cheers,
Stef

I just have a few questions if you don’t mind…

Do you only sell websites that are freshly made? Are the pages indexed when you sell them, and is there a reason why you don’t try to get them indexed or earning $$$ first?

I also have a Developers Artisteer Account, and love the ease of being able to design and modify a theme, but I don’t know how to code, so was wondering how you go about creating widget areas? Do you use certain plugins, or do you just code them yourself?

Many Thanks

Boss