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Brokers: I would like to know as a business broker, if you've seen successful exits for motivational blogs (or spiritual)?
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David Favor, Fractional CTO answered:

A very good question, with many long, complex answers.

As a starting point, take a look at flippa offerings to get an idea of common metrics disclosures.

You can also search for flippa + metrics + read up on the entire deal flow of site sales.

In general, most sites sell for 2.5x-7x yearly profit.

This also depends on payment spread. In other words, a site might sell for 2.5x cash or 7x paid a 25% of monthly profits, till sale price is reached.

If you go the 2nd route, be sure you escrow your DNS records with an attorney + have a reversion clause.

In other words, if 3 years into the deal, the person you sold to gets hit by a bus + can no longer make payments, then business reverts to you, along with control of DNS records.

Very important to have a reversion clause which triggers any time your buyer fails to make a payment.

Many people miss considering this when they sell a business for payments over time.

Which is tough, because many times you can sell your business for much more money if you're willing to sell over time, rather than a single up front payment.

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