{"id":507,"date":"2011-09-26T14:42:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T18:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/?p=507"},"modified":"2011-12-11T22:39:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T02:39:01","slug":"how-to-know-when-your-site-isnt-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/buying-and-selling-websites\/how-to-know-when-your-site-isnt-selling","title":{"rendered":"How to Know When Your Site Isn&#8217;t Selling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some people, the answer to the question suggested by this article&#8217;s title is simple: if you haven&#8217;t sold your website yet, then the thing isn&#8217;t selling. But most of us are smart enough to realize that just because a site doesn&#8217;t sell in a week doesn&#8217;t mean it won&#8217;t sell at all.<\/p>\n<p>The real question, then, is how you know when the site isn&#8217;t selling <em>at all<\/em>. If your site has been on the market for quite a while, you might start doubting its true value and attractiveness to potential buyers. On the other hand, you don&#8217;t want to end the sale simply because you haven&#8217;t had enough bites yet. Here&#8217;s how to know when your site truly isn&#8217;t selling and warrants a bit of an intervention.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time: The True Measurement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say your site doesn&#8217;t generate a single offer. Should you remove it from the marketplace entirely? Should you lower the price? Should you take action &#8211; any action &#8211; to get the thing to sell? Well, sure, maybe after ten days or so. But if you&#8217;ve just waited ten minutes, you&#8217;ll want to head over to the couch and relax, because you&#8217;re over thinking the entire process.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why time is the true measurement of your site&#8217;s selling prospects. Ten minutes is not enough time to gauge just how high the potential for selling it is, but give it more time at the same price and you&#8217;ll start to get a truer sense of where your site stands. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s important to set a date in advance of the sale that you follow through with no matter what: tell yourself you&#8217;ll leave the site up for sale at a certain price for two weeks &#8211; and then follow through. You&#8217;ll be tempted to deviate from the entire process, but stay committed to your initial promise.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for this is that without time, you don&#8217;t know much. Don&#8217;t be that fisherman who has to check his net every five minutes to see if he&#8217;s caught something &#8211; instead, enhance your chances of success by leaving the net in the water for a longer duration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When to Intervene<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since timing is the theme of this post, we do have to mention that at some point, you&#8217;ll want to intervene to further encourage the <a title=\"sale of your site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/\" target=\"_self\">sale of your site<\/a>. Perhaps the initial two weeks has past and you don&#8217;t feel like selling the site anymore. Or maybe you did get a few offers and just need to adjust your price expectations to move forward. Whatever the case, use your real results from WebsiteBroker.com to accurately gauge where you&#8217;re at.<\/p>\n<p>The more drastic your results, the more drastic the action you&#8217;ll need to take. No buying offers at all could mean you&#8217;ll really need to shake things up. If you received a few bids at a low price, maybe just a quick price tweak will change your results. Whatever you do, make sure you take action commensurate with the feedback of the marketplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some people, the answer to the question suggested by this article&#8217;s title is simple: if you haven&#8217;t sold your website yet, then the thing isn&#8217;t selling. But most of us are smart enough to realize that just because a site doesn&#8217;t sell in a week doesn&#8217;t mean it won&#8217;t sell at all. The real question, then, is\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/buying-and-selling-websites\/how-to-know-when-your-site-isnt-selling\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[330,331,148,308],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websitebroker.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}