[Build Great Backlinks] 16 Top eCommerce Business Sales – Sell Your Ecommerce Business for Millions

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When most people think of ecommerce, they tend to think of retail websites. In reality, ecommerce consists of everything that has to do with trading products or services electronically. This means all of the payment processing, ecommerce software, third party processing, and everything else that has to do with buy and selling electronically. The reason why we are going over this basic information is to give you an idea on how many ecommerce business opportunities there are and then to show you how much those opportunities can be worth in the long run.

In this article we will be going over some of the biggest ecommerce sales and looking at how much you could potentially make with a company that is directly involved with doing business over the internet.

#1 – PayPal.com – Sold for $1.5 Billion

Year founded: 1998

Year sold: 2002

PayPal is a e-commerce business that processes payments and money transfers throughout the internet. It is used internationally and is the biggest alternative to using traditional transfer methods. On October 3rd, 2002 eBay bought PayPal for 1.5 billion dollars. Throughout the years PayPal has grown into a company that has a revenue (2002) of 5.6 billion dollars and continues to see a rise in growth. What once was just a payment processor for small transactions turned into a multi-billion dollar powerhouse.

#2 – Billmelater.com - Sold for $1.2 Billion

Year founded: 2000

Year sold: 2008

Bill Me Later is a proprietary payment option that has been offered on a lot of well-known websites. It offers customers a line of revolving credit which allows them to make purchases online without using a credit card. PayPal purchased Bill Me Later on November 7, 2008 for 1.2 billion dollars. While the concept took a little while to get popular, the company has become more and more popular.

#3 – Zappos.com – Sold for $1.5 Billion

Year founded: 1999

Year sold: 2009

Zappos is an online retail website that sells shoes and clothing. Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, the company was founded by Nick Swinmurn and his company was seeing over 8 million dollars in revenue within just 2 years. The company is now seeing over 1 billion dollars in revenue per year and was purchased by Amazon in July of 2009. They purchased the company for about 1.2 billion dollars. When nick first had come up with the idea to sell shoes online, his investors almost declined saying it wasn’t profitable enough. Now the online retail store has become one of the biggest show retailers in the world. That goes to show, never underestimate an idea you may think be profitable.

#4 – Endeca.com – Sold for $1.075 Billion

Year founded: 1999

Year sold: 2011

Endeca was sold for 1.075 billion dollars on October 18, 2011 to the Oracle Corporation. Endeca sells ecommerce search, enterprise search, business intelligence, and customer experience management applications. This international company has thrived over the years by providing ecommerce and other intelligence to their clients and were recognized as a pioneer in their industry.

#5 – Shopping.com – Sold for $620 Million

Year founded: 1998

Year sold: 2005

Shopping.com is a price comparison service that uses websites in 5 countries. Originally, the company was Dealtime.com and founded in Israel in 1998 by D. Nuhum Sharfman and Amir Ashkenazi. Originally it was a model to make a downloadable client that can monitor changes in price for certain products. Then it would notify the customer with price drops. That idea was then evolved and they were bought by eBay for 620 Million dollars.

#6 – Kelkoo.com – Sold for $1.5 Billion

Year founded: 1999

Year sold: 2004

Kelkoo is a European price comparison server that was founded in France, 1999 by Pierre Chappaz and Mauicio Lopez. It allowed customers to find information about products that they were interested in by including information about different prices and sellers. It was purchased by Yahoo! Inc in April 2004 for 579 million dollars and then was later sold to a private equity firm in 2008.

#7 – Half.com – Sold for $318 Million

Year founded: 1999

Year sold: 2000

Half.com allows sellers to offer items that usually have a ISBN, UPC, or other types of SKU. There are only a limited amount of categories that they allow on their but that hasn’t stopped their site from gaining massive popularity in such a short time.  It was bought by eBay on June 13, 2000 for 318 million and continues to thrive.

#8 – Stubhub.com – Sold for $310 Million

Year founded: 2000

Year sold: 2007

StubHub  is a marketplace that provides services for buyers as well as sellers of tickers for concerts, sports, theater, and other live events. It is now the largest ticket marketplace in the world. The company refuses to reveal its financial information, but they did say that they process a ticket it order every single second and had over 15 million unique visitors per month in the year of 2012. The company was acquired by eBay on January 10, 2007 for 310 Million dollars.

#9 – Hautelook.com – Sold for $270 Million

Year founded: 2007

Year sold: 2011

HauteLook is a flash sales business, which was acquired by Nordstrom for 270 million dollars in 2011. The business got popular due to its exclusivity of members only and online sample sales. High end retailers place their excess inventory on sale for a large percentage discount over a limited amount of time. They offer products for women, men, and even children.

#10 – buy.com – Sold for $250 Million

Year founded: 1997

Year sold: 2010

Buy.com has seen many ups and downs throughout the years but ultimately grew into a massive online retail store owned by Japan’s biggest ecommerce company. Rakuten, Inc purchased Buy.com in May 2010 for 250 Million dollars. Buy.com originally sold computers and electronics, but has since expanded into many other categories. In its first year of business it sold over 110 million dollars worth of goods and services, which beat many of their tenured competitors.

#11 -Magento.com – Sold for $225 Million

Year founded: 2008

Year sold: 2010

Magento is a open source ecommerce application that acted as a content management system for web hosting services. eBay bought the whole program for 225 million dollars in February 2010 making them 100% owners. In April 2014, it is estimated that Magento is used by 1% of all websites. Magento is among the top 20 most popular ecommerce platforms for businesses to use.

#12 – Gittigidiyor.com – Sold for $217.5 Million

Year founded: 2001

Year sold: 2007

Gitti Gidiyor is a Turkish e-shopping mall that eBay bought on May 3, 2007 for 217.5 million dollars. Consumers have access to all types of different products and are also able to sell whatever they want. It has evolved to replicate the main eBay website ever since it was purchased. eBay has been trying to expand their presence over the world which made this an important acquisition for them.

#13 – Eachnet.com – Sold for $150 Million

Year founded: 1999

Year sold: 2003

EachNet provides a similar service as eBay which is why it became a subsidiary of eBay inc on July 16, 2003 for 150 million dollars. It is an ecommerce company that provides auction services to consumers and businesses in China. The community is able to buy and sell a large range of items in different price formats.

#14 – Joyo.com - Sold for $75 Million

Year founded: 1998

Year sold: 2004

Joyo.com started out as a IT information service and download website prior to the year 2000. Shortly after, the company decided to become an online book store. One the company started to grow, Amazon took notice and decided to buy them for 75 million dollars on August 19, 2004. The name then changed in 2007 to Amazon China, making it the 7th regional website of Amazon.com. Joyo only had 5 employees in 1999 but a year and a half later, became the 33rd largest Chinese website.

#15 – Milo.com – Sold for $75 Million

Year founded: 2004

Year sold: 2010

Milo lists real time product inventory for more than 50,000 stores around the country. There are over 3 million products from many large companies and it is continuing to grow. eBay bought Milo for 75 million dollars in 2010 in an another attempt to get into the 917 billion dollar market of online research. eBay brought their inventories to Milo and also integrated local product feeds to its online market place and mobile applications.

#16 – Lexity.com – Sold for $35 Million

Year founded: 2009

Year Sold: 2013

Lexity provides ecommerce services and even has their own app store that provides marketing applications that are made to help online merchants drive sales. It was purchased by Yahoo! for 35 million dollars on July 31, 2013. The company currently focuses on creating mobile applications for ecommerce purposes. Founder Amit Kumar has been successful with similar projects in the past and was allowed to stay with Lexity after it was purchased by Yahoo!.

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[Build Great Backlinks] 7 Ways To Get An Extra Sale Today

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Welcome back to the AwesomeWeb Series.

Last time, I asked the guys the number one design feature your website may be missing. Because people are quick to judge based on your appearance, and the same is true when it comes to website design.

If you’re site’s ugly, you’re not going to sell as much. Which brings us to our second question in the series…

How to generate an extra sale today! 

In order to makes sales at will, it’s important to understand who your target audience is. And if you don’t understand your prospect, you won’t sell him anything. 

Get to know what motivates them and truly listen. Keep in mind people don’t particularly care about you online. This is why you need to show them you truly care to form a lasting (profitable) relationship.

Once you do, you’ll be able to utilize the following methods over and over for a lifetime of sales.

If you had to get an extra sale today, how would you get it?

Email Your List

Contributed by Brian Moran

I would email my list. Simple as that.

It’s the easiest way to sell products.

If you don’t have a list, I would focus on creating one. It’s the only way you can control your own destiny as a marketer.

Paid Ads

Contributed by Tom Lambert

Paid advertising. I’m 100% behind creating a holistic traffic strategy that leverages all of the different channels we have available to us as digital marketers (social, email, affiliates, etc.) but paid ads will always be the quickest way to make a sale.

In under an hour I can design my ads, write my copy, build and launch an ad campaign for as little as $5/day.

Within a few hours (depending on the ad network) my ads will be live and pushing targeted traffic to my website.

No other digital marketing channel has that type of on/off switch with such a small barrier to entry. If you’re just getting started with paid ads make sure that you’re testing everything from your creative & copy to your landing pages to your ad targeting.

I’ve never worked in a niche or vertical that I can’t make paid ads profitable in after some fine tuning and testing.

Email Your List

Contributed by Dainis Graveris

If I had to get an extra sale today I would definitely use my email list and send an email out. It's the easiest way to make money instantly.

Even better, I would approach some past advertisers and offer to send out a promotional email to my list if I was really in need of money. But generally I like writing affiliate articles, while providing huge value and passively making extra income throughout the month.

Contact An Existing Client

Contributed by Nicholas Tart

Most of my work to this point has been freelancing as a WordPress designer and developer. For me, I would contact an existing client and recommend that I do or fix something on their site.

I’d give them an hourly estimate and they’d give me the go-ahead. I’ve been fortunate to never have a marketing problem for that side of my business. For three years I’ve had as much work as I can handle.

The challenge is finding the best clients and working on projects that I’m passionate about.

One of the principles that Ben Jesson, from Conversion Rate Experts, taught me was that if you can’t sell something to someone on the street, you can’t sell to them online. CRE’s process starts with interviewing past customers to figure out why they bought, what benefits sold the product, and what it would take for them to buy again.

Then they use that information as the basis for every conversion decision that they make. When we’re online we tend to lose sight of the fact that a sale is still a person-to-person transaction.

Email Your List

Contributed by Josh Dunlop

Well you can always email your list, but that will inevitably burn them if all you're doing is selling.

If I wanted to sustain my list, while making sales, I'd turn to Facebook Ads. I have a pretty well converting sequence set up, so I'd try and spend a couple hundred dollars in ads during the day, and make it back plus a little extra within 24 hours.

I usually see my money back pretty quickly, then the profit comes from the people I sell to later on in the sequence.

Publish An Article & Set Google Alerts

Contributed by David Aston 

If I needed to get an extra sale today and assuming my list has already been emailed, I’d write an article with a plug to whatever it is I’m selling.

After publishing the post containing links to the product I need to sell, I’d set up Google alerts. These Google Alerts will notify me when anybody enters a keyphrase relating to my article topic.

Then I’ll leave a comment answering whatever question the user had, while subtly inserting a link to the article in my signature. You can also immediately jump on Yahoo Answers and search open questions relating to the problem you, your product, or article is solving.

After each question you genuinely answer, leave the link to the “money page” in your resource box. In the past, this has instantly driven multiple sales and hundreds of extra unique visitors to my sites.

Make sure you’re not being “spammy” and actually offering value. If you’re primary focus is only on the sale and not delivery of valuable insight, your prospect will sense this and not purchase.

Use Somebody Else’s List

Contributed by Michael Dunlop

If I had to make a sale today and I was desperate to make it?? and I couldn’t use an already existing list?

Then I would use someone else’s list. Here’s an example of how I would see it going down:

I have a health ebook that I sell. To find affiliates, the simplest thing you can do is to head over to Clickbank.

Clickbank is a shoppingcart/merchant. It has a marketplace where it displays all it’s users in categories, in order of most successful.

So I would go to the health area, find other people who have products and I would email every single person there till I got the yes I needed.

Don’t just ask for someone to promote you. Do something to stand out:

• Customise your sales page to mention the affiliate to increase conversions.
• Do a guest post for their blog.
• Be interviewed for their site.
• Offer them a decent cut of the sale. Info products don’t really cost the vendor much, it’s nearly all profit. So offer them 50% – 75% of the sale. You wouldn’t have the sale without them. You could also include scarcity here, for example, 75% affiliate commissions, today only!
• Offer to reciprocate the promotion. Later on you agree to promote them. This is only cool if they have a decent product. Most people just agree to do this not caring what they have to promote, just so that they can make a sale. Don’t be this person.
• Come up with a reason for the late notice promotion. For example… Late notice 24 hour fire sale, buy quick!!! Big discounts! I see people freak on tax day and do 24 hour sales to pay what they owe in tax and they use this reason for the sale and it works!

Everyone is always looking for something to sell. Just remember that. 

7 Things to do right now to make an extra sale.

1. Open an Aweber account, set up your first squeeze page and send your first email sequence.
2. Head over to Clickbank’s marketplace, find products in the same category as you and reach out to respective owners for a jv.
3. Set up PopUp Domination and increase your optins by overs 500% overnight. In order to gain opt-ins, you’ll need to give something of value away – video, app, audio, eBook, eCourse, etc.
4. Write an awesome, valued filled article/blog post and recommend a product or service within. Set up google alerts relating to the problem your article solves. Respond to the google alerts with more value and leave the link to your post in the signature or resource box.
5. Reach out to an existing client and create  a sale. Figure out why they bought before, what benefits sold the product, and what it would take for them to buy again.
6. Set up a paid advertising campaign as this is often one of the easiest and fastest ways to make a sale online.
7.  Write an article of huge value and insert affiliate links cleverly within. Then email your list about the article. Simple.

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[Build Great Backlinks] 15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Successful

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Have you ever wondered why you’re not reaching your next level in business and life?

Hi, I’m Maxine,

I often talk about how to overcome self-doubt & achieve your goals. Today, I’m going to share with you some of the main reasons why most people never achieve success.

You see, there are so many things that hinder us from achieving our goals. We all cling on to bad habits, deconstructive behavior and limiting beliefs.  

The difference between stagnation and growth are often subtle shifts. Here are 15 things to give up for more success:

1. Give Up Your Mask

In order to avoid getting hurt and rejected, we hide who we really are behind a mask of who we think we should be.

Have the courage to be you, to show your true emotions and stand behind them – even at the risk of disapproval.

Embrace not only the "good" side of you, but also the vulnerable side. Because vulnerability is authentic and real.

It's the source of creativity and innovation. It creates opportunity.

"Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness."  ~Brené Brown,

2. Give Up Your Belief In The Future

Yes, your future holds your hopes, your dreams and desires – but your future depends on the choices you make today.

Believe in the presence.  You only ever have this moment – because the past moments are gone and the future will eventually show up as another moment of now.

Success starts at this very moment, with the choices you make right now. Practice presence.

Notice what's around you, what you see, hear, taste and smell. Notice what you experience and interact with it.

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life." ~Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

3. Give Up Your SOS  (Shiny Object Syndrome)

Whether it's chasing that next "shiny" idea or the secret shortcuts to success – we are all guilty of this addiction.

The pursuit of everything that seems appealing is seductive. It makes us get side-tracked, loose focus and go in a million different directions. 

Take time to identify the ideas and activities worth pursuing and then stick to them on a consistent basis.

"If you want to draw water you do not dig six one-foot wells. You dig one six-foot well." ~Buddha

4. Give Up Your Need Of Other's Approval

You sabotage your success if you make choices that aim to avoid disapproval. Your ego's seeking of recognition is never ending and makes you miss potentially rewarding opportunities because of your fear of being criticised.

Choose wisely between what's good for the ego and what's good for your success.

"A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep." ~Vernon Howard

5. Give Up Taking "No" As "No"

Interpret feedback the way you choose to: A "no" doesn't mean "no" – it just means "not right now" or "not this way".

Whatever it is that you want to achieve, don't take rejection as a final answer. Take it as a useful feedback that says, "Keep going".

6. Give Up Distinguishing Between Your Private And Work Life

All aspects of your life are interconnected. You are fooling yourself by believing your private life doesn't impact your entrepreneurial success.  

You are hindering your growth if some areas of your life are a mess. True success encompasses all areas.

Bring passion, perseverance and joy to all of the roles you play: as an entrepreneur, a lover or a friend… Make all aspects of your life successful and be proactive.

7. Give Up Your Reluctance To Ask For Help

Be man enough to admit you don't know everything. Don't take asking for help as a sign of weakness.

Instead, embrace it as an act of strength: it indicates honesty, intelligence and your rise above the ego that wants to do it all alone. Remember:

"The strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it."  ~Rona Barrett

8. Give Up Fixing Your Weaknesses

We live in a society that emphasize the need to be well-rounded. Successful people hardly ever tick that box – instead they know, embrace and manage around their weaknesses.

Fixing weaknesses is just another strategy to play safe – playing not to lose instead of playing to win.

Change your focus from fixing weaknesses to capitalizing on your strengths – because you will grow the most in your areas of talents.

"Emphasize strengths, don't fix weaknesses." ~Timothy Ferriss

9. Give Up Being Perfect

Perfectionism is based on the false belief that if we do things perfectly, we can avoid failure.

It's an unhealthy quest to make your work flawless in order to earn approval and acceptance from others.

Recognize the distinct difference between giving your best and trying to be perfect. Ask yourself if spending the extra time will make an equivalent difference to your success in the long run.

Always favor progress over perfection.

"Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough – that we should try again." ~Julia Cameron

10. Give Up Playing Small

We are all afraid of failure, so we play small.

Playing a bigger game means following your own path. Listening to your intuition, doing what feels right compared to doing what everybody else tells you to do.

By playing small, you are not serving yourself nor anyone else. Instead play big, go out of your comfort zone. 

Be prepared to be wrong and fail. Be prepared to feel fear.

"If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you do what you have to do." ~Steven Pressfield

11. Give Up Your Dependency On Willpower

Regardless of willpower being limited or not – tasks done on autopilot require less thought, decision-making and energy.

To be successful, you have to act successful. Align your actions with your goals.  

Create routines that automate taking the right actions. Be intentional about setting work, health, fitness and relationship habits. 

Automate your behavior, one habit at a time.

12. Give Up Your Resistance To What Is

The present moment is out of your circle of influence. You can't change what is happening right now.

Instead of wasting your energy complaining, being upset, annoyed or disappointed, learn to fully accept the present moment and your current thoughts and emotions.

What is more insane than resisting something that can't be changed? Acceptance doesn't not mean approval. It doesn't mean you can't take action to change an undesirable situation.

Instead, it means saying "yes" to life as it presents itself and then moving forward. Let go of your resistance. Say "yes" to how you feel, "yes" to what is happening right now. When you do, life will get a hell of a lot easier and will work for you, not against you.

"Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it." ~Eckhart Tolle

13. Give up Trying to Be too Clever

Be different and innovate, but not for the sake of being different, but out of a quest to make things better.  Overcome your reluctance to make use of proven methods and good advice.

Don't try to be clever in order to earn other people's approval and enhance your self-worth. Act out of a desire for improvement and service and you will end up being clever in the process.

14. Give Up Waiting For Luck

Luck builds its foundation on preparation. To be successful, you don't just have to be lucky to come across good opportunities, but you have to be ready and prepared to make use of them.

Be the right person in the right place at the right time through preparation. Lucky people act in a way that increases their change of good opportunities.

Be open-minded and optimistic. Prepare for your luck then go out and find it.

"Opportunity is where you find it ….not where it finds you ” ~Old Proverb

15. Give Up Other People's Versions Of Success

Being successful and feeling successful are quite different things. Reaching other people's version of success does not come with the joy and happiness that you were hoping for.

Success is a word that means many different things. Chasing other people's dreams means betraying your own ones.

Define your version of success and give up all the others.

“There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way” ~Christopher Morley

Over to you: What else stands in your way to success? Which one of the 15 points above are you willing to give up?

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