[peacemaker]

I have a wordpress plugins business that earns maybe a couple hundred a month without touching it at all. I know it's not a lot but I sold a similar business a few years back that regularly made $1200-$1500 a month and the products were not as good. The only difference is I'm working so hard on other stuff this hasn't had the time it deserves. Someone with the time and motivation to add a couple of new features and actually advertize it a bit (I've never done any advertizing at all) would make a decent, passive income.

I also own another business that makes about $1500 a month (50/50 adsense & product sales) but does require a few hours a week of effort. I've only just started improving this and expect it to hit $3k a month within 6 months. I'm not seriously considering selling unless I get a really good offer but you never know!

[trcollinson]

What exactly is a really good offer? I'm not personally interested. But every time one of these threads comes up someone invariably comes along with a "business" that makes a tiny about of money but they want to sell it for a "really good" offer. A couple hundreds a month. Let's say that comes to $4000 in profit a year. What do you want? A 10x multiplier? So $40,000? Does your plugin business have enough value to justify this? I doubt it. How about $12,000? A 3x multiplier. Can you justify that kind of value? It might be hard.

I've messaged people before who are making a couple hundred in revenue a month and then ask for $1,000,000. I doubt you're one of those people. But seriously, keep your expectations in line with the reality of your business.

[peacemaker]

Well at $3k a month (which it will hit most definitely) most standard valuations would put the price at around $60k or so. Now add on top the fact that I'm not actively looking to sell it, you'd have to make a quite substantial offer above that to make it "really good".

Certainly nowhere near $1,000,000 :) I keep my eye on businesses for sale and have bought and sold a fair few so I have a good idea of what they cost.

[vanderreeah]

His comment about a "really good offer" applied to the (potential) $3k per month, not to the couple of hundred per month.

[peacemaker]

Exactly, the one that makes a couple hundred is different because I'm actively trying to sell it and therefore will sell for a reasonable market price.

[dancameron]

TBH that's not how valuations work, simce projections higher than current sales are not reliable (unless there are special circumstances).

you have any questions on how an acquisition for your plugins would work?

[peacemaker]

I guess things are basically worth what people are willing to pay so there is no way one way that valuations work.

Any questions? Not really, I've sold and bought businesses in the past so it's pretty straightforward now.

[threesixandnine]

Would you say the same for Tesla?

[vram22]

>50/50 adsense & product sales

In your experience, what level of traffic translates into how much adsense income? Any thumb rule you've noticed?

[dancameron]

I was gonna send you a message but you're online form doesn't work. Send me an email ama at sproutapps . co

[peacemaker]

Hey, my email is in my profile. Wasn't aware the contact form didnt work will have to fix that!