branciforte - 4:10 am on Aug 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

You're getting lots of good advice on this thread. Here's my two cents:

Website-for-sale forums like Sitepoint, Jimworld, Geekvillage, etc are flea markets filled with lots of turnkey websites and other scams (not the fault of the forum). Some of the small commercial business-for-sale sites that specialize in internet businesses (names withheld since I'm dis-ing them) are also plaqued with the same "it has lots of potential!" ads. And worse yet, most of the buyers that do their shopping on these forums are bottom-fishers looking to get something for nothing.

If you are trying to sell a real business (ie: one that actually makes decent money), you need to advertise it where real buyers (ones with $$) are. If you see that a business-for-sale site is used primarily by brokers, you can usually assume that the the site attracts the right kind of serious buyers. Examples of sites used primarily by brokers are bizbuysell.com, bizquest.com, bizben.com, ebizinvestments.com, businessesforsale.com. Most charge for their ads, but you can typically ask more when you're advertising to a larger audience.