Selling your online business..

[Bubzeebub]

Where would one sell an online business? Is the value of the business based on the number of links or hits it gets? What's a ballpark figure for calculating the worth of an online business?

[ganderla]

If I were buying an online business here is what I would do.

I would ask to see the P&L report for the last 2 years. For me to buy anything it must be currently making money from a varity of sources.

Depending on what the business makes in a year, I would probably pay 1.5-2 times the yearly net.

This is of course all depending on what kind of business it is. I don't think I would pay lots for something that I had to work 40+ hours a week on.

Then again I started my first business on 100 dollars and it is my best income source.