Website Valuations

How do you find out how much your ecommerce site is worth?

[dacelweb]

I'm trying to find out where/how to determine how much my ecommerce sites are worth, how to increase their book value and possibly where to market them for sale.

[logiclamp]

Also, to add to this, any tips on how to sell your business without giving someone a free tour of your business model?

[andy_boyd]

A lot of people sell sites on eBay, but to me they all look dodgy.

Personally I would recommend using the JimWorld forum for selling your site, the people there are friendly and are actively seeking to buy.

Increasing your site's value basically comes down to increasing the profit you make from it. The more money the site makes, the more it is worth on the market.

Just my 2 pence worth.

[Shane]

In the Professional Webmaster's Business Issues forum there is this thread: Valuation [webmasterworld.com]

It might help.

Of course a site is worth what someone will pay.

Hope this helps,
Shane

[crosenblum]

Approach it as if they were potential investors in your ipo.

Give them a taste of the model, and all that, but only if they sign a legal form saying they can not use any of the information they will gain without huge penalties.

I'd go by what you make annually a year.

Take revenue minus expenses and that'd be what i charge for sale.

but it depends, how expensive would it be to create your ecommerce site from scratch?

Value from the cost of re-building,as a payment scale measurement tool.