I’ve been mulling through an idea that I believe could work nicely as a way to make money.
That idea is… renting out websites.
I’ve been looking at a couple of market places dedicated to selling websites and there are a lot of websites listed which are already earning money each month.
One website I looked at was a website about starting a new life in Canada and it is earning on average $1,385 (£1,130 ATOW) per month. The price to buy this website is $38,780 (£31,720).
If you have the money spare, it would be a good buy… as long as you know how to maintain and manage a website like this.
Very often, websites like these are bought by people who are looking for an investment but don’t know what is actually required to keep the website profitable.
When a person doesn’t know what they are doing the website can die and lose its ability to earn, meaning that they can sometimes lose their investment money.
I was wondering if there was another way… a safer way that can actually be a winner for both parties.
The person who has built the website and grew it to the point that it was earning money, could potentially rent it out to people who are looking for a way to make money without the need of a large upfront investment.
Imagine that the owner of the Canadian website decided to rent it out to a person for £400 a month.
They make a steady £400 each month and keep ownership of the website so should the income dip, and the other person decides to stop renting, they can work on it again to get it back to earning money.
They could possibly rent it out again to someone new, pocket the income from the website themselves, or sell it for a profit.
The fact that the website is earning means that they clearly know how to make it earn money and so they should be able to do it again.
The person renting the website will also be making a decent £730 per month profit which is just shy of trebling their money.
That is a pretty good profit and that is pretty much guaranteed from day one.
Unlike starting a completely new business where you need to grow it from scratch, you are making a profit on your investment as soon as you start.
The great thing about renting a website is that you have the owner keeping an eye on it. They can give advice when it is needed and they can step in and help whenever there are problems.
I know what you are thinking… ‘why doesn’t the website owner just keep all of the £1,130 income the website makes each month?’
They could, but by having someone rent if from them who continues to add content to the website and promote the content on social media, means that they can work on other websites and still earn an income from that website.
Similar to owning real property like houses and retail units, the website owner can build a portfolio of properties to rent out.
They will earn money from their property, still keep ownership so that it can be rented again or even sold later.
If they build 10 rental websites all earning £400 per month in rent, they are earning a decent £4,000 a month.
They still own those websites and so should they want to take back full control, they can, and should they want to sell them for a large profit they can.
A person renting a website which is earning them an income may decide to buy the website later should the owner decide to sell.
For the owner, renting out websites means that they can cut back on the work required to run it and still make an income allowing them to focus on growing their portfolio.
A person who owns ten retail units could use them to make more money by opening up stores and selling items, or they can simply rent them to other people and leave them to do the work of trying to sell items for a profit.
With this, the website owner grows the website to a point where it is making a profit already and then rents it out to other people who basically pay to run it on their behalf.
I think this is a great idea.
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It is a great way of making money, and still having something that you can sell later or take back control of at a later date.
For the potential renter, the idea that they can rent a website that is already earning meaning that they can make a profit from the start is very appealing.
I chose £400 as a rental price out of the air. I think it is a fair price to pay for a website that is already making £1,130 per month which has the potential to make a lot more.
The fact that the website is already earning is appealing and that a renter will nearly triple their investment is surely going to find people who are interested in renting it.
There are variations to this idea which I think could work too.
A website that is not earning money could possibly be rented out in a similar way to an empty shop unit.
A website that is around a specific niche that already has content published with more content going on each month could be rented out to someone who wants to make money from that niche.
The content published could be seen as the fixtures and fittings such as shelves and display units in a retail unit.
The person renting will add their own products or services to the website as a way to make the money, the pre-published content helps draw people to the website.
£47 to £97 per month would not be too much to ask for a website like this.
Not when you consider that people used to pay – and probably still do – similar amounts to Network Marketing and Multi Level Marketing programs and have nothing of their own to show for it when they eventually cancel.
At least with a website that has unique content and its own branding, you are not trying to compete with the other hundreds of websites that are all trying to add people to the same network.
For the person renting, the £47 to £97 per month rent pays for the hosting fees, the position of the website in the search results, for the ongoing content that is being written and published (optional), and the opportunity to have a place to sell products from or earn an income from advertising.
For the website owner, the £47 to £97 earned is for the previous work of creating and publishing content, and for any further content you may provide.
But, as with all services and products, you need to give the customer more in the way of value than what they pay you in money.
A person can build their own website at a cost of £125 for two years, so why would they want to pay you between £47 and £97 a month to rent one of your websites?
Unless your website is making money like the one in the first example, you have to deliver something that the person renting the website needs.
That could be supplying content each month or delivering a specific amount of monthly website visitors.
Let’s use content as an example:
Imagine for one minute that you had ten websites that you each rented out for £97 per month, you would be earning £970 and for that, you are creating new content to go onto each website.
The content could be 4 x 500 word articles per month which should take you no more than a couple of hours to create. You could pay someone on Fiverr.com to write it for you or even use ChatGPT to create the content for you.
This version requires you to create something for your money each month, but it doesn’t have to be a lot of content.
I know of one person who charges over £60 to write one 800-1,000 word email, with that in mind, a person paying you £97 for a website cannot expect too much in the way of new content each month.
When a person starts their own website from scratch, they will have no one visiting their website so if you had a website that had 5,000 or more unique monthly visitors, then you would have something that a person needs and would consider renting.
Without site visitors a website cannot make any money, and so if your website solves that problem, you have something people will happily pay for.
If a person with a series of eBooks and digital products pays you £97 per month to rent your website and make £194 in sales, they have doubled their money at least.
It may not sound like a lot, but from an investment point of view, that is a fantastic return.
Everyone says that if they could find a way to spend one pound and make two back, they would do it. This is pretty much a machine like that.
£97 in a bank will earn you virtually nothing, but if you were to pay £97 to rent a website that had 5,000 visitors looking for specific content, you should be able to at least double your money with sales of specific products.
A cosmetic surgeon, who charges thousands of pounds per procedure, would happily pay £97 or more to rent a website that has a lot of visitors each month looking for advice and information on cosmetic surgery.
They only need one or two new clients per month to make it worthwhile for them.
I believe that there is a lot of potential with this idea. Find the right people and provide them with the right online environment, and you could be on to a real winner.
Kind regards.
John Harrison.
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