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Old 08-17-2011, 04:46 AM  
SteveBee
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Thinkin bout seeling my sube site - offers? suggestions?

So I am thinking about selling my tube site - it's doing pretty well, but it's getting big and needs to move up to bigger servers and probably cdn in the near future. It's a good tube site in that it is all user generated videos, no full length dvdrig kind of crap. It's gotten to be more than 30,000 videos, and pulls good traffic; 20-30,000 unique visitors a month - consistent (mostly US, UK #2).

It's established, been online for a few years, does well for search terms (and always has) - nothing shady about this site - it's just getting big. I'm too lazy to track sales from the site specifically, as I do not do campaigns for each site I run, but anyone who knows their beans knows what it can turn if the right ads are placed and tracked with this kind of traffic.

So I wonder if anyone has any suggestions for the best way to sell, I have thought of putting it up for auction somewhere with a base price of 15,000 and let bids go from there for 30 days. Anyone have an escrow company they recommend / don't suggest? A best place to list or not?

Part of me wants to keep it and just monetize it more, but moving to servers that can handle more than 2TB of data, with future growth coming as well, is a bit beyond the scale of what I ever thought I'd have to mess with. I am swamped with work on my other sites, and this one is a good one that is growing faster than I ever expected, so what to do? Any good advice is certainly appreciated.
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