The world is changing, but let’s face it: these are truly exciting times. The world we live in today is not only vastly different from the world of just 10 short years ago, it’s changing so rapidly that in the next 10 years we’ll likely produce things it previously took us 100 years (or more) to do and find ourselves doing things we haven’t even conceived yet.

Think about it for a second. Can you imagine what or how you will live your life in 2020? What about the internet? How will it look 10 years from now? Since looking at one’s past is the best indication of its future, let’s take a short trip down memory lane.

The Internet In 2000: Yahoo picked newcomer Google to be their default search provider. That’s right, just 10 short years ago, Yahoo was using Google’s search results in their own engine.

The Internet In 2010: Interestingly enough, Yahoo tried to arrange a deal to use Google’s search results again in 2009, only to cancel the deal after regulatory pushback. Currently Yahoo and MSN are a very distant 2nd and 3rd in the highly lucrative search business.

The Internet In 2000: The United States and Asia each had approximately 110 million internet users.

The Internet In 2010: There are now 253 million people in the U.S. and 758 million people in Asia using the internet (an increase of 114% and 545% respectively). Both Africa and the Middle East have seen increases north of 1000%.

The Internet In 2000: There were approximately 360 Million internet users worldwide.

The Internet In 2010: There are more than 1.7 Billion internet users worldwide. This 472% increase means there are almost 500,000 new people coming on to the internet for the first time each and every day. How’s that for a growing market?

The Internet In 2000: AOL was the internet (You’ve Got Mail, anyone?) and was once valued at approximately $200 billion.

The Internet In 2010: Google is now the internet with a valuation of $199 billion as of January 4, 2010. AOL was spun off from parent company Time Warner in late 2009 and is currently worth about $2.5 billion.

The Internet In 2000: We made it through Y2K, and the world didn’t end.

The Internet In 2010: We made it through the past 10 years, and it seemed like the world almost did end (several times).

The Internet In 2000: Half of the homes in America did not even own a computer, and only 2 in 5 American homes had internet access.

The Internet In 2010: 4 out of 5 American homes now own a computer and approximately 92% of homes have internet access (with just over 50% being high speed).

The Internet In 2000: Online spending during the week after Thanksgiving totaled less than $1 billion.

The Internet In 2010: Online spending during the week after Thanksgiving 2009 totaled $3.17 billion: a 372% increase. Excluding travel, digital downloads, and event tickets, retail spending is expected to be approximately $150 Billion in 2010. If you account for total online spending, this number would be far north of $200 Billion.

The Internet In 2000: Social Media was instant messaging.

The Internet In 2010: Social Media is big business. Ranked by Alexa, the now 2nd (Facebook), 4th (YouTube), 12th (Myspace), and 15th (Twitter) most popular sites of 2010 weren’t even ideas back in 2000. These 4 sites collectively are worth an estimated $12 Billion.

These are truly exciting times. While a lot has changed over the past decade, as business owners online (or soon-to-be business owners online), it’s important to note the meteoric rise in two sets of data: 1) worldwide users online and 2) online spending.

With stats like 500,000 new internet users coming online for the first time every day, online business is a freight train you can’t afford to miss.

Think about it for a second. Everything you and I do online generates revenue for someone or some company. If you search, Google makes money. If you sign in to Facebook, Mark is making money. If you buy any sort of product or service online (or simply browse around most popular websites), someone is making money. That reality is what I want to focus on today (and we are not just going to talk about it, I am going to show you how to get involved).

So Where Does Buying & Selling Websites Fit In?

The data points above, while impressive, can be a little misleading when taken out of context. Just because more people are using the internet to buy goods and services, this alone doesn’t mean anything tangible until you can find a way to offer the products and services they are actually buying.

While there is a whole range of different things people buy online, it’s never smart to get caught up in the euphoria that the internet is a game changer or a market where fundamentals don’t matter. They do matter, and when you think they don’t you get something like the tech bubble to prove you wrong.

This is perhaps the first mistake most entrepreneurs make when starting a business online. They take their idea or their product and try to find people to buy it. While that is the core principal of marketing and I’m all for people coming up with the great new technologies of tomorrow, the chance of actually being the person to come up with the next Google or Facebook is slim to none.

Instead there is a different, far more predictable path you can chose to take; one I will show you on this very page. Pay close attention because what I am about to share with you is both incredibly valuable and often overlooked.

Becoming the next Google or Facebook is not my focus, and I don’t think it should be yours either. If you are truly looking for the “secret” that successful online entrepreneurs know it is this:

That’s it. It’s not a magic formula or hidden system. It’s actually a very simple concept, and that’s what I like about it. The buying and selling website business model works so well is because it is based on one of the oldest, most proven business models in history. Watch this short video to see what I mean.

Tale Of Two Entrepreneurs

BASW is the by-product of two very different online entrepreneurs, and I’d like to briefly share our story and background before I get into the details of this business.

For starters, let me formally introduce myself. My name is Kyle Wakefield, owner of BASW, and since 2005 I’ve been a full-time internet marketer. Like many of you, I was intrigued with the idea of doing business online even though early on I had no idea what or how that was going to happen.

I stumbled into affiliate marketing while in college, but put off my first “idea” until a year or so after graduation. After some initial success, I decided to really dive into the affiliate marketing model and learn everything I could.

By the end of 2005, I had built a rather large affiliate business that primarily focused on pay per click marketing through Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing. Currently, I am one of Clickbank’s top affiliates with sales volumes putting me in the top 0.01% of their accounts. I’m a member of their prestigious Apex Program which you can read about and see proof of here.

When it comes to this business, my focus is a little different than my business partner. I like to find web business I can buy and hold. Like you will read below, this is a strategy that many in the “website flipping” business will never talk about, but it can be extremely lucrative when done right. I currently run several websites in several different industries and continue to advertise heavily on Adwords, Yahoo SM, and Bing.

While I would consider myself more of a buy to hold investor, my business partner (and founder to BASW) is definitely in the buy to sell camp.

Since 2004, he has focused on deals that increasingly get larger with each purchase. Each sale funds the purchase of the next business, and he has built up a considerable portfolio of a very popular, very established group of websites. While he is no longer involved in the day-to-day operations for Buying & Selling Websites, his lessons continue to be some of the member favorites, and we continue to consult together even though our businesses have taken us in different directions.

To be quite honest, that is one of the greatest things about this course. Aside from the real-life experience you receive from two successful online entrepreneurs, there are two different schools of thought when it comes to buying and selling websites. Due to our varied backgrounds and preferences, you have the opportunity to decide for yourself whether you want to buy to hold or buy to sell. Both strategies can work.

Some Of Our Deals

Now that you know a little more about our background, let’s get down to the nuts and bolts of how this business works. The buying and selling websites business model is focused on three primary objectives: buying, selling, and building. Let’s start with buying websites.

Buying Websites

Warren Buffet is an investor I respect a great deal. Aside from his obvious talent at money management, he is probably one of the most simple-minded investors on Wall Street (and that is meant to be a compliment). Buffett’s whole investing strategy is centered around buying businesses he understands and that have a track record of success.

He doesn’t start new businesses, he buys them undervalued.

You see Buffett is in the business of buying businesses. He looks for compelling valuations (a good price), an established history (good track record), and some form of disconnect in the market (he has to identify something other investors don’t see or chose not to see).

But to have Buffett’s track record you can’t simply do business by what sounds like the definition of a “smart move.”

Anyone could sit here and tell you to “Buy Low, Sell High.” But when you look at how Buffett treats his purchases, you can start to have a glimpse into the secret of his success.

In a recent interview with CNN, Buffett was asked what the difference was between an investor like him and Private Equity.

He replied, “Well, Private Equity buys businesses to sell them. Now they may not sell them for five years. When they go in, they have what they call an exit strategy. I don’t have an exit strategy. I have an entrance strategy, but I have no exit strategy. I want to be here a hundred years from now. I won’t be, but the businesses will be as part of Berkshire. So we are buying to keep. We’re not running a business. We’re buying to own and that changes everything.”

Literally – that gave me chills. Did you catch the secret?

“I have an entrance strategy, but I have no exit strategy…we’re buying to own and that changes everything.”

Whenever you look to purchase an existing website, this is exactly the sort of mindset you should have.

Most people who teach this “website flipping” are ecstatic over “flipping” a website for $100, $200, or maybe even $300. (sarcasm) $300 whole dollars (/sarcasm). They talk about it like there are thousands and thousands of websites just waiting to be flipped, and that simply is not the case. More importantly, that is not even remotely close to what we teach or the type of student we want to attract.

Buying & Selling Websites takes a longer term approach to buying websites, and while selling the website is definitely an option we teach, if you take Mr. Buffett’s sage advice, you’ll look at your potential purchase as something you own rather than rent. That is an important distinction and the very foundation for our training on buying websites.

Selling Websites

The second part to our training teaches how to sell an existing website. If you are in the fortunate position of having a website or business to sell, chances are you have scoured the web for relevant information only to be unsatisfied.

There is a reason for that.

Most people who try to teach you about selling websites are “teaching” you with examples that aren’t worth the ink they use to write about the site. Translated: the steps needed to sell a website for $50,000 – $1,000,000+ are not even comparable to a site you would “flip” for $300 on eBay. It is a learned process that must be experienced first hand (or taught by those who have actually done it).

One common misconception about selling websites is that it is hard to do. Selling a website for a high price is actually quite easy when you know how to do it. There is a whole network of brokers representing affluent buyers who daily pay five, six, and even seven figures for websites and business. It’s a matter of knowing what steps to take and when.

Steps we teach you.

As a matter of fact, I recently interviewed one of our BASW students who used our training to sell his website for a multiple six-figure payday. You can hear the entire story, the price he sold his site for, and the actual URL of the website by signing up for the interview at the top of this page.

I can think of no greater testimonial to the quality of our selling section than the story mentioned above. If you are looking for relevant, actionable information that teaches you how to sell a website the right way (without falling for common seller mistakes), this section alone will be worth its weight in gold.

Don’t have a 5 or 6-figure business? That’s O.K. too. There are many ways to sell websites in the $1,000 – $10,000 range, and we’ll not only teach you how to value your website, we’ll show you where you should sell it, how to screen buyers (is the prospective buyer really interested or just competition), how to use a prospectus (think of this as a formal presentation of all the important facts pertaining to your site – we actually give you a prospectus template and teach you how to fill it out), and so much more.

You’ll quickly discover that selling a website is not hard at all when you have the right tools.

Building Websites

So what if you don’t have the money to buy an existing website? And what if you don’t have a website to sell? BASW is probably not for you, right?

WRONG!

For the better part of 2009, I was working on the new Building Section to BASW. In this section you will learn about the three different types of websites you can build: Product Sites, Affiliate Sites, and Membership/Content Sites.

Now you and I both know there is a lot of good information online when it comes to building websites. There are several sites I have learned a great deal from, sites I continue to use to this day when trying to brush up on HTML, CSS, or Photoshop. I’m not trying to compete with them, and that is not the purpose of the Building Section.

So what can I teach you then?

Instead, I like to focus on the “glue” items that most of the instructional sites never teach. Since 2005, I’ve been doing this full-time and have learned a lot from the school of hard knocks when it comes to building websites. Starting with no formal HTML training, I have gone on to build some 20+ websites in just about any niche or industry you can imagine.

Moving into 2010 however, I am increasingly using a free piece of software that is literally changing the way people build websites. I’ll show you what it is, and how I use it to build virtually all of my new websites (as a matter of fact, I can not remember the last site I built that did not use this free software).

But that’s just the beginning.

Through case studies and live examples, you will see first-hand what it takes to build websites that actually make money. I even take you to one of my own sites showing the URL, income over a 30-day period, and what I did to market the site (I pay for no traffic to the site).

Free Material

Throughout the pages of this site, I give you free content that you simply won’t find online. As a matter of fact, one or our members told us the material we give you for free is better than most paid courses on flipping websites. Here’s what you will learn for free on this very website…

On buying websites, I walk you through 5 reasons why buying an existing website could be one of the smartest decisions you make. I go on to explain the different website marketplaces and what you need to know about buying a website through one of them (with good price ranges to buy for each).

On selling websites, I’ll show you the most common mistakes website owners make while trying to sell their website. Do any one of these, and you have virtually guaranteed a lower sales price or no sale at all.

Finally, on building websites we’ll talk more in depth about the different types of websites you can build. There are key decisions you must make on the front end when building a website from scratch, and through this resource you will learn more about these three unique options.

Don’t forget to read the success stories and reviews from current BASW customers, and be sure to signup to our blog feed as the BASW News section will be focused 100% on providing relevant and current information about buying, selling, and building websites.

Catch A Sneak Peak At The Member’s Area

Before you read about the Buying & Selling Websites Member Area would you do me a favor and read through all the free training we provide on the pages referenced above? We’ve made it easy to access by placing links at the top of this page or in the footer below, and once you see just how much we are giving away, only then will you start to see how valuable this training program can be.

How Much Will The Buying & Selling Websites Training Class Cost?

If you go to college and get an MBA, it will set you back anywhere between $30,000 and $150,000 depending on where you go. What do you get out of that little diploma? In most cases, you get an entry level job making about $45,000, and that’s if you are lucky enough to find a job in the first place!

Well, since there are no Buying & Selling Website college degrees available, this training class is about as close as you can get. Considering the very real possibility of earning six figures your very first year in this business, a class tuition fee of $5,000 is more than reasonable, given the amount of time I will be investing in your success.

As a matter of fact, a single 3-hour class at a private college in Texas currently costs $3,912 – for one class. Now I’m a proud college graduate, and I wouldn’t change that for the world, but the fact of the matter is that you cannot even compare the two educations.

For $3,912.00 you are getting one class, covering one topic, that most likely will have nothing to do with your ultimate career.

On the other hand, for a fraction of a fraction of that we will provide you with a highly specialized training that is extremely relevant to what you are looking to learn: how to buy, sell, and build websites (the right and proven way).

The BASW program used to be offered as a training class where only 10-20 members could join at a time, and certain members paid up to $5,000 to go through our specialized training.

When you see the results some of our students have had, you will begin to understand just how underpriced this course had been. That is actually part of the reason BASW was shut down for the second half of 2008. The price was too low, and the work from home crowd was starting to become the standard student.

That was a mistake.

This material is not about an “opportunity” nor is it about a system, secret, or special software.

It’s about personal experience, proven results, the most clear blueprint to online success that I have ever seen. This is the first and only product I have ever put my name on related to doing business online. I don’t need to sit here and shower my success in front of you, but being in the top 0.01% of Clickbank accounts for almost 5 years should speak volumes about the quality of this material.

So what is the cost?

Understandably, $5000.00 is a more than fair price for unique and specialized training like this. And while I won’t turn you down if you decide to join at that price, I’d like to make you an offer that I don’t think you can refuse (cue Godfather music).

I’m willing to give you unlimited access to my entire training program (at a price beyond reasonable) if you promise me one thing: to be willing to be educated about how to do this business the right way.

I’m not saying you have to agree with me or love everything I say, but one thing we must be on the same page about is knowing that what you will be learning is not theory, ideas, or opportunities. It is fact. It is the cornerstone of the very business I am running at the moment you read these words, and it is something I have poured over 750 hours into creating for you.

I don’t take your investment lightly, so please don’t take my investment in you lightly. This is not a product that was thrown together in a week, a month, or even a year. Combined, this is the culmination of two business owners 10+ successful years of marketing online. I hope you understand the quality, and I hope you are expecting this type of quality. That is what BASW has to offer.

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If you scrolled down and haven’t read the entire page, you’re in good company…I do that to. Would you mind starting from the top
and working your way back down? You’ll get the best snapshot of just what BASW has to offer by doing that. Many thanks.