Before I start, I want to say that I was lucky enough to have Michelle Adams (author of ‘Learn How to Build and Sell Niche Blogs’) help me back in August when I was really nervous about site flipping, and I’m really excited when I look back and think how far I’ve come. Though it wasn’t all in the form of a guide as it is now, it was the same valuable information that helped me to make a success of site flipping – and make ~$2000 from flipping on top of my other work in the month of December 2009. Carry on reading for my full review of Michelle’s new guide.

EDIT: As a bonus to early buyers, Michelle was offering free access to her support forum. This offer has now ended and I have edited my review to reflect that.

Overview

Michelle herself has been involved in selling websites for a while now, and has sold many successful sites throughout 2009. She also runs a blog which I love to read as it’s full of great advice and she always lets her strong values ad ethics shine through.

‘Learn How to Build and Sell Niche Blogs’ is a 200+ page eBook aimed at those new to website building and selling (virtual real estate development), or those who know how to build blogs but want to know more about the possibilities of ‘flipping’ them for cash.

The Price

Michelle has priced the guide and entry into the Vault at $57. This is a good price for advice that has the potential to make you hundreds of dollars every sale you make.

Aside from the price of the book, the price of implementing what Michelle has to say can be as little as $8 for a domain name and $7 for your monthly hosting. However, once you get more experienced you may want to invest in premium themes, such as Woo Themes, to give your sites added value.

What’s Included in the eBook?

Module 1 – Location Location Location: All about choosing your niche, your domain and ideas.

Module 2 – Laying the Foundations: Everything you need to know about setting up hosting, cPanel, WordPress, plugins and more. Many people will have some knowledge in this area, but this section makes the eBook accessible even to those without prior experience of building sites – there are plenty of screenshots to help you through!

Module 3 – Design Aspects: How to make your sites look great. This section is valuable even for people who already know how to set up sites, as Michelle knows what it takes to get sites looking the way buyers would expect.

Module 4 – Finishing Touches: All the extras (images, videos and so on) that will get more buyers interested in your site. These are the touches that I used to ignore, but Michelle helped me to realise how they can really make a huge difference to your success.

Module 5 – Develop or Sell: This will take you through the steps it takes to sell on Flippa (the top marketplace for website flipping) and help you to decide whether it would be worth developing your website further.

Module 6 – Handover: Transferring a blog is something I know a lot of people are worried about when it comes to buying and selling, though I can thankfully say that Michelle’s step by step guide has worked for me every time.

What I Like About ‘Learn How to Build and Sell Niche Blogs’

Step By Step Guide: What I really like about ‘Learn How to Build and Sell Niche Blogs’ is that it is an easy to follow, step by step guide for those who are scared of getting started with building sites and selling them to others.

Get Into the Mind of the Buyer: If you visit the sales page for the package, you’ll see my testimonial up there mentioning how much Michelle helped me get into the mind of the buyer: there is a difference between what you might want to create in a site, and what a buyer could be looking for in a site. On my first few flips Michelle was honest with me and noticed when I hadn’t bothered to add extra features, like videos, which really helped me to rectify those mistakes before the sites went on sale, and helped me to build up my reputation on Flippa as a seller who was serious about delivering value.

Learn From Experience: Michelle really practices what she preaches, and you can learn from her experience – she even uses her own sites as examples! This will help you to skip some of the learning stages and go straight to creating sites that people want to buy.

The Downsides

Some of the Information is Basic: Some of the information is designed for Newbies and might be considered basic. I, personally, already had experience building websites. If you’re in the same boat, just skip the technical set up section. The good news is that this doesn’t really impact the value since there’s loads of other valuable steps here, especially when it comes to the areas I mentioned above.

It Takes Work: This isn’t really a downside for me, but it could be for some people. If you want a book that’s going to make you money without working for it, you will be disappointed! When you’re new to flipping it can seem daunting, and the whole process can take a while for each site. But I have now streamlined everything I do and find it pretty quick to come up with ideas, get the site set up, get the content on there and make a sale.

Nothing is Guaranteed: Not all sites will sell first time, Michelle even emphasises this herself and is very realistic with her students. However, I can say from experience that there is a lot of money to be made as long as you’re willing to accept that you may need to relist or develop certain sites further.

My Conclusion

If you want to know whether this works, and whether Michelle is the real deal, the answer is yes! And, if you want proof, just check out my Flippa profile here to see the sales I’ve made thanks to her advice and support.

All of what Michelle taught me back in August is in this guide, and more.

‘Learn How to Build and Sell Niche Blogs’ is suitable for those who are fairly new either to building niche blogs, selling niche blogs, or both.

I emphasise again that flipping takes work, but it’s so rewarding once that chunk of cash comes into your PayPal account! It’s excellent for some quick money or a long-term plan, and you can do it on your own schedule. Click here to visit Michelle’s guide now, or leave me a comment if you’d like to know anything else.

I’ve been meaning to write about some of the jobs I outsource for a while now, so I thought I’d start with Human Rewriter. Before I begin, please note that all these links are my affiliate links. If you find the review useful, I’d be grateful if you could sign up through my link. But you may want to read the whole review first, as I have a few mixed feelings.

You might have heard of Human Rewriter before – it’s an article rewriting service powered by human writers (no spinning through computers, which just results in terrible articles). The people that write for them are supposedly all native English speakers and writers (to find out why I say ‘supposedly’, keep reading). All you need to do is give them your original article, and they will rewrite it sentence by sentence, making it unique and sending it back to you for a low price.

What I Use Human Rewriter For

I have used Human Rewriter for a few of my own projects. Sometimes I will need rewritten versions of articles I’ve already written, such as the articles I submit through Unique Article Wizard, and more recently I’ve sent some of my Hubpages articles to be rewritten to then submit through Infobarrels. A lot of people will use this for plagiarism and submit other people’s articles to be rewritten (see below), but I use my own original articles. I am a writer myself, but I have recently stopped offering rewriting as a service as I honestly find it too boring. This is a great alternative.

The Great Things About Human Rewriter

There are loads of great things about the Human Rewriter service, and here are my thoughts:

Article Quality: I do have some issues with this (see below), but 99% of my articles have been good quality. If they aren’t, you can simply reject individual sentences to be rewritten again.

Their Website: This is possibly the best feature of Human Rewriter. You don’t have to communicate by email, all the payment and article deliveries are handled through their unique interface. It is also what allows rewrites to be split into sentences to ensure unique results, and easy editing if necessary (if you don’t understand, sign up for free and see).

The Price: The price is great – around $3 or a little more for 400-450 words to be rewritten. It is $0.15 per sentence, so it depends on how many words you have in each sentence.

You can even get a $5 free trial by request when you sign up!

The Support: When I’ve had to email them with any problem they’ve been extremely prompt and very polite in their reply.

The Bad Things About Human Rewriter

Yes, there are some bad points. They don’t outweigh all the good points for me, but they could for some people.

Turnaround: Turnaround was actually one of the best points about Human Rewriter, but unfortunately they’ve had a few problems lately. It was 24 hours, which they then raised to 36. However, they are now experiencing delays and my last article took one week. Their latest message says they are getting back to normal now – I assume they had to hire new writers to keep up with demand.

Quality: Yes, I put this in the good points, but it’s also bad. However, it isn’t really a problem. Only on about two occasions did I suspect a writer wasn’t native English, and I just asked for a few sentences to be rewritten which they did very quickly.

Plagiarism: I think a lot of people are using this to plagiarise. I know a lot of people online ‘rewrite’ other peoples articles, and it’s not quite the same as ‘rewriting’ someone’s book – but I still believe it’s plagiarism. When writing an article, I’d say it’s best to take inspiration from a few articles rather than hiring someone to rewrite somebody else’s article sentence by sentence. After all, the end result will mean the exact same thing, in the exact same order – and that is plagiarism even if people online deny that. BUT this is a whole separate issue…

All in all I really recommend Human Rewriter. It has a great interface and good quality results.