Hello,
I am hesitantly making this post. I have a small dive shop in central PA (Mike's Scuba). Along with owning my scuba shop I am also involved in a couple other businesses. Mikesscuba.com and Scubathings.com are domains that I have been running years. I am totally happy with our scuba shop now, but with all the commitments that we have, we do not have time to run and maintain the websites anymore. I am very keen on technology and have spent the past 5 years promoting mikesscuba.com. Right now if you do a search in google.com for "scuba accessories", "scuba equipment", "oceanic scuba gear", "zeagle scuba gear" and a bunch of other item specific stuff, mikesscuba.com comes for most keywords in the top 10. I have spent the last 5 years working with keyword ratios, content, and a bunch of other search engine optimization things. Since I put the site up 3 years ago, our site grossed over $41,000 on just online sales. That doesn't count phone orders that we get every week. About 98 percent of what we sell are Trident accessories. We do not warehouse these items. When an order comes in we order it from Trident, have it shipped to us, then we send it out (Trident does not like to dropship). Customers are usually about 2 weeks to get their products. We are currently (to my knowledge) the only website that has the entire trident catalog online. Both mikesscuba.com and scubathings.com have the exact same products. I am not selling my scuba business, but I will be doing away with the online sales. Both websites could have email addresses and contact information changes easily. I haven't gotten any details figure out AT ALL yet, but just wanted to make this post to get some thoughts. I had thought about putting these domains up on ebay but wanted to make a post here first. Just FYI, mikesscuba.com and scubathings.com are still fully operational and still taking online and phone orders every day. The site has not been shut down or anything. I have thought long and hard about making this post but I think the time has come in my life to focus on my dive shop and my other companies. I dont have time to sit in front of my laptop everyday like I have been. If I were to sell the site, whoever buys it will probably need a trident dealership so that they can continue to sell the same products. I guess the reason I am making this post is just to get some response and thoughts.. anybody have any clue what these might be worth or willing to pay? Anyone have any ideas where these sites can be listed? Anyone know of anybody that would have any interest? One complication would be that of course the name of the one site is "mikesscuba.com". The buyer would be silly to change the name of the domain because the domain itself is what is bringing all the traffic (search engine traffic). This post is kind of hard for me because I have had these websites (especially mikesscuba.com) for years and its like getting rid of something that is part of me. thoughts? thanks everyone.
Mike
www.mikesscuba.com
www.scubathings.com
I am hesitantly making this post. I have a small dive shop in central PA (Mike's Scuba). Along with owning my scuba shop I am also involved in a couple other businesses. Mikesscuba.com and Scubathings.com are domains that I have been running years. I am totally happy with our scuba shop now, but with all the commitments that we have, we do not have time to run and maintain the websites anymore. I am very keen on technology and have spent the past 5 years promoting mikesscuba.com. Right now if you do a search in google.com for "scuba accessories", "scuba equipment", "oceanic scuba gear", "zeagle scuba gear" and a bunch of other item specific stuff, mikesscuba.com comes for most keywords in the top 10. I have spent the last 5 years working with keyword ratios, content, and a bunch of other search engine optimization things. Since I put the site up 3 years ago, our site grossed over $41,000 on just online sales. That doesn't count phone orders that we get every week. About 98 percent of what we sell are Trident accessories. We do not warehouse these items. When an order comes in we order it from Trident, have it shipped to us, then we send it out (Trident does not like to dropship). Customers are usually about 2 weeks to get their products. We are currently (to my knowledge) the only website that has the entire trident catalog online. Both mikesscuba.com and scubathings.com have the exact same products. I am not selling my scuba business, but I will be doing away with the online sales. Both websites could have email addresses and contact information changes easily. I haven't gotten any details figure out AT ALL yet, but just wanted to make this post to get some thoughts. I had thought about putting these domains up on ebay but wanted to make a post here first. Just FYI, mikesscuba.com and scubathings.com are still fully operational and still taking online and phone orders every day. The site has not been shut down or anything. I have thought long and hard about making this post but I think the time has come in my life to focus on my dive shop and my other companies. I dont have time to sit in front of my laptop everyday like I have been. If I were to sell the site, whoever buys it will probably need a trident dealership so that they can continue to sell the same products. I guess the reason I am making this post is just to get some response and thoughts.. anybody have any clue what these might be worth or willing to pay? Anyone have any ideas where these sites can be listed? Anyone know of anybody that would have any interest? One complication would be that of course the name of the one site is "mikesscuba.com". The buyer would be silly to change the name of the domain because the domain itself is what is bringing all the traffic (search engine traffic). This post is kind of hard for me because I have had these websites (especially mikesscuba.com) for years and its like getting rid of something that is part of me. thoughts? thanks everyone.
Mike
www.mikesscuba.com
www.scubathings.com