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My proudest moment in business to date.

Yesterday evening was my proudest day in my online business today. Even today I’m such a good mood.
Why?
I sold one of my websites for $1,050. For about a week and a half I’ve been working on getfrontpage.com - a site selling an ebook guide on how to get on the frontpage of Digg(.com). eBook sales went very well in the first week, earning roughly $250. Obviously I was delighted with this, given I’d only spent a total of $22 on the site (domain and images). I was even happier about the sale potential this gave the site.
Yesterday I decided I should sell, since I’m not really a marketer, and I’d be better off selling now and letting someone else take the reigns.
So for a site like this, I decided I had to list it for sale on Sitepoint, an auction site that charges for each auction you put up. I put the opening bid at $300 and the BIN (buy it now) price as $1,050. It sounds like a weird price, but I basically added the $50 to cover paypal fees so I’d be getting 1k in. A few hours later without any bids, I was about to go do some homework, when I got a new email notifying me of a bid for the BIN price of $1,050. I received payment within ten minutes of getting the email, and the site files and domain were promptly sent on the buyer.
So here’s my paypal balance before this site was sold :

And after :

So overall after spending a total of $22 on the digg ebook website, I made over $1300 off it. Not too bad eh? I was literally shaking for about an hour after the $1,050 bid came through, and today in school I was drifting off a lot just thinking about it. Needless to say, I had no homework done today for school. I explained to one of my teachers with complete honesty why I didn’t have it done, and was let off the hook for my success :D
December’s not a bad month so far then in terms of online income! My best month already, by a mile.
Dear readers, let me know your proudest moment in business so far, it’s good to hear the stories of other people’s success.

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Posted on 7 December '07 by Mark, under Business.

13 Comments to “My proudest moment in business to date.”

#1 Posted by madringo (07.12.07 at 18:28 )

Not bad for a moderate sized investment, and a few hours work! Congrats man!

#2 Posted by David Hong (07.12.07 at 20:48 )

That’s amazing. Great start on this month. I wish I can shake and drift off at my school cause Im so happy and nervous. Just a question, was that your own unique ebook that you wrote? or it was just a very smart investment?

#3 Posted by JeremiaSK8 (08.12.07 at 03:32 )

Very nice mate!

#4 Posted by Hamza (08.12.07 at 05:06 )

Congrats for the sale mate.
That’s one lovely success story :)

#5 Posted by Mark (08.12.07 at 11:41 )

Thanks for the comments everyone, and @ David, yeah it was my ebook that I wrote :)

#6 Posted by Josh (09.12.07 at 04:24 )

Great job mate. How long did it take to write the ebook? Does it really show you how to get on to the frontpage of digg?

#7 Posted by Mark (09.12.07 at 05:57 )

Hey Josh, the eBook had a few hours research which I spread over a few days, and the actual writing took a couple of hours, I work fast :p
Yeah it’s a very good guide, but I don’t want to be bragging on here, that’s for the sales page ;)
I will say that one guy who bought the guide was on the frontpage the very next day, and he posted on the thread thanking me.

#8 Posted by Robert Norton (10.12.07 at 02:22 )

Congrats man - I’m sure it feels great.

#9 Posted by Josh Buckley (10.12.07 at 15:34 )

Congratulations dude! i’m happy for you.

#10 Posted by Nick (10.12.07 at 17:46 )

Congrats on the sale bud.

#11 Posted by serge (10.12.07 at 18:30 )

Great deal man, sounds like your on the right track, wanna work on something together?

#12 Posted by Mark (10.12.07 at 19:19 )

Thanks for the congratulations from everyone, all greatly appreciated :)
And @ serge, I’m always open to new business propositions :cool:

#13 Posted by Mike Huang (17.12.07 at 17:14 )

WOW! Congrats on a huge sale!

-Mike