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Podcast 24: Building and Selling Sites with Justin Cooke of EmpireFlippers.com

<a class="txt-link" href="https://www.nichepursuits.com/author/spencerh/">Spencer Haws</a>

By Spencer Haws

Last updated: March 4, 2020

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I had the pleasure of interviewing Justin Cooke of EmpireFlippers.com just a few days ago.  I'm sure you already know about Justin and Joe, as they are pretty popular guys!

In fact, I had both of them on episode 3 of my podcast back in April 2012!  So, its been almost 2 years ago since I interviewed them.  I wanted to catch up on what has changed, and what their business plans are for the future.

During our interview in 2012, we talked a lot about their process for building out thousands of niche adsense sites and how they were selling some of those sites as well.  However, quite a bit has changed, including a domain and brand name change; along with quite a bit more.

The Podcast Interview

Here are some of the topics that we covered in our interview:

  • What has changed since our last podcast?
  • How Justin and Joe discovered an active audience looking to buy sites
  • Why they changed from the AdsenseFlippers.com to the EmpireFlippers.com
  • Mistakes made during the re-branding process
  • How their audience asking for something has shaped their business.
  • How they sell nearly 95% of all the sites they list for sale.
  • A limited project with potential: the EmpireFlippers.com “Niche Sites From Scratch” service.
  • Big plans to grow the brokerage side of their business, and how.
  • Justin shares advice for those looking to buy sites.
  • Some due diligence tips for analyzing existing sites
  • How the Empire Flippers support the Niche Site Building community
  • The opportunity that others have to build a Mastermind Group in the Niche Site community

Overall, we had a great discussion and I hope you enjoy the show!

You can follow Justin and Joe on their blog at EmpireFlippers.com, and on the Empire Flippers Podcast here.

If you have any comments or questions, please leave your thoughts below!

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<a class="txt-link" href="https://www.nichepursuits.com/author/spencerh/">Spencer Haws</a>

By Spencer Haws

Spencer Haws is the founder of NichePursuits.com. After getting a degree in Business Finance from BYU (2002) and an MBA from ASU (2007) he worked for 8 years in Business Banking and Finance at both Merril Lynch and Wells Fargo Bank.

While consulting with other small business owners as a business banker, Spencer finally had the desire to start his own business. He successfully built a portfolio of niche sites using SEO and online marketing that allowed him to quit his job in 2011. Since then he’s been involved in dozens of online business ventures including: creating and exiting Long Tail Pro, running an Amazon FBA business for over 3 years and selling that business, founding LinkWhisper.com, and co-founding MotionInvest.com. You can learn more about Spencer here.

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    28 Comments

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    Pratik Unadkat
    January 31, 2014

    Excited. But where is the podcast? Missed it or what? 😛

    Spencer Haws
    January 31, 2014

    Whoops! That’s what I get for trying to schedule this post late last night! The podcast is now showing on the post properly…thanks for the heads up!

    Pratik Unadkat
    January 31, 2014

    Yup, I had an idea that this must have been work of a scheduling task otherwise Spencer would be quick to fix it up hehe.

    And btw, I have been waiting this whole January with excitement to see what Perrin have up his sleeves for this month to show to us. I hope we get a sweet income report tomorrow. 🙂

    Cheers,

    Pratik!

    Spencer Haws
    January 31, 2014

    It won’t be tomorrow, but it will be Monday or Tuesday. And it will be a SWEET income report…big month.

    Pratik Unadkat
    January 31, 2014

    Great. Excited already haha. Kinda tough to wait till then but oh well. 🙂

    Cheers,

    Pratik.

    Roy
    January 31, 2014

    The “Listen to the Podcast Here” link is missing.

    Satria Nugraha
    January 31, 2014

    Empire Flippers is true inspiration. I like how they grow their business. The budget, plan, and the result, all are awesome.

    FYI, the podcast is not on the post yet.

    Arwin Adriano
    January 31, 2014

    Love those guys, and what I love more about them is choosing to operate on my home land Philippines.

    Justin
    February 1, 2014

    BOOM!

    Thanks, Arwin! Pinoy pride. 🙂

    Adil
    January 31, 2014

    I just want to know if the creation of nich website will continue to work with google with all this updates?

    Spencer Haws
    January 31, 2014

    Yes. Just read the posts here to see that its still working: https://www.nichepursuits.com/niche-site-project-2-overview/

    Tung Tran
    January 31, 2014

    I’ve been waiting for this podcast as Justin told me that he mentioned something about me hehe

    Listening to this now 😀

    Thanks Spencer!

    stephen aidoo
    January 31, 2014

    nice and great. listening to it now. just downloaded. will come back and make my final comment. thanks spencer

    Tung Tran
    January 31, 2014

    No that will never happen. We just need to evolve and adapt to new changes.

    Justin
    February 1, 2014

    Thanks for having me on the show, Spencer!

    It’a always fun to chat it up about business, where we’re going, the industry, etc.

    Happy to answer any questions from your listeners here if they have any. 🙂

    Spencer Haws
    February 3, 2014

    Of course! I really enjoyed catching up on business!

    Max
    February 1, 2014

    Q1 if i may then. Why is Joe called ‘hot money’??
    Dig your pod/site/work….keep it up:)

    Justin
    February 1, 2014

    Hey Max!

    Our buddy Dan was teasing him about how he looks at the $$ in our business. He focuses on cash-flow, profits from individual projects, etc. It’s helpful for our business, no question, but it can be a bit myopic at times.

    So…when we’re talking about business/entrepreneurship with friends/peers and Joe says something related to money, the nickname will come out. It’s sort of an inside joke we made public.

    Justin

    benjamin
    February 1, 2014

    I cannot imagine in an industry so rife with fraud as this one, blindly sending off a “deposit” on a website without seeing the domain. Even from someone I trust. I wonder, though, as you state that your customers are all people with whom you’ve worked with extensively, have built up relationships with, why is the trust only in one direction? You expect them to trust you, yet you do not trust them?

    Justin
    February 2, 2014

    Hey Benjamin,

    This was something we addressed in the episode with Spencer. We used to list our sites publicly and completely transparently on Flippa. The problem was that dozens of copycats came along looking to re-create the site and compete with the end buyer. It got so bad, we had buyers asking if they could buy from us and NOT disclose the domain publicly.

    This was a request from buyers and we went along with it to protect their sites for sale.

    Take a look at what’s happened with Spencer’s public case studies. Copycats, negative SEO, etc – there are a ton of things others can do to hurt you if you share it publicly. We’d rather protect the buyer’s future interest in the site.

    CJ
    February 11, 2014

    As someone who has decided to sell through them, they go through very pain staking lengths to make sure that the site is legit.

    They make sure that you’re a real person and they ask you the hard questions to make sure that you aren’t lying about profits, etc.

    In addition, if they feel there is something off about the site, they feel it’s their obligation to ask the hard question and make sure that you make adjustments to ensure the clients they sell to are getting the product they’re expecting.

    From first hand experience, they’re knowledgeable about both traffic trends, profit trends, and much more in the market.

    Codrut
    February 1, 2014

    hey Spencer

    It’s awesome you interviewed the guys over @ EmpireFlippers as I am a loyal fan of their blog, and always look at what they have to say about niche sites, SEO, outsourcing and the industry.

    Great stuff,
    Thank you!

    Aaron
    February 3, 2014

    Another great podcast Spencer, I can related so much to the issues and that’s been discussed in this podcast. I have been following Empire flippers blog for quite some time now, and always been a fan of what they have to share. If you looking to buy and sell your niche sites, Empire flippers is the go to guy. (better than what Flippa has to offer right now). I have submitted a list of sites to them, now it is still under the vetting process. If I wanted to do business, it will only be legit business like these guys.

    Roberto
    February 3, 2014

    Great podcast. Thanks!
    The only thing I cannot really understand is the exact match anchor text part… aren’t the numbers too high for the recent algo updates?

    Spencer Haws
    February 4, 2014

    Can you remind me what we said about exact match anchors?

    Roberto
    February 4, 2014

    @ 29:00
    “..exact match anchor text isn’t more than 30 40%”

    Alex
    April 3, 2014

    Hi guys,
    I had bad experience with EmpireFlippers.
    Basically they are scam.
    Check full report by searching “Empire Flippers review – Are they a scam or legitimate?” in google.

    Best Regards,
    Alex

    Spencer Haws
    April 7, 2014

    I’ve known the empire flippers for a long time, and they are definitely legit.

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