A Tale of 4-Entrepreneurs by David Gass:
Click Here - BASW is the by-product of four 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 David Gass, co-owner of BASW. I started my first multi-million dollar business in 2000 and grew the company to reach the Inc 5000 fastest growing companies in the United States three years in a row. The business was sold after eight straight years of revenue growth to a very large privately owned company.
The growth of the business was due to two types of marketing efforts, affiliate relationships and online marketing strategies. Our online marketing strategies helped generate thousands of leads every month for our call center and millions of dollars in revenue. I’ve worked with thousands of entrepreneurs across the country to help them build their businesses using similar strategies.
After selling the company in October 2008 I changed focus to find a business that would allow me to live the lifestyle I wanted, give me time to enjoy my family, travel and one that would create residual passive income. After much research I found the right fit: Buying and Selling Websites. One of the lessons I teach in our seminars and private coaching programs with entrepreneurs is when you first start a business make sure you build a great team. So when starting the buying and selling website company my first call was to
Chris Yates.
Chris was the online marketing genius behind the company I started in 2000. He built every site we had, developed the online strategy to position our company number one in almost every keyword term we needed and was sought after by many of our clients. Based on the demand for Chris’ time and talent we decided to start a marketing firm. The firm worked with small business owners from around the country helping them build their websites and position them high in the search engines.
Eventually Chris decided he needed to move back to where he grew up. He was moving from our offices in Las Vegas to his home town of Missoula, MT. At that time he bought me out of the business and went it alone. He grew the company while on his own and became a leading internet marketing guru. He spoke at events around the country training others the online marketing strategies he used in his business to build websites for small business owners and position their sites at the top of search engines.
Together we formed a new company in 2009 to start buying and selling websites as a new business. We’d been doing it since 2000 but not on a consistent basis each month looking for new sites. In our research on what was working for others and where to go to bad the right sites, we became members of BuyingandSellingWebsites.com. Even as experts in our field, we understand the importance of continuous learning, networking with others in our space and the knowledge to know we will never know it all. After paying for the membership we acquired 13 websites in the next 60 days. We were hooked. With an average annual return on our money of over 125% we knew this was the right business for us.
After a few months we contacted the owner of BASW (BuyingandSellingWebsites.com),
Kyle Wakefield to network and find out more about what others were doing in the business. While talking to Kyle we realized there may be an opportunity for Chris and I to acquire the BASW site as well. Kyle was starting a new project and was looking to move away from the BASW site. After just a couple short conversations we made a deal and Chris and I took over ownership of BASW.
Chris and I are committed to bringing our expertise of building websites, online marketing, how to find money to start a company, how to structure a start-up business and negotiate deals.
Members of BASW are not only getting the experience of Chris and I but also from the content that Kyle and the founder of the BASW site created.
Kyle Wakefield has been a full-time internet marketer since 2005. Like many of you, he was intrigued with the idea of doing business online even though early on he had no idea what or how that was going to happen.
He stumbled into affiliate marketing while in college, but put off his first “idea” until a year or so after graduation. After some initial success, he decided to really dive into the affiliate marketing model and learn everything he could. (Lesson: Successful entrepreneurs understand the power of knowledge).
By the end of 2005, he had built a rather large affiliate business that primarily focused on pay per click marketing through Google Adwords and Yahoo Search Marketing. Currently, he is one of Clickbank’s top affiliates with sales volumes putting him in the top 0.01% of their accounts.
When it comes to the site flipping business, Kyle shared the same focus Chris and I have – buy and hold. Although his business partner and founder of BASW who is focused on buy to sell.
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.
To be quite honest, that is one of the greatest things about this course. Aside from the real-life experience you receive from four successful online entrepreneurs, there are 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.
