I mentioned in an earlier post that I was selling one of my smaller forums AdobeChat.com and I’m happy to say that it sold for earlier this week for $600. I don’t think the sale price is too bad considering it wasn’t really an active community. The site was making about $30 a month though, so the sale pretty much ended up being for a little over 12 months of earnings (because I’m also transferring the vBulletin license over to him). While I was looking to get a little more for the site I’m still pleased with the result. I haven’t finished the transfer yet but it should be done by the end of the week.
My guest post went live on JohnCow.com where I wrote about why you should make sure you spend enough time to milk your cash cows before focusing your attention on new ventures. I believe that it’s really important to strike a balance between the time you spend managing your current portfolio of websites and the time you spend on launching new websites. I think it’s a good read 
(although I may be a little bias), but I’d love to hear your thoughts on it.
Lastly, on an unrelated note to what I usually write about I finally sold off a portion of my personal NES collection. I sold my rare Top Loader NES which was the second version of the Nintendo Entertainment System that was only produced for about one year until the Super Nintendo came out. The Top Loader was produced with a different type of metal connection so that you wouldn’t have to blow on your games to get them to work (Yah we all had to do it and it worked differently on everyone’s NES). For those of you that haven’t read my about me page, I got my start making money off of buying bulk lots of NES games and reselling them individually on eBay years ago. In the process I gradually kept specific games for my own collection and I finally decided to start getting rid of them. I feel like this is an end of an era, but alas I have a Wii now and will just download the ones I really want there.
Do you share your site sales experiences with your readers? Do you think I would have had better luck at SitePoint or do you think the site wasn’t worth enough to post it for sale there?
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How are you finding the Wii, I still don’t get as much pleasure playing the downloaded NES games as I did on the NES, good old duck hunt. I wish I had kept all my old consoles.
Good look selling the games, they should go quickly.
Congratulations with the sale!
I enjoy the Wii but have yet to download the classic games on there.
I’m just trying to dump off my collection while it still has some value. I had to sell my NES for less than it would have gone for before the Wii came out.
Loved the milk your cash cow post. I was laughing when I actually found out it was you. Great to see that you got a pretty penny for adobechat.
neploxo tak, i`m glad,