Sold Windows Vista Website

Negotiate, sell, receive payment, transfer! The familiar process that I’d been through with all my previous website sales. I sold my (almost) 2 year old Windows Vista website last night for $12,500 and then had a sleepless night.

This has been a phenomenal year for my consultancy. As my first year in business and a freelancer at that, I’d never expected to achieve so much, so quickly. Starting with a freelance property agent in January, my clientele has grown to include global MNCs, Singapore PLCs and an NYSE-listed company. Singapore has truly been a land of opportunity for me.

Thus, I decided earlier this month to sell off all my websites so that I can focus fully on my consultancy next year …and maybe form partnerships with local entrepreneurs in Singapore - the reason I attended TDM’s PopOut! event.

Why the sleepless night? The Windows Vista website (actual screenshot above using Flip 3D in Vista) has been with me since October 2005, created from scratch after I sold my first website. Selling it last night made me feel like losing a part of myself.

On the other hand, it has made me good money - roughly $30,000 including Google Adsense. Although I haven’t updated the site since May, it receives 100,000 unique visitors a month - off the 450,000 peak in January, and this month’s estimated earnings is $1,200.

I’m probably going to have to face this sense of “loss” over and over again as I off-load my other websites. It’s painful but necessary to move on, as the saying goes “the only constant in life is change”…