💰 Patey M&A

Hey there 👋,

I’ve been thinking about getting back into M&A advisory again, something I’ve not offered since my short spell as a Flippa broker.

Back then, I emailed my list and quickly got three deals to market, two of which were mid six figures and one seven figures. And recently, I’ve been speaking to someone locally in the UK about marketing the sale of a portfolio of dating sites (another mid six figure deal).

But going forward I’ve realized it only makes sense for me to work with 7 figure plus assets, and not just content, but also SaaS and ecommerce (where I’ve had a small exit previously).

So if you’re thinking about selling an asset making at least $300K SDE just hit reply and we can get on a call. I have a large network of buyers.

This week we have the domain registrar Porkbun as the main sponsor talking about .CHAT domains.

I previously bought whistler.chat when I was first playing around with LLMs and Zapier! But after looking up the top 10 .CHAT domain sales reported on Namebio it’s got me looking at the TLD as an investment:

Plus I can see over at One Word Domains, there are many companies using the extension such as rocket.chat which has over 10K organic traffic from Google.

💬 Get Your .CHAT On

Porkbun are offering .CHAT domain names for less than $2 for the first year. It’s the perfect domain extension for:

• Information-based websites

• Chatbot assistance

• Instant messaging platforms

• Educational resources

• Live chat support

• Help and support centers

Plus every domain from Porkbun comes with free features like WHOIS privacy, SSL certificates, web and email hosting trials, and more. After all, why pay for things that should be free?

Their simple user interface lets you manage everything about your domain from one place. Plus it all comes backed by personalized five-star support, 365 days a year. No wonder they were named the #1 domain registrar by USA Today for 2023 and 2024.

Porkbun has also partnered with SedoMLS Fast Transfer! With better exposure, fast transfer protocol, and Porkbun’s low domain registration costs, you can maximize your profits in a seamless, efficient way.

Search for your new .CHAT domain today

📰 Digital Asset Industry News

🦾 Sites getting crushed from Google updates may not be due to a lack of helpful content, rather due to brand link ratio (Link)

💩 From 2M monthly blog traffic to 0 (Link)

🚀 Reddit continues it’s SEO boost from Google's August 2024 core update, rising to the 3rd most visible site in U.S. search results, behind only Wikipedia and Amazon (Link)

🐝 beehiiv hits $1M in MRR inside 3 years (Link)

💳 Efty Pay is now the exclusive payment partner for all Buy-it-now domain transactions on the marketplace (Link)

📰 Prioritize owned media like email and SMS to reduce reliance on big tech for success (Link)

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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Digital Asset Marketplace Posts

Our community marketplace has over 250 members (it could have double but I’m strict on entry!) discussing and selling digital assets, plus free (and paid) classes:

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That’s it for this week, until next time, catch me in the community.

Cheers!

Richard (@richardpatey)