An established course blog with subscriptions and an email audience, presented as a Flippa acquisition candidate.
14,000 email subscribers
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Jaryd Krause uses two Flippa listings to teach acquisition diligence for content sites. The PSD Box Online Course listing is described as an 11-year-old business with a 3.5x multiple, subscriptions, an email list of 14,000, two YouTube channels with 300 subscribers, and monthly net profit of $340. Traffic was trending down, even though the income line had risen over part of the period. Krause points to dormant content, inactive email subscribers, and unused video channels as possible levers, while treating traffic decline as a material risk. His second example, Recliners Guide, is three years old and also showed declining traffic and income. The practical lesson is to inspect the underlying analytics and revenue mix instead of buying a polished listing. For PSD Box, the stated $340 monthly net profit is a listing figure discussed by the creator, not an audited result.
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