Comments on: Exclusive: Bankaholic sells to Bankrate for 15 million and no one noticed;/

By: Debt Consolidation

Debt Consolidation — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:42:00 +0000

I agree with you 100%. Johns FOCUSED and achieved a lot of result for it. Most people don’t focus; instead they work on a gazillion things and don’t put enough efforts into all of them. I am scratching my head and wondering when and how I too will be as focused as Johns. I know if I do, I can achieve something like this too, especially we all CAN, if we will but focus and channel our energies into one or just a few things. Imagine working all day and night for 2 years on JUST ONE BLOG. It surely will get top rankings!

By: BestCred

BestCred — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:50:48 +0000

Congratulations Bankaholic. You deserve it for all the hardwork you have put on your site.

By: Noah Kagan

Noah Kagan — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:46:07 +0000

rates,

totally agree. it always seems much easier when it’s over…

By: Fahad

Fahad — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:55:59 +0000

wow, there sure are a lot of 0′s in there.
I never thought that such unheard of sites would have this much of a selling potential. Anyways, congrats to John!

By: Rates

Rates — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:14:37 +0000

Bankaholic is a great site, provides constant strong content, with great site architecture, nice history, strong partners. Kudos…it is not just smart, it is a lot of tedious, hard freaking work.

By: Eva White

Eva White — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:42:30 +0000

That’s one good niche to be in. Kudos to him for finding it.

By: Heartlander

Heartlander — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:13:49 +0000

This is nothing more than viral marketing, gang.

Where’s Johns Wu?
His financial blog just sold for $15 Million!
Story:
http://bankaholic.blogspot.com/

By: Sai

Sai — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:28:00 +0000

Wow! Great sale.

By: Financial blog Bankaholic.com acquired for a mere million

Financial blog Bankaholic.com acquired for a mere million — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:49:53 +0000

[...] Noah Kagan, lives in the same Berkeley dorm as Johns, gives us the moral of this story in a post titled “Bankaholic sells to Bankrate for 15 million and no one noticed”. Focus. Johns started out just doing Credit Card rates and became the #1 term for it on Google. Then he expanded to other banking categories. Relevance. There are 1,000s of personal finance sites. Most of the people just consume some information. You go to his site to find deals and sign up for them. That’s the point. Monetize. Johns picked a lucrative category where clicks will pay out $50+. [...]

By: whats new

whats new — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:37:30 +0000

silly sites sell for big money all the time, this sold for 8 figures in a few months

http://www.yournobody.com/

and its rival the diirty sold for a few million as well for just bashing people on the internet, who says the dotcome boom isnt back