Blogging Fingers Sold For $6000, What’s Next?
By Matt Jones on Nov 2, 2007 in Blog Money
Many of you will have already heard from the coverage of this sale all over the blogosphere that after just 2 hours of being up for auction on SitePoint Blogging Fingers was sold for the shiny figure of $6000! I am very happy with the sale, it has taken a lot of pressure off of me.
A potential problem when a blog changes ownership is that core loyal readership gets disgruntled and decreases in number because they used to read the blog to read the original bloggers opinions. I took this into account when making the sale and I have agreed with the new owner that I will stay blogging here for at least 1 more week.
I am still in negotiations about staying on for longer.
This weeks posts will contain lots of material about the sale, including what I did behind the scenes, lessons learned and other must-read info if you are thinking of selling your blog.
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Congratulations!
I guess you’re not goint to retire on that, but it’s certainly better than a poke in the eye with a blogging finger
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lol David, is it even legal to retire at 18?
Good stuff Matt - congrats on that awesome figure and hope you stay on.
Congratulations Matt. That was a really good sale.
your a sell out man. a bloody sell out.
Yes I am, but I’m also sticking around for a while longer.
Good job on the sale., I wish you success in what ever else you do, including halo 3.
Haha thanks Israel
Congratulation, Matt.
It’s great to hear that this blog have a higher standard that you ever imagine! 
Oh, going to miss your post when you are going away from the fingers!
Thanks everyone
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congrats to the new owner of this site. i wanted to buy it but was too rich for my blood
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Best of luck to you in your future. I’m sure that we will hear a lot of you.
I’m sure that I’m the only normal person here. Why would I think so? Because no one normal would have written anything like posts below on this kind of website.
According to My knowledge and valuation methods your blog’s Net worth is $ 86,936.16.
than why did u sell your blog for just $ 6000?….
i m master in Business & IP Assets (Intellectual Properties)…… if u have waited for few more years (means 5 more years) than its net worth would be over $ 1 Million….. (according to the current Compounded annual Growth Rate of 40%).
than why did u sell your Blog for just $ 6000?….