FOR SALE
02/01/19
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We are selling our long-established Web Design Business and associated Website Hosting business.
Website Design Business:
We are selling:
You will also get
All existing and past client details will be handed over to you and clients will be informed that you are now their webmasters. Any contact from existing clients will be referred to you.
We also have a number of completed websites available and listed for sale on Ebay - these will be included as part of the package.
This business brings in a steady workload from existing clients and from referrals/recommendations from the above. There has been no need to advertise of work for at least the last six years as a result. The web design invoicing is typically c. £32,000 p/a with negligible costs.
This business has been run as a Sole Trader so to facilitate the easy transfer of ownership this can be made via the incorporation of a new company or via allocating this to your existing business.
Website Hosting Business
We also own and are selling a dedicated website hosting business; this business hosts a good number of websites, mostly created by us through our web design business and provides a very reliable income. As such they are pretty reliable clients who stay with us for years. Our web hosting business has grown organically from the output of our web design business.
Our Web Hosting business hosts websites by re-selling services from FastHosts and 20i, we have a re-sellers account with both of these companies.
You will get:
As the company has also been cash rich at times it also owns some property that is let out; and has made development loans to some of our other businesses. Due to the complexity of this and the fact that we wish to keep the property and loan assets, we propose keeping things simple by releasing the website hosting element of this business.
There will be no liabilities (other than paying the monthly re-seller fees to FastHosts & 20i)
The transfer of this part of our business can be achieved through the incorporation of a new company or through the transfer of the business into your existing business and the re-allocation of open invoices.
Details of our hosting portfolio:
(Correct at the time of writing)
We have been with FastHosts for many years. We are in the process of moving all of our hosting accounts to 20i, as this reseller facility is cheaper yet offers better features and lower cost domain renewals.
We currently offer the following simple range of services:
There are many opportunities to enhance this range of services.
Hosted through 20i:
Hosting Packages: 163
Domains: 327
Hosted through Fasthosts:
Hosting packages: 332
Domains: 106
Total Hosting Packages: 495 Anticipated Billing Income at £69. 99 p/a: £34645 p/a
Total Domains: 433 Anticipated Billing Income at £15 each: £6495
Other Billing (enhanced Mailboxes etc): Billing over last 12 months: £1501
Total annual billing income from our hosting £42641
(Note: about 20 packages of the above belong to our Trading Company, Online Retailing – we may transfer these out into an account set up for this company or we are happy to discuss terms for these packages)
Costs involved with the hosting:
There are very few costs associated with the hosting.
We anticipate accepting offers around £135,000 for this business.
Please note: Stage Payments would not be considered.
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