Local website earning quite well, how do I go about selling the format?

Hey guys. I have worked with websites for a while and recently decided to set up my own local site, firstly as a bit of a sideline to get free stuff in return for reviews, but it accidentally became quite a good earner for me. I have set up a directory type thing where people pay for membership and listings. Membership isn't just adding them to the website, I actively promote them on Facebook too and regularly give advice and send them leads. I am good at getting the word out there and it has gone really well so far.

I have now bought 8 domains and plan to run them myself as a little network. I'll probably need some help eventually but I've worked out that 8 is kind of manageable.

Problem with that is, there are a lot more than 8 places in my country that can do this thing - I am focusing on towns/cities with a population of over 100,000 but below 500,000.

I started my 2nd site this week and have built a template that I can now sell on that is ready made to start earning money. I have a couple of ideas how to go about this and was wondering if you guys with better sales experience could help me out.

1. Just sell the template and change their branding according to where it is. This is the least amount of work but probably for the least amount of money.
2. Set up in a different place, work for around a month or so and actually bring in some income first - how much would I be able to sell for as a multiple of the profit it makes in 2 months?
3. Rental - rent the site out for a reasonable amount, making it one of the terms that they are part of my network and have to keep the branding?

I think if I set up just 8 sites it will work well, but let's say I have a network of 20-30, the opportunities there are much more.

Thanks for reading anyway guys. Hope yall have a good day

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