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AlpineZone (60%)
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HourDeal.com: Affiliate marketing site automatically featuring a new deal each hour!

PR3, 15,000+ page views/month, Fully automated

  • URL: http://www.hourdeal.com/
  • Established: Tue, 13 May 2008 14:00:00 GMT
  • Page views/month: 15,348
  • Monthly Revenue (USD): 10
  • Google Pagerank: 3
  • Uniques/Month: 553
  • Listed: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:05:48 GMT

Description:

HourDeal.com is an affiliate marketing site which features a new deal every hour. The site is powered exclusively by the AvantLink.com affiliate network's Deal of the Day tool. More information can be found on the AvantLink.com blog here:

HourDeal Powered by AvantLink!

The site is completely maintenance free and will rotate products automatically from 12 different merchants, currently all from the outdoor recreation category. HourDeal.com features products from the most popular outdoor gear providers online including Altrec.com, Backcountry.com and REI. There is also a history page so visitors can view and purchase previous products that were featured throughout the day. The concept is modeled after sites like SteepandCheap.com and Woot.com which are very popular and thrive off of repeat visitors.

HourDeal.com is a descriptive brand and domain name. The key to the site's success will be increasing traffic. Leveraging HourDeal.com along with another affiliate marketing site, or outdoor recreation content site should prove successful. I am selling the site due to lack of time to continue to build traffic.

As the primary focus is outdoor-related gear (mostly skiing and snowboarding), we are entering the prime buying season, as well as the holiday shopping season. I have made arrangements with the folks at AvantLink to make the transfer of ownership as seamless as possible.

Payment by PayPal only. Feel free to ask any questions.

Revenue Details:

Primary revenue is from affiliate sales of the featured products. AvantLink.com is the network used to power the site. Their forum can be found on ABestWeb here.

Secondary revenue is Google AdSense.

Traffic Details:

Traffic comes primarily from search engines, as well as a strong presence on Twitter.

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Questions to the Seller

  1. Posted date:
    Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:23:32 GMT
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    How much money do you generally make off of each sale? How many sales have you made?

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    livewireh (0%)
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  2. Posted date:
    Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:33:20 GMT
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    From 9/08 - 11/08: 5 sales totaling $294.51. Commission of $28.03 for an average commission rate of 9.5%. These 5 sales originated from 202 click throughs for an average conversion rate of 2.48%. I would say there is enough data here to set a reasonable expectation of performance. Again, sending targeted traffic to the site will be the key to its success.

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    AlpineZone (60%) (seller)
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  3. Posted date:
    Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:22:19 GMT
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    Hi,

    how do you select the product to list as deal ?
    Is this a manual activity ?
    Why do you use outdoor recreation category only ?
    How much you get from AdSense ?

    Thanks,
    Nic.

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    nicolepe (60%)
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  4. Posted date:
    Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:37:53 GMT
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    Nic - the products change automatically. The site is currently set to highlight products from 12 different merchants. Each hour is "assigned" to a particular merchant. For example, the Altrec.com deal of the day will be featured at 1 am and 1 pm (ET), Backcountry.com at 2 am and 2 pm, etc. It is fully automated.

    I run a couple of skiing/hiking/mountain biking related sites so featuring outdoor recreation products made the most sense. Also, outdoor recreation is AvantLink.com's strongest category:

    http://www.avantlink.com/all_merchants.php

    The site could be set up to use any AvantLink.com merchant that uses the deal of the day tool. I do know there are a few other merchants in different categories that do, but again, because my primary sites are all outdoors related, I wanted to leverage that.

    Adsense only generated a couple dollars the past few months. The leaderboard is not in a particularly visible location (bottom of the site). I'm sure the AdSense performance could be improved by better placement, but I wanted to focus primarily on the currently featured product.

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  5. Posted date:
    Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:42:23 GMT
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    BIN and reserve price lowered.

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    AlpineZone (60%) (seller)
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  6. Posted date:
    Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:42:10 GMT
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    Thanks to the first bidders!

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    AlpineZone (60%) (seller)
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  7. Posted date:
    Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:47:36 GMT
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    Also, I had a question about the Twitter account. I would be happy to transfer that to the new owner as well.

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  8. Posted date:
    Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:49:27 GMT
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    Reserve met. Thanks for the bid!

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