Comments on: Learn About Epik & Rob Monster in Today’s Webcast

By: ValueDrops.com

ValueDrops.com — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:00:24 +0000

I just wanted to add that I meant no disrespect for Epik or Rob, in fact, I think Rob is a great guy, and they do provide great services. I’m just not sure where the $249 came from as I just checked their site and they do not have such fee and their service fees make sense as they create unique content for your domain.

By: ValueDrops.com

ValueDrops.com — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:32:57 +0000

to be honest, I hardly see any development on these so called epik sites. They all are pretty much templates. And not only they charge an initial fee, they also take a percentage?

gee, I think I should launch something similar for free, just the percentage. Would anyone be interested?

as a Web Developer, I don’t see much done here and certenly not a lot of unique content. Unless, there is something hidden that I don’t see?

In fact, I have developped similar platform for my domains.

By: Josh(other)

Josh(other) — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:49:07 +0000

This looks really interesting for some of the direct match domains, I’m a bit confused where the $249 figure comes from, on epik
I only see different packages none of which are $249.

http://www.epik.com/services/index.php

By: TJ

TJ — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:15:09 +0000

“…From my understanding the bizrate/shopzilla feed is only a ppc and does not compensate for actions of purchases?”

James, I was incorrect. You are correct. My apologies as I should have known, with a little due diligence, this issue.

Best, TJ

By: Louise

Louise — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:44:14 +0000

Congratulations – it looks really good!

By: TJ

TJ — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:26:24 +0000

James – that is a good question – to a basic issue. I have to admit I am ignorant on the contractual terms between Epik, wishpot and bizrate/shopzilla’s completed sales. I assumed there is a % benefit if a customer-vendor sale ensues, but I could be incorrect.

I did previously inquire about the payout ratio – and wishpot is using different feeds, depending upon product. This varies, of course, to the b) drop shipping, c) e-commerce platforms Rob mentioned on the call yesterday.

I’ll ask & if Elliot is ok with it, post the answer.

By: james

james — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:46:54 +0000

TJ – Thanks for the information. Are you sure epik is paying a rev share on a product spurchased? From my understanding the bizrate/shopzilla feed is only a ppc and does not compensate for actions of purchases?

By: TJ

TJ — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:14:05 +0000

James:

1) Epik receives an average of 18-cents per product click. Click on a [harddrives dot com] product listing & the vendor (eg seagate) pays out “18-cents on average” to the domain owner. (pre-revenue split).

2) G Adsense is paid out, but the data can not be released per Google adsense tos.

3) The domain owner knows the amount of google adsense receipts per reports and the control panel (to be released in future). This figure is split on a revenue share basis with Epik too.

4) If the customer buys a product, then there is revenue sharing based upon dollar amount, product, vendor, etc.

Each click generates a tracking id so a purchase made the next day is still credited towards the epik domain site owner.

By: james

james — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:00:31 +0000

Epik stated they are averaging about .18 per click for customers. Is this .18 coming from their
primary feed? Where is all the revenue going from the google ads? Is that shared at any % level with the site owner?

By: BFitz

BFitz — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:35:00 +0000

@Elliot
Thanks for the intro Rob and insights, I just committed Naperville.co (that’s dot CO) to Rob and look forward to seeing the results.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:05:28 +0000

Oh ok, I thought other way around lol Glad to see I am wrong

By: TJ

TJ — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:45:47 +0000

Josh – yes it’s true. Epik keeps 50% to start. Epik keeps less as the income gets higher. The domain owner will keep 80% of net income (money in the bank) at $25,000.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:39:16 +0000

” MonthlyNet Percentage Payout ”
1,000 50% 500
2,500 55% 1,375
5,000 60% 3,000
7,500 65% 4,875
10,000 70% 7,000
15,000 73% 10,950
20,000 77% 15,400
25,000 80% 20,000

Ouch! Is this true?

By: Leonard Britt

Leonard Britt — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:55:15 +0000

IMO this site should rank at least with some SEO work. Google likes exact match .COM & .Net domains and I can see the exact-match competition for this phrase isn’t too intense – 267K. Yahoo doesn’t care about TLD but places strong emphasis on exact-match domains. Because of this it takes much longer to rank at Google & Bing than at Yahoo.

By: Ellen Braun

Ellen Braun — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:35:04 +0000

Thank you for this post, Elliot. Unfortunately, I came across it after the 2pm time for the event.

If you know how I can access a replay, I’d be interested.

Thanks,

Ellen

By: Elliot

Elliot — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:51:40 +0000

@ Surge

That’s why this is a test

I will see how the site performs and then decide whether to allocate more domain names and funds.

By: Surge Marketing

Surge Marketing — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:47:49 +0000

I’m sure that you’re probably already working on smoothing out the kinks, but I’m skeptical that your bumper protectors site is going to have any type of seo advantage with all of those links to unrelated products at the bottom of the site in addition to not having a whole lot of relevant content. Unless you have a huge type in advantage, SEO should be a top priority to monetize your domain.

By: TJ

TJ — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:45:07 +0000

The revenue share is 50% to begin, and increases to 80%. Income below $1000 is subject to 50% revenue share. The
share is split as follows:

MonthlyNet Percentage Payout
1,000 50% 500
2,500 55% 1,375
5,000 60% 3,000
7,500 65% 4,875
10,000 70% 7,000
15,000 73% 10,950
20,000 77% 15,400
25,000 80% 20,000

By: Elliot

Elliot — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:23:23 +0000

I don’t believe so. I haven’t signed any type of agreement with them. I think the new owner would have to continue with the rev share if he/she chose to keep the site up.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:21:57 +0000

I wasn’t talking about selling through Epik. Lets say I want to buy bumperprotectors.com from you, do u share with epik?