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I am starting to hear more and more about epik/com , has anyone here jumped in and had a 'epik experience' ? and if so ....your thoughts please
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Gave up on the portal, it had not generated a dime in income for 7 months. The other product domains are seeing returns. Not as high as I would like, but better then any parking site I've run across.
At no stage has the cost outweighed the rewards
............waste of time
I'm not willing to go there yet, with every aspect of their services. One of the domains I experimented with, for example, has taken in $10 in the last 4 weeks ( my cut ). That seems to be typical for that specific domain over an extended period. That's certainly not great, and would take a couple of years to recoup, but I see the amount growing from month to month, too.
Not an intrinsically bad company, or business model, even, but to me it appears as if they are grappling with an unduly extensive amount of projects, and their cost per site is prohibitive, if you have a large number of domains.
I mean you can technically get Shopping.com API at http://developer.shopping.com or Shopzilla.com API at shopzilla.com and get a shopping script at http://www.datafeedscripts.net/, http://shopzilla.datafeedscripts.net/default.aspx, or http://www.comparisonshoppingscript.com/ to make those product portal website for free-$250.
Get a freelancer for logo at $30.
For ~$30-$280, you can put adsense or other advertisement, and you get all of whatever the advertisers or shopping api providers/partners pay you instead of splitting costs.
Yes, and this has been argued before, ad nauseum. If you have the time to spare, adsolutely, do it yourself. I have an 8-6 5 day a week job. I then help out at the family business for an additional 3 hours at night, 3-5 nights a week. I then also have a successful affiliate marketing business where I am spending time on a few sites. I have 300 or so additional domains that I would like to see developed, beyond the ones I am currently using; their program offered the potential of generating additional income without using up my most precious resource, which is time. So I gave them 5 domains or so to work with, as a sample.
Balancing cost/convenience/time is what their model appeared to offer. I am abivalent, still, unhappy with some aspects, but seeing where it might prove useful to me down the road.
I would think for 50% revenue plus one time fee that something more impressive than an XML feed via an API would be available. You know, like a stylesheet or anything. Maybe even a front end?Your post is noted. If you ever want to check the status of your Product Portal sites, you can also use the direct API for checking stats. Example:
http://productportals.wishpot.com/s...4-1&end=2011-6-21&domains=babybassinettes.com
Not a Lot x 4 = Not a LotAlso, I encourage you to make use of the 3.0 release. Daily revenues from Product Portals have increased by nearly 4X since the 3.0 upgrade. The product platform is still evolving but anyone who has tried the 3.0 back-end would agree. It totally rocks.
Another "non-currency" here to "simplify" things.The next step for Product Portals will be a global shopping cart for clearing product sales directly in product portals via the new MasterBucks.com payment gateway. Current Product Portal owners are getting all of these upgrades at no additional cost.
This sums up the issue for me with Epik. The mission is about Epik first and foremost.Scalable, low cost domain development is not going to be an easy mission for anyone. While Epik will still encounter challenges in executing on this mission, I still rank our odds about as high as anyone.
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