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Netbook Lounge Authoritative blog about netbooks
Netbooks are hot, and this site is an amazing source of accurate, up to date netbook information
http://netbooklounge.com/
Auction
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- Winning Bid:
- $210
- Bid History:
- 13 Bids (0 Pending)
- Listed:
- Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:19:09 GMT
Accepted Payment Methods: PayPal, Escrow.com
Description
With the economy in decline, low-cost, high battery life netbooks are the new hotness. 9 out of the 10 best selling items in Amazon's Computers & PC Hardware category in the US (which includes non-system items, like monitors) are netbooks. Acer and AsusTek, which together currently contol about 90% of the world market for netbooks, shipped 5 million units in 2008, and that number is expected to rise next year. Almost every major PC maker, including HP, Dell, Sony, and Lenovo, now have netbooks or netbook-sized laptops, and Apple has recently been rumored to be working on a small form factor notebook computer of their own.
In otherwords, this is a hot market to be in and a great space to be blogging.
Netbook Lounge started in November of last year. Initially it was a forum (begun a few months earlier), but was converted to a blog-only format in November. Unfortunately, due to a new job, I never had the proper time to put into promoting it and finding niche advertisers -- I did have on inquiry about advertising from a company that makes netbook cases, but I never followed up.
Now, because I am working on a launching a web app, I just can't afford to put money into this project, especially given that I don't have the time to put into monetizing the property.
Netbook Lounge has one blogger who is paid $200/month for 12-15 posts per week. He's very good, and keeps the site up-to-date with all the latest news, but it would be up to the new owner whether or not to keep him on (and up to you to negotiate a deal with him).
What you're buying with Netbook Lounge is really the domain, and the content. It has 246 posts, and gets a fair amount of Google traffic from that content.
With a sufficient bit of promotion, it could easily become an authority in what is a relatively unsaturated niche, and one that is growing like a weed.
Revenue Details
This site was never properly promoted, and I never sought niche advertisers. We put AdSense on the site, but it never targeted well and only made a few dollars... $4.58 in the month of Februrary, for example, and $0.95 so far in March.
Traffic Details
At its peak, Netbook Lounge was doing more than double the traffic that it is today. Unfortunately, as I said, I just haven't had the time to put into promoting it at all.
Traffic is 72% from search engines, ~16% direct, and ~12% referral. Is is 42% US, 15% UK, 3.5% Canadian, 3.5% Indian, 3% German, 2.5 % Australian.
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Questions 7 public, 0 deleted
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- Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:57:20 GMT
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- Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:20:28 GMT
Please verify site access and telephone number.
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- Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:37:46 GMT
Please verify and we can start the bid.
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- Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:02:59 GMT
All PMs replied too. Referrer screenshot added as requested.
I'll verify tonight.
Sorry for not replying sooner ... I completely forgot to check my PMs and forgot that I don't have email notifications set up anymore. Apologies for that.
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- Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:04:22 GMT
Site verified. :)
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- Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:56:22 GMT
What's the reserve price?
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- Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:47:39 GMT
Reserve price is $100... but planning to sell whether it is reached or not.
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