How can you make a living as a hotel affilliate?

[RSK3000]

I just don't get it.......... with the average hotel affilliate programme offering in the region of 7% commission guess how much you need to turnover annually to make even a modest income of £20,000 per annum?

......7% of £300,000 is £21,000. So you have to turn over significantly more than a quarter of a million to make under £2,000 per month.

Say the average double room is £100 per night thats 3,000 nights every year...how can you hope to make money on that? its just ridiculous - or am I missing something!!!?????

 

[orchardapple]

not rediculous, just very damn hard to generate that, would be interested in the secret myself.

I guess that to generate that level of income your moving away from domaining and into developing a brand, management and advertising

 

[retired_member12]

It depends on whether you expect too much from a single sector I suppose, especially if your aim is to make a living at it. To be fair, I imagine 7% in the hotel trade is quite a hit to give away.

 

[accelerator]

Say the average double room is £100 per night thats 3,000 nights every year...how can you hope to make money on that? its just ridiculous - or am I missing something!!!?????

If my calculations are correct though, that's an average of only 8.22 sales per day ... which shouldn't be asking too much given the number of hotel sales that happen each day ...

I heard on the Hotel Inspector programme the other day that the UK hospitality industry is worth £114bn a year.

Rgds

 

[RSK3000]

that's an average of only 8.22 sales per day ... which shouldn't be asking too much

Thats the problem - how do you get 8.22 sales a day?

 

[accelerator]

Thats the problem - how do you get 8.22 sales a day?

Make sure you're in the first three results on Google?

Rgds

 

[ratboy]

Long-tail. Embarking on this road in a few weeks. Got me backpack and sandwich box. Wish me luck.

 

[awgthomas]

Get 9 very specific sites out there

 

[fastworld]

Specicfic sites for me too.
i.e ChesterHotels.co.uk, SwanseaHotels.co.uk ect..
If you had enough of these type of domains / sites and they rank well then it is possible i guess..

 

[Edwin]

Ignore the turnover, that doesn't really make any difference. So long as the hotel rooms are not overpriced, the turnover is what all the hotels that you send the traffic to will be gaining in total. It's not YOUR turnover! The fact that cumulatively it comes to a large number doesn't make the task of selling each individual hotel stay any harder. It's also misleading to think that's what A hotel would be earning - that's what ALL hotels would be earning... if you were offering your visitors the choice of only one hotel your conversion rate would plunge like a stone.

Looking at it in terms of sales per day is a much better way to think about it. And consider also that many people book multi-day stays and suddenly it doesn't look like quite such an insane mountain to climb. Certainly going to take a huge amount of work unless you find some angle nobody else has and can get the site(s) to go viral, but I'm sure that some of the larger site networks or individual popular area guide sites must easily drive much more bookings than that.

The right site and the right traffic can convert very well. I average about 1 hotel night per day from the traffic to Blackpool/co/uk (60-80 typeins per day) which isn't even developed in any way.

 

[SF]

i would die for that name edwin first dabs if you ever sell ill try and get a house loan

 

[ratboy]

i would die for that name edwin first dabs if you ever sell ill try and get a house loan

You'd be renting out rooms in your house to hen do's Sean!

 

[Edwin]

Sorry, it's not going to come up for sale. It's too sweet a pair with Blackpool.com and any sale without development would never do the two domains justice.

 

[FagEnd]

Start with buying Luxury Hotel Guide then set up a user driven content guide site.

I'm sure the person that owns that domain will sell it

 

[orchardapple]

lol, nowt like a bit of self promotion.

Does this site attact any visitors/revenue?

looks like a good basis in which to start from

 

[FagEnd]

lol, nowt like a bit of self promotion.

Does this site attact any visitors/revenue?

looks like a good basis in which to start from

Only just threw up the directory, so not checked traffic stats, but defo no rev yet

Got the name from LeeOwen for a bargain.

Sure it will generate rev in several months.

 

[RSK3000]

fastworld- thats a nice selection of geo domain hotel names you have there.

Edwin - Thanks for sharing this info. Obviously, you are talking about one of the countrys top .co.uk geo . Most of us will never come anywhere near getting our hands on a geo like that.

 

[Edwin]

Edwin - Thanks for sharing this info. Obviously, you are talking about one of the countrys top .co.uk geo . Most of us will never come anywhere near getting our hands on a geo like that.

That may be true, but the point about the conversion rate is the important bit: if you develop a geo site around somewhere that tourists visit frequently, you should be able to get plenty of hotel leads from it. Repeat the exercise a few times, and the numbers should get really tasty.

 

[RSK3000]

somewhere that tourists visit frequently

Thats the key to hotel revenue - traffic volume + visitor intention. Almost every visitor to your Blackpool domain name probably wants to visit.

I've developed a site about Manchester, England. It does have hotel ads, but I get negligible conversion rates - even though there are a lot of tourists/ visitors to the city. The traffic is just not of the same quality.

If you have quality tourist traffic this is the key to converting visitors.

 

[dougs]

simple

Put lots of istes up with lots of content and get links to them all

8 sales per day is chicken feed

Doug