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DialHawk
👤 Paul James (Lead-gen YouTuber, 305K subs. Sold DialHawk to his own audience via affiliates and training - 88% of costs were payouts, $0 ads.)🌐 siteitspauljames.com
Call tracking is brutally crowded. DialHawk sold for $725K anyway - because a YouTuber already owned the buyers.
Will it work? · our read
Owned audience wins. The software was a commodity anyone could clone. What made DialHawk worth $725K was 98% retention and near-absentee costs - both downstream of a creator who owned the buyers.
01How the money moves
Lead-gen agencies need call attribution
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Affiliates + training convert them to subscribers
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$18,116 MRR at 74% margin → $725K Flippa exit
02The numbers
$725KEstimatesold on Flippa · 2.6x rev
at sale (Flippa)
From Flippa's case study of the completed sale. Flippa
$283,539 ARR / $18,116 MRR at sale; 98% retention, 74% margin.
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Flippa - how DialHawk sold for $725K (all financials)Ippei - DialHawk review, confirms Paul James built it in 2019Scott D. Clary - interview: Paul James, founder of DialHawkDialHawk.com - product site
Sale price ($725K), MRR ($18,116), annual revenue ($283,539), 74% margin and 98% retention all come from Flippa's own case study of the completed sale, verified verbatim against the raw page (grep-confirmed). Badged STATED: marketplace-disclosed listing financials, not audited or filed. Flippa's page keeps the seller anonymous; Paul James is independently documented (Ippei, Scott D. Clary) as DialHawk's founder/creator since 2019, and the affiliate-heavy cost base (88% of spend) matches his audience-led distribution - but the exact sale date and whether he retained the training arm are not stated on the pages read. Note the annual revenue ($283,539) exceeds annualized current MRR ($18,116 x 12 = $217K), consistent with a business past its peak month ($47,461). Flippa's intro says '89% profit margin' while its own breakdown says '74%'; we use 74%, which matches the $5,110/mo cost figure. Rival prices are current published rates; bar weights are our rough mindshare read, not revenue. verified=false because the figures are broker-published, not confirmed from the founder's own mouth. We never score you.