i’m american and i don’t like the talking guy. he voice has a mix of cheesy radio announcer and sort of a clinical sound, and he’s not going to be a plus for guys surfing at work or at home late at night who doesn’t want to wake up a wife or boyfriend or roommate. those guys are going to be frantically hitting back the second the voice comes on.
I third the ‘talking guy’ opinion. That kind of thing cannot be good for business from potential members trying to be discreet. And there are many of those out there.
Also, it would have been a good idea to create some gay content for promotion before announcing your program. What are you going to do if you get hit with 30 new affiliates looking for custom promo tools? The last 10 people to put in orders will be waiting for a long time for their tools and will probably forget all about you. It happens all the time.
Thanks for the feedback guys.It’s important for the site’s development and growth.The Sexsearch network for years has had many gay members. So Manplay.com is or foray into the gay market. We have over 35 Million members on the network and a big chunk are gay profiles. We have had early successes with major affiliates Rentboy and Adam4Adam so we know we convert well.
In addition I was hired to bring a gay marketing perspective to Manplay having been in the biz for a number of years now. Plus as a gay dude I know what I do and don’t like about the hookup sites i’ve used in the past.
[QUOTE=RDude;84817]I third the ‘talking guy’ opinion. That kind of thing cannot be good for business from potential members trying to be discreet. And there are many of those out there.
Also, it would have been a good idea to create some gay content for promotion before announcing your program. What are you going to do if you get hit with 30 new affiliates looking for custom promo tools? The last 10 people to put in orders will be waiting for a long time for their tools and will probably forget all about you. It happens all the time.[/QUOTE]
We have some standard creative for manplay.com. However the stock creative will be refreshed in the new year. But custom art work is something we can do now but as a service into the future. Some affiliates I deal with like self serve, some like custom. working on it!
Here’s a little more you need to know…we own the trademark to MANPLAY!
Word Mark MANPLAY
Goods and Services IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Prerecorded DVDs, CD ROMs, video tapes, motion picture films, audio cassettes, featuring original romantic and sexual fictional works. FIRST USE: 20011026. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20011026
IC 041. US 100 101 107. G & S: Entertainment in the nature of providing a website featuring adult male sexual and romantic content. FIRST USE: 20011026. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20011026
Standard Characters Claimed
Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Serial Number 78466442
Filing Date August 12, 2004
Current Filing Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1A
Published for Opposition December 13, 2005
Registration Number 3065243
Registration Date March 7, 2006 Owner (REGISTRANT) Io Group, Inc. CORPORATION CALIFORNIA 69 Converse Street San Francisco CALIFORNIA 94103
Type of Mark TRADEMARK. SERVICE MARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE
Also, did you mention to everyone how you guys use “online emissaries” to trick people into joining your site? Their TOS allows them to take your profile and images and impersonate you to other users. They send users an email pretending to be you and using your profile and images saying you âwant to meet themâ. But the only way to actually respond is to join and pay a membership. So, you join thinking some hot guy wants to meet you, when it was actually the company impersonating that hot guy and using his profile and images.
Online Emissary⢠Feature. manplay.com may, at its discretion, cause or allow You to be contacted by one or more Online Emissaries as a part of manplay.com’s Online Emissary⢠feature.
14.3 An Online Emissary⢠may be a current or past manplay.com Member, an independent contractor, a digital creation, You or a digital representation of You.
14.7 You also hereby expressly authorize all data in Your profile and all other data regarding Your use of manplay.com to be used in and in association with Research’s⢠Online Emissary⢠Features, including, for example, to provide introductions to other manplay.com Members, introductions to other real and factious persons, including those in other dating services. To assist manplay.com in the formulation and transmission of communications to You, and to enable manplay.com or a third party in the creation and use of one or more Online Emissaries based on, acting as, or representing, You.
I will not get into a legal brawl on an webmaster board. Nor will I comment on private dealings between two companies. Needless to say our legal team suggests that there should be no impediment in carrying on doing business as we have been doing. We have been in the internet dating business for many years, we are well respected by our members and the industry.
Please explain to me, and all of us, why you believe it is ethical to impersonate a user to to try and get others to join your site? It may be legal because you bury it in your Terms of Use, but the bigger question is…is it ethical?
Please, correct me if I am wrong. You are impersonating members to try and get other people to join your site? Is that an accurate and correct statement? You haven’t denied you are doing this. You’ve simply said your legal team says its okay to do it. I’m trying to get to the truth so that everyone can make informed decision about the type of business and practices they want to be associated with.
Its real simple…are you impersonating users to try and get people to join your site?
Anyway, whether it is ethical or not to use this tactic is a personal opinion isn’t it?
Personally I think it’s wrong, but others might not. It’s not against the law.
In fact, there are plenty of other adult dating sites which use exactly the same methods.
I think ManPlay and Titan should be more concerned with the use of a trademark. Let other people decide if their terms of use are objectionable or not.
[QUOTE=conran;88890]How did I miss this the last time around?
Anyway, whether it is ethical or not to use this tactic is a personal opinion isn’t it?
Personally I think it’s wrong, but others might not. It’s not against the law.
In fact, there are plenty of other adult dating sites which use exactly the same methods.
I think ManPlay and Titan should be more concerned with the use of a trademark. Let other people decide if their terms of use are objectionable or not.[/QUOTE]
I think the latest tactic manplay.com is using to attract traffic really sucks. They make up authentic sounding m4m craigslist posts and insert a URL (like RaleighGays.com on the Raleigh craigs m4m site) within the post. These URLs redirect the user to manplay. So all these craigs users are wasting their time when they read and respond to these fake ads. That’s pretty disrespectful of people’s time. You can search craigs and verify that what I am saying is true (search RaleighGays in the raleigh personals , for example) . There are the cities this deception/spamming is going on for, to get people to go to manplay.com Yes, the sites below redirect to manplay