We have been working our butts off getting BritishBucks and AlexanderBucks sites all ready for promos, so that has affected my own sales levels on other sites. But, good news is that we now have our new CMS structure in place and are migrating all these sites members areas over the next week, plus we are in the middle of migrating everything to spanking new servers that are super-fast at NationalNet, plus we have a new tour ready for BrazilianDicks and it will be launched within days too. Oh, of course, there is also like 100,000 other changes that I have made on the back end to improve things too…so if we can make the schedule, February should be absolutely rocking!
Sales rocked for me from December 12th until January 8th. I broke some major personal records across the board for all sponsors I promote. In fact, sites that don’t usually sell that well for me were raking them in. It was quite uplifting.
Since January 9th however, sales have trickled in and slowed down. I expect this though, as people probably spent a lot of money over the holidays and are back to business as usual.
I think 2010 will be a good year though. The US dollar is rising again and that should help matters I would think.
Can I presume goldbars isnt faring very well lol? You know, sometimes it is better… not to post
If it is the best month, then it is the best month.
However, I shall help qualify your… simplistic… message. A lot of us don’t have sites that are 5 years old… ie… they are growing quite a lot. So best months really aren’t that a big a rarity. Plus, the market on the whole (minus recessions etc) is a growing market, and with growing markets, there is bound to be no shortage of bumper months.
A ‘best month’ coming from someone like Bjorn with mature sites is much more significant than someone such as myself, but that was not the question.
[QUOTE=Daniel;60197]Can I presume goldbars isnt faring very well lol? You know, sometimes it is better… not to post
If it is the best month, then it is the best month.
However, I shall help qualify your… simplistic… message. A lot of us don’t have sites that are 5 years old… ie… they are growing quite a lot. So best months really aren’t that a big a rarity. Plus, the market on the whole (minus recessions etc) is a growing market, and with growing markets, there is bound to be no shortage of bumper months.
A ‘best month’ coming from someone like Bjorn with mature sites is much more significant than someone such as myself, but that was not the question.[/QUOTE]
First week of jan was very good, then up until last night its been very slow. Seems to be picking up since yesterday but it does normally do towards the end of the month.
I do have a feeling we will see some dire / bad months to come. People will be running out of credit now and I don’t think we’ve seen the worst of it yet.
I had a little slump in December but things have been consistent and feel like they’re back on track this month. Weird part is I’ve been busy and haven’t put in enough time but sales are still OK.
Adult income on the decline for me, but I can’t blame the market - been spending a lot of time on mainstream projects lately. Will be giving adult a push again soon!
Yeah, it seems as though people are pretty broke right now. At least, I hope that’s all it is. I’m sure we’ll be getting over the hump soon. I always try to stay positive about slow sales times. More often than not things bounce back. We have to remember that the holidays are a time when credit cards are racked up and people need some time to recuperate and pay off the credit tyrants.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different out-come. We have made countless suggestions on what you can do. But most of all you have to widen your approach to things or find a more popular area to promote. No sales at all? That is a tragic waste of your life and time. Run a search on posts you have made asking for advice and see exactly how much of it you have followed and what the results have been. If you are getting nowhere, it may be time to change course in a dramatic way.
Really man, we are here to help you but if you won’t or can’t make some changes that seriously alter the results you are seeing, you can’t expect things to really improve. It may well be that affiliate sales are not the path for you. Clearly you can write so perhaps that is a path you should follow.
You have lots of text that should be interesting to read but it doesn’t relate to your sponsors in any real way. Unless somebody randomly clicks on one of the banners that are sort of dropped around the site, there is no reason to expect that this site will cause anyone to buy. It is a shame because the text is well written. I am of average intelligence (no laughing) and I couldn’t really figure out how to get anywhere on the main page. Plus there is that whole warning thing that is just aching for an enter button.
IF it were mine I would find models that look like the people in those stores from various sponsors and I would use their images inside the stories as illustrations linking them to the sponsors to sell. All in a cleaner and much more elegant format.
Good advice. If sales are that bad for you and are pretty much non-existent, it might be time to open your mind up and promote things that aren’t your main turn-on. I know that’s tough to do, but it can pay off. I’m not turned on by twinks at all. I like older, hairy men. However, if I relied on the hairy and mature niches exclusively I’d have a hard time making consistent sales. Those who like hairy and older men find my blogs and pull out the credit card and all, but not everyone likes older and hairy men. Thus, other niches have to come into the picture for me too.
While sales are certainly slow right now - at least for me and others I’ve spoken with - I have made sales this month and do every week. January is just about 50% what December was. LOL. So a slap in the face so to speak, but I’m convinced things will pick up again. I always do well November and December of each year anyway.
Anyway…I’ll shut up now. Alex gives some good advice. Try something new Terrytowel and see what happens. You really never know until you try, right?
I’m just going to be blunt. I think it’s time you dropped your bathhouse theme. It’s obviously not working. I mean come on, a whole month with no sales at all? Abandon ship immediately!
I’m in no way saying abandon adult, just entirely change what you’re doing. There is plenty of money to be made in adult. Many of us on this board make a living, and in many cases, a very nice living, producing and/or promoting adult sites. You just need to find your way. I sincerely wish you all the best.
Well I find there are two types of webmasters: those that do this for a living and treat it as a real business, and those that do it as a hobby and are satisfied if they get a couple of sales here and there from doing what they enjoy. There is nothing wrong with either approach.
If Terrytowel is happy with what he is doing, and making money off of his site is not his main motivating factor, then by all means he should keep doing what he enjoys. However, like was mentioned here, it does sound like if he is looking to actually make a living off of being a webmaster he would have to make some drastic changes to what he’s doing, and get out of the narrow confines of the ‘bathouse blues’ box.
I’ve slowly started branching out, by creating several freesites. With content that had absolutely NOTHING to do with bathhouses. I’ve used hardcore threesome, foursome, group action, some with porn stars with Johnny Maverick, Pierre Fitch. Some sites with Jocks, Foot Fetish sites, one with Frat guys. Submitted them to countless link lists, and still NOTHING!
I have a couple of blogs out there as well, again having NOTHING to do with bathhouses. Good traffic, but again NOTHING.
Yes I am now turning my attention to AVS sites, to see if I can create some sort of synergism with the freesites and blogs.
I’m hoping to get together with someone I communicate with on this board, to see if we can come up with a game plan.
I have been branching out AWAY from the bathhouse theme, and the results haven’t changed one iota.
How is that even possible? What do you consider good traffic? You should be getting about a sale per 3,000 blog visits (if not better) assuming a 15% click through rate to sponsors and then a ratio of about 1:400.
I just get the feeling that you’re doing something technically wrong - sending traffic and not getting credit for the sales.
I am no rocket scientist Terry but if the other sites are presented in the same way as bathhouse blues, then they may not convert either.
Exactly what is good traffic? I talk to some small paysite owners and they are all excited because they have 50 members after a year. I ask them how much traffic are they getting and they say “500 hits per day”. Well that is not visitors, that is the number of hits the site is getting. They are hosted on $6.99 plans and have not a clue.
You need a mentor big time. But you absolutely must listen to them. Find the most successful person in this business you know and ask they have time, if they will help you, ask them specific questions. Don’t take a scatter shot approach and pick a little from this guy and a little from this girl and expect it to work. Do not ask questions, ignore the answers and then continue to decline.
I have spent four years and thousands of hours building the Manifest brand. I did it with zero experience, average intelligence and (god help me) a Windoze machine. There is no reason that you can not be making at least $3k a month with almost zero cash invested and working a solid 50 hour week till you get your feet on the ground. That is not unrealistic.
But first you must ask yourself “why do I want to do this and what will assure my success?” Until you know the answer to that, it is all just words.
