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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
Get used to hearing replies like this....
...they will always be the norm no matter the forum.
Most of the established guys will not work with/for you because they want insane monthly/upfront and will refuse to be paid on performance. They will promise you the moon, but few will let their pay be set based on their promises. Keep in mind, this is a business.
You will also have a lot of hungry people with NO SKILLS who will contact you and beg you for a shot. These will also be counter productive as few seem to know about traffic 101, much less all the rest that goes into running a website.
What you are looking for here is a needle in a stack of needles. Most people with the skills you need are doing it for themselves, and do not want to work for others for 50% of the pie. Others who want to do it, but have nothing on what you need.
In the end you need someone who is either vested, i.e. they bring some money AND skills to the table or the second option is.... you really need to find someone who is interested in what you do or wants to do what you do, and is a borderline fan with some skills. They are hard to find, but that is what you need.
Otherwise, you are essentially ransoming off your company for promises, or a partner who does not carry their end more times then not. Which is a bad deal. I have only come across a 'possible' perfect match twice, and I have been looking for years.
Good luck. You'll need it.
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Believe me, what you say is true! Most of the girls in my network came from other places first, so I know you speak truth.
Believe you me also, Barefootsies, I've considered contacting you about what we do but thing is, we don't do well with fetish. So-so but nowhere where you would be happy.
I can offer this because I have a couple whales in my network, and a few sites that are mini-whales, plus I'm a one-man operation (tho I'm outsourcing some tasks lately). So my overhead is zero, my expenses are reasonable, my 'bottom line' is lower (or higher, depending on how you look at it) than others, so it takes less for me to profit. But as I said above, I turn down a LOT of requests for sites (on average, four a week or so) because I'm only one person and while I'm growing insanely fast I still don't have employees. So nowadays I ONLY take on projects that I know will make bank - like MILF Mia.
Say what you will about the crappy design (and I'm sick of hearing it), truth is Mia McKinley had a pro-designed website,
www.miamckinley.com, up for over a year. She paid $1500 for it plus $75 per month for 'webmastering and updating'. She made, at $14.95 per membership, drum roll please...four sales. In one year. Truth.
So she contacts me. She's been in Playboy, she's doing tv, radio, cable, shooting for Reality Kings, etc, and she's gone hardcore (with her hubby only). I say okay, here's a site - it's been up two months as of yesterday - and she averages ten sales a day.
People, I don't get it either - but truth. So now i only take on sites I really feel have a chance, and without fetish traffic your sites would do not-so-well. of course, if you gots hardcore...