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Originally Posted by Jdoughs
You've had numerous attempts from people who make double that highest number to help you, but you 'know it all'.
If people making 10 times as much money as me were willing to hold my hand, I'd be listening to the advice and working to implement the ideas, not telling them "I know what I'm doing".
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Most of the advice was:
1) "change your tour, your tour sucks."
2) "Give us more fhg's"
3) "contact us we have a solution for you."
1) We think our tours are fine. Amateur and realistic. No "glam" bullshit.
2) We regret even issueing FHG's because that contributes to the 'free porn' problem online. We believe "less is more." Don't give it away, make 'em pay for it.
3) Everybody is trying to sell us something or take advantage of us. "Do this, buy this, don't do that" It's a feeding frenzy on people like us that don't have internet skills. I feel bad for all the new comers that get eaten alive by all the sales talk and referrals.
We have taken a great deal of advice in the past, we have changed our tour and expanded our affiliate program. Yes, our tours will never please everyone, and our affiliate program is not "perfect." But the main problem is taking advice from strangers online because there are so many of them telling us what to do. Most of which are trying to sell us something. There are a few gems, and you know who you are, that offer great advice. But most of the angry comments come from people that don't even own sites so there is no point of reference or trust from the advice given.
If we listened to all the advice and did what every affiliate told us to do 2 years ago, we wouldn't even be in business today. We'd have 50 FHG's floating around, tons of our content poured over the net, easily accessed for free... our member's area picked clean by affiliates wanting to hand pick what they want to advertise.... and then, who in their right mind would ever buy a membership? Isn't true that 90 or 95% of solo sites max out and die within the first year?
The program model doesn't work for the site owner, only the affiliate. The affiliate maxes out the site, makes money, blows it out, then moves on the next site and leaves that one for dead.
Our way of doing business might not be the best, but we are still here. Still surviving in a market place that is clearly dieing.
.....of course, anytime I go off like this, I get a dozen "hate posts" and nasty talk. No worries, I'm used to it now. But be gentle....