Sales SUCK! How much Xanax is safe to take with 15 shots of Whiskey?
 

Been doing this since the mid 90's and the past couple weeks has got to be a record breaker for us for shitty sales (iBill fiasco not included)..

Across the board on everything: Affiliate programs, clip stores, hard1ink sales, blog posts, you name it. Traffic and bandwidth are the same, just ratios suck.

And as if spending countless hours removing content from dozens of dead programs from sites wasn't bad enough, I keep getting Indian dudes who haggle with me forever wanting blog posts for a quarter and for me to write them, or they want permanent 1inks for 25 cents. The sad thing is, even though I know better, I waste an hour trying to get a reasonable price from them and in the end nada...

That shotgun I bought for December 21st, 2012 is looking absolutely delicious right now….. if only I could find some steak sauce.

calm down dude not worth killing yourself :2 cents: :2 cents: :2 cents: do you have any hobbies?

Man just fucking get a job at McDonald's. A lot of us have had to get some shitty job we don't like.

Stop bemoaning your station in life. Maybe stop drinking would help get things turned around.

It's not like your sales are 0, while your flipping burgers or washing dishes you can still be getting the extra adult site income.


Fuck that whiny I can't make money in porn shit, do something else then and use porn for extra money.

I've been looking for a shit job the last week. You are in the same boat as thousands of other webmasters that have been struggling the last 2 years, many of us have to get real jobs now.

You must be really naive if you think that you could get normal price from someone who offers you 25 cents for link/post. Not to mention wasting an hour negotiating with them.

There are always other opportunities so its not a dooms day by any means.

Well.. i do like masturbating.. suppose i could sell my sperm.. :1orglaugh

Well.. I do like fast food..


and ya.. i hear ya, and I know.. i was just fed up today, however I was trying to be funny at the same time... :winkwink:

lol.. maybe!

I must admit, that was an exaggeration... but not too far from it.. lol

Why keep beating a dead horse? Ever try mainstream? Spend your time and webmaster / affiliate marketing skills on something new.

:2 cents:

might help focusing on something different?

depends which whisky.

Ya, i have a couple hundred mainstream sites that we haven't really done too much with (there was always more money in adult)... I should probably take a second look and do something more to monetize them, I always tend to put the non adult sites on the back-burner..

No way! He should drinking the way out of this ...

i'm always around 1:300 or better on toticos.com guess it depends on what youre selling... the people want kokane and you're selling k2. switch up ur product to some real ish

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Maybe, drunk homeless people always seem to have money.

good comparision

Your problem is you havent consumed enough whiskey. Try doubling it up and post back with results. If possible.

I get fed up like this too man, every few weeks in fact. LOL Sales up one week, down the next, then up, then down, crazy patterns.

Hang in there. Enjoy summer, things will pick up in the Fall (for all of us).

It sounds like you know better than to waste time haggling with people who want links for a quarter so why are you doing it man?

Don't put up another affiliate link ever again until you have a way to remove it and all others like it within five minutes. I don't worry about the content too much. If someone doesn't pay me or they close their program with little or no notice then it'll get removed when I have the time.

It does suck all this labor for dwindling returns. This is why I'm extremely hesitant to promote new sites and commit my time to it. Especially Nats programs. "Here today, gone tomorrow" is all too common and I think it's only going to get worse. Within three years I expect almost every affiliate paysite program to disappear. To make matters worse most now shutdown with little or no notice or they sell silently to someone who changes the codes without so much as notifying us. There is so little respect for affiliates these days. Who needs that? If the program brings $$$$ a month that's one thing. If it's $$ that's another.

start a emu farm

has it really than been bad lately in general? For me yes.. i thought it was because i got hit with panda/penguin.

You should try beaner billing ;)
When your sales increase 10fold call it bb billing. Did I say you should switch billers yet?

Shits real son

I still don't understand people trying to sell something that is already FREE.

Doesn't make any sense anymore.

If you are wondering why your sites aren't selling anymore, just visit this link:

http://www.bing.com/videos/browse?FORM=Z9LH1

Now, look to the right, and click on that sun star and change your safe search settings to OFF.

Then, type in any filthy, nasty disgusting phrase you can think of, and BING will deliver you tons and tons of clear, beautiful porn video at your fingertips for FREEEEEEE!!!!!

That's why your sites are not selling.

It's not your fault, it's the hundreds of thousands of morons in this business that thought free samples were the way to go.

That thinking as ruined the business model FOREVER.

Get over it already and go hang out with the day workers at Home Depot. You'll get some much needed sun and exercise and you will make more money working, than sitting around bitching about not being able to sell something that is already free.

Yap I just saw that a week ago, best tube ever :D

Adapt or die, faggot.

wtf . bing is very stupid.

they are not even blocking rape and incest like stuff.

yeah, forget the steak sauce too unless you are going to make it yourself from scratch... :winkwink:

It's true, all results shows TUBES and TUBES...

Question to those of you blogging... Why are you still blogging and you didn't start a tube?..

You can't really compete with tubes in SEO.

:2 cents::2 cents:

well, but look who is ranking for like 90% adult terms... BIG TUBES like pornhub, xnxx, xvideos, xhamster... can you complete against the big guys? you can't...

You can get some cash by ranking for Google but the product itself is rapidly being devalued. In some cases you can't even give the porn away. People don't want it. They are sick of it. This is where we are at now and where we are going.

These guys will suffer too as the $/visitor falls to zero and the competition for finite traffic increases. It's a mathematical certainty. I believe some are starting to notice this in the last year especially. You can see the panic.

Free samples are one thing. When I go to the grocery store someone might offer me a bite on a stick or something as a free sample. None of them give me a year's supply of the product. But that is what is happening in our industry and has been happening for years. Go to any major tube and you can get more porn for free than you could ever hope to watch. The customers are overwhelmed. There is no need to ever buy again. In fact so much free porn is available they can now be very discriminating about what they will spend time watching for free! It's crazy.

It is pretty mind-boggling. Even going back 3-4 years ago you were somewhat limited as to what you could find on the tubes. Generic mainstream porn was easy & abundant, but many of the more specific niches the surfers' options were limited. Not so anymore. In 30 seconds of searching a surfer can bring up hundreds of full-length vids in nearly any category they can think of, enough to keep them masturbating 3x/day for years. It's comical. That's what happens when programs give affiliates a neverending stream of "promo" content and then they saturate the Web with it by the millions for a decade-plus, using the "throw enough shit against the wall & some will stick" marketing strategy.

It was the affiliate model that built online adult up and it's the affiliate model that killed it.

I still believe you can sell effectively to the true aficionados of certain micro-niches, the rare people who will indeed pay for the content they love and even perhaps develop a loyalty toward your brand. But those people are .001% of the original porn-buying customers, so the pie is tiny & getting smaller by the month. And reaching that audience takes a lot of work.

I'd say about 10 for per kg. of your bodyweight.
Happy happy :thumbsup

I'm at the point where if I can see a few hundred dollars a month in sign ups plus the rebills I would be happy to have the side money.

I can tell you understand the situation with niche and micro-niche as well. It's a relatively small amount of surfers and once you start handing out content for free in great numbers it can totally change the viability of the market.

I admit it was a rough lesson for me. At first I thought that niche and especially micro-niche would be largely immune to the piracy. I figured that the tubes would keep their focus on the mainstream markets. I did not think micro-niche sponsors would tolerate them. But little did I know it's even more vulnerable due to the above. You cannot make it up on volume when in a micro-niche. It's impossible because the interested surfers just aren't there. Once the sponsors in the micro-niches got hit with reduced revenues they mostly turned to the tubes in desperation further accelerating the problem.

Admittedly I think affiliates didn't help matters either. I know in the past if you managed to find a micro-niche where little or no affiliate or other content exists while also finding the right target demographic you could get very, very, very rich in a short time. This was true as little as five years ago. There was a lto of opportunity still with paysites and even as an affiliate.

But I don't believe the affiliates of old are so much responsible for this mess we see now. Most of these giant tubes were started and financed by the large players in our industry. Often it was done secretly. For instance look at Brazzers. For the most part the affiliates of old hated it. I know I've been rallying against it for at least five years. We knew it would decimate the paysite affiliate model and that was how most of us made our living. We also suspected it would hurt paysites in the long term as well. We were right sadly.

The people who mainly dropped the ball in this industry are those at the top. They did not think long term. They were greedy and stupid. They took short term profits. But that used to be how most business was done. It was a frat boy type atmosphere with hookers and blow where most people at the top had little real business education.

You're not alone. The paysite affiliate side of adult currently reminds me of this:



When I posted this topic https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=810284 five years ago I was mostly joking. Little did I fucking know...

Dating and cams can still sell if you are able to find a sponsor who will give you a fair shake (and that's the tough part). It's easier than selling 99% of paysites anyway under current conditions. The rebills are better too and that at least allows you a chance to build back up instead of building on shifting sands and getting nowhere. Other than that it's suicide to try anything else as an affiliate other than cpm or selling ad space for flat rates. It's that bad. Thankfully there is no law which says we have to stay in adult either.

How do I promote cams though? I mean the competition for those keywords is harsh. Do I just keep making blog posts using FHG links and sprinkle cam posts between them and keep filling my sidebars with non paysite stuff?

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

1. Try to get traffic which you already know is interested in cams and wants to see it. This is up to you but there are tricks. Remember you have a better shot here and you don't need to throw thousands of people at the problem as you do now with paysites (200,000 affiliate impressions for a sale). Sometimes filtering works great.

2. Try to make them fall in love with a particular girl (or guy) and then helpfully toss them the DIRECT link to click see more. They can't pirate it so you have a good shot at a sale if the sponsor is fair.

Tossing up a general promo in the sidebar on a blog mainly designed to sell paysites just isn't going to work. You're going to see 0.3% ctr and 1:30000 from that. Work on pushing the cams or dating primarily right from the start! :)

Really fuck the paysite stuff. It's dead and buried. I think that is important to do. I know it's hard to do after living off of it for so long but things have changed so much. The sooner you do that I think the better off you will be. If you already have stuff up then that's fine but I wouldn't work on building it up any further. It's largely a waste of time.

Around this time last year, I bit the bullet and got a job. I felt terrible about it, and I thought it wouldn't last.. or that I wouldn't last. I made a thread about it here. It was a HUGE life decision for me.. I was probably more stubborn than most of you holdouts to be honest.. I held on way too long.

But a year later I'm still at the new job, I make $40/hr to go to meetings and manage some projects part time. I've met so many new people, gained confidence, and realize there's so much more out there.

Also I've used tons of the things I learned over the years running my sites at my new job, and I'm learning so much more that I would have never learned if I just kept looking at porn all day.

I've new side projects of my own coming up, I'm outsourcing instead of doing everything myself so I can scale, and I'm a partner in a new business with 2 multimillionaires.

All in a year.

The best part is that people look up to me now, instead of just me looking down on myself.

I haven't really touched my adult stuff for a while now, and I don't even feel it's worth paying someone to update them to be honest.. Diminishing returns, and the worst part - no motivation... No pot of gold at the end of the tunnel. Low expected value. That was just too depressing for me to put in an honest day's work towards.

Its pretty bad , hang in there, start doing mainstream bro!

:) indeed!

Adapt or die.

Already made over $600k profit for 2013 and its only July 4th.... How? .. Because I figured out what works for me and how to scale it effectively. I'm on track for $1.2m Profit in 2013.

This is all mainstream money. There is so much cash there it is not even right...

Next up: Scaling again to break $2m PROFIT ..not sales, PROFIT in 2014.

This is an Adult Webmaster board.
Do you still promote anything IN adult?

Fuck you asshole. You're full of shit so post numbers, links, etc or your "mainstream" shit is just that: bullshit.

600k profit LMAO.

Simple answer: IT consulting. WAN/LAN/design, implementation and support. We are a Cisco/Netapp/VMware/AT&T shop.

$600k profit is realistic on the right sales made when you are reselling hardware/software/network service/mobile services....