No sales today so far......
 

Well almost half way thru the day not a frigin sale much less a rebill. Last month or sales been pretty good for the most part with a few bad days during the last month. But the last 4 days have been horrible! But i been digging around and i am glad this is a issue that does not only effect me. Something is going to have to give here and soon :Oh crap

yea, i've definately been worrying about the trends lately aswell :helpme:

ccbill is the problem... their nazi filtering makes it impossible to get sales form some countries.. so those with a lot of foreign traffic need to worry..

in the other corner you have paycom, that applied that filtering too this year... Paycom Euro that is..

I have been dead since the 6th but it has picked up slightly today. Maybe this weekend will be good.

Well if shit don't give here in next few days im just gonna close the program down to new affiliates till i can figure out what the hell is going on. I have my theory's thu and i talked to other sponsors who are seeing the exact same thing.

That sucks, keep us updated.

Here we go with the bullshit again :mad:

Share your theory, you may be on to something.

past 2 days have been fucking horrible. absolutley disgusting

what the fuck over.

who masturbates during the day time?

<--- Guilty

Wouldn't surprise me if it's that rogue affiliate over at zango again... gaah! Fuckers!

Can you guys share who is processing the sites/programs your advertising for and noticing the drops ...ccbill? paycom?Jettis?.etc? ?:helpme


Also..this is a tough week for the biz...hollidays just popped up out of nowhere...News is saying sales are sluggish..gas is over 3 bucks a gallon...The first months heating bill just came in the mail..thanksgiving next week..chsitmas in a month....all bills are higher this year than last..when the economy gets tired so do mr and miss IstillPay4porn:2 cents:

I thought my server was down, pages werent being displayed.
Anything other than people have stopped paying for porn.
All this week I have been dead in the water. Very worried.
Any relief in site???????

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93 sales for me today... so yeah a tad slow

you must be using paycom/epoch

Still waiting for the infamous "Sales couldn't be better. In fact.. We are having a record month!".:winkwink:

Shrug... I missed this thread the day it was posted, but I checked my Statsremote for 11/10 and it was a pretty damn good day for me. This month is also looking very strong, and I've had a lot of growth over the last 3 months.

slow here too, glad its not just me

Sales couldn't be better... in fact I am having a record month.

Between that and CCBill I agree the trends do not look good - after talking to two program upper tier reps - they admitted they are seeing a drop of about 20-25% on their end as well (which amazed me that they would admit it but we have a lot of trust built up over many years)

what amazes me is that all these program owners can't come together and do something for the world's 28th ranked site.

How's your traffic?

Cyndalie - if youre asking me - my traffic very rarely changes - if anything it goes up a little but since the traffic I watch closely is all niche specific SE traffic - its odd when you see a huge downturn with no changes in traffic - especially since Ive graphed my traffic 10 times to tomorrow for the last 8 years :)

Sales are horrible.

If it werent for the top notch companies I promote with their awesome rebills Id be in trouble.

But im sure some of these comanies are going to be like the other scumbags and my rebills will mysterously disappear.. Happens...

But yes, new sales are very low.

Well there's one simple answer...

IT'S BECAUSE THE SURFER IS BEING TRAINED TO GET EVERYTHING FOR FREE! It's tubes, forums etc It's just a matter of time before conversions get worse and worse :2 cents:

sweetcuties - I dont think that had anything to do with the drop in the last 3 weeks - those types of problems have been around forever in one form or another

You are absolutely correct new sales are horrible. But on my end the rebills come in like clock work.

If any sponsors wanna let me know which back end they are using for affiliates and what billing processor they use it would be helpful. Im trying to put a profile together to track down what the issue is. Your company will never be mentioned. I have been working with several sponsors last 2 weeks and we are pretty much seeing the same trends on the same days. But i need more sponsors to ring in so i can get some more data to go by...... my icq is 247-742-205

... but my point is, overall it will get worse. Everyone is suffering, even the big programs. Shit, I can download full movies/pics, even entire members area and not pay. And as new surfers get online, they aren't going to pay for shit... as usual, most in the business think short term :2 cents:

Well I've been making less and less for about the last 6 months. It's getting so bad I'm thinking of finally dropping out the biz completely that I've been doing for the last 8 years and go back to school. It's a fucking joke to be honest with ya..

Recently Ron of CCbill said that since they added the new GEO IP forms overall sales at ccbill was up 10&#37;. This was very recently so I don't think they are seeing the trend. They would really be a great authority of across the board trends.

The thing about these threads is that people rarely post when they are having a great day/week/period/month, only if it's bad, so you get this skewed perspective that everything is horrible and the sky is falling.

Since I quit submitting galleries last month and focussed on my other sources of traffic my conversion ratios have gotten better and my sales increased.

No sales is boring.

still shitty...

Yes it's been a shitty day and quite bad month in general so far.

Oh well, the mother load is right around the corner. Hang in there for another week or month.

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/6425/bouncyfd4.gif

This makes me feel better.

People who are getting out, feel free to hit me up if you want to sell your site.

Best to get some value out of it now before its too late.

Ive seen throughout history where people get too emotionally attched to their biz and go down with the ship. Nothing wrong with that I can understand. But if you are looking to get out, at least consider selling before you get to a point and cant.

Be smart.. If you see things getting bad the smart thing to do is sell.
Or at least get some offers.

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yeah man you on to something.... then
after christmas it will be slow for months because people maxed out their cards for christmas and wont want to spend money on porn and you know it is still cold as shit in jan feb, etc.. so no good sales the with those high heating bills, come march / april you have spring break, so all kids out of school for few weeks, partying not spending on porn, also you have tax day, which your fucked because people owe money, fuck then after that the summer slow down starts in may, weather is nice, people going out to have fun in the sun not watching porn, and kids out of school . are you kidding me, you can't make money when kids are out of school for 3 months, the summer is shot!!!! then come august, kids go back toschool parents need to spend money on books and cloths, and college kids too, then the holidays are back and we right back here. On top of all of that gas prices are high, people can't afford to pay their mortgages, unrest in the middle east, economy is bad, etc. etc..

so what you trying to tell me is that you make excuses why you doing bad, because there is an excuse for every day of the fucking year. thanks for playing. :thumbsup

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how come days before christmas then sales always rock big time?

its getting worse and worse every year, i noticed a couple regular paid spot buyers dropping out of the game recently because they could no longer turn a profit

will76 - agreed - and having been around the biz for 10 years Ive seen all the excuses in the world for people that cant sell shit on a stick - what is going on here though is something that started Oct 20th or so - and affects at least 3 US processors - and has caused two major programs to try to swap out their cascade order but Im thinking that it was to no avail as they just swapped to another affected processor

While I totally agree that over years and years there has been the steady drop due to the free stuff and all other regular market forces - this downturn is way off the charts (literally - since I keep big charts) - the normal trend over the years has been around a 5% drop on some traffic a year - but easily made up for by doing something else/new - this drop in October was completely different and affected all types of traffic since it was on the processors' end - and was easily a sharp 20% drop overall - although I can make up for it with other programs - it was just interesting to see that it is(or seems to be) tied to something limited to the US credit card processing market

I have to admit my CCB have been down this month as well. Traditional sales that went through them in the past seem to be flowing through my secondary, so I am still increasing sales as the cold months kick back into gear.

But these past few weeks have been some of my lowest CCB weeks I can remember.

I also agree with Will to a degree. Plenty of people cry chicken little when they are off for a day week. But if there is a trend effecting multiple people, I give it a thought.

I know for me in the summer months, my sales dip 'maybe' 10-15% (knock on wood) over the years as long as my behavior is the same.

But you have to look at it realistically as well. For example. Just as surfers are outside more, vacationing, etc. So are a lot of webmasters. So you are not hunched over your computer like you would be in the winter (i.e. you are not working as hard).

But I know for me I made conscious efforts in the past few years to make sure behavior remained the same. When it did. Sales barely dented in summer. Or if I would have a slow month on clips or DVD, I would have a kick ass month somewhere else equally things out.

But in this case, I have noticed lowest CCB's sales I can recall.

:2 cents:

While I tend to agree with Will76, I do believe this year has been a touch different. Its not just the holidays. This is the first time in my life that gas has been this high at x-mas, and all the foreclosures going on. People are not spending like normal, because every thing cost so much. On top of that, they are all watching their tv every night wondering when we will be plunged into another war.

We have all seen a bit of a downward trend over that last 3 or 4 months, but I believe this will change somewhere near the end of Jan.

This is kind of like a rain storm. The first few hours, you stay indoors and saty dry. and if it last about 5 hours or so, you say fuck it. You run to the car and go to the movies or a friends to hang out. Because this is $$ we are talking, it will take a little longer, but you get the idea.

ever heard of timezones ?

its not the same time all over the world, u know ....

he's joking....

my post was sarcasm just to make sure everyone got that.


Why do sales go up before christmas? are we talking department stores or porn ? Everything I am talking about is online porn. Lots of things affect mainstream businesses, especially offline ones.