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Originally Posted by AkiraSS
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Now, haters, flame away :)
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Akira, first of all thank you for the kind word in your post about GTS and Nichespots. We appreciate it :)
I might make a few suggestions to help the newbie TGP submitters some more money and also keep some more money in their pockets.
a) buy domain name $8.88
(absolutely imperative good suggestion)
b) get hosting, webair, bluegravity, splitinfinity are just few that come to mind
$100 or something hosting plan per month is a good start
(great suggestion, I don't know how many times I have used a freehost provided by my sponsors and 6 months later find out that they dropped the ball and the server I was on crashed for 2-3 days and all the traffic I had built up with gallery submissions completely went into the toilet. No one likes paying for costs they can avoid but this is one cost that is absolutely necessary, shit the hosting prices these days are so low it's almost a joke. I would highly recommend Mojohost, Nationalnet and Jupiterhosting.)
c) install good free CMS, like Mambo
www.mamboserver.com (pay someone to install it for you, once installed is very easy to manage) - This is essential, it offers great versatility, it's free, it has tons of free components like forums, blogs, gallery makers etc etc.
(I'm not really familiar with CMS or Mambo sorry, so I don't have much advice to give here)
d) Buy partner accounts, $300-$600 for this is enough per month,
http://www.nichespots.com/ and GTS
http://www.gallerytrafficservice.com/ are pros in this area I think
(I can't recommend this enough! HAHA!! Ok I am a bit biased obviously on this but if you picked up some great paid partner accounts for like $40 a month that will generate tons of traffic for you. All you need is one sale per MONTH and the partner account is paid for in full. As for paid spots we have some really great deals on spots right now so I would suggest you give us a shout at
http://www.gallerytrafficservice.com and we would be glad to go over the various options with you)
e) Buy content, 30 sets x $30 = $900
(I don't think in this day and age that buying content for gallery submissions is really necessary. Plus on top of that I think surfers want to see more of the content that was in your gallery so if they sign up for the site they expect that same girl that was in your gallery to be in the site. If he/she's not they will most likely cancel more quickly if not immediately.)
f) Buy gallery submitters like
http://www.chameleonsubmitter.com/ and
http://www.dreamsubmitter.com/ - round $30 per month or something
(yep I would totally suggest these submitters, I have heard very positive things about dreamsubmitter)
g) Buy TGP gallery templates, 30 x $25 = $750
(30 templates might be a bit too much, I would say buy 5-10 good templates from an experienced designer, don't use the hosted gallery templates as every other webmaster out there will be using them too and you won't get listed as quickly)
h) Dedicate 1 week in filling all 30 templates with content, so you will have around 30 galleries now
(once you start building galleries everyday you will become very adept and whipping them out more quickly. In the old days I could make galleries like a champ, however quantity is not as important as QUALITY. Make sure your screen shots/pics are so damn clear you can see your reflection in them. Make your screenshots very large and EXTREMELY clear. Perfect Gonzo is a great example of a company that uses fantastic galleries.)
i) The rest of the month, submit those galleries. Submit to your paid partner accounts, but use the Database that comes with Chamelleon Or Dreamsubmitter to submit to the rest of the TGPs out there.
Every 4 days submit a gallery to
www.thehun.com - your content of 30 galleries will last you for 3 months. If you are smart and use proxies, several domains on different Cblocks and different email addresses you can submit up to 5-6 galleries to
www.thehun.com daily but this requires like 10-15 hours per day until you get well accostumed to the practise.
(yep absolutely, make sure you submit each and everyday. Do not skip, good things take time and you need to make sure you get the maximum amount of submissions in per day without pissing off any site owners. As for submitting to the hun make sure you do not piss him off. He knows every trick in the book when it comes to submissions to his site, do not try and circumvent his rules or you will find yourself in the blacklist very quickly.)
l) Use sponsors with Free trials, $1 trials and $1.85 trials
(I don't know how relevant the free trials will be to sales, I am sure more people will sign up because it's free or close to free but still I think people sign up to sites because they think the chick/guy is hot and they want to see more of them. My suggestion is to give them exactly what they want and make sure you deliver them exactly what they are looking for)
n) Make galleries with 2 x 300kb movies and the rest 12 or so pics, 800x600
(the movie size has to be alot larger than 300kb to get listed. Generally sites like the movies to be 15-20 second clips and at least 3-4 movies per gallery.)
Anyways I hope this helps a little :)
DH
