so how are your sales in december ?
 

for me - something terrible. looks like someone turned some switch off...

same traffic, sales ? = 4x times less what they used to be usually so far.

so far I didnt have such bad month since YEARS.

just unbelievable...........

Sales? What sales? :D

it seems you say this every month ever since Google discovered your spammy network.

Worst ever :Oh crap

Same here for the last 3 months

Absolutely horrid, really didn't think things could get this bad. :helpme

Could be better....

Not bad at all.

I agree, it does feel like a switch was turned off.

The same way google stopped accepting xxx adwords, could it be that the credit card companies made a similar decision, but just didn't announce it?

Something is up, that's for sure.

just to be different, the last two months were really bad but December is looking much better so far.

Same here..

slightly better than november, not by much, but up is up, need more!

December is good, i hate summer!

i don't see an obvious problem here

slow as fuck

Something is definitely up, my traffic has increased but sales are down.

Not bad, but I just started a new paysite so natural to see the increase.

Paying more to affiliates on revshare banner spots then ad brokers so something is working.

Well. no conversion yet. But I am only trying so far BANGBROS.

sorry, but you confused me with someone else :)

exactly, everything dropped down from October, but December so far is so bad that I dont recall so bad month in last 10 years

sadly, maybe it is time to give up on this biz finally... if it is as easy to "turn some switch off" and ruin the earnings of people, than i dont want to be in such biz......

sounds like a similar story for everyone. Where is the switch, we need to turn it back on :thumbsup

From what viewpoint, as a sponsor or affiliate?

If affiliate, what type of sponsors are you promoting? Paysites, cams, dating, ad networks, VOD, sex toys, DVDs, mainstream, etc?

What commission structure are you using? Revshare, PPS, PPL, CPM?

How many sites do you run? How many niches do you promote?

If your business is properly diversified, the impact from one factor should be minimal, without such extreme variations to your bottom line.

4th, 10th and 12th in particular :2 cents:

I always know when those days happen that threads will start appearing on GFY with people having a similar experience :2 cents:

Always sane and excellent posts coming from InfoGuy. Listen to him. "Sales" can mean anything. Be specific.


So are you saying there's a conspiracy on those dates?
Maybe more like collusion (so often confused with conspiracy).

:)

I was throwing those dates out to see if there was much agreement, but could well be that scrubbing days vary. Something going on somewhere, possibly stolen credit cards on the lose. :thumbsup

the DIP in sales started in November for me
December..just a tiny bit better..but sad to look at

I really hope we recover soon...because its depressing seeing this crap

What can we do? Fine tune and monetize.

AMA Kings - 1:4456 $30.00

Nasty Dollars - 591 0 n/a $35.00 $0.00

hazecash.com - What a fucking joke!

affiliate POV...I promote only paysites.... STEADY (+- 50 % max difference in steady ranges) income since years...I see no reason for such fluctuation...anyway, the month is still not over, and in this business you may earn in one day what you would earn in one week, so lets see....

Thank you.

Fine tuning is for people who have steadily growing businesses. People who see declines, especially sharp declines need to make radical changes to turn things around.

As I said, you're not properly diversified. You should take the opportunity to offer other products and services to your valuable traffic. If you don't offer them, then someone else will monetize that traffic. What do you have against other monetization methods?

I thought winter was supposed to be good?

Website sales....on par.
C4S....a little low.
Content sales...lame.
VOD site sales...on par.

First week in the business, 0.0008$. Honestly I consider that pretty good, because I haven't advertised my site anywhere. Also, I figured the first $ I make is probably within the first half a year. I got time.

I jinxed myself... yesterday was the worst day of the year, decline after decline...

Is the VOD worthwhile, or would I be better offering live cam from my solo site again?

Mine are down about 30% - I think its that new pengiun update tho.. just my guess so far.

bust be a hard times, when even affiliate managers, who have been spamming similar threads with how great sales and ratios their program is getting, gave up also :) have luck with your business everyone! :thumbsup btw, if your sales are down, now count, how many hours of work have you put in last two months into your site? ten? twenty? :) :upsidedow :winkwink: you know what i mean ... :winkwink:

get out of my head

They are two completely different entities - apples & oranges.
I'd do both, if I were you...monetize, monetize, monetize...

Time to send some traffic to us. Dec/jan/feb are always our best months :)