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Originally Posted by tranza
Damn, man! You should really work on a new affiliate program and professional softwares!
Also I think you could play a little with your tour and join pages. It could really help conversions.
I thought you had merged with a big program btw...
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Like I said in the first post, I have tried to use the larger affiliate programs avail to setup a new program... With Nats I had the domain gonzobucks, and with mpa3 I had (and still own) anotherprogram.com. Both got to about the same place before I finally had to pull the plug. They both got fully designed, both got the software installed, but when it came time to actually get the systems working on my server I was kind of left hanging. neither system was ever taken to the point of actually running. My fault, maybe as I don't have any server knowledge, and both these script and companys seem to assume that you should know what to do... Even though I thought I had explained it VERY clearly that the installs would have to be done 100% due to my lack of experience. Needless to say, the combination of the 2 failures cost me close to 10 thousand US.
So, I'm past that now. I never merged with anyone. I have thought about the idea, but to date never been asked to. I would consider it.
I was lucky with this site... could I repeat the success of it, today, starting from scratch, with todays internet... no. But I would like to of course see it's continued success and maybe even see it grow into something even better.
I look around my office, and I have so much content it's almost sicking... around 500 FULL dv's of content, all original, all owned by me. I don't even know where to start at this point. a 3rd of the content has never even been captured from the original tapes. If I had someone with edit skills, someone with affiliate skills etc, I'm sure that something pretty good could come about.
My personal background is in computers, NT etc. Was a system admin for years. Got laid off in 2000 causing a bankruptcy, happen to have internet access and a 200.00 camera from best buy and a cheap mini dv and started from there. Feel into a good deal that ended a little sour in the beginning, but was able to get my name out there almost instantly (I started with something like 35 sales the very first day the site was online due to a content set I did for another company that was back linked to me.) Over the years, I have been lucky enough to meet and work with some great people in the industry, I survived Ibill, and others that have owed my money and disappeared. Extremehole even survived by divorce to Samantha, albit it did put the site into a current limbo, but I have been continuing to shoot and have tons of new stuff.
I do need a new tour and join page, I would be interesting in talking with designers who think they could do something that fits the site etc. All in all I guess I'm just nearing a crossroad that I seriously need to look at the site and figure out what next.