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Originally Posted by Trixxxia
Robbie - when you say you're coming out with lots of business, are you finding a great influx of 'webmasters & affiliates'? Exclude other program owners from this? Are you finding a great deal of nitty-gritty webmasters too at these shows?
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At the Amsterdam show I saw more affiliates than I have in years at a show. The Europeans weren't even in the game (except the hun) 10 years ago. But they have really come into their own now.
In the U.S., the affiliates were never much of a presence at shows in comparison to people who actually had a product.
Back in the day, it was a bunch of guys running galleries on freehosts and thought they were "webmasters" lol There were ony a handful of us guys who were doing real traffic and real sales. So when I used to go back then it was pretty cool because the different sponsors would lay out the red carpet for me and AL4A everywhere we went.
But there weren't many of us then. And there aren't many now.
I do see a lot of young wannabes at the seminars trying to figure out a way to make millions with their blogs.
But the real business takes place at dinners, parties, and sometimes just sitting in a quiet corner having a conversation.
As an affiliate myself, I do enjoy talking to the people from the programs I promote (which are in the hundreds). And they do listen to my suggestions as far as things needed for promotion.
But to be honest...the people who are just affiliate webmasters are in a bind. The tube and torrents are making it harder and harder to sell memberships to the big "generic" type sites.
With that being said....when I was in Amsterdam I was literally swamped by European webmaster affiliates of mine who were eager to meet Claudia-Marie and talk with me about promotion etc.
I haven't seen that in the U.S. in a while. Maybe those guys are a little hungrier and more excited because of their relative "newness" to the game?
I don't know. But I'd like to see more affiliates coming out to the shows. Some input from both sides might come up with some way to stave off the killing fields of tubes and torrents for the mega sites
But in the meantime...I would like to suggest that you find a good solo girl program with exclusive content shot by the actual people who run it. That stuff is kicking ass and retains forever.
Now I wonder who might have something like that to offer to affiliates?
