New to the business, so far very bad experience!

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  • guttermouth
    Registered User
    • Jun 2006
    • 5

    #1

    New to the business, so far very bad experience!

    First off just want to say hi to everybody, and introduce myself, im Chris, 26 year old civil designer from california.

    So heres my story so far, I moved to a new company for alot more money, placed in a new tax bracket and im bringing in 40+ dollars an hour now and im single, So i figure i would give a business a try, so good ole Uncle Sammy doesn't take away all my cash. So i'm not too afraid of looseing money at this point, its better to try to start something than let them take it all away from me anyways.

    I started looking around the net for something, after going through alot of trash i run into sites that look really promising i follow their links to see what they are promoteing. I run into this program called "wegcash" I do a little research and they seem legit, i signed up for their program, i signed up to google adwords, Sure i expected to not make any money my first try because thats the way it goes. Placed up a site with all the same gimicks as the rest of the free porn sites, and i turn it loose. I come back 546.00 and 2400 clicks later, and i have one sign up on my weg cash stats.... That seems extremely strange to me, i could see looseing 100, maybe 200 but looseing 520.00, which i will right off as a loss ofcourse. So i figured, why on earth would it not be filled with signups, after all they are pushing FREE sites ? Im sure theres a gimmick to it somewhere they use to rape the person later to make the cash back. But that conversion ratio for a free site i would think is insane. So i go over to my girlfriends house ask her to signup through my site so i can see whats going down with this, she has a master card that is definitely valid. But yet it declines her, and the site moves here to a new site to signup to for 1.00 instead of free. So i figure okay, i should get credit for that aswell.. Wrong, she signs up, everything works fine this time, it accepts the card. But no credit for the signup. So now im thinking i've been scammed here or something. either way its been a terrible experience so far, and i would love suggestions and maybe a list of legit site programs that would convert better than 1 in 2400. Maybe a good long term investment site, i've noticed some profit shareing sites out there, that show 60/40 type.

    Any suggestions would be helpful, thanks.

    -Chris
  • The Judge
    Confirmed User
    • Jan 2006
    • 1647

    #2
    Sorry to hear about your bad luck. Try contacting them by phone if you can, see what they have to say.

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    • Dynamix
      G F Y not
      • Jan 2004
      • 2910

      #3
      Your story is all too common in the adult industry. I agree with The Judge - get someone (a live person) on the phone about this and see what they have to say. Make sure to take good notes (name of the rep you speak with, when, and what they say). Keep calling back and climbing the authority chain until you find an explanation.

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      • micker
        Confirmed User
        • Nov 2005
        • 748

        #4
        that and google adwords are extremely overpriced right now, you can easily lose your ass on them. Try out adbrite or adengage first if you really want to go the ppc route..

        Otherwise, if your going to invest money, pay one of the designers that hang out on gfy to make you a couple of cheap gallery templates and then go to submitpasses and get some partner accounts and submit galleries.

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        • CIVMatt
          Amateur Pimpin
          • Aug 2004
          • 13075

          #5
          wegcash treated me like shit and called me a cheater on top of everything and then couldn't back themselves up... I hope their whole program burns into the ground, fuck em
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          • MakingCoin_Fatal
            Confirmed User
            • Jun 2006
            • 641

            #6
            sorry to hear that... btw, welcome to gfy!

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            • Bro Media - BANNED FOR LIFE
              MOBILE PORN: IMOBILEPORN
              • Jan 2004
              • 16502

              #7
              hey man, try the sponsor in my sig, i've been having some good luck with them, they pay decent for free joins... good luck man, hope everything works out for ya!

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              • writersworld8
                Confirmed User
                • Mar 2006
                • 432

                #8
                welcome to the board mate!

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                • camuseeme
                  Confirmed User
                  • Feb 2006
                  • 413

                  #9
                  I have used wegcash emails for several years and never had a problem. Sounds like something isn't right. It is hard to make $$ of ppc traffic unless they are paying $2 per signup (which they do several times a year). I'd talk to someone.

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                  • billyde
                    Confirmed User
                    • May 2006
                    • 109

                    #10
                    adwords

                    You have to be careful with Google adwords. The settings in there default to very bids per click. Set your daily limit, narrow down your keywords and loging and constantly check out the amount your spending. I use adwords for my 9-5 business and it works great! I recently started using it for porn, however, and it seems that I'm getting a ton of clicks but not a great conversion rate. Keep your head up and don't over-extend yourself.

                    That's my two cents.

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                    • picXX
                      Confirmed User
                      • Jan 2006
                      • 167

                      #11
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                      • Cash
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                        • Feb 2002
                        • 20825

                        #12
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                        • gooddomains
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                          • Jul 2003
                          • 10127

                          #13
                          welcome to the wicked world of online porn

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                          • Juilan
                            Sultan of Swing
                            • Feb 2004
                            • 15141

                            #14
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