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Originally Posted by Robbie
You need to write each of them personally. Pierre owns Worldsex, AL4A, and a bunch of other sites. Shemp posts here all the time. Mark is Greenguy and very easy to talk to. Start with an email or icq. Then a phone call. Make a personal relationship with them and give them the tools they need. You have a great niche that is still under serviced. They could use galleries with that kind of content to fill that void. You just gotta reach out. Cut those kind of guys a special deal percentage wise. And then make it a point to see them at the conventions (if there are any left in a year lol )
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"if there are any left in a year" LOL after being in FLA this summer I doubt it.
I love what your saying, really I do, but from my experiences in the past no "bigger" affiliates going to give me the time of day. Let's face it, I have been posting here with some regularity for 7 years and none have yet. I've just never been a part of the circle or bro club as it where lol. No, I highly doubt anyone ever thought I would be around to even be worrying about these issues ten years later, but I'm still here and still pushing.
My biggest issue, and it has always been the main issue is personal resources. people want fhg great! So, how does a smaller site go about doing that aside from spending thousands on scripts and skinning and affiliate backends and the adding hosting costs etc... a small sites gets so far in the negative that they can recoup the layout.
Why do you think I have ran using ccbill built in affiliate software for years? it's not for lack of trying mind you. I tried back in 2004-5 to build an affiliate program NATS based, then MPA based... both times, failed to even get the scripts actually running. At a loss of over 10k... Just didn't have the tech knowhow to do it. Tried again this year with ccbtools... had it getting pretty close to where I wanted it, but again... the tech side was my down fall. Another 2k down... I can't keep paying out 500 here and there every-time I need something fixed in my design to fit the script or change a layout. I even had TMM reinstall NATs again last month...300 bucks, but was going to cost me another 500-800 to have my current design skinned from ccbtools to nats.... so I pulled it. I'll wait for WMS to get me moved over, at least they support it.
Now, don't get me wrong, I think the Nats and ccbtools scripts are fine. I'm just an idiot. So I kind of sit here now wondering what my next step should be.
Lets take the members area. It was done in 2004 I believe and needs to be done fresh. I own MAS, and no one seems to have a clue how to skin it. quotes I have been getting 2-3k
I want to take all my members area content to streaming, using the wowza media server I'm running on my tours currently. you know how long it takes to recapture 400 Mini dv tapes edit them and then figure out how to encode them to reupload them? Well, I have been finding out and it's been a big stopping point for me. (Currently about half way there)
I've even offered the site to others. basically with this deal, you use todays revenue as the zero point and we split everything the site does above that since anything above what it's currently making today would be a direct result of the new work being done. So far... no takers.
So I know it's seems that I have gotten off track but what I'm trying to say is I have really tried all that I personally know.