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Originally Posted by sologirlcontent
I've sold 3 big sologirl programs since 06...always CASH UP FRONT..the 1 time I did a partnership ( Satan's Cash) it was a fucking joke. And I think other guys on here that joined up with bigger companies, also get the short end of the stick...
Did you get ANY money from them?
Don't worry about the domain names..just come up with similar..make the sites again with all the content...and never go into a 'partnership" again in this industry...you can build and sell it...build and sell it again or keep it..you shoot good stuff, don't let this 1 setback get you down too bad...keep going  |
Hey Nina, first off thanks for the props on our content... I do however think this was the single biggest reason we partnered with the company, you see I believe our best skill is the creation of content and the sites we use it on... we have been very lucky with the designers we've used to create what I believe to be some pretty good sites/programs...
We work hard to find girls who are not saturated, and shoot good quality content of them... However we dont have the skills some do at marketign and promoting the product well, it's always been a beef of myn that our sites dont get more promotion and traffic... we get people pushing us singing our praises as to how well they convert, yet we still dont get the volume.
So when the partnership was offered it seemed like a great fit, to put our skills of shooting the content and their skills for making money from it... I should point out they did pay for their %, we didn't just hand them 50%... I would divolge the amount, even though it wouldnt surprise me if they came in here shouting how much it was !
I have to say it wasn't a mind blowing amount... but it was a decent investment. However it is my belief they simply viewed it as an amount of money that was easily retrievable by just simply running it into the ground and making as many cross sales off it as they could, just another vehicle to push more dodgy cross sales.
Some facts to really prove that point are as follows...
1. When we create these sites we try and bank content for future updates, this is usually between 6-12 months worth... as time went by not once was money made available (budgeted for) to do new shoots... even as we got close to having no updates they still didn't make funds available... even to the point where the girls on the sites lost interest and went off to do their own ventures, ones that directly competed with our sites... We had some girls even interested in being interactive with their sites, but due to lack of work from the sites they left us completely.
2. When the sites lost their exsisting cross sale sponsors, they did nothing to replace them and left the sites for over 6 months to just die. There was no plan B for the sites, no attempt to rescue them or create any revenue... they had done what they set out to achieve rapped the sites for a year, sold a shed load of cross sales and now dont give a shit about the sites, their partners, nor their affiliates...
This was all very frustrating for us sitting there not being able to do anything...