I agree with everyone that quality is important but I believe good customer relations is just as important .
When we started
Porn Gate last year our philosophy was to give the members more than what they expected and be responsive on a personel level with every member that emailed or posted on our message boards.
We can do this because each webmaster in the group is focused on quality and customer relations. We don't use plugins at all and I don't think we ever will. I don't see the point in using plugins when so many other sites have them as well.
However we are still learning and I'm sure we will make mistakes but we will immediatly rectify them. In this biz you never stop learning
In 2 of my sites our members request specific shoots and we shoot the content for them and invest a high % of our profits to doing this. It has worked well for us and we have grown steadily for over a year now. yeah yeah I know we are still babies compared to the big guys but we are happy with what we have
We will be launching our
PGbucks program shortly