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Originally posted by crockett
What's wrong with leaving the pay scales where they are? I'll tell you what I've noticed.. is the lack of new sites and updates for hosted galleries. You guys started that new gallery program where people send in the galleries.. But it's the same content I've already seen everywhere.
I can't build and submit galleries for your sites because everyone has the same content on their sites already. I can't buy content and use it to sell your sites because all the sites are single girl for the most part, so bought content is useless. If you want to keep webmaster loyalty give me something I can promote with.
You guys always had good converting sites but it's hard to build steady traffic to them with nothing new to promote. just my opinion
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This is pretty much my exact same sentiment.
I have two main issues with Lightspeed .. they're nothing that I would complain openly about, but I feel that they're relevant to this dicussion since Steve is openly asking for ideas, advice and critisisism.
1. Content. I have asked my affiliate manager at LS about purchasing semi-exclusive LS content, with the the rights to use it only for promoting LS sites of course.. just so that I'm on some kind of playing ground when it comes to getting my galleries listed.. and it seems you guys are not open to this.
We obviously can't purchase general teen content to promote Jordan Capri .. we need Jordan Capri content.. but your current system makes it very hard.
The FTP system makes it difficult to determine what content is best to grab and build galleries around. We end up wasting our 400 credits just finding content that's not already been seen a million times.
I say get rid of the FTP system and offer a way for webmasters who are serious about sending traffic a way to get some unseen content.
2. This is moot .. but if you're talking about loyalty .. I have a beef with a 60% revshare program that takes a 10% processing fee. It just seems a little deceptive to me. You're trying to stand out by saying "We pay more!" yet you're just another 50/50 revshare.
3. Multiple tour pages. More sites. LS World, LS 18 etc. are great sites that have converted well for me .. but it's the new single girls that convert the best. Little Troublemaker converted great when she was first launched .. but after building and submitting 30 some galleries and throwing a bunch of hosted galleries up on my TGPs etc. I just can't send much more traffic to the site. New sites will get us sending more traffic.
4. Find ways to appeal to foreign traffic. 10% of my traffic is Chinese. That's not my fault and there's nothing I do about it .. so try to give me something to do with it.
5. To appeal to the smaller guys, like me!, offer corny little prises. Like 5 sign-ups in one week will get an autographed hardcopy photo of Jordan Capri or Tawnee Stone mailed with your next check. You can give out t-shirts, hats, dvds etc. We love free stuff even if it's cheap free stuff! lol
6. Get your bloody rewards program up already! lol
7. Be more open and accepting to your affiliates when it comes to communication. I get the feeling from you guys, when I e-mail or ICQ you, that it's like going through a huge corporation like Microsoft. It takes a while to get a reply and when it finally comes it seems automated and impersonal. I know you must get flooded with e-mail, Steve, but hire more people to assist your affiliates. Provide someone to help out with content, hosted galleries etc.
The most important thing for me to is to get better content to promote you with .. and to get easier access to it. And I'm even willing to pay for it. Some of my sponsors have given me free members access to grab content .. I never ask for that and will never ask for that.. but when they offer it goes a huge way towards getting traffic from me. Those are the sponsors I really push hard to return the favour.