Time for an update I think.
We are going strong still there and up to 300 active members (297 to be totally truthful) and adding anything from 0 to 12 a day.
I've got one of the webmasters submitting galleries, Chameleon and hand submitting to Partner Accounts. We get accepted all the time. Why people buy bad content to submit to TGP sites I do not understand.
http://www.paulmarkhamteens.com/tgps/1809al/index.html
http://www.paulmarkhamteens.com/tgps/1602lgt/ws.html
http://www.paulmarkhamteens.com/tgps/1622rx/al4a.html
http://www.paulmarkhamteens.com/tgps/1715tl/ws.html
http://www.paulmarkhamteens.com/tgps/1702aj/al4a.html
Next is more paid spots, we just need to work out an effective way of tracking where sign ups come from. Page visits are easy sign ups are the thing. The guy doing the submitting is one of our programmers and has other things to do as well. Soon I think we will take on a full time submitter. Who will also look after affiliates.
We have affiliates submitting for us and getting more all the time. The concern and I'm not sure if it should be, is the ratio they achieve as a group and some achieve individually.
I can only guestimate our ratios, because until we get an effective tracking program I'm in the dark, but it was under 1:200. The best two affiliates are beating that, but the rest are not. One guy sent 1,600+ visits (according to CCBILL stats) and has yet to make a sign up. So this side needs working on.
We will also be looking to exchange links with other sites either here
http://www.paulmarkhamteens.com/link...to our friends or inside the site on a revolving banner system, these are earning us money. LOL
I think the one problem we have is time, I'm the only guy in the company with the experience and knowledge of what to do, be it I'm a novice at this, and I have other jobs to do. Finding good support people is a nightmare.
A Pondlife contacted me recently asking if I knew of anyone who can do some programming and we gave him some jobs to do. Finding a designer who can build the tour I want is tough, as is getting a text writer. They contact me and disappear.
Finding content provider with a half way decent teen hardcore product that fits our style is a nightmare. Learning why we are so successful.
This is the problem. This design was done for me and I'm left to spend hours getting it right, putting in the pictures and doing the text.
http://www.paulmarkhamteens.com/tgps/1779kk/
Still working on it. So comments welcome.
I have a contact that I think knows what to do and has some guys to provide the labour, so time will tell.
I love doing this, need the challenge and want to learn, but finding someone who can deliver the finished article is a nightmare and as we are about to announce the FHG facility we need good galleries.
So to date making money and surprised where we are for the amount of work we put into it. Got areas we need to improve and no doubt will do in the future.