Your D$ man:)
Your history is great:thumbsup

I will say this tho' D-Money it is at a point where in most cases *not all* you are just not going to get any kind of response unless it's a fucked up post.

What sells on this board?

The same thing that sells on t.v., in the theaters....drama...sex...and violence.

I just wonder when will it start affecting these sponsors adversley to be tied to certain individuals.

Sure drama is good, page views are good but some of this drama I would not want to be associated with even if it's all pretend, and something done in good humor.

Too many people read a thread once leave it never to go back to find out it's all a joke.

LOL

Every good sales/marketing person has a little hustle/bottom feeder in them.

I like you.

my sig isnt for sale

I fully agree with D-Money.

I personally like seeing what people are flying in there sig. It helps you kinda figure out what kind of person the poster is.

If the poster is someone respected like sleazy dream then I'll check out his sig thinking the sponsor must be good if sleazy is endorsing them.

If the sig is just some ARS banner for there impression program then it gives away that the Poster is probably a small time tgp webmaster. I'm not going to take anything this person says all that seriously untill they accomplish something a make a name for themselves.

Overal from the Sponsors point of view sigs do create brand awareness regardless in which sig model they're flown.

Making money is making money period. When the day comes that you need to try out a webcam program, regardless of how "spamed" the board is with Lars sigs and how much it may annoy u... you're still gonna give him a try to see what the fuss is about and because he's the webcam sponsor you've most heard about.

And when most of you decide on trying a new sponsor do you click a sig or banner somewhere or do you "type in" the program name do to it's brand awareness? I think faaaar more people join programs from type-ins rather than webmaster refferal links, even though that's where they first say the program mentioned.

Just my :2 cents:

Yes, quit all the crying. Its just a new part of the game.

The Meloman. Words of wisdom coming from a true player.

How you doin'? Hope all is good.

I'm sure Evan would love to speak with you. Thanks again for signing up under my account. 1 Lars = 1000 regular webmasters.

Cheers :glugglug

:) thanks man this is a good thread. melo has some good stuff to say , I will get teh traffic flowin on tuesday when I get back :)

50 Sig Whores yellin' and screaming, "Lars, look at me! Pick me!"

yup that is sooo true

I've been buying and selling thousands of dollars in sig spots every month for going on two years. There's a market there and I make money with it. I've said it all along, sigs rule. Being the first one out there doing it though, as with anything, has been a tough haul. People thought it was stupid at first, but hey, they're just now catching on. More business for me. :thumbsup

The celeb factor has definitely come upon our industry.

:Graucho

mine isn't either...it's only for lease


:thumbsup

For sig marketing try http://www.webmasterlabor.com/rates.html

Sadly, I think most of the bottom feeders are getting 99.99% of their revenue from selling their sigs. Implied success does not equal success.

-dd

Long time no speak, by the way.

the concept is good, but who clicks these things? i mean really i know i dont

people tend to jump on trends when they are over.

sig whoring might still make a few people like me a few bucks, but as a whole the hype is done.

Someone comming to GFY today and expecting to make a living whoring out their sig isn't going to be able to do it - and the few people who did get some money for their sigs really don't care if they get money for them or not.

but being a board rep is the next step - boards are in touch with the industry and it makes sense for a company to have someone show a presence on the boards representing them. not just spamming all day but making new connections and sniffing out any opportunities for the company to persue and pitfalls to avoid

are people actually making some kind of living out of this board stuff?

agreed:thumbsup

I used to find almost all my sponsors, hosts, software, content, etc., on message boards. But particularly since sigs started being used for promotion, I'm far more likely to surf around sites for ideas.

More than that, since referrer payments first started the dilution of what was genuinely useful or entertaining for me, I spend less and less time on the boards. On a typical board that I visited from 1998 to 2001, I likely posted 1,500 times a year. This is the board I visit most often now, and after 3 years I have still to reach 400.

If it works for board owners, sponsors and those who sell their sigs, I guess there isn't much to say, but I cannot imagine why anyone would ever click on a sig nowadays. It was bad enough when people started choosing their sigs because of the size of the webmaster referral payout and promoted sponsors you couldn't find a trace of on their sites. Now sig space is being sold, sigs are meaningless as any kind of recommendation.

Sup playboy?

How's everything?