Not everyone sees a summer slump. Last summer was even for me... Then again, I should probably have been seeing growth, so that is a slump of a sort. This summer has been scary slow, with a few good weeks now and then. It happens.
Kids are home from school all day, and their parents don't dare look at porn. College kids are home at their parents' houses, and don't dare look at porn. Everyone is outside more, cuz the weather is better. People spend money on vacations, and can't afford porn. Etc...
yea but the odd thing is i have been in this bizzness since -96
i have stats from every single month and this month
is the slowest since -96
last years august where around 40% higher in sales
can it be that the world economic collapse finally have reached
the porn industry to ?
i am working with all kinds of traffic (se, tgp, link list etc etc)
and i see the signup drop in all traffic
Labret what kind of traffic do you see no drop in ?
Originally posted by GoLiaT yea but the odd thing is i have been in this bizzness since -96
i have stats from every single month and this month
is the slowest since -96
last years august where around 40% higher in sales
can it be that the world economic collapse finally have reached
the porn industry to ?
i am working with all kinds of traffic (se, tgp, link list etc etc)
and i see the signup drop in all traffic
Labret what kind of traffic do you see no drop in ?
Yes quit now ... redirect all your traffic to my sites and shut your sites down.
Get out while you can before it overcomes you.
They are still looking for counter help at McDonalds.
same here, specially the last 2 weeks. The 1st week of august was very good, but then things didn't keep working that good. I think it's all mater of 3 weeks to see everything back to normal...maybe i'm wrong.
Originally posted by GoLiaT i have never seen such a slow month regarding money
same for you guys ?
Sure my growth has slowed, but I'm still growing!
Slowdown? Nope, just have to work a bit harder and
diversify the sponsors. July was my best month yet,
August will be only slightly better.
If this is the slow down, September will be FREE MONEY.
Originally posted by [Labret] Summer slowdown is a myth.
Traffic may go down on weekends, but signups have not changed.
People still work, people still go home at night, people still surf and beat their meat.
True
Us Content Providers must be an indication of a bigger spread of the business and we had our best month ever this month. Surpassed our previous best by the 20/08/2002
You're right Goliat. I'm in the business since 5 years and I never see a down like that in the sale. A lot of webmaster will tell you that they made more signup for this month on this board but when you know them personally you see the true. I hope to see a better result in September.
My mainstream business (which uses the same 'model' as
most adult sites) had 30% less sales in july, beginning of august
it started to pick up but for the last 2 weeks it's been down.
at least 40% less compared to 'average'.
Usually my first period sales are about half of my second period sales. From the looks of it, I think this month will be the complete opposite unless people start paying up.
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Maybe there are some lucky guys, but for me this month was really bad, about 50% less than last summer, it's terrible. Traffic dropped a bit, signups dropped alot....sites that did 1:200 or better for me a few months ago are up to 1:800 or even worse...only one sponsor still shows the same good results for me.
The good thing about this drop: It can only become better the next months ;)
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Originally posted by GoLiaT yea but the odd thing is i have been in this bizzness since -96
i have stats from every single month and this month
is the slowest since -96
last years august where around 40% higher in sales
can it be that the world economic collapse finally have reached
the porn industry to ?
i am working with all kinds of traffic (se, tgp, link list etc etc)
and i see the signup drop in all traffic
Labret what kind of traffic do you see no drop in ?
I'm with you, Goliat. Its probably a confluence of many differing factors--niche, traffic source, marketing material rotation. But, of all my traffic sources, only sales from email is up. TGP -- sales down. EGP -- sales down. Software redirects -- sales down. AVS -- sales down. Modified CJ -- sales down. Paysite exits -- neutral.
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Us Content Providers must be an indication of a bigger spread of the business and we had our best month ever this month. Surpassed our previous best by the 20/08/2002
Sure there are more people buying content as there are more sites.
But I would imagine the receipts per site are down.
there's no doubt about it, i've seen a summer slowdown in US sales every year for the last five years. but not to worry, all that extra work for less money will pay off in the months to come as both traffic and conversion ratios go up
god bless the college freshmen of america and all the CC companies giving them $500 limits!!
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BUT -- we took advantage of a time when people in the business are not really updating and releasing stuff, since they want to wait until September when the pickup starts, for those that think they are down in summer numbers.
Summer can work just like any other time -- IF you are creatively coming up with ideas and aggressively marketing them...
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