Sig Marketing - The Evolution Of The Web Marketer
 

It's just a sign that our industry has evolved into a new type of marketer.

In the past we had front men. They'd take the glory and do deals behind closed doors and at the conventions. Like a sales rep for a business.

These days company's realize that sales reps usually get canned after a few months once they tap out of their contact list. Making cold calls was a weakness of the Internet marketer of the past.

Now that the chat board community grew as did the total number of webmasters fighting to get a bone, paying for chat board reps get better returns then hiring a sales rep. Sites sell themselves if you can get them to click the link. Look at how many webmasters are using boards these days to get their news. News related adult webmaster sites can't keep up with the pace of the chat board breaking the news.

So hats off to people like Lars and ARS for recognizing a market place that's hot. And big props to Lensman for providing the sig whores and the sponsors another way to do business.

The nice part for people like Sleazydream is that it's just extra money. Bigger players being endorsed, like an sports star or actor.

I do believe there are down sides of sig marketing. The paying on number of posts is a little silly, only when the posting sig whore lessens the value of the dialog with fluff. Makes it kind of old and boring.

Everything considered, it's just the new generation of webmaster marketing. Perception is reality. Most people believe what they read on the boards. So planting the sig whore to inject views and thoughts, stirring up controversy just to sign up more webmasters is here to stay for a while. Get used to it.

Don't player hate them for it, you made them popular and you created their value.

:2 cents: :2 cents:

:thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup

It all helps one way or another...branding seems to be the most important factor

i sale my brain...and rent my sig :)

How much for the brain?

I have 5 blunts, 3 lap dances at a strip joint and 10 drinks.

Will that do?

Usually works at the shows.

word. :thumbsup

no doubt

exactly well said, I just signed up under you for xpays see it works !! sig whoring works !!!! I will start sending em traffic when I get back from vacatin on tuesday..

xpays is one of the few big companies i still dont have a live cam deal with.. I gotta change that :)

Yup, I have to agree boards are the best place to look for sponsors :thumbsup

evolution is inevitable. :thumbsup

great points, never really thought of it that way

So the moral of the story is turn off sigs?

i do...boggles the computer down too much. :glugglug

buy a better computer or get a better connection

Yes, you hit the nail on the head, BRANDING :thumbsup

insightful post

i was really amazed when i saw how much sleazy's sig went for, it is quite amazing

nice sig asher.

See TDF's Sig

Well I dont think the moral he is going for is to turn sigs off, more like, this is how we got it here, and it's not really better or worse.

I agreee with Legandary Lars.
GFY should turn off the option to disable sigs.

the branding thing has always been like that
sigs make it more obvious, yes.

well said, it's just bad to see some sponsors don't know how to handle this yet... I think there are being too much mistakes made @sigmarket... oh well, we'll see how this will go further

Yeah if I were the owner of this board shelling out a bunch of cash each month for some sigs...I would want them to be viewed.



SEE TDF'S SIG.

yea, the disabeling of sigs is kinda strange.....

I use to enjoy looking at sigs and see what everyone promotes. Then all the sig idiots started exploiting sigs that caused all types of problems like add to ignore list, pop tons of consoles, etc....

That made me turn sigs off.

Hugs,
Danielle

Does my sig make me look fat?

No idea. I can't see it.

I DO NOT RECCOMEND ANYTHING ADDED TO THE LEFT OF MY POST!!!

Hugs,
Danielle

we need to disable the ability to turn off sigs

Sigs definitely enhance the board. I'm always curious to see who people are "in bed with".

I also believe that this board has a few idiots whoring their chatboard billboards around with stupid posts just to get views or clicks. Some don't actually have the views they express. They see it as a way to become the next BradShaw. It worked for Brad and it will work for the next guy. I think this board will continue to tolerate it as long as the overall numbers are going up. Once the numbers go down and people swtich to other boards complaining of these haters using racisit views and words, they'll moderate it better. But until then, it's the wild west, get used to it.

Personally, I post when I have something to say or respond to. Most people are like me in that respect. I just turned on my reseller sig for XPays and have noticed a bunch of GFY'ers signed up including Lars! Thanks bro, love that you signed under me. Real pimps stay together.

And for those thinking about signing up under my sig, if you send some traffic, I will take care of you with future Players Balls. I'll keep charging money and they'll be hard to get into. So if you have traffic and can find a way to do biz with me, I always hook up the ones that hook me up back.

So in this sense, sigs can make a chat community closer.

D$ Your reading to much into it dude.

Its always one big purchase with a bunch of peons wondering why there sig was not bought. In entertainment its called a gimmick.

Same thing happens in Vegas, always one big Winner and everyone else keeps dropping the coins in. Get it?

I had 2 majors in college, Philosophy and Communications.

It was Ohio State, so drinking and partying was my 3rd major.

yea, but as you also said.... it lessens the value of posts.. with people just posting anything.. in many cases some morinic shit just to up their post count..

:eek7

Werd.

And for some, having too high of a post count gives the impression to "some" of the bigger players that they're so non player.

If you're looking to impress the masses on a chat board, it has value and is greatly respected. For some bigger players reading the boards, they think of them as bottom feeders.

Even a big player needs a bottom feeder to promote their stuff.

I hope someone buys your sig fast.

"Even a big player needs a bottom feeder to promote their stuff"

No the bigger players need protection or ya end up getting torn to pieces.

People like...

You. People like
Lee Noga
Serge
Me
KB
AMP

And the list goes on...
Or you end up with dick heads talkin crazy stupid shit about a program without the help of curbing the BS.

I'm part bottom feeder.

go get the domain sigbay.com


it's still not registered.




I got money for my sig. my new Don Lapree make money at home from being a sig whore comes out this week:thumbsup

Sigs? What sigs?

And I concur.