there are more ways to skin a cat than one - the social media/networking sites do offer an opportunity for girls and webmasters to go out and promote directly to potential customers. how many girls, especially the teens(18-22) who do solo model sites are up for this over a long period of time? a very small % of them. how many sales a day can a girl/webmaster do a day, week after week, month after month, year after year? i wouldn't do solo sites if i was basing my success/failure on social media/network promotion. I don't expect any girl I do a site to base her life around her site, they have other things to do, imposing a life online on girls that age is unrealistic. there are some who can and will do it, usually the girls who are hot or cute enough to see the immediate rewards. Keeping a girl interested and motivated when she is getting checks from CCBILL that total 300 dollars a month is impossible. Not many girls are going to stick with it making what they could make on a cam site in a night.
the affiliate base for solo girl sites has shrunk considerably in the three and a half years since I launched Dawson Miller, I'd say at most that solo girl affiliate base is 40% of what it was 3 years ago. Hoping it's not worse than that. I bought one of the really solid solo girl free sites a couple of months ago, Bodsforthemods.com off my friend Jonathan. Now I can see the solo site world from the view of an affiliate. Updates - if you can't update your solo girl site with at least TWO solid updates a week you're losing out and when I mean updates I mean a full photoset or a full video not some wallpaper or an addition to your 'friends' section or an archived camshow. Quality of content, it does count. Some of the content I see is horrid, blurry photography, zits. Nothing wrong with 'amateur' content, better in many cases, but there's still a level of quality that needs to be there.
That lost '60%' of sales can't be made up with social networking - impossible. 10% is what I think can be made up, a rare girl like Ariel Rebel who lives her life as Ariel the model can push more. All this bs that MyFreeCams drives a ton of sales to a girl's solo site - it's bs, I've seen it, it doesn't do it. The ONLY way to make up that missing 60% is to be able to reach out beyond the fairly small world of solo girl site webmasters and offer PPS on trials. Then your world opens up to affiliates, whales, who almost never promote revshare solo girl sites. Not something I can do, financially/risk wise, nor do I have the acumen in the processing end of thing to do it.
And finally, it's still all about the girl, she's the product, whatever 'it' is she has to have 'it'. Surfers decide, I used to think you could throw 10,000 surfers at any solo girl site and the results would be fairly similar. Running Bods for the past couple of months I see that is really not true. There are only a handful of girls on Bods that sell consistently and I wait for new updates from them because I know sales will be coming.
Nikki and Madden sell the best for Bods and talking to other webmasters in the niche most have the same results. Nikki is a no brainer, she's been a mega-star from the beginning and she looks better today than she ever has, big natural boobs on a pretty girl - KA CHING!!! Madden is more of a mystery to me, she's Non-Nude, and small chested - I'd have not predicted stardom for her. She does have the pretty midwestern girl next door thing going for her but if she sent me an email wanting to do a non-nude site I'd have passed. I don't think Nikki or Madden do much of the social networking thing, they are interactive with their members through their weekly camshows and update with good content consistently.
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