We had a good first week of August. (yes, I know, we are small timers) But it's a good week when only a few declines come in. I think consumers always have a little more room on their credit cards in the beggining of the month for the fun stuff.

http://www.theappletwins.com/1-7AugustSales.jpg

Now i don't know what the hell is going on but it's heading for my best month this year !

WTF ???????

Yeah I have come to pretty much the same conclusions. With my paysites I am seeing a massive rise in declines over the past 4-5 months, and since the ccbill scrub is intense .. I would expect its amplified (as it appears to be). The problem is I am promoting mostly ccbill only sites who have no tracking or 3rd party affiliate software running in parallel.

How many of those sales are affiliate sales? What percentage are you giving on your program at present?

Of course :)

80 percent of the affiliates im sure are probably 1 man operations but 10 to 20 percent I would guess are much larger operations with multiple employees.

When you own 70 or 80 sites and your constantly developing new sites and ideas then it would be impossible to do it all yourself. Especially when you have many different types like TGP/MGP/Mobile/Blog/Tube/etc. I also have my own paysite aswell. :)

There are some of us still that dont fuck around and are growing even during these trying times. I do mostly all planning, research, seo, advertisement deals, and all other admin or "owner" type duties while I have other guys that handle say content only, or design/integration, traffic trading, etc.

I think were up around 800k/day of traffic now and its all of highest quality for each respective site type. Could have much more if we wanted to reduce user experience.

So anyway, yes of course we have employees. Just think of yourself expanding your operation to say several times your current size and then also bringing on an entire free site side to build traffic. As long as your making more $$$ at the end of the day then its all good. I dont do this shit for fun. This is business. :pimp

I try not to say if i'm having a good month on boards anymore. as soon as i do, the sales tank!

Who's Jewel? Pics?

i see what you did there ;) how about you follow your own advice you sent me in the email today instead of complaining

August is starting out much better than July did, lets hope that keeps up. July was not so good.

I'm getting to the point now, with 23 paysites, a network, etc etc, that I'll have to either expand/grow and hire people or shrink back, because I'm working 16 hours a day, 7 days a week now. LOL

The biggest thing you said that stands out for me is obviously the 800k in traffic. If I had even half that traffic I'd retire by now. LOL So putting energy into traffic generation - INHOUSE traffic generation, not affiliates - is my #1 priority for 2011. Of course, HOW to go about it and not do it all half-assed while I learn the "right" (or a better) way is the challenge.

Heh - I'd ask for advice but I've learned that even the best advice works for the person giving it and not always for the one asking for it. I've always found my own way in things so I'm sure, at the end of the day, I'll have hundreds of free sites for traffic etc. Getting started? A challenge. LOL Especially when you already have 23 plates spinning, as it were.

But that's awesome man! I like to hear about affiliates that have their shit together. :)

Jewel is a folk singer. HOT as fucking hell, too.

start some tgps/mgps/dump sites or tubes.

build them around the niches of your paysites - blowjobs, milfs, big boobs, amateur.

as you grow them through traffic trading also have long term seo strategy in place for those same keywords.

eventually you will have some nice traffic to send to your sites as well as some affiliate sales on the side.

Promote something new, it's summer and take the advantage of sunrisekings.com with beach and outdoor content! Our ratio is around 1:1000 in August!

I just pulled month to month stats for July and June and compared them to my August stats. July was a killer month, broke all records; June sucked. However, I'm up August over both months for the first eight days or so. Very fucking nice.

Holy shit - your only averaging six sales a day? Fucking utter fail!

Thank you! Excellent advice - and obviously I have a shitload of work cut out for me. LOL Oh, if I could only HIRE someone reasonable to do this for me...

OR could i just buy some existing setup and 'swap out' the content? Hmmm? Either way, a lot of work BUT well worth it, and some stellar advice. :)

Let's see your sales stats for that week. Anybody can type in the words "fail."

Please tell us oh mighty pornographer how much your sites are earning in a week? Do you even own a site? Or do you just make money off of other's people's creations and pat yourself on the back?

See, I typed in the words "we are small timers" with our stats. Do you read English?? We are not some big time mega site. The Apples average about 1900 hits per day. The Jolies get about 600 hits per day.

Now, take those traffic figures and calculate our % of sales based on the number of clicks we have and go pick on somebody else with all your free time.

Are you kidding me?!

LOL you're a rep for our site?? LOL And you have the nerve to SHIT ON US while you are repping us at the same time??

http://www.rochardsbunnyranch.com/blog/apple-twins

Where do people like you get off? LOL Thanks you made my day. No need to send us your sales stats, I saw your traffic flow.

You know, maybe we'd have more sales if YOU HAD A MORE SUCCESFULL SITE WITH MORE TRAFFIC?

The total nerve of some people. My God. It never ends.

Have a nice day.

Yeah, just what I thought. You can shit on other people's sales, but you don't have the guts to post yours.

I personally don't believe a single word from people like you who boast about sales during slow months and brag about how well they are doing and are gutless to post their real sales. I guess picking on us makes you feel better, so at least we served some purpose for you.

hey.. relax and don't pay attention to the trolls :)

You're so right. I hate when I get myself caught up in bullshit over words. I guess my skin isn't thick enough, even after 2 years of swimming with these sharks, every once in a while, I want to bite back.

hey alpha im curious why you have more initials and less rebills after all this time you have been around
does this stat bother you?

Things always pick up when school starts and the dorms are full, just hang tight another month. It may not be what it used to be, but (for us anyway) there is always a strong uptick when summer comes to an end.

sells great !

during the summer things are slower, will be back in autumn i think

Guys, have you ever tried phone sex lines ? If you got niche traffic it works ! I'm starting to see some results without hurting anything else in my biz. It takes a while to get it going but once you get the suckers, the call back again, again and again.


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Cheers $$$

It's just as bad as July for me...

can´t complain...