Michael from Femjoy please send Ruben to take a hike!
 

This guy Ruben is really a piece of work.

During a year time I have sent to Femjoy/Joymii around 15k traffic mostly from galleries listed on my blog. I had one sale in 15k (I also do not promote Femjoy that much due to old content about 1 gallery per month) but this is what I got from Ruben:

We have plenty of patience for niche-focused affiliates with
low traffic but good conversions, or secondarily for
high-volume affiliates with not-so-good conversion (but
enough volume to still make a lot actual sales). What we're
not ok with are affiliates who throw traffic at us that
just doesn't convert. That isn't good for anyone; you're
tossing your traffic away, hammering our bandwidth,
undermining our brand, and saturating the market,
(consequently impacting natural sales and the efforts
of other affiliates).

So if I'm sending traffic from my galleries to Femjoy it means that undermining, saturating , hammering and in general do all the bad things possible to Femjoy/Joymii ?!?!?!

That's really a good way of thinking ....

Femjoy really fucked shit up the last weeks.. :2 cents::2 cents:

Well, dont expect everyone to know what there talking about, this is a example of ego leading over common sense .

One of those that are under the delusion that they're selling art.

The thing is that with the same blog, same traffic, same everything-you-want I get lots of sales with programs like met-art or watch4beauty ...

And I'm not even sending blind traffic or skimmed , only 100% clicked traffic.

Me too, seems these idiots are listening to the inexperienced. Makes me wanna say fuck em.

nothing sells anymore like 10y ago, 1su per 15k is bad but if i would be femjoy i would think what can I do to convert this traffic better maybe, not to bother affiliates and blaming them. strange tactics indeed. this one signup however can rebill for 5 next years like it happens with met-art and still prove it would be worthy to send 15k..

if femjoy want only big whales, let's just say it, and will eat popcorn and watch you die in a year ;)
small affiliates are your bread and butter imo and a source of diversified traffic.

homegrownvideo is the same way

Yeah it's quite bad the conversion rate but it's the same traffic that converts to other sponsors. They send galleries listed in 2010 , what conversions could one expect ?

But to say that I'm ruining their brand because I sent 15k in around 1 year... that too much even for a small affiliate like me (for them).

I would imagine Ruben is only applying company policy.

But he does come across as somebody lacking wit and being rude blaming affiliates for "hammering bandwidth", "undermining the brand" and "saturating the market" because they are not making sales.

The guy is a walking joke and it makes you rethink if you really want to be in business with a company that employs somebody of that calibre. Just wait until you need real support from him.

someone needs to take a break there, that is sure ... but, everything wrong they made is just by mistake, so who knows ... :upsidedow

LOL! How can the OP be watering down the brand, saturating the market, etc, when he's only sending a little over 1k hits a MONTH? Yeah, 300 hits a week or so is REALLY hurting their brand. What fucking morons.

What's hurting their brand are retarded emails like in this thread. LOL

Oh - and killing their bandwidth? OMG please what fucktards.

Time to change sponsor?

Attitudes like that are a reflection of upper management. Just take the hint and get the hell away from those jokers. They don't want your business. Fuck them send it to someone else and grow. Do a couple hours of research and write down the names of all the owners there and put them on the blacklist so never again will you join one of their programs.

Yeah and he says something like "if you need banners or promo tools" ... like I don't know where to get banners for femjoy if I need...

I wouldn't be surprised. The attitude is very common based on what I read here on the boards.

I agree with you on this... I could send more but their content does not converts...

I've been in this business for almost 15 years and have never heard of an affiliate manager saying something like that to an affiliate. :2 cents:

What a jerk off!

1:15k was a good femjoy conversion ratio 5 years ago.

And bandwidth expenses lol, how dumb can you get

This is also taken from the email

So the first thing that strikes me is the sheer volume
traffic you've been sending. 15k hits is plenty, but your
conversions are below the standards we're happy with.
1:5000 is not an acceptable ratio, let alone 1:15,000;
at least, not for the kind of affiliate promotion we're after.

So from what I understand if any affiliate converts above 1:5000 he should kiss this program goodbye because Femjoy does not accepts any of that traffic.

I wonder how the tube fellows convert....

It's good I use wordpress, if these guys ban my account I have all the sponsors on categories and I can delete everything otherwise , who knows I might even have to deal with DMCA from Femjoy :)))

One other thing that I should mention: One day before I got the first email from this guy Ruben, the email that it seems a lot of guys got it, another person from Femjoy contacted me because they wanted to buy a banner on my blog, the same blog that sends traffic that they don't like ....

I'm not the type of person to make a big fuss over everything but If there is an industry gap in conversions for both affiliates and sponsors , well we might say that at least some of the blame comes from the sponsors also who get greedy and lazy because they don't want to deal with small affiliates thus loosing a lot of cash

Given that you are converting at 1:15,000, it may be mutually beneficial to agree to discontinue your affiliate relationship, then accept their banner / link advertising offer. Chances are you'd make more with them with their direct advertising buys than via the affiliate model.

Of course, this will not solve any of your issues with existing links on sites you cannot control, but if you're being paid for direct advertising, it would likely generate more revenue for you than you are currently doing with FemJoy anyway.

This... :2 cents::2 cents:

I don't know Wordpress that well (maybe Fris could help?) but maybe there's a plugin or a script that could change all the Femjoy links for you. But it's time to say bye-bye to Femjoy IMHO.

(To be greedy and selfish here for a second: try promoting ErosExotica, Fellucia Blow or Touch The Body, very similar "erotic" content that converts at about 1:500 via Blog traffic. Hit me up for info. Either way, best of luck with your promotions!)

The thing that I only have one ad space and I have my whitelabel banner on it.

It's not that but rather the fact that ok, you as a sponsor what to buy a banner on a site that is on your niche, solo babes. First I would check if this the site is affiliated with the sponsor (quite easy on my site) and then check the conversion rate in ccbill (i'm sure you can see where the traffic is coming from). If the conversions are so low and the traffic is unproductive why would you even bother buying a banner?

You would just get more useless traffic that consumes the bandwidth, does harm to the brand and so on...

Oh I know. I was just suggesting that if they don't want you as an affiliate, but yet for some reason want to pay you for branding and clicks, then it may be an opportunity to least get something out of it.

I would agree though that this Ruben fellow is likely just echoing company policy that was enacted by upper management.

I'll take a look at your sites I think I have an affiliate account with you - if of course, you did not close it :)) .

I don't want to change the links because i would still have content that I would not be licensed to use after the termination of my Femjoy account.

A very simple, yet very effective plugin for Searching and Replacing within a WordPress database is via this plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/search-and-replace/

Like anything though when it comes to db's... best to take a backup of it before running it because there is no "undo" option.

One thing you could try is adding a dynamic interstitial page to your Femjoy links. That is, when a user clicks to leave your site to go FemJoy, present them with a page outlining the benefits of FemJoy, any discount codes you might have, etc. and then a Click Here to continue to FemJoy link. Also include a link for "No Thanks" or "See Similar Models", etc that will let your user choose to continue to FemJoy, or see more samples on your site.

The benefit here is that if they do click, they are really interested. And at the same time, those that are not fully interested will not click to continue and, thus, your CTR will likely also improve.

EXCELLENT advice here. :)

(And no ctggls, I do not close down accounts so I'm sure you are active and good to go. Let me know if you don't see something you like/need on the Porn Nerd Cash. I can get you other promo tools.)

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

This would be a good strategy but I would need some help from Femjoy with codes and stuff. At first I was linking to the model page but when I saw that the content I was receiving was around 2 years old It kinda cut my wings..

I heard everything... But i remember one sponsor limiting pics you can use in gallery and was strict about it, anybody can remember what was that?

I'm fairly certain most limit the amount of pics you can use for a gallery. Some, like Twistys, had a maximum 20 pic limit. Others, like DDG, had a strict no genitals or explicit content to be used -- and i think they limited to 16 pics. I assume most have reasonable limits on gallery content.

If I recall though, didn't the "Apple Twins" program take it one step further and let you use a couple of samples at a time, and then you could remove those samples and use a couple of others? I may be mistaken, as I never promoted them, but recall there were several threads of various issues regarding their promotion.

I never used more than 12 pics , the more you give on your site the less will want to visit the sponsor's site .. .just my opinion. Mplstudios for example gives only 12 per gallery.

So sorry to go off topic, but does this plugin work with the most recent version of Wordpress? I tried using it just the other day and it didn't seem to do anything.

I was thinking of promoting them in the past now I'm really glad I didn't waste my time.

In the future, please warn us before invoking the unholy name of the Apple Twins, ok? LOL!!

:winkwink:

Run this SQL.... see the command and change what you need! ;)
http://www.digitalwhores.net/sql/wor...d-and-replace/

or plugin search and replace :winkwink: