New site, which way to go?

[Albion]

I have written to merchant support at Verotel to ask them what is situation with our affiliate programme; we have the necessary page on the site itself, which says to me that we did register with them, but as you say it doesn’t work; will let you know as soon as they come back to me.

Ref Russians not being able to see the site; yes, the reason is that the career-conscious, I-have-a-girlfriend, future admirals and generals who take their clothes off for us, can do so with a clean conscience ...

[Takemytaco]

Albion you have a PM

[Fister]

Originally posted by Albion ...
I HAVE NO PROBLEM ABOUT PAYING A COMMISSION EVEN IF A CUSTOMER DECIDES TO GO WITH NORCHIO, BUT HOW TO WORK IT?

My novice opinion: You're not really set up to make affiliate payments yourself. So your record keeping would be all by hand, plus you'd be paying the Norchio commissions out of one of your own checking accounts; the amounts would be small; affiliates may incur bank transaction fees when cashing these checks if they are on a foreign account. This does not sound like a good option.

I suggest you measure what % of revenue is generated thru Norchio, then just up the Vertotel rev share % accordingly. (And tell your affiliates this!)

[Albion]

Um... that site looks hot.
One thing I did notice that annoyed me early on was how a lot of the "back to" links that I was hoping would send me to

http://www.russianuniformguyz.com./main.php

sent me to

http://www.russianuniformguyz.com/

that's kinda frustrating when you're already in the site and have already entered and are now checking out various features and the tour.

WE ARE DOING AS YOU SUGGEST, AND ALSO GIVING THEM OPTION TO JOIN.

Still a couple dead links here and there (preview images) and what not.

WE’RE PLOUGHING OUR WAY THROUGH THEM NOW!

Pointing out and making it plainly apparent, even reminding the surfer, that you actually shoot all the content yourself and that it's not recycled and purchased content is always a good idea, especially given the huge number of Russian sites out there. What'd make me a little shifty on signing up if I was a surfer is not knowing if what I'm going to find on your site is the same stuff or different than the stuff I can find on all those other Russsian sites out there.

WE HAVE RE-DESIGNED THE FRONT PAGE, AND TOMORROW WILL BE A NEW TEXT WHICH MAKES IT CLEAR THAT WE SHOOT MOST OF THE PICS.

Plus, I'm left worrying "Uh oh... what if there's just one or two hardcore flicks and everything else is solo photosets?"

PERHAPS WE SHOULD TELL THEM EXACTLY WHAT WE HAVE? AND NOT EXAGGERATE, IE SAY WE HAVE SO MANY HOURS OF VIDEOS, MODELS ETC? IT’S A NEW SITE, SO WE CAN’T HOPE TO COMPETE WITH WILLIAMS HIGGINS SAY, BUT I THINK THAT WE HAVE SOMETHING A BIT DIFFERENT ...

I definitely think you should go with a recurring membership model. It'll make your site more appealing to webmasters to have the potential to generate recurring commissions. As well as making one of the processors, such as Verotel, more prominent and just having the other as a backup as Dzinerbear mentioned.

I’VE BEEN TALKING WITH VEROTEL FOR LAST COUPLE OF DAYS, AND HOPE THAT NOW RESELLERS PROGRAMME IS UP AND RUNNING.

I'd definitely be interested in promoting your site, though, and suspect I could send you large volumes of high-converting traffic through your Verotel affiliate program.

Welcome to the board, btw, and glad to see you posting.

Again, your site really looks hot and I'd totally be up for giving it a try with promoting you through some of my sites. Float me an email if ya feel like it

I WOULD BE VERY HAPPY! MY EMAIL IS ALBION@RUSSIANUNIFORMGUYZ.COM

I WILL WRITE TO YOU.

REGARDS

ALBION