I have been thinking about giving out a free one month pass to affiliates that make 10 sales, just for PR. Anyone have any positive or negative feelings about this?
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I have been thinking about giving out a free one month pass to affiliates that make 10 sales, just for PR. Anyone have any positive or negative feelings about this?
I give my affiliates access to my site whenever the request it...I do this so they can see the quality of the site (to show them what they are promoting) AND so they can grab material inside for use to promote our site (we update weekly with original shoots).
Lee
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Originally Posted by MiamiB
Ya I was thinking about the same, my affiliate program is new and I want to endear my affiliates as much as possible. I believe I offer a huge amount of content as well and would really like to assure them of that. BTW to you have a feed service?
what program do u run maxpower?
free access to a site full of feeds may not excite potential affiliates as much as you hope.
Well its still really new and in a way under construction, even though it is open I am expanding it so fast that it changes almost every week. Its really not ready for main stream affiliates yet, I really want to get every thing the way I want it before I start promotion it for everyone.Quote:
Originally Posted by rhys
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Originally Posted by basschick
Maybe but I do have like 90% of them LOL god to tell the truth its hard to put my mind around it :) I do have allot of videos on my domain, but I want to wrap-up the feed thing first. I know allot of Mega-Sites that have as many feeds as me that do very well. Most people don’t care where the content comes from and by having content form all over the web it lets them have a tastes of everyone’s different styles in one place.
I really do look forward to the day when I can make my own content trust me, but this will just be an addition to my existing site. BTW I display all the providers I carry I don’t think it will come as a big shock to anyone.
So true, I've been known to over look them for sites that at least produce some of their own content. The days of using all plug ins is over. I see it daily when I check stats. There are some plug-ins like gunzblazing and topbucks that are pretty good to use, but I wouldn't base a site strictly off leased feeds.
To answer your question, yes giving passwords out to affiliates to use is a good practice. It can really give a webmaster a feel for your site. Who doesn't want a more informed sales person....? ;)
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Originally Posted by basschick
Well its really hard to create your own content but as soon as I can trust me I will, and in fact the worlds largest gay site is almost nothing but feeds. Some of the most advanced webmaster do look for originally content, just cuzz they have seen it all before, but the normal viewer dose not. Hell I don’t want members that have joined 30 sites before, that just tells me that they will not be around long anyway.
I agree, we shoot our own original content and do a major update weekly BUT we do have plug ins for added value content for our members...it gives them something new when they log in during the week while waiting for the main event on Friday. It can never hurt to give more content to the surfer...just make SURE that it is in your niche or it is of no value to your members.Quote:
Originally Posted by andymike
Lee
What site would that be? I'll assume it's an older site.Quote:
Originally Posted by maxpower
The only large site (name recognition wise) that comes to mind who uses feeds as a primary selling point is bedfellow. One thing you have to consider with old school sites is that you may be able to emulate their content, but you can't obtain 6-8 years of name branding in 3 months. That is the main contributing factor to the continued success of certain older sites.
I would agree that webmasters are more critical than surfers are since we've seen it all, but that doesn't change the fact that the most popular sites in each catagory (minus old brands and large sponsor program sites) are all based on exclusive content.Quote:
Originally Posted by maxpower
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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
Well ya I don’t have any problem with exclusive content, its just something you have to grow into, like my grandpa always said you cant put the cart before the horse. I want to create my own content more than you could know, but for now I need content “.” I could make my own content now, but I don’t think 50 exclusive videos with out all the feeds is going to make too many members happy at all. I look at exclusive content as icing, but this whole thing just goes to show I will never finished with the site, and even when I have exclusive content people will still say I need high quality movie productions ECT someone will always look down on what I am doing is what I am getting at.
I wouldn't want access as a bonus. I prefer cash for bonuses lol.
That said, I do often ask for access to a site if I'm going to try and promote it heavily. I need to know what I'm selling, so I can describe it accurately and make my visitors happy with their purchase and hopefully rebill later on. I will and have promoted programs that gave me access much more heavily then those that refused to grant me access. I almost always promote Platinum Bucks and not Top Bucks, simply because of that reason. So, yes, I'm small potatoes yet, but I do long term SEO, and a year from now I expect to be getting a lot of traffic for the sites I'm building today. And guess what, those sites are built around PB sites ;)
That said, I don't think access should be granted automatically. I think it should be based on some sort of relationship, where the sponsor marks an affiliate's potential to bring them sales down the road.
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Originally Posted by andymike
also, some have very poor quality.
if maxpower is nomad as i've been told, the site is twinkguys and it's a new site. it was the site last month that was found to contain stolen content.
for the price someone pays for that many feeds, one could afford to buy the entire cheapcontent.com catelogue when they had their sale. you could have then thrown in the videos from rockbottomcontent.com - they're like $10 or less each and i'm sure they'd have mde a deal if he'd have have bought a bunch. or one could play let's make a deal at wwc or somewhere else and gotten enough scenes to allow the site a unique grouping of videos rather than the same plugins 80% of the sites use as extra content.
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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
And I would add to what Basschick has posted, that if maxpower is nomad / newguy (and I think it is one in the same given how the posts are all similar in nature) it is why sponsors need to be more vigilant on who they grant access to. Legit webmasters can benefit from access, the other type of webmasters who use redirects, cloaking etc, only want the access to steal the content and use on their own sites.Quote:
Originally Posted by basschick
You guys are insane LOL :bush:
So maxpower... are you or are you not Nomad/Newguy? Everyone wants to know.
I thought “nomad” was some kind of a industry joke or something, that I did not get so I let it go. But you guys have gone from the topic of letting some of my affiliates have free access for a month too, having to have exclusive content our you have a crap site, too filling your site with really cheap BS content, too me asked people for access too their site to steal their content, and now I am some Muslim fanatic. I just asked someone how I could pay just to get their sites in a forum that was about their site a week ago and the shit hit the fan.
Talk about revisionism... so uh, where did someone accuse you of being a muslim fanatic? that's a new twist... but then hell, i suppose if you can claim that 90% of those surfing an ebony site aren't people of color, I guess you can claim you being accused of being some nut job...Quote:
Originally Posted by maxpower
but hell, its easy to disprove... just post your site... after all it is an affiliate program, so one would assume you'd need webmasters to sign up to promote it, and as this forum is filled with webmasters... would seem logical you'd want to post the program to get webmasters signing up...
.... unless of course there is no affiliate program?
I don't get it why you can't see the good advice great professionals are giving you here.Quote:
Originally Posted by maxpower
Besides plug-ins being so expensive,
Do you know that plug-ins are just wasted money. You don't own anything. When you don't pay your bill, that content is gone for your members. Webmasters here are telling you where you can get content/videos that you can own and depending on the type of license you get some you might be able to give to webmasters to promote your site or you can watermarked it with your sites URL. there are so many more benefits of having your own content, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE EXCLUSIVE. You can have some plug-ins/feeds but use them as something extra that you give to your members.
Max, you could quell all the inference and innuendo by simply posting the URL of your site in your profile. I haven't posted mine, but I have an excuse: I haven't launched mine yet.