Are you experiencing sales drought this january?
or its just me? :hmm:
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Are you experiencing sales drought this january?
or its just me? :hmm:
Yes. Right now relying mostly on rebills. But that's Jan. But sales will pick up again soon.
Also please stop the typical "BEST MONTH EVER BULLSHIT"
The past 3 years, January was my biggest month, but Jan 2010 is the lowest month of the past 12 months.
2 of my VOD providers took 2-4 weeks off, and 1 moved and didn't tell me until 2 shipments later...
Without a new release every 2 weeks, a studio's titles no longer get top billing in front of surfers.
But necessity being the mother of invention, I figured something out today which turned some bucks the first few hours I made it live.
Back to 2009 - September was my biggest month of the year!!! What did I miss?? September!?!
Well january always been a slow month for us. Some weeks have been better than others. Maybe people decided to give to Haiti instead of wanking this year.
We are actually doing pretty good this month. Our mobile is rocking and we just released a new redesign of our malespectrum.com site that has resulted in conversion rations of 1:51.
If you would like to give it a try or see how we can help you improve your sales, hit me up. Nothing to loose and everything to gain :-)
I'm still trying to figure out how and why September was the best month of the past 30 months!
Mobile is my area of growth this month as well. For me it is mobile photos, in a program that allows smartphone users to download my photobooks as ebooks.
I sell clips on my own, but not sure if smartphone users do that from their phones, or just on their desktop/laptop computers.
I still need a better technical sales channel for smartphone clip sales and downloads.
Best Month Ever... No Bullshit :D
sales are up january for us, but we did release some new things so that looks to be the driving force... everyone should be settled back into the swing of things shortly... nothing to see here, move along fellas
That's so strange, because in my experience September (while not the strongest month) is always a VERY strong month.Quote:
Originally Posted by nickbaer
Back from vacation, back in normal schedules, back consuming lovely, dirty porn!
January started out very strong, actually "best month ever" type strong, but petered out in the final week.
I'm also noticing a massive trend towards non-recurring purchases, so the rebills are not mounting up like they used to, although initial purchases are larger.
In the course of my daily work as a studio, recruiting talent for my movies, I am discovering that a large, and growing larger, percentage of men are using their phones for everything from e-mail, to YahooIM(!), even page browsing.
My entry steps into mobile have found an audience.
I am sad that my VOD partners are not more actively embracing/targeting the mobile market, with mobile friendly versions of their sites - and my content.
january was a great month for us. february is looking outstanding too. seems the economy is picking up beautifully!
Beginning of January was surprisingly good, then things died off, and now, they've picked up again.
I agree, the start of January was actually an excellent beginning to the yyear, however, it pretty much slowed back down to an average month by the end of the month.
We did however see some exponential growth on the mobile side of things with our mobile program(s) to the point where we're actually putting some other projects on the back burner to get our mobile sites up and running in their entirity a lot quicker.
Regards,
Lee
MaleFlixxx raised $2,200.00 for Haiti , so some of our potential cash from customers went there for a couple of weeks.
Which is sad because nation building should be the job of nations and the UN, not poor consumers around the world. The govt of Haiti should have been printing money, borrowing money, and otherwise getting going by its own bootstraps.
You know when the next quake hits LA, no one's going to be sending money, and Anderson Cooper isn't going to fly out and dig Larry King out of the CNN bldg down the street from me on Sunset Blvd.
Then, how do we get those customers back, after they forgot to visit us?
Jan 2010h ended above Jan 2009, even though it was one of the lowest of the past 12. It started good, bottomed in the middle, and ended fine.
After Titan pulled out of A E B N, my numbers there improved. THANK YOU! When the big boys, with all their money, models, crew and technology resources started taking over the previous domain of amateur and small studios, it hurt everyone.
Like 2 months after A E B N took over NakedSword, my numbers fell 30%.
When the PROS keep their brands on their own channels, we amateur and small studios see the sun again. And customers have a greater number of smaller pies to dine on.
Bigger isn't always better.