Quote Originally Posted by CorbinFisher_BD View Post
Yeah it does bug me quite a bit.

Sure, people say gay surfers are more sophisticated and discerning but... are they really given the opportunity to be more sophisticated and discerning?

A large straight program comes out with some niche sites and pays an assload of money PPS and what happens? Gay webmasters crawl all over eachother for the opportunity to promote them and land those fat PPS affiliate checks. The sites are shoved in surfers' faces, they're whored out to the surfers and thrown at them left and right and they end up signing up... then, through no fault of their own, end up cynical, skeptical, dissatisfied, frustrated and quite often ripped off.

When we, as gay webmasters, rail against the predominantly straight programs for launching such sites, we need to take a step back and look at our own role in it all and the ways in which we contribute to their proliferation. We can't collect $50+ PPS commission checks with one hand while flipping off the programs signing those checks with the others.

When I look at how much we spend on our content, exclusive models and original videos and the time and effert and energy put in to original content, as well as customer service and a quality product - and I know we're not the only people doing this and there are tons and tons of other gay webmasters that we compete with as well as others that offer a different product but also of extremely high quality - and then have affiliates coming up to me saying "Offer PPS... offer higher % commissions... offer big fat PPS commissions... do what BIGSTRAIGHTPROGRAMXXX.COM does if you want my traffic..." it can be quite frustrating.

When I see an affiliate sending surfers to some misleading and deceptive site off of the same page they're sending surfers to my site on, it can be quite frustrating and disconcerting.

There are some gay-owned and operated companies doing the same thing these days - following the model pioneered by predominantly straight companies that repackage the same old content in to niche-specific sites that are nothing but a trap for surfers so that webmasters can exchange their money amongst one another.

So... it's not just the straight companies doing it. There are gay companies doing it, and gay affiliate webmasters enabling the entire phenomenon to take place... all the while alienating surfers and hurting us all in the long run.
I would like to speak for Silvercash on this subject. I know that it may seem like we are another cash company with Cookie Cutter sites but we are not. We have exclusive HD content that we shoot and we also have plenty of other things inside our members areas for our surfers to check out. We are in a new stage with working with the gay market and our content will get better and better.

Silvercash plans on adding new great content and we have several great studios that are going to shoot for us. I have great faith in our product and I know that it will only get better from here.

SC may have been lucky with being able to offer the 50.00 pps but we are also paying for it too. It took a long time to be able to do something like that. It's not going to last forever either. It's was a nice promotion that we were lucky to be able to do. The payouts will be just about as high but we needed a nice push for our new sites.

I am all for small gay company's and would love to work with them all. Please hit me up if you would like to do any kind of trades or such. I am open for anything.

Thanks!

Robert