no offence but
I think that way of thinking is a huge mistake
taking submitters for granted is the start of a LL's slow death

submiters are a very valuable resource

ya know there are a lot of good submitters on this board
A smart enterprising LL or TGP owner would

set up a private submit area
and then hand pick your submitters

read the board and wait for those: I cant get listed threads or what do you think of this site. and then contact them privately through the board or email

after a short while you would have 200 or so hand picked submitters

your links would be first class, no cheaters and very little wasted time

also you would have developed a small relationship with every submitter, which down the road can be very valuable

mmmm i gonna work less and i am realy gonna do that, i am in 2 new partnerships for next year ......oh godd where will i end now.:D
i wanna focus mor eon offline things, just the things i did before, i dont wanna build hubs and free sites and all, just sometimes a gallerie and a linksite when i want to and some other things but thats it, i miss the real contact with people, i like this bizz, but i am dutch, my most contact is with usa people and most of the time when i am on they are in bed, i need more real people around me, i nag about this already from the start, so yeah the real face to face people, i like those discussions about work with face to face people, i started this year an lingerie store with my mom, 10 years ago i did lingerie private parties, (hey i wasnt modeling, i just show the shit) i wanted to start something with my mom to keep her busy, so lingerie it was, it all is going great , i wanna open more stores, and i wanna go in other things like i did before, stocks, building houses, selling houses and every other shit which is around, just give me the real face to face contact................being behind my puter for 18 hours a day...no more

None taken. Actually, I'm pretty happy you would even bother to comment to me. :)

But what I was referring to in that resolution was the fact that I have a problem banning anybody See this post. I'm too nice and don't protect myself enough. It was also said somewhat tongue in cheek.

well dont be to happy, There's A lot of people who would be happier if I didn't talk to them at all|jester|

if you went to private, you probably never have to ban anyone
anyway its a bit pointless now cause you were talking about something else

since I went to paid accounts over a year ago, I would bet I haven't even thrown out 5 webmasters

2006 already...wow :D

I think I'd like to concentrate on traffic - getting more & filtering it better.

I've just recently discovered how addictive domains are...I want to make enough $$ to support this growing habit :D

I'm going to keep making freesites - they're fun & I've gotten to the point where it doesn't take 2 whole days to do one :) but I think I like doing the 'one page wonders' & niche hubs even better.

I want to grow my LL - excellent ideas, Tommy btw - I think I will be implementing some of those |thumb

other than that, I'd like to keep my ass from growing any bigger than it already is, spending so much time in front of the computer looking at porn, well - it's not good for the butt :D

Developing relationships is on the list too, I guess we called that networking in business school - now that I feel a little more comfortable & established that will be a big one next year.

above all - keep plugging away & get me a bigger piece of that porn pie. Hubby just saw a show on tv that says there are 40 MILLION porn surfers a month out there! I want some of those ;)

Ponygirl

I'll be healthy enough for that in the spring when the roads clear |roses| |boobies|



|escape|

Pretty interesting responses.

My goals for 2006 are:
~Go full time webastering.
~Build up a few blogs and other sites and plug them full of content.
~Get a LL going and take on submitters.
~Learn from the pros on how to run a LL the right way.
~Make a few mistakes and learn from them.

My most immediate goal is to make one sale per day. Then increase that. =D

bunky

I'm gonna drop my daytime job and start freelancing

I'm going to enter the link list game in 2006. Have been reserching this "job" hardly in 2005 and I think I can make a link list grow big enough in 2006 to be able to live off it. I have some older domains with some SE traffic already and that traffic should help me a bit getting honest submitters around my future link lists. Best wishes to all cool guys on this board :)

1) Put my trade script online for others
2) Go mainstream
3) Work more (or better)
4) Make more cash

It's all i'll do. This should take all of time |banghead|

well besides resisting the urge to call dangerdave at 3 am to see what he is doing, here goes.

1. Build and submit a quality freesite everyday
2. Build more hubs and seo pages
3. Win the lotto

|waves|

Learn XHTML and CSS
Improve Photoshop skills (which won't take much |jester| )
Develop mini-SEO's, hubs, one-page wonders, instead of free-content sites

And most important of all, move to Vancouver Island in the spring. |thumb I can hardly wait.
|bananna|

I spent the last half of 2005 trying to start up a real world shop and not as much online as I should have. So I am going to balance them out and get a little more done online again.

On a personal note I'll have to hit the gym more regularly and change my diet a bit to include those vegetables I've been hearing about.

On the business side of things I hope to get my business plan for an offline venture I've been working on finished and see how viable it might actually be. For my online projects I’m looking forward to the release of a new off the wall site we’ve been working on and to continue growing our affiliate program.

I have a few other resolutions to try and keep, time will tell!

Oh and getting more active on certain boards:-)

You can eat vegetables with me any time, Kenny. :)

Am I going to be seeing you in Vegas?

I won't be in Vegas this year, so no drunken, late night make out sessions for us this year |cry|

When will you be coming to Montreal?

Dunno, maybe I could aim for the spring? I might be back east in April, and I'll look at what it would cost to fly up to Montreal from NYC for a couple of nights.

Off to create some ghetto-fabulous homemade business cards on my inkjet printer!

Sorry I'll be missing you in Vegas this time around.

In 2006 I would like to make some money. I dunno now after the the holiday season though. I did BAD with every sponsor.

Also I would like to know if I should be paying taxes on what I made online last year. It was not much though... So I might just wait for next year on that one. :)

I need to be active on the boards. I go to chats and no one knows me. I read the board every day but I dont talk. :S

I also need to get some SEO skills. I hear SE's can give a good ratio.

:)

Yeah... not nicking sextrackers template... Oh and doubling my income would be good :-)

actuallly Im planning to have my masteral degree hope I could able to take the subjects, plan to save more to have apartment on my own, and also plan to have new laptop, resolutions? I doubt it, bec. they made to be broken.

- Starting a new affiliate program and opening up 3 paysites. (More to follow very soon about this.)
- Work on getting the above program out there to webmasters and creating useable and wanted marketing material.
- Growing the program, on a whole
- Continue to build and grow Drbizzaro.com
- Work on convincing other webmasters from medium – large quality TGPs and link lists to change their trades scripts to productive trading and not so much trading with massive CJ sites that do not send good traffic
- Get a few “back-burnered” projects, back on track.
- Try to be more patient with my kids. (Not that I’m a bad dad, but I’m sure we can all use improvement)
- Get my ass back in the gym and get down to that 200lb goal that has been alluding me all last year.

Different in 2006--

after a few years of building mainstream sites, getting back into the adult biz....

for the adult biz end--depending less on galleries and more on free sites and avs sites(although I made a sale on a tgp gallery after 13 hits to it; that was unexpected)...

relearning the rules and how to make decent free sites and avs sites...

learning more about design and marketing text for adult sites (and mainstream sites, actually)

not letting myself get chained to the pc in my "after day job hours". So far, that's not working out real well |loony|

thats it for me...

Made my biggest biz mistakes in 05, the worst of which was trying to take on too much and it caused growth to stop dead.

So this year I am taking the butchers knife to some of my side project adn focusing on my main two :)

Interesting that some of you seem to be wanting to take on a whole heap of new projects this year, and my advice is to stick to the things you do well unless these extra projects are essential to your growth. :)

I would like to network more but it seems really hard for lady webmasters to do that. I'm going to keep trying though!

I am also going to keep making my sites larger with rich content, more surfer-friendly, and update often