Happy MLK Day (aka The Monday Thread)
 

Morning! |waves|

Vega$ was a fucking BLAST! The Bitch & I had no idea just how much we missed/enjoyed being out there, especially the alone time ;) Since everyone always asks, we brought home the |$$$| we brought down to gamble with, paid off the line of credit at The Venetian, got comp'd for everything on our hotel bill (except for tips), and probably ended up spending under $200 total - that right there accounts for about 50% of a good trip to Vega$ |thumb

Just work for me today, except I might go to the chiropractor as long as it looks like I'll be able to get my Mom's POS car back up the snowy driveway |snowman2

Have a good one |fonz|

PS - Did I mention that I officially got inducted into the Internet Founders branch of AVN's Hall Of Fame? :D

No Vegas or awards here, just very chilly temps.

Just a regular day of work planned before driving to the airport this evening to pickup our naked houseguest.

Good morning. |coffee

@Greenie Glad to hear you enjoyed your trip!

Just work today and may a nap. I'm tired already.

Have a good one! |thumb

Winter has finally hit us (seems like winter prefer to visit more unlikely places this year) but that wasn't a complaint. Any Norwegian complaining about snow should consider where they actually choose to live |lol|

Gratz on the AVN induction Greenguy, well deserved!

Jolly

Good Day
This morning started with an email that pissed me off. A program affiliate manager sent me an email telling me that over the past 6 months I had made very few sales (like I didn't know) and that if there is anything they can do to help. That part is fine by me.

Here is the part that pissed me off:
"If I do not hear back from you, I will try to contact you again – after that, we’ll assume you’re no longer interested in promoting and will close your affiliate account with us. You can re-open it in the future if you chose to start promotion again." |banghead|

My response:
"I normally do not contact affiliate administrators but I am surprised to hear that if I did not contact you my account would be closed. Since you brought up poor sales in 6 months then I am sure you can see the amount of traffic I've sent but lets take a look together:
2013 - I sent 240,000 raw/165,000 unique hits to the program or 1:30,000/1:20,000 ratio.
2012 - I sent 181,000 raw/138,000 unique hits to the program or 1:8,600/1:6,500 ratio.
2011 - I sent 250,000 raw/190,000 unique hits to the program or 1:6,400/1:4,800 ratio.

So in 2013 I increased promotion/traffic sent to 2011 levels to see if ratios would improve only for ratios to be 3 times worse then 2012 and 4.5 times worse then 2011, yet you assume I am no longer interested in promoting, that's a bit frustrating to say the least.

How much traffic does one have to send to make you think I am not promoting?" end of response

Sure, I am no traffic whale but WTF |banghead|

btw, this is a ccbill program with 2 sites under it during these years.

Thank You for letting me vent.

The only nice thing is I hadn't paid attention to how bad those numbers had really become. Guess I really need to start looking at stats compared year by year for a number of these programs that make a few bucks but are not real money earners and move some of that traffic.

Good afternoon.

Back to work for me today after a week as I also was in Vegas but sadly didn't tun into Greenie and The Bitch as I left Saturday morning and they got in late Friday night.

I use my CDL to get cheap Vega$ rates. The are very truck driver friendly in lots of places there.

Sounds like you had a fun mini-vacation there Greenie! Good shit!