eroticusenet:
I get the feeling you guys are a mainstream company making their first foray into the adult webmaster B2B market and you either haven't done your market research / consultancy at all, or you've been advised by someone who knows sweet FA about the market.
I get this feeling because:
- your parent company PathLink was an ISP between 1997 at least and June 04, and that domain was reg'd in '95;
- you're failing to understand the idea that adult webmasters generally will give even big established companies a hard time;
- you're failing miserably at giving adult webmasters clear and concise info about your product backed up with salient facts.
Now having said that, here's some free consultancy for you:
- Adult webmasters can generally be described as independent, feisty, cantankerous, cynical. They've had more people try to sell them fool's gold than you've had hot dinners.
- As a rule adult webmasters are as easy to herd as cats. Mainstream webmasters seem much more supine.
- If you'd had proper advice you'd know who Greenguy is (
http://www.link-o-rama.com/) and who Jim is (chat to the guys at CECash and FlashCash). I've only been doing this since Jan 97, so I'm a newbie. I think you could trust them with working demo access.
- Selling content in today's market is unbelievably tough. Selling feeds / plugins is even tougher. I've sold both.
- In order to sell feeds webmaster access to a working demo is sine qua non. I couldn't spot one on your site.
- In today's content market 2257 is a very big issue, especially with proposed amendments to 2257 last summer / fall - although they haven't been effected yet. I couldn't see any 2257 info on your site. If you think it isn't relevant to your service, think again. It's very relevant to your market.
- You've probably only got one more chance to convince the crowd before the thumb goes down and the lions are released. Use it wisely.
- You really should have hired a decent consultant.
Good luck.