Xbiz promoting newsgroup reseller?

[Jeremy]

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.