0 sales in 3 weeks

[Xallow]

I have my own 2 LL's 2 hubs and I build freesites and that is it, it might be the sponsor, I have been pushing 1 sponsor a LOT, the next FS's I build will be for other sponsors.

[KG Gary]

September turned out to be pretty awful for me, and when the first two weeks in October were also terrible it had me really worried about evertything I was doing, and I posted on GG&J about my concerns.

However, the last two weeks in October helped make it my best month since I started freesite builing back in March.
November has started really bad, but after the ups and downs of the last few months I'm not as concerned.
Just keep on building and tweaking, and understand that there are loads and loads of freesite builders out there in a similar position to you right now wondering what they are doing wrong!

[Jim]

Originally Posted by Xallow

I have my own 2 LL's 2 hubs and I build freesites and that is it, it might be the sponsor, I have been pushing 1 sponsor a LOT, the next FS's I build will be for other sponsors.

It seems like you figured it out for yourself. While, I always say give a sponsor a good hard try before giving up, 3 weeks is too long depending on the traffic you are sending. Speaking of which, how much traffic have you sent this one sponsor in the past 3 weeks?

[Mr Exotic]

I go am in a mini dry spell right now myself to start out November, but then again it seems the last 3-4 months have started off slow. Last month was looking like it was gonna be my worst month of the year and I had a good last 4-5 days and it ended up being an average month. Three weeks without a sale is pretty bad especially if you are a regular free site builder, definitely time to switch up the sponsors and sites you are promoting. I am currently working on starting promotions for 3 totally new sites and 2 of those are with totally new sponsors.

My biggest culprit here lately is a god damn partnership that I am sending sales to like crazy but that is translating into very little money. Its pretty fucking shitty to send close to 100 sales in the last 2-3 months to a partnership and have 19 active members to show for it. I have been sending a trickle of traffic to this program for 2 years and have been happy but always hated revshare and have been afraid to get serious with them. I should have listened to my gut instinct and stuck to PPS.

I guess my best advice is the same as what everyone else is saying, if something aint working try something else, and keep building and submitting. If you aint putting more stuff out there you will never turn it around. When you aint making money is when you need to work the hardest.

[JD]

Originally Posted by Mr Exotic

I go am in a mini dry spell right now myself to start out November, but then again it seems the last 3-4 months have started off slow. Last month was looking like it was gonna be my worst month of the year and I had a good last 4-5 days and it ended up being an average month. Three weeks without a sale is pretty bad especially if you are a regular free site builder, definitely time to switch up the sponsors and sites you are promoting. I am currently working on starting promotions for 3 totally new sites and 2 of those are with totally new sponsors.

My biggest culprit here lately is a god damn partnership that I am sending sales to like crazy but that is translating into very little money. Its pretty fucking shitty to send close to 100 sales in the last 2-3 months to a partnership and have 19 active members to show for it. I have been sending a trickle of traffic to this program for 2 years and have been happy but always hated revshare and have been afraid to get serious with them. I should have listened to my gut instinct and stuck to PPS.

I guess my best advice is the same as what everyone else is saying, if something aint working try something else, and keep building and submitting. If you aint putting more stuff out there you will never turn it around. When you aint making money is when you need to work the hardest.

Good point that last one, how true, and you know the human response when your not getting sales is to mope around and feel like shit (mine anyways), whereas, really you havent got time to mope, have to keep going. I was reading "partnership" being you partnering without a paysite with another owner, then it just clicked you just mean rev share huh? Well my thinking is that I will concentrate on rev share (as long as the sponsor has great backends) and the recurring will look after me. I know it doesnt always work like that, but I guess mixing it up with both is the key!

[Xallow]

Originally Posted by Jim

Speaking of which, how much traffic have you sent this one sponsor in the past 3 weeks?

Just over 10000 uniques, whixh translates into around 2000 second pages for that sponsor, and on average I get a sale for 1:130 second pages for that sponsor, so You can see why I am not too happy with 0 sales

[Mr. Blue]

Originally Posted by Xallow

Just over 10000 uniques, whixh translates into around 2000 second pages for that sponsor, and on average I get a sale for 1:130 second pages for that sponsor, so You can see why I am not too happy with 0 sales

5000 is the limit for me...you should never dump 10000 on a sponsor that's not converting. Also that first page, second page stuff is bullshit just so the sponsor can make their ratios sound good.

[pornhitzman]

do you count total clicks to sponsor or per paysite? What if you send 500 clicks (10 000 clicks total) to 20 sites at one sponsor and 0 sales? Would you drop this sponsor?

[Xallow]

Originally Posted by pornhitzman

do you count total clicks to sponsor or per paysite? What if you send 500 clicks (10 000 clicks total) to 20 sites at one sponsor and 0 sales? Would you drop this sponsor?

Thats a good question.... anyone?

[virgohippy]

Some sites do better then others, regardless of program. IMO, it's best to figure which sites sell best and just give them the extra little nudge here and there.