Tired of making chump change

[LD]

Thanks for starting this thread. I'm coming up on only three months now, and feel some frustration. The amount of time invested vs the payout puts my hourly rate at somewhere slightly above slave labor in in some God forsaken third world country.

But it's fun, and I'm learning a lot. I don't mean to bitch....(well, maybe a little.. )

Sheep Dude has been very helpful to me as well, and his listings have generated some great traffic for me. It seems my biggest hurdle is conversion...selling it. I see all the hits and zero sales and know something ain't right. If my sites were complete shit I doubt I would get listed by some of the big list like Greenie's and Sheepguy's..but I seem to be missing something in the marketing department. I want to take a few computer courses to strengthen my technical abilities (my background is not IT), but really, I don't know if I should focus more on the basics: getting horny people to whip out their credit cards.

Looking at my first sites and the more recent ones, I think I'm moving in the right direction, and I am getting a few more scattered sales here and there...but my ratio still needs a kick in the ass...I'm thinking "staying the course" might not be the best policy right now...

Hope I didn't hijack the thread...I think some of my concerns are in line with the topic at hand...

[Useless]

I hardly ever talk about this because I'm not a huge fan of sharing 'secrets', but a major part of my success in this business has been my ability to continuously surf the board while checking my stats every 10 minutes or so.

[Allfetish]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I hardly ever talk about this because I'm not a huge fan of sharing 'secrets', but a major part of my success in this business has been my ability to continuously surf the board while checking my stats every 10 minutes or so.

Unified Stats saved my ass. I think I was a mild OCD case burning four hours a day checking my stats before.

For the newbies:

http://www.unifiedstats.com/ (FREE)

Now it does not list everything and has some issues with many programs and lack of updates lately. But it is basically the poor mans statsremote.

[plateman]

certain niches are dead for sales right now imo, and certain webmasters are doing shitty in the sales department. just keep going and soon it will pickup soon

[tickler]

Originally Posted by plateman

certain niches are dead for sales right now imo, and certain webmasters are doing shitty in the sales department.

A lot of micro-niches are pretty constant all the time. Guess you just can't find them on a nice day at the beach.