Free site, AVS stuff

SheepGuy · 2007-10-01, 03:06 AM

Bah, I spent a few hours this weekend looking at where my money comes from and how many hours it took me to earn it and I reached a couple of conclusions I had been leaning towards for a while. OTB gave me the idea to dig deeper, and it's good shit like that that keeps me showing up every Saturday

Freesites don't convert well for me, maybe my sales approach sucks on them, maybe I give too much away, I'm not sure. Reviewers like 'em, but they don't convert as well as I think they should. Maybe I'm stifled by the rules, but I know I don't have as much fun building them as I do building other stuff. That likely has something to do with it as well.

When I build and promote an AVS site properly I'm damn near guaranteed a sale in the first couple of days, and more coming through the months and years. Sites that take me 30 minutes to build make me more money than freesites that take me 90 minutes. So I'll build accordingly.
Free sites send quantity traffic to my LL and my solo girl site, both of which make decent money for me, but I have no clue how productive that traffic is compared to the traffic coming from AVS sites, I suspect free site traffic is less so. I'll keep building free sites, but less than before, spending more time on AVS.

Just my experience as to what is working for me, and I no longer preach the AVS gospel, because it is not for everyone, but as more and more LL's start listing them I see them as a big part of my future plans.

And I'm not saying free sites suck as a business model, just that after a year of building them, they don't work so well for me. I'm going to spend a bit of time and money on galleries as well, I haven't really given them a fair shot.

10 years in the biz and I'm still a newbie

2007-10-01, 03:06 AM	#1
SheepGuy It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 2,527	Free site, AVS stuff Bah, I spent a few hours this weekend looking at where my money comes from and how many hours it took me to earn it and I reached a couple of conclusions I had been leaning towards for a while. OTB gave me the idea to dig deeper, and it's good shit like that that keeps me showing up every Saturday Freesites don't convert well for me, maybe my sales approach sucks on them, maybe I give too much away, I'm not sure. Reviewers like 'em, but they don't convert as well as I think they should. Maybe I'm stifled by the rules, but I know I don't have as much fun building them as I do building other stuff. That likely has something to do with it as well. When I build and promote an AVS site properly I'm damn near guaranteed a sale in the first couple of days, and more coming through the months and years. Sites that take me 30 minutes to build make me more money than freesites that take me 90 minutes. So I'll build accordingly. Free sites send quantity traffic to my LL and my solo girl site, both of which make decent money for me, but I have no clue how productive that traffic is compared to the traffic coming from AVS sites, I suspect free site traffic is less so. I'll keep building free sites, but less than before, spending more time on AVS. Just my experience as to what is working for me, and I no longer preach the AVS gospel, because it is not for everyone, but as more and more LL's start listing them I see them as a big part of my future plans. And I'm not saying free sites suck as a business model, just that after a year of building them, they don't work so well for me. I'm going to spend a bit of time and money on galleries as well, I haven't really given them a fair shot. 10 years in the biz and I'm still a newbie __________________ If the Environment was a bank, they would have saved it by now.