Oh stop & try to get over yourself. I've been doing this since 1996 & in that time, I have dealt with many, many "marketing" people sending me blind emails, which are basically the equivalent of cold calling me on the phone. So please, I beg of you, forgive me for actually wanting to know information about this "renowned adult company" that you work for and the "plethora of quality websites" that you buy ads for before I went any further. What was I thinking?! Wanting to know who & what I was potentially dealing with?! I must be crazy!
You know what? I'll even go 1st: My name is Mark Jenkins & I own Greenguy Marketing. I have been running adult websites since 1996 and, if I may too my own horn, I'm pretty damn good at it. I have many domains & a lot of traffic, as well as a lot of decent PR rankings as far as adult sites are concerned. I mention that because I know that PR is one of the major factors that "marketing" people like you base your ad buys on.
One of my shitty little sites (my term, not yours) is Anal Sex Fest. It's a very small side project of mine that gets a whopping 3-400 uniques a day. I assume you know, since I'm sure you did a little homework on the site before you sent out your email, it's a PR3 & had 90 external links in the index page. I'll admit that I probably don't know as much about buying text links as you do, but I do know that based on those 3 things, even with 6 of the 90 links being nofollow, a 91st text link on that page has little or no value.
Now, had you asked me about my main site, I'd have replied differently. You see, that site is a PR5 with 11 external links on the index, with one being nofollow. It's been registered in my name since 1997. It gets a very decent amount of traffic. Over the last 2 weeks, the site has averaged almost 5,500 organic search engine hits per day. Again, not know as much as you do about this sort of thing, I have to assume that a textlink on that page would be BIG! Wanna know the name & URL of the site? Google my nickname
So I tend to act a little snarky when someone emails me asking about buying ads/textlinks on a website that I own. knowing that it has little or no value as far as ads/textlinks are concerned.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go to the corner of my office, curl up in the fetal position, and suck my thumb, thinking about all the "good money" that you "could have" paid me for textlinks on my shitty little website.
Hugs!
Mark - Greenguy
CC: Aaron ;-)