If a sponsor pays for advertising, Does that make them a better sponsor?

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Originally Posted by bDok

I don't think a sponsor paying for advertising is a better sponsor. At the end of the day the best sponsor is the one I'm making good consistent money with. I could careless if I found out about them from a link in someones sig or on a paid spot on the board.

That being said...

I would hope a small program that is being run right and is properly investing money back into the program would begin to become a medium program. From there go on to become a large one.

If not, sounds like the program might not be around in the long run and the work put out to promote it maybe isn't worth it.

At times a good grass roots way of getting things going goes a long way. Hearing it from other webmasters on other webmasters pages off their sites when you are submitting or traffic trading. etc.

Well that could be true for some, but there are many circumstances where this might not be true.

For example, in my case, I chose to stay in pretty much one little niche. For the longest time I didn't even have a so called "program" just 1 site. This may or may not have been a mistake on my part as far as becoming a large sized program with a dozen sites in many niches.

I like what I do. I've been doing it for almost 10 YEARS now as I 1st started in 1998. If I am still breathing I can pretty much guarantee you I will be doing this for another 10 years.

My niche turns me on and that helps me immensely in turning my customers on. I pretty much used to do EVERYTHING myself from the minor coding to designing to shooting the content. However lately it has become too much and I do have other photogs shoot for me as well as hire out a lot of more advanced coding jobs.

The problem for me is that I am a small sponsor with a 4 or 5 sites in 1 or 2 small niches. It will never pay off for me to spend what it takes to advertise here and other places. There just isn't enough bang. My only alternative is the grass roots helping out here and there method. I always have done that and have never been labeled a spammer i don't think.

I suspect that there are a ton of solo girl sites that are in the same boat as me also. Probably even more so.

Anyways it seems that I am starting to piss people off here. Sorry for that. We talk about business models in all areas of adult here, the good the bad, what the effects and outcomes are.

I guess talking about a Webmaster Forums business model is a big no no!

Another lesson learned.

Cheers,
BV