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[UglyDaz]

Originally Posted by hashbury

Welcome to greenguyandjim UglyDaz
Nobody in this thread told you to give it up nor was anyone complaining.
Howlingwulf suggested that you try being an affiliate to see how they run things. This is real good advice, If you know how to make sales as an affiliate, you will be able to supply your affiliates with the know how and the tools for them to make sales.

You may think you have a nice site and a cute girl, but the truth is there are tons of them out there. Webmasters are already promoting these other sites. So you need to find a way for them to promote your sites, and you will need webmasters if you want to make decent sales. I would put a webmasters link on the bottom of your main index page. Another thing webmasters might not trust a solo girl site as much as a regular paysite. In 2 or 3 years or less that model could change her plans and move out of the porn biz. It happens all the time.

You should setup an affiliate area for your webmasters and get them all the tools they need. FHG's RSS feeds flv's and even some hosted freesites. Once you get an affiliate area setup, you should spend some $ on advertising. This board has great sponsors and i try to promote them all. We will all be willing to help you, but if you dont like the advice its not going to do you much good.

Hi there.
Big thanks for the advice from yourself there!
My main problem with affiliates is that nobody has ever really bothered to actually tell me what an affiliate wants - and I'm serious. Other boards I have looked in on seem to be full of code-heads who just want to moan about how the recession is hitting them and snipe at each other. I'm very positive about what I do and actually have no problem with my traffic and conversions at present. My shooting schedule is relaxed, updating takes a couple of hours and I can schedule that to be very convenient for me. I just ask for help and assistance because that's a polite way of saying that I'm not pretending to know it all (which I obviously don't).
On the subject of being an affiliate - it does sound like good advice for me to go off and spend some time being an affiliate but there are two issues to this.
1. Why don't all affiliates try my job then too, they may be more sympathetic to me. It's always photographers having to 'understand' how hard the affiliate life is and how much they have to do. Do they really think my job is easy? I've seen people try (and fail miserably) to consistently come up with good sets of 100+ usable images day-in day-out. It really isn't done by magic.
2. I already act as an 'affiliate' for my own sites - I do my own marketing (about 30 minutes a day!) and make a wage from it so I must be doing something right.