2006 a 'crash' year ?

[Toby]

I guess I've been fortunate. I promote single girl sites almost exclusively, but have had only a couple of them close. Maybe that's because I tend to stay away from the "teen" end of the spectrum.

[Loganp8000]

Saw quite a number of programs crash and burn, and quite a few "restructure" in 2005, and it almost seems that paysites are closing weekly. Is this going to continue in 2006 ... maybe even get worse? Or do you think things will consolidate and we will see less new programs but more quality?

As a single girl, amateur site, we asked oursleves what will distinguish us from the millions of other single girl sites. The obvious answer was quality! Seems like every other girl/woman in the world has had the idea to do a site. The allure of fast easy money by the truck load seems inviting. Then the reality of greedy webmasters, tiny little checks, and working hard everyday becomes a job like any other and people quit!
I would say it easily takes 1-2 years of solid 9-5 work everyday including weekends to make a decent living at this as a single girl amateur.

Soooo many girls have no idea what it takes and have some webmaster guiding them, telling them, "just wait baby, the checks will get HUGE and you'll be stoked". A year or two goes by and the checks only got to a few hundred bucks for the model or at best a grand. All while the webmasters and all his affiliates made most of the dough.
Models quit, go back to stripping or being a soccer moms.

Very few models have what it takes to manage their site themselves. The ones that do have very succesful programs.
I hope the fast buck and break out trend with single girl sites stops. As a single girl site owner, I face ever increasing doubts from webmasters that would much rather just sell the mega, multi girl sites.
All the time lately, I meet a webmasters that want exclusive content, from a program that is not so saturated. We fit the bill perfectly, but I have to really persuade webmasters that we are in for the long haul.
Like every other business these days... There are a million wannabes, very few dedicated.

To answer that question, I think we will continue to see sites pop up and dissapear. It is not all one sided! I am hopeing that webmasters will start to look past the glittery pretty sites these people throw up and start finding real "partners" Seems like webmasters are just looking for content instead of long term partners. I think webmasters need to join less programs that really work for them, instead of joining every program and broadcasting every gallery people offer in a text link tgp, and hope for the best.

ALOHA