A smackdown dragout site building sales melee.

4 teams, each with an experienced sales pro and a site builder competing in the only way that really matters.

Earning The Most Cash, Money, Bling, Dough.

Each team will build their best sales generating site and then will receive 10,000 hits to sell as much as they can to.


The contestants are:


Trev the Tyrant mentoring Becki the newbie

BillPMB The Mega Sales Master coaching Nick "whos your papa" Papageorgio

EclectiXXX the Energizer helping Jizz the Bizz the newbie wizz

and Mister X assisting Sarettah the sales midget


The contest:

The building period for the contest will begin RIGHT NOW, Wednesday, April 27.

The building period will go until May 11, 2005 when the hits will start to be delivered.

The hits will be delivered over roughly a 3 week period ending approximately June 1st.

The sales period of the contest will end when the last hit is delivered and has been processed.

The contest will be judged on 3 criteria.:

1. Total conversions (include free sign ups that might not generate sales) and email addresses collected (25% of contest points)

2. Total number of sales (25% of contest points)

3. Total sales dollars (50% of contest points)

The prizes (so far):

Can Now Be Found Here: http://www.oprano.com/msgboard/index...howtopic=18067 :)

(if any advertisers, sponsors or individuals would like to add to the pot, hit me up)

Rules:

Teams may build whatever they want, no holds barred. The only rule is the site(s)
cannot have existed prior to the beginning of the contest.

Modification: April 29: After discussing it among the participants, it has been decided that toolbars, scumware, adware, spyware (and associated ilk) are not allowed as saleable products.

The sites will NOT be submitted to SE's or Lists/TGPs in order to limit the outside
traffic as much as possible.

The sites may be tweaked throughout the sales period.

Content:

Teams may use whatever content they want, their own, sponsor content, whatever.

In addition, to help level the playing field,

Bestat of Exclusive Content
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and

MaDalton of Amazing Content
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have agreed to provide content sets to contestants that may need them.

Thank You Bestat and MaDalton.

In addition to that anyone using Depraved Dollars or Cloud9Cash as sponsors can get access to some special "Contest Only" sponsor sets that Red and Vick have graciously provided. Thanx Guys !!


Sponsors

The following Oprano Advertisers and Family Programs are recommended as sponsors in the contest:

AlMighty Content
Amateur Webmaster
Homegrown Cash
Pussy Cash
Rectal Revenue
Yanks Cash
VOD TopBucks
SPA Cash
AEBN
PornMegaBucks
Cloud9cash
Live Bucks/Private Feeds
Evil Genius Cash
MacDaddyBucks
Depraved Dollars

(If I have missed any advertisers or Family Programs, I apologize. Please hit me up and I will add you to the list.)

Modified April 29 to reflect a group discussion. All sponsors my be used. While Oprano advertisers and family programs are preferred, sponsor selection is part of an overall sales strategy and should not be restricted. Further Teams do not have to reveal which programs they are using until the sales period of the contest kicks in.

Hit delivery:

Hits will be delivered beginning May 11th to a landing page on a url that will not be revealed. A script on the landing page will control the delivery of hits to each team's site.

In addition, each team may point their exit hits at a recycle landing page that will allow the team to receive trades on a one to one basis. Trade in a hit, get a fresh hit back.

Throughout the contest, there will be a pinned thread in either the main forum or
the help forum where builders will make daily progress reports on their efforts and may request help, advice and reviews from the general board population.

Judges-Umpires

There will be 3 umpires assigned to help verify the results and to be decision makers in any disputes that arise.

Currently the only official umpire is Dravyk of Content God and AllOfem but by the time they are needed we will have more on board.


So, Builders, Mentors, ARE YOU READY ????

Get your asses in gear and lets roll !!!!!!!


I would also like to thank Joesho, Inabon and Boldy of Remotethumbs.com

Joesho for the hit delivery and Inabon for volunteering Boldy's scripting skills...

Thanks Guys, you rock !!


edited in: Thanx for the heads up Red, all fixed now :I hope :)

Great job bringing this together Sarettah :okthumb:

Lets get rocking!

BillPMB - Nick
EclectiXXX - Jizz
Mister X - Sarettah

Damn this is going to be fun!!!!


:redance:

Sarettah I’d like to thank you for even thinking of putting me in to this, a very generous thing to do with the hits you won :)

Yay go team Trev/Becki :rokk:

Yeah I'd like to thank him as well <_<




:lol:

I say anyone that doesn't post within the next 5 minutes gets cut out and we split the hits :yowsa:





















Yeah yeah.. I know Sar they're already your hits :P

May the best man / woman / indeterminent gender win :)

You don't count! The hits are coming from you anyway :biglaugh:

Yeah I'd like to thank him as well <_<

[/b][/quote]
I had to have someone in there I could beat :yowsa:

I had to have someone in there I could beat :yowsa: [/b][/quote]
Then why put Becki through this... the pain.. .the torment... have I mentioned I've been through all your site's :yowsa:

Ah glasshoppa, within the question often the answer is to be found :yowsa:

"""""""Currently the only official umpire is Dravyk, Content God but by the time they are needed we will have more on board.""""""""""""""""""


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Ah glasshoppa, within the question often the answer is to be found :yowsa: [/b][/quote]
Ok, on Sunday it was just Trev making me nervous, now you both are :unsure:

:ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r:

Ok, on Sunday it was just Trev making me nervous, now you both are :unsure: [/b][/quote]
If I had seen some titties the world might be different right now. :yowsa:

If I had seen some titties the world might be different right now. :yowsa: [/b][/quote]
If it wasn't for the promise I wouldn't be doing this :yowsa:

If it wasn't for the promise I wouldn't be doing this :yowsa: [/b][/quote]
<_<

Going to bed!



:)

Hmm...are you a good girl ? or a Nice girl ? :blink:

Hmm...are you a good girl ? or a Nice girl ? :blink: [/b][/quote]
Perv! :P

What the hell does an umpire do, and is this what you wanted me to do?

An umpire makes sure the game is clean and checks everything through out....



In reality it means doing fuck all B)

[Middle English (an) oumpere, (an) umpire, alteration of (a) noumpere, a mediator, from Old French nonper : non-, non- + per, equal, even, paired (from Latin pr. See pair).]
Word History: Had it not been for the linguistic process known as false splitting or juncture loss, the angry, anguished cry “Kill the ump” could have been “Kill the nump.” In the case of umpire we can almost see this process in action by studying the Middle English Dictionary entry for noumpere, the Middle English ancestor of our word. Noumpere comes from the Old French nonper, made up of non, “not,” and per, “equal”: as an impartial arbiter of a dispute between two people, the arbiter is not equivalent to or a partisan of either of them. In Middle English the earliest recorded form is noumper (about 1350); the earliest dated form without an n is owmpere, from 1440. How the n was lost can be seen if we compare the sequence a noounpier in a text written in 1426-1427 with the sequence an Oumper from a text written probably around 1475. The n of noumpere has here become attached to the indefinite article, giving us an instead of a and, eventually, umpire instead of *numpire. The same process of false splitting is responsible for the forms apron and adder, originally napron and naddre, as well as many other words that once began with n. False splitting also caused some words that originally began with vowels to have an n from a preceding indefinite article added on, such as nickname (from the phrase an eke name) and newt (from an eute).


Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.


Main Entry: um·pire
Function: noun
: a person having authority to decide finally a controversy or question between parties: as a : one appointed to decide between disagreeing arbitrators b : an impartial third party chosen to arbitrate disputes arising under the terms of a labor agreement c : one appointed to mediate between the appraisers of an insured and insurer in order to determine the amount of a loss


Source: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.

or in the case of Dravyk......

a.)An annoying person , a twat.
B.)A person who claims male pattern baldness to be merely expanding forehead.


;-)))

You forgot to mention...

Umpire (noun): The guy who is ALWAYS to blame when your team loses...if he didn't make such poor decisions they would have won for sure. (Also see: referee)

:P

See also "Bastard" and "total bastard"

LOL

An umpire would do what umpires do... :blink:

For most of the thing, probably nothing at all. At the end, verifying the results.

If there was a dispute of some sort, you might be called on to investigate and if you caught a cheater of some version you would get to blast em...Or congratulate them if it was creative enough cheating :)


I know I need some "impartial" folks to help, I know itt is always better to have an odd number, so there are no ties. and I know I wanted folks who have been around for a long time and most people would trust.

So, I asked Dravyk, You and Dig :)

additional note for all contestants before I hand over the running of this and just be another competitor. I forgot one rule

CHEATING WILL NOT BE TOLERATED

(It will, however, be graded :yowsa: )

What kind of traffic - clicked, blind, 404, TGP, SE, etc., and what niche...?

Not knowing what kind of traffic is like throwing shit against a wall and hoping it sticks.

Thanx for mentioning that Aeon.

This is what we know about the traffic we will be getting.

from: http://www.oprano.com/msgboard/index...opic=17657&hl=

They are the result of this: http://www.oprano.com/msgboard/index...opic=17875&hl=

These are the 40,000 hits I won. I am recycling them.


So, pretty much what we know is that they are adult :)

Delightful contest and kudos to everyone involved, Good Luck to all :)

So, what would you suggest we do with it now that you know what it is ? :blink:

Bravo

Again Excellent idea sarettah

Looking forward to watching the contest

Thanx Newton :)

BTW, as soon as I pass on the script outlines to Inabon and Boldy and tell them what we need from them.

I am passing the running of the rest of this thing on to you :yowsa:


I am a contestant so I have to put myself in the contestant spot real quick :huh:

ALL YOUR BASES ARE BELONG TO US!

Good luck everyone! Sorry, I was at the gym, then softball practive. :)

If i may add sumat to the prize list ;)

$250 in content from Rainbow Content and a 3 month banner campaign on GWW :)

Just to clarify..

Thats a 720x60 banner not a regular sized banner and it will appear across the bottom of all pages of the GWW directory and community forums :)

Coolness Lee, of course we will accept and I will add it to the post..

Thanx man :okthumb:

Awesome stuff Sarettah and good luck to all involved.

Im very eager to see the diferance in all teams approach and also to see the benefits tagged with each.

Should be an awesome learning experience for all those who pay attention to the contest. For those who dont learn im sure it will be entertaining at the least. :D

Honored to be workin against you all! :ph34r:

Good Luck to you too Bill.

We had a little man turn 12 today, so missed the big announcement...headache is settling down some now.. :unsure:

Ok, just a note

In the original concept of this, the only prizes envisioned were the actual sales dollars and the learning experience.

Then Nick came up with the 15k hits :) Then I remembered that I had a $200.00 credit sitting with Tootie since last Fall sometime and decided just to make the pot a little sweter.

Now Lee has come forward :)

So, it looks like there might be some prizes to spread around between the first and second place teams etc.

So, I am asking Newton right here and now to be in charge of how the prize pot is split up among the winners.


Thanx in advance Newton :)

Hit me up on icq man :)

I think its fantastic man and thank you for the opportunity to help out, really looking forward to seeing how inventive people get, the knowledge passed on. The prizes are looking excellent and i dont think the giving is finished yet :)

Oh yeah, right, I'm part of this too....

It IS going to be nice to know we don't have to worry about Link/TGP/Whatever rules....

Ok Jizz.... none of this : :hic:

time for this: :bulb1:

LOL

I have no time for drinking now....save that for later..:) :cdance:

This is nice!!

Ok, Newton has thrown in a full page ad space on sexines mag for the product of the winning teams choice.

Very Cool Newton

Thanx

I also get to toss annoying, pompous managers and owners off the field ... especially those who "rough the ref". :P

So Nick ..... yeeeeer OUT!!! :heil:

I also get to toss annoying, pompous managers and owners off the field ... especially those who "rough the ref". :P

So Nick ..... yeeeeer OUT!!! :heil: [/b][/quote]
fuck...

:(

Think ya just got a red card Nick...

:nyanya:

Sorry i just thought he was having homoerotic fantasies about me..

"""I also get to toss annoying, pompous managers and owners off the field ... especially those who "rough the ref"."""

Again...

I wish he would stop thinking about tossing me...

That's just a language barrier thing.

It has nothing to do with salad and more to do with one's ability to read the rule book

More to do with not wiping one's ass with it.

IMHO ;)

:nyanya: