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griffin8r · 04-14-2009

But I'm in a quandry, and I figure this is a great place to gather info to help me sort it...

My wife and I launched a cross-promo site dedicated to exotic dancers (and related, to a point), tattoo artists, and heavy metal. Nice combo, right? Got lots of interesting content developing (landed a 2008 Playboy centerfold, Tony Batman, and a bizarre mock cooking show involving a shaggy metalhead character, among other things) but we're at a complete loss for how to attract advertisers.

We're trying to strike a balance here, obviously we could just make a huge push at the strip clubs and escort services and probably make a fabulous amount of money doing it, but we're trying to balance things out a bit, get the apparel people in, maybe even go after some underground music labels.

Not only that, but we're taking a completely different angle with how we do ads - not just banners anymore, but encouraging (and helping, in some cases) the advertisers to create "content" instead of just "BUY MY PRODUCT" - to create a symbiotic relationship between site and advertiser, and also make the reader more inclined to look at the ads.

The question is, in this day and age, when no one reads e-mail that didn't come from an address they already know, and no one wants to talk to you on the phone if you're selling something, and most of the free classified sections online don't allow HTML ads (we did a really slick one, it's up on Craigslist in the adult section in the Bronx and Jersey Shore)

How the hell does a new site get it done?

(edit)

Traffic is definitely not an issue for us. We're already averaging 2-300 unique hits per day, and we've only been up 40 days.

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griffin8r Approving Gay AVS Sites Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 73	Sucks being a noob and starting with a new thread... But I'm in a quandry, and I figure this is a great place to gather info to help me sort it... My wife and I launched a cross-promo site dedicated to exotic dancers (and related, to a point), tattoo artists, and heavy metal. Nice combo, right? Got lots of interesting content developing (landed a 2008 Playboy centerfold, Tony Batman, and a bizarre mock cooking show involving a shaggy metalhead character, among other things) but we're at a complete loss for how to attract advertisers. We're trying to strike a balance here, obviously we could just make a huge push at the strip clubs and escort services and probably make a fabulous amount of money doing it, but we're trying to balance things out a bit, get the apparel people in, maybe even go after some underground music labels. Not only that, but we're taking a completely different angle with how we do ads - not just banners anymore, but encouraging (and helping, in some cases) the advertisers to create "content" instead of just "BUY MY PRODUCT" - to create a symbiotic relationship between site and advertiser, and also make the reader more inclined to look at the ads. The question is, in this day and age, when no one reads e-mail that didn't come from an address they already know, and no one wants to talk to you on the phone if you're selling something, and most of the free classified sections online don't allow HTML ads (we did a really slick one, it's up on Craigslist in the adult section in the Bronx and Jersey Shore) How the hell does a new site get it done? (edit) Traffic is definitely not an issue for us. We're already averaging 2-300 unique hits per day, and we've only been up 40 days. Last edited by griffin8r; 04-14-2009 at 07:20 PM. Reason: I always remember stuff later....