Shitty Assed Sponsors

[softball]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

Yup, and as you know although I dont do much with them these days, I made serious bank off of Tawnee Stone. Heh...I could've easily named a car or two "Tawnee" based on those checks while she was hot. I just never found that "next" lightspeed girl that I could do it that effortlessly with.

Silvercash on the other hand, I've never sent anything to. Nothing against them, just dont know them. They usually have big presence at the shows and such, but that's all I know. Have never seen them around on any of the boards I'm on. And with no other recommendations, I tend to send my traffic to folks I know a little bit.

So what are we talking about? Two cars...good cars..about 80K a year? Just curious.

[Rcourt64]

Where do you guys draw the line?
I mean I would like to hear numbers, When does one say, "Hey, I've sent So-So Sponsor blank number of hits with no results. I'm pulling them off."
I ask cause I recently published a bunch of blogs, all free content sponsor stuff. hits are starting to show in the thousands now. "thats a total of all subs combined" but at sponsors end only getting still hits in the hundreds. and of course no sales yet. But again, sometime down the line I'll reach a point where I'm receiving muti thousand hits per sub-domain? Dang you people. I wish you'd talk actual numbers here
Everything as to be a fucking secret around here all the time.

[gonzo]

Originally Posted by Rcourt64

Where do you guys draw the line?
I mean I would like to hear numbers, When does one say, "Hey, I've sent So-So Sponsor blank number of hits with no results. I'm pulling them off."
I ask cause I recently published a bunch of blogs, all free content sponsor stuff. hits are starting to show in the thousands now. "thats a total of all subs combined" but at sponsors end only getting still hits in the hundreds. and of course no sales yet. But again, sometime down the line I'll reach a point where I'm receiving muti thousand hits per sub-domain? Dang you people. I wish you'd talk actual numbers here
Everything as to be a fucking secret around here all the time.

The numbers are up to you.

I will tell you that the numbers you are reporting are not unusual for blog traffic.

[Rcourt64]

Originally Posted by gonzo

The numbers are up to you.

I will tell you that the numbers you are reporting are not unusual for blog traffic.

Well it's 1 main blog with 10 sub just been submitted to the directories, this is reason why so may hits, although I managed to get it rank one on yahoo with some nice keyword, but google is being there asshole regular shit ass self, and still won't show as high as Yahoo

[Toby]

Originally Posted by Rcourt64

...google is being there asshole regular shit ass self, and still won't show as high as Yahoo

That's not unusual either. I have a number of key phrases where my sites rank in the top 10 on both Yahoo and MSN, yet aren't in the top 100 on Google.

[freakdaddycyrix]

I'm happy to get traffic from sponsors/friends. It's up to me to make the sale after the fact. If my content is shit, then I won't be making any cheese for me or my clients. You have about 4 seconds to interest people when they visit your site.

I am an affiliate of Js, and we do well with his program, so he must be doing something right.

[Razor]

From a stand point of being new in the whole industry as far as marleting goes, I break it down like they do in the real world on this very topic. Affiliates to me are salesmen. No different than car, home, insurance or any other commisioned salesmen out there. I knew guys that could sell cars and then move onto home sales and then to ATV's. They were so good, they bounced around as the markets fluctuated on whatever was hot at the time and raked in.

On the other end, of course you need the folks with the goods to sell. If the sponsors product isnt as good as what the salesmen told you it would be, then its the sponsors fault not keeping the sale recurring and building a loyal fan willing to stay with them. We all blame salesmen when the product sucks, but the bottomline is, we know they are there to make some cash and show you the "good" points of a product in hopes to make a buck. And thats the game, making a buck.

The trouble and great problem to overcome is all the free content out there. Why should anyone have to pay when you can grab 20,000 pics for free in an hours time? You need a great salesman to pitch the goods, but a good sponsor to keep the sales given to them to make it sweet for both. And giving some tools to those who sell, certainly builds a nice partnership as well. If selling was that easy, sponsors wouldnt have affiliates and sharing the revenue made.

This is just me talking aloud to be sure I get it right. Have a great day as I am off to research some more.
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