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Topic: State of the Forum (Read 30443 times)
gatso
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Re: State of the Forum
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July 17, 2008, 03:03:01 PM »
what really tilts me is you have to pay £2.50 p&p to get your free sample of erection stuff
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ChipRich
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Re: State of the Forum
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July 17, 2008, 03:04:47 PM »
Quote from: gatso on July 17, 2008, 03:03:01 PM
what really tilts me is you have to pay £2.50 p&p to get your free sample of erection stuff
, world line.
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Re: State of the Forum
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Quote from: gatso on July 17, 2008, 03:03:01 PM
what really tilts me is you have to pay £2.50 p&p to get your free sample of erection stuff
Yeah - who'd have thought you'd get screwed by an erection advert.
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Claw75
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Re: State of the Forum
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July 17, 2008, 03:08:37 PM »
anyone seen the magazine ads for Swank Poker? Don't think we'll be seeing their banners any time soon
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Re: State of the Forum
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Quote from: Claw75 on July 17, 2008, 03:08:37 PM
anyone seen the magazine ads for Swank Poker? Don't think we'll be seeing their banners any time soon
no but I just signed up for their email updates
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Claw75
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Re: State of the Forum
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Reply #110 on:
July 17, 2008, 03:10:18 PM »
Quote from: gatso on July 17, 2008, 03:09:44 PM
Quote from: Claw75 on July 17, 2008, 03:08:37 PM
anyone seen the magazine ads for Swank Poker? Don't think we'll be seeing their banners any time soon
no but I just signed up for their email updates
should point out even though website not up and running yet, what is there is NSFW!
anyway, avatars on the site are naked women, and there is a tag line along the lines of 'get your woman to play how you tell her'
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LLevan
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Re: State of the Forum
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July 17, 2008, 03:11:51 PM »
Quote from: Claw75 on July 17, 2008, 03:08:37 PM
anyone seen the magazine ads for Swank Poker? Don't think we'll be seeing their banners any time soon
No but google just became my friend lol.
As for the ads at the top of the forum, Tighty does Blonde earn anything per click or do purchases have to be made for Blonde to earn some money?
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EvilPie
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Re: State of the Forum
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Reply #112 on:
July 17, 2008, 03:18:37 PM »
Quote from: Claw75 on July 17, 2008, 03:10:18 PM
Quote from: gatso on July 17, 2008, 03:09:44 PM
Quote from: Claw75 on July 17, 2008, 03:08:37 PM
anyone seen the magazine ads for Swank Poker? Don't think we'll be seeing their banners any time soon
no but I just signed up for their email updates
should point out even though website not up and running yet, what is there is NSFW!
anyway, avatars on the site are naked women, and there is a tag line along the lines of 'get your woman to play how you tell her'
Do they do rakeback
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Re: State of the Forum
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July 17, 2008, 03:26:50 PM »
Quote from: EvilPie on July 17, 2008, 03:18:37 PM
Quote from: Claw75 on July 17, 2008, 03:10:18 PM
Quote from: gatso on July 17, 2008, 03:09:44 PM
Quote from: Claw75 on July 17, 2008, 03:08:37 PM
anyone seen the magazine ads for Swank Poker? Don't think we'll be seeing their banners any time soon
no but I just signed up for their email updates
should point out even though website not up and running yet, what is there is NSFW!
anyway, avatars on the site are naked women, and there is a tag line along the lines of 'get your woman to play how you tell her'
Do they do rakeback
Is rakeback better than loyalty payments lol
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AndrewT
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Re: State of the Forum
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July 17, 2008, 03:33:36 PM »
Quote from: Claw75 on July 17, 2008, 03:10:18 PM
Quote from: gatso on July 17, 2008, 03:09:44 PM
Quote from: Claw75 on July 17, 2008, 03:08:37 PM
anyone seen the magazine ads for Swank Poker? Don't think we'll be seeing their banners any time soon
no but I just signed up for their email updates
should point out even though website not up and running yet, what is there is NSFW!
anyway, avatars on the site are naked women, and there is a tag line along the lines of 'get your woman to play how you tell her'
I tried to make a deposit but they insisted I withdraw instead.
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Claw75
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Re: State of the Forum
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Reply #115 on:
July 17, 2008, 03:34:41 PM »
Quote from: EvilPie on July 17, 2008, 03:18:37 PM
Quote from: Claw75 on July 17, 2008, 03:10:18 PM
Quote from: gatso on July 17, 2008, 03:09:44 PM
Quote from: Claw75 on July 17, 2008, 03:08:37 PM
anyone seen the magazine ads for Swank Poker? Don't think we'll be seeing their banners any time soon
no but I just signed up for their email updates
should point out even though website not up and running yet, what is there is NSFW!
anyway, avatars on the site are naked women, and there is a tag line along the lines of 'get your woman to play how you tell her'
Do they do rakeback
dunno but mind your keyboard when you make a deposit
edit: damn that andrewt!
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AndrewT
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Re: State of the Forum
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Reply #116 on:
July 17, 2008, 03:43:52 PM »
Quote from: Claw75 on July 17, 2008, 03:34:41 PM
Quote from: EvilPie on July 17, 2008, 03:18:37 PM
Quote from: Claw75 on July 17, 2008, 03:10:18 PM
Quote from: gatso on July 17, 2008, 03:09:44 PM
Quote from: Claw75 on July 17, 2008, 03:08:37 PM
anyone seen the magazine ads for Swank Poker? Don't think we'll be seeing their banners any time soon
no but I just signed up for their email updates
should point out even though website not up and running yet, what is there is NSFW!
anyway, avatars on the site are naked women, and there is a tag line along the lines of 'get your woman to play how you tell her'
Do they do rakeback
dunno but mind your keyboard when you make a deposit
edit: damn that andrewt!
Woman says AndrewT is far too quick ldo.
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Colchester Kev
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Re: State of the Forum
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July 17, 2008, 04:00:53 PM »
To everyone who has PM'd me with questions regarding the card room, I am working through them and will get back to you later this evening...
I didnt expect quite so many, but thanks and I will answer them all.
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Re: State of the Forum
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July 17, 2008, 04:58:53 PM »
just got in
I'd better clarify the advertising points as there are questions
Very occasionally the ad deals are negotiated direct with the advertiser, but a while ago I recognised I needed expert help to assist blonde in making the most of its fast growing traffic, and in the last six months we've come to a couple of arrangements with two media suppliers
The need to do this became clear earlier this year. Our card-room was beginning to struggle, it wasn't acheiving the revenue for us that was needed to a) pay staff...(and none, absolutely none, of the staff earn what I would describe as "fair" rates for the job they do..for all of them to some extent its a labour of love) and b) cover the costs of the forum, doing live updates, promoting the company, putting bashes on, adding value to card-room leagues etc . The reasons for this struggle are referred to elsewhere but over and above anything else I suppose competition in the marketplace for big rakers became even more intense than before, and the top end of our rakers disappeared elsewhere as we couldn't match what they were being offered..
I mananged to get some sponsorships and board tenancies in Jan and Feb, but it didn't do everything we needed money wise
So the next step, and it was one taken a bit reluctantly, was to monetise the traffic on the forum
With specific regard to the ads, we're paid (our will be when we fulfill the deals, often they are post-paid) on a Cost Per Impression basis....ie at £x per 1,000 impressions. If you have a forum with for the sake of illustration only 1m impressions a month at £5CPM then that's worth £5000 and this might be over typically a number of months. Don't take this as a figure we're earning per advertiser, its less..its an illustration
So to answer one question, you don't need to do an "action" by ordering a product for us to get paid (you would do if it were payment on CPA, Cost per action). An impression on the forum page is enough. What does help though is the ratio of clicks to impressions on an ad...if we have a good % of click throughs then we are more likely to a) get renewals and b) charge higher rates. Unique users are important too. A characteristic we have (I call it the Boldie effect) is that we have some users that impress a lot, but the more uniques we have the better as some deals are on frequency cap..ie only your first few impressions in a given period count for the deal, and thus rewards higher numbers of uniques compared to comparatively few people who look at a lot of pages.
One media seller handles our business for gambling related advertisning and another handles our business for non-gambling advertisers.
Specifically for the latter we have a rate card, and the supplier a list of customers prepared to pay that rate and the agency chooses from that "pool". The fact that there are currently "Erection Product" ads in their two slots is not a conscious decision of mine, or anyone at blonde its from the "pool" of advertisers.
I'm a bit embarrased by it, not because of the subject matter as such but because I don't think, as a number of people have pointed out, that it sits too comfortably with our community ethos. Indeed I've asked my contact if ads of a suitable value from another advertier could be used instead.
On a wider issue, blonde isn't rolling in money. Far from it. At the moment our costs are way higher than our non advertising income and the ads are a means to an end. In an ideal world we wouldn't promote third parties, and we'd have a card-room that made us self sufficient. It doesn't, despite an awful lot of hard work to help it happen. We could reduce costs, whether that be people, bashes, live updates, whatever. I'd like to avoid that because I believe all areas of blonde have a good future, and potential.
I'm acutely conscious that commerciality doesn't always fit with a community. Its a tricky balance to strike especially when I have shareholders who need a fair return on their investment. If they don't get that then logically I'm not here, and someone else will have a go. Or the shareholders decide that the company needs to go in a different direction.
hope that helps
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Re: State of the Forum
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Reply #119 on:
July 17, 2008, 05:27:05 PM »
Pele has erection problems - don't see what the problem with the ad is myself.
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