Greg B
10-21-2007, 09:43 AM
I'm a ratio nut. I look at how much I expenditure in ratio to ROI. I don't do pornmeistering full time or on a global basis like Gonzo or Jace or Hammer but I do get a high profit return around 98% at worst.
All I pay for is bandwidth. No staff, no models, no content providers.
I've really been hitting the books the past several months studying this business to get better returns. I needed just an additional $1,500 per month extra to settle down with this business model.
I looked back at all the successful things I've done and the dumb things. Listened to Hammer and got better at SEO. Read more of the various boards and realized I'd been doing great in comparison to most but didn't know it. I could just draw toons, post em' on my site and walk away and it made money by default. Like Jace said in another thread about "all from my fucking couch.". I have only a handful of sites but in retrospect ratio wise I was doing fantastic for a part-part time thing.
This year I got into some rough water because of an illness I had to battle. Had to regroup and study. Am making headway now that I've studied more on what traffic is and how it's obtained, retained, and converted. I never worried about traffic before but kept holding off because of bandwidth costs. Now that I can get affordable hosting I can expand. Been studying TGPs, Blogs, etc. I see now how it's supposed to be done. I've always been a marketing genius having worked for most of the major communications companies out here.
I did notice after checking my stats that my conversion rates were better than most on certain pages. Then I remembered why, it's because on those pages I put up serialized types of cartoons that led the customer into the site. I triple checked my stats and sure enough, from wayyyyy back when I even first met Gonzo, I had some conversion toons up and those pages converted. My stats programs were off a bit but when they got fixed I noticed the source. I also would do toons for affiliate programs I felt were unique. I would give the toons to the company so that other webmasters could use them for promo.
The first one I did was for the old Adult Check company. That toon converted like a mofo. I put it up on my website for other webmasters to use and that page got more hits than a blonde at japanese bar.
So when I switched to CyberAge I used another toon, the pages where that toon is placed all had the same ratios of conversion! I realize now I should have done more toons like these.
Anyway, here are some examples of what I'm talking about and you can bet I'll be doing some big time promo and marketing with these from now on.
http://www.gregboone.com/cybertoontesttest.jpg
http://www.gregboone.com/giserial1.jpg
http://www.gregboone.com/wgaserial1.jpg
An affiliate ad for the old Mob Bucks program:
http://www.gregboone.com/mobad1.jpg
http://www.gregboone.com/mobad2.jpg
Often on the boards more guys talk more shit than a stuttering proctologist with a ventriloquist's dummy, and I fell for that. I was doing smart all along, just not enough of it.
Shoulda paid more attention to Gonzo back in the day.
All I pay for is bandwidth. No staff, no models, no content providers.
I've really been hitting the books the past several months studying this business to get better returns. I needed just an additional $1,500 per month extra to settle down with this business model.
I looked back at all the successful things I've done and the dumb things. Listened to Hammer and got better at SEO. Read more of the various boards and realized I'd been doing great in comparison to most but didn't know it. I could just draw toons, post em' on my site and walk away and it made money by default. Like Jace said in another thread about "all from my fucking couch.". I have only a handful of sites but in retrospect ratio wise I was doing fantastic for a part-part time thing.
This year I got into some rough water because of an illness I had to battle. Had to regroup and study. Am making headway now that I've studied more on what traffic is and how it's obtained, retained, and converted. I never worried about traffic before but kept holding off because of bandwidth costs. Now that I can get affordable hosting I can expand. Been studying TGPs, Blogs, etc. I see now how it's supposed to be done. I've always been a marketing genius having worked for most of the major communications companies out here.
I did notice after checking my stats that my conversion rates were better than most on certain pages. Then I remembered why, it's because on those pages I put up serialized types of cartoons that led the customer into the site. I triple checked my stats and sure enough, from wayyyyy back when I even first met Gonzo, I had some conversion toons up and those pages converted. My stats programs were off a bit but when they got fixed I noticed the source. I also would do toons for affiliate programs I felt were unique. I would give the toons to the company so that other webmasters could use them for promo.
The first one I did was for the old Adult Check company. That toon converted like a mofo. I put it up on my website for other webmasters to use and that page got more hits than a blonde at japanese bar.
So when I switched to CyberAge I used another toon, the pages where that toon is placed all had the same ratios of conversion! I realize now I should have done more toons like these.
Anyway, here are some examples of what I'm talking about and you can bet I'll be doing some big time promo and marketing with these from now on.
http://www.gregboone.com/cybertoontesttest.jpg
http://www.gregboone.com/giserial1.jpg
http://www.gregboone.com/wgaserial1.jpg
An affiliate ad for the old Mob Bucks program:
http://www.gregboone.com/mobad1.jpg
http://www.gregboone.com/mobad2.jpg
Often on the boards more guys talk more shit than a stuttering proctologist with a ventriloquist's dummy, and I fell for that. I was doing smart all along, just not enough of it.
Shoulda paid more attention to Gonzo back in the day.