|
Hello
All !
Well another HUGE update
this time around !
First and foremost - we are
going with MPA3 as our new back end system ! For you that means more
tools, better stats and reporting, more options and access to full credit
for cascading and alternative billing options !! Check out the
latest enhancements to Version 3 by
clicking
here.
See next
door for the first step in our implementation plans
of the majority of your issues as identified from the
Webmaster Survey summarized in the last edition - much
good news now with our back end MPA3 system installation
underway. Damn exciting times actually !
This week, AVN Online
magazine also ran a piece on our Webmaster of the Year 2004 prizewinners
trip Downunder !!
Click
here for the full read on all the fun and games ! We also
recommend you watch out for the August edition of the AVN Magazine with
our new ad ! Funny stuff.
Also important for you
people to note is the ongoing problems with our hosting company with the
CuriousCash Free Hosted Galleries (see full follow up story directly
below) and our advances on COMPLETE compliance with the new 2257
requirements (also featured down below).
The last week has been
hectic as, what with CuriousToyBoy back on deck, the final decision on
MPA3, our good friend Chad Belville (ChadKnowsLaw from
http://www.adminservicesinternational.com) helping us come to terms
with 2257 and some major movements on the future developments front -
which we can not reveal to you just at this moment !
Click here for some nice pics of Brisbane and the Gold Coast from
Chad's visit.
Did you
know there are now less than 60 days before you can again catch up with
CuriousTim and CuriousToyBoy at Internext (http://www.internextconference.com)
in Hollywood Florida - hit us up now by email if you want to put aside
some time with one or both of us.
Second
to last, you would all be aware now that CuriousToyBoy is now firmly
ensconced back on Australian shores - see some of the fun he had in his
final days in the Philippines in our usual place by
clicking here.
Now
last, but HARDLY least, it wouldn't be right if we at CuriousCash did not
crow about another record month in May 2005 !!!!
That's right - an 8% increase in gross sales over April pushes May to the
new highest month ever for CuriousCash ! That makes 4 months this
year that the record benchmark has been raised, and our growth shows no
signs of abating ! Are you REALLY promoting us enough ?
If
there is EVER anything we can do for you, you simply need to ask - ALL of
our contact details are down below on the update every single time, and
also inside the CuriousCash members area !
Remember there are 4 of us round and about for you to
contact now - CuriousTim, WebmasterDan, CuriousToyBoy
and CuriousJesse who has been part of the full-time
team for a while now, and we are ALL here to help in
any way, shape, fashion or form.
Well
don't just sit there - contact us and ask for advice or help with whatever
you need !
Everyone take care and stay safe !
The CuriousCash Crew
|
Your Say -
Applying The Results Of The Curious Cash Webmaster Survey
- Part # 1 !!!
Here it is - part one of how we at CuriousCash are
responding to the issues identified in our Webmasters
Survey (as detailed in the last update):
Should we continue to develop more and new sites?
Right now we have only one new site scheduled for
imminent release, which will be a Special Twins Promo
Site. This is due for release in a week or so. We also
have a couple of other sites on the shelf in different
niche areas. Apart from that we are transferring our
attention to rebuilding CuriousCash and refining what we
already run. We have started rebuilding the members areas
of each site and will continue to do this until all
completed.
Should we continue to look at micro-niching our
offerings and how often would you like to see you new
sites ?
This is basically answered above, but be sure that new
offerings will either address different niches and/or
targets horizontally in the gay/bi/curious marketplace.
Scheduling for releases will not be hard and fast, but
will be on and "as-and-when" basis.
Should we pursue looking at trials across our sites,
or should we retain our previous "no trial"
strategy?
We will be leaving trials as we have them for now.
Upon the release of our new affiliate program back end we
anticipate having the ability for you to choose whether
you wish to promote using trials or not - it will be your
decision totally under that system.
Should we be dedicating more time to increasing this
diversification process? If so, what other areas should we
be looking at for you?
We are rapidly increasing our infrastructure here with
a few big announcements being released very shortly. We
are making sure in the infrastructure expansion that all
elements of our business get the care and attention they
need, which you will see as things develop.
Do you think the migration to a 3rd party back end
system is a good idea? What, if any, additional
marketing tools would be of benefit to you?
OK, Contracts have been sent and we are about to start
rebuilding CuriousCash under MPA3. MPA3 has a lot of the
tools you guys have requested already built in and already
caters for all bar one of the processors we use. The
additional processor is due online later this month. Those
of you who do not know what MPA3 has to offer we recommend
get over to
http://www.mpa3.com and check it out. If you have any
questions about specific aspects you want in the program
and they are not part of MPA3, or you are not sure if they
are a part of MPA3 or know they are not please email
webmaster@curiouscash.com details.
Do we communicate well with you? Would you like to also
receive our general press releases we issue from time to
time? Are we easy contactable and do we respond quickly
enough when you do contact us?
Basically our communication through updates and Press
Releases will remain the same, and with Jesse
(jesse@curiouscash.com) now on board and more changes
to our team imminent, your ability to contact us more
readily will be greatly enhanced.
ADDITIONAL REQUESTS WHICH WE HAVE TAKEN ON BOARD
FOR CONSIDERATION:
1. The webmaster area is way too slow loading for
me. Most other sites like even AEBN or Bel Ami load
extremely quickly. The stats at the beginning maybe should
go elsewhere and be more flexible.
We believe these issues will be more than
adequately addressed by the implementation of MPA3.
2. Banners - IT IS hard to really download a whole
whack of them. perhaps a zip file option containing the
complete banner set for each site would help.
Upon the release of CuriousCash v2 with MPA3 we
will have this as an option for ALL sites.
3. Banner Refreshing - to be blunt, they need to
be updated. Not so much animated but showcase more of the
talent instead of the same model for all of the sites or
several sites.. Different sites should use different
models and I also think that you need more 'skyscraper'
banners.. 120x300 120x400 and even 120x600 plus perhaps
80x300, 80x400 etc.
We anticipate getting in and getting a bunch of
new quality banners done up to coincide with our
re-release of CuriousCash, and we will pick up the new
sizing requests as part of that process.
4. Banner Names - I know this is small but if a
webmaster is promoting more than one site, it kind of
helps if you actually name your banners teen-boy-models or
-cute-teen-boys instead of just 468x80a It can be
confusing to some or add to their work load by either
having to rename the banners or in placing them in a
different directory. so site specific naming of banners
would be a help. (while some may use initials like say TBM
for teen boy models, I'd try to use three to two words
that are also keywords.. hey the SE's do pick on that. so
while more work, a good plus for a truly savvy webmaster
and they are the ones who will push the sites more than
the casual one).
Maybe small but a really good point. As the new
program gets built we will make sure all current banners
are copied and renamed so both versions are online.
New banners added will follow this guideline.
5. Better explanations within the webmaster
section of what everything is. I mean I see this emails
collected and it keeps changing each month, but what the
heck is it? Does it make me money? If so how much and when
does it get paid?
We will definitely look into this, as we revise
all aspects of our webmaster tool offerings with the new
setup. But in the meantime if you don't understand
something please email us so we can take care of your
issues and note them within CuriousCash for all to see.
6. Text Copy - Not many offer this but for those
that do, it helps in the conversions. I mean a webmaster
rarely goes inside a members area of a site they are
promoting, so for them to come up with good sexy SE ad
copy is very very difficult. You guys know your sites, so
it would be a big, big help for webmasters to have text
phrases available for use in promoting the various sites.
We are currently trying to get this organized and
expect to release all of this with the CuriousCash
upgrade.
7. Better linking options. By that I mean give us
the webmaster a choice of linking to the tour or to the
join page directly. Also ensure NO POP UPS- that to me
kills a lot of potential sales.
We believe a lot of this need and issues of
custom exits, no exits, alternative linking and multiple
tours will be sorted with the MPA3 implementation.
8. 30 second video clips for promotion.
We are currently working towards getting DRM'ed video
content. We are just waiting on a few things from our
hosting provider for this to be implemented with the new
system. You should also know that many of the more recent
model teaser pages include video clips of the model in
question.
9. Independent site reviews.
This is in progress for ALL sites. The
great news is that links on all sites to reviews of other
sites in our range will attract FULL webmaster credit !!
10. Cut and Paste Java Script with live Updated
Content.
We will be looking into this further with MPA3,
along with geo-targeting
11. Geo-Targeted Ads.
We will look at this, but honestly not a high
priority at this point. Once the above are sorted we will
get this implemented. MPA3 does have Geo-Targeting built
in for sending appropriate traffic to appropriate billing
methods and we will certainly be using this to optimize
our own and your traffic.
12. Hosted TGP sites
We think this is a good idea, but will just have
to evaluate in line with everything else we are doing.
13. Surfer Focused Forum with link codes for the
banners within the forum.
We were running one of these but did not have the
time to manage it properly. We are looking at rebuilding
and putting some effort into this again with the new
system.
14. Hosted Free Sites
We already have a bunch of these for you to use
in the CuriousCash members area, and we expect to expand
upon the numbers available with the release of CuriousCash
v2.
Now I suppose you all want to know when this will be put
in place. Well as soon as we can !! Contracts have been
set, a few upgrades on MPA3 need to be completed for us,
but I expect we will be up by the end of the month if
nothing goes wrong, but when it comes to computers you can
not guarantee this. We will keep you posted !
MORE QUESTIONS?
Webmaster@CuriousCash.com |
| ***
IMPORTANT ***
A REMINDER ABOUT THE FREE HOSTED GALLERY REDIRECTS PRESENTLY
IN PLACE
As
notified in last weeks update (click
here), your free hosted gallery links are being
automatically redirected to the appropriate site with
your referral code attached - you get FULL traffic credit
!!
As we explained
last week, one of our hosting companies has reported
absolutely ridiculous bandwidth overages - many, many
1000's of dollars worth ! They said it was the
FHG's ONLY causing the problem - a situation which we
could not accept, but have had to remedy to narrow down
the problem once and for all.
We were
hoping that this issue would have been resolved rather
quickly, however, due to the hosting company in question
not providing us with the information we require to
make informed decisions - it has not been resolved to
date.
The key
issue is our site back ends are on the same host, and
we are in the middle of downloading these should we
be forced to change those hosting arrangements.
We are sure you agree ensuring members have uninterrupted
site access is most important !!!
If you
find ANY problems with ANY of these gallery redirections
please notify WebmasterDan on
webmaster@CuriousCash.com immediately so he can
make any necessary corrective adjustments.
We are
confident that this problem will be resolved with the
introduction of MPA3 and sincerely apologize to all
webmasters for any inconvenience suffered during this
unfortunate series of events.
For those
naysayers who have been hitting the boards with ridiculous
comments to the end that CuriousCash is in some sort
of trouble - well how about you look us up at Florida
Internext so ToyBoy can correct your misinformation
in person !!!
We are
getting stronger and stronger, and this little hiccup
will not seriously harm our amazing growth or the effectiveness
of our sites for our affiliates.
On top of
all the issues with Host, 2257 also came about as we
were at the negotiating table, and as a result it has
left us in 2 minds as to our approach in re-releasing
these galleries. We did not want to get them back up
only to have to remove them again a month later. We
will be ensuring that they are at a level that does
not effect us nor our affiliates at a legal level when
it comes to 2257.
Also it
was noted on the Boards that maybe we should just change
host. This is not that simple for us. We are not based
in the US so it makes it very hard for us to pick up
our gear and move it elsewhere. We also have a lot of
considerations when dealing with most issues as we have
often have more then a straight Service arrangement
with the Companies we use. In some respects I suppose
this can be seen as a weakness, however overall we see
it allows us to debate and sort issues in a more detailed
manner then if we were just some guys in another Country
Hosting.
Any enquiries
regarding this can be directed to
CuriousTim@CuriousCash.com |
Members Login
|
CCBill Login
|
|
#1 - Straight Australian Guys Jacking Off
STILL at #1 - the conversions on this
baby never cease to amaze !
Converting
1 in 143
|
|
CuriousCash Will Be FULLY
2257 Compliant BEFORE 23rd June .....
As mentioned earlier, we had
our good friend and Attorney, Chad Belville (ChadKnowsLaw) of
http://www.adminservicesinternational.com down our end of the world
last week.
He was not here for a just
holiday.
After much discussions,
searching, argument and application, Chad has helped us develop a system
whereby we are 100% compliant with 2257, given our particular situation
where our content is produced and managed well outside of the United
States and associated jurisdictions.
We will have full details to
you in the next week or 2.
We also
have a KEY ADVANTAGE, one of our biggest webmaster
promotional tools - our Model Teaser pages are all softcore,
and therefore no issue under the new 2257 - AND
WE HAVE OVER 2000 OF THESE FOR YOU TO USE NOW
!! Download the full text file by
clicking here or get them from the CuriousCash
members area !
CuriousCash urges and
recommends that if you are not a member already, get on over and join our
ONLY voice against the monster that the US Government is trying to create
for us all -
http://www.FreeSpeechCoalition.com.
Even though it is still very
early in the 2257 game to predict exactly what the future will hold, by
making CuriousCash compliant to the draconian 2257 as it stands now, we
know that us and our webmasters will be saved a lot of the pain..
If you have any specific questions
about promoting CuriousCash under the new 2257 regime, please contact
WebmasterDan at
Webmaster@CuriousCash.com and he will be happy to address your concerns !
For expert 2257 advice, we recommend you
contact Chad
(Chad@AdminServicesInternational.com) and check out his constant
blogging on 2257 ramifications at
http://www.kblogger.com. |
|
Birthday Sex
Adam was talking to his friend at the bar, and he said, "I don't
know what to get my wife for her birthday - she has everything, and
besides, she can afford to buy anything she wants, so I'm stuck."
His friend said, "I have an idea! Why don't you make up a certificate
saying she can have 60 minutes of great sex, anyway she wants it. She'll
probably be thrilled."
Adam decided to to his friend's advice.
The next day at the bar his friend said, "Well? Did you take my
suggestion?"
"Yes, I did," Adam replied.
"Did she like it?"
"Oh yes! she jumped up , thanked me, kissed me on the forehead and ran out
the door, yelling "I'll be back in an hour !!"
|
Excess Wind
A boy was meeting his girlfriend's parents for
the first time for dinner.
After dinner, his girlfriend and her mother
left the room to do the dishes, leaving him with the father and the dog
Duke, who was sitting underneath the boy's chair.
Unfortunately, it was a large dinner and he
really had to fart. He stealthily let out a quiet, but audible, fart.
"Duke!" the dad yelled.
"This is great!" the boy thought. "He thinks the dog is farting!" So he
let out another one.
"Duke!" the father barked.
The boy thought he was home free so he let
everything out at once in a really loud and smelly fart.
"Duke! Get out of there before the boy shits on you!"
|
