zanderpm wrote on 23^rd May, 2013 at 5:38am:


You may want to think about breaking even on a few products in your program in order to build business instead of focusing on a profit on all products. This will help to grow the business and establish the idea of fairness in people's minds. As the business grows, then you can add other things and also put your own ads/banners on the site and that is where you can start to turn a profit on those. Plus, you are also building a mailing list.

The problem I have seen with many sites is that they try to milk you for everything and that gives the customers a feeling of being exploited. If you can create a site where people get the perception that they are not being milked for a buck at every turn, then that builds goodwill and that is something that is hard to put a price on but very valuable to your site

you also may want to think about the occasional sale in order to move advertising inventory and get your advertisers into the habit of impulse buying. Even if you are only breaking even on the sale it creates activity and keep people busy. Activity and cash flowing through your site are your biggest job at this point. you want to get people into the habit of coming to your site and being active

Another thing you need to think about is what you can add to your site that gives you an advertising benefit but doesn't cost you anything. You site is primarily your own personal advertising vehicle. I remember when I was admining a site and advertising my own products was my main push because then I could go out and advertise my site and it served as a base for all the other sites that I was affiliated with

You also want to think comprehensively about your customer. Right now you may be making a dollar off each customer for example. There are two directions you can take. you can either go out and get another customer to make a dollar from or you can ask yourself,  "How can I make two dollars from these customers?"

They are already a captive audience. You need to ask yourself how you can give they more value so they can give your more dollars. That may be as simple as trying to get those folks into other programs that you are affiliated with

zanderpm wrote on 23^rd May, 2013 at 5:38am:


Well, firstly in the upgrade page it says :

Earn free referrals with membership upgrades! Get 5 free 1 month referrals with any Super upgrade, and 10 free 1 month referrals with any Epic upgrade!

That is probably correct, but right beneath it the memberships are : Standard, Super, Elite

Also in the advertise - PTC page :

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I think they should be the other way around.. lol.
Oh and maybe you should write something about it in the home page or in a blog post so that it is visible publicly.
I think it's your site's current strong point.

Also adding PayPal is unfortunately a must but you need to be careful and not trust them with your earnings.
Always leave only a small amount in there just in case they "decide" to limit your account due to "too many transactions"..

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Well, it looks like I'm not a regular user.. lol.
In fact I've tried to be helpful to many PTC admins in the past but they didn't seem to appreciate it..

Btw, are the members active at clicking?

zanderpm wrote on 23^rd May, 2013 at 9:29am:


Yes, paypal is good but they are not always favorable towards PTC type sites so be careful about them. Another one is Liberty Reserve. They are quite a popular processor as well

if you can get your affiliate links on your front page then it becomes more of a passive advertising system and you quite often pick up referrals that are just passing through. This is where text ads can really help.

I feel pretty stupid missing all those membership mistakes.  I'll claim that I was just really tired and use that as an excuse.

The package deals are now in a blog post and linked from the home page.  (Good idea, I keep forgetting that stuff's not visible)  I'm thinking it would probably be a good idea to do that with all the prices in general too, at some point.

And, Paypal is officially supported.  I have the option of using Refund Project with Paypal.  It looks like a really good idea, is there anything I should know before I implement it?

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I had 1,649 clicks yesterday, and the software's estimating a few more for today.  It shows 403 active members out of 563.  That's pretty good, right?

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You actually can potentially make $.02, with a 60 second ad as an upgraded member, but I just took this line out, because I don't want anyone to feel like they're being mislead, and $.01 just seems really cheap.

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I'll go ahead and start working on Liberty Reserve too, although it'll take a little longer because I don't have an account set up with them yet.

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I'm trying really hard not to spam users.  My approach is that I can send users a few things and have some of them read it, or I can send them a bunch of stuff and have nobody read anything.  That being said, I haven't sent anything out yet, so I think now probably is a good time to update everybody on what's gong on.

That was easier than I thought.  Pretty sure I've got Liberty Reserve setup now.

I don't think the news section is very flexible, but I've put in a support request to see.  Maybe I'm wrong.

And I just went ahead and got rid of the AdHitz stuff.  I've made less than 3 cents in the last three or four days, so it's not doing anything for me anyway.

Thanks for the help!

zanderpm wrote on 23^rd May, 2013 at 10:06pm:


Yes, I created it but feel free to copy it.

And btw, a top promoters contest could help the site's growth.