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If I told you there was a line of customers at your door all with cash in their hands waiting to pay you, and you just had to go take their cash, would you do it? If I told you there was money already sitting on your desk at the office and all you had to do was go in and pick it up, would you do it? If I told you there was money at your bank and all you had to do was go in, fill out a form and pick it up, would you do it? If I told you that based on all your previous hard work you could earn a second bi-weekly payout just by filling out some forms and setting it up, would you do it?

Well, accessing that second revenue stream is practically that easy. If you use NATS or MPA3 it’s a no-brainer. If you’ve created your program from scratch, then it’s a matter of a few days for your programmer – that’s your only buy-in…a few hours of your programmer’s time…and based on your prior industrious accomplishment, you can add more revenue to your bottom line – you’ve already made the investment, you’ve already spent the time – you’ve already succeeded in getting the customer to your site – but he can’t pay on your site – so you just haven’t cashed in.

My question is “Why do you wait?” That extra revenue is there every day. Why do you refuse it? You can add direct debit billing for Germany, Spain, Austria, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, and it does not cannibalize or interfere with your current cascade options. It’s just extra money. You can add Advanced Direct Pay so you can take payments from Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Balearic Islands, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Chechnya, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia. You can even use Advanced Direct Pay to collect cash in the US.

These users will not be joining your site with a credit card for the foreseeable future, so why wait? If your content or service is sufficiently compelling and they want to make the effort to pay, provide them with an option. Why not? What holds you back? They found your site, they want to join, why do you refuse them access? It’s like that old retail joke – “Do you accept cash here?” Why don’t you accept their cash?

I would love to talk to you about the success of your online business and specifically about increasing conversions throughout Europe using the Webbilling platform. It works. There is certainly nothing to lose by speaking with me, and in these times who can’t use some extra revenue? Who is doing so well they can still say “I don’t need that extra revenue, I’m not going to bother…”



Just mail me and I’ll send you everything you need to know about the Webbilling solutions. If you have European surfers, we're talking about found money. I want to see you get this extra money!

If you don’t need the money, just use it to hire more programmers and let them develop some more really cool stuff for you…

Why do you wait?



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You know I’ve been thinking about this all week…the idea that business is business and how you can never sit back, relax and enjoy your current market position. Someone is always following your footsteps, right in your shadow – not usually with a unique and novel idea, but with improvements and refinements on your own!

Even within this small industry as consolidations continue, we see the roles play out in the current competitions over tradeshow dollars and print and resource media dollars – forums, linklists, TGPs, review sites, tubesites, dating, cams and programs reinventing and adapting while putting the best possible spin on all the activity to create that perception of growth and success…everyone jockeying to provide the best product and service – on every level it comes down to innovate, evolve, survive, conquer. Sometimes retraction is wiser than expansion – every model is unique…what does your model dictate?

We see today that facebook has overtaken myspace and I can’t help thinking that AOL should own the world…What happened there? With such a head start and the most aggressive marketing campaigns the world has ever seen – AOL should today encompass all of these social networking programs. No vision? Lost in corporate bureaucracy? Smothered innovation? What happened?

comScore.com has reported that facebook overtook myspace in the US in May, becoming the new King of the social networking world – just barely mind you, but it’s still significant news, especially with advertisers. According to comScore, Facebook totaled 70,278,000 unique visitors, up 97% from May 2008 to May 2009. MySpace hits shrank 5% over the same timeframe, dropping to 70,255,000 unique visitors. We heard yesterday on cable news that the myspace first public response has been to lay off several hundred employees. That ought to fix the decline. Yep, that’s the ticket. I hope they started at the top but they rarely do...

MySpace still dominates Facebook in one important respect—advertising, but that won’t last long. There’s some lag time here while everyone digests the news. Everyone wants to work with the leader, so the shift is inevitable. MySpace visitors viewed 31.8 million ads in April 2009, accounting for almost 47% of the total social network advertising space. Facebook was second, serving nearly 25 million ads and making up about 37% of the sector. Now the demographics geeks will be all over the stats analyzing away – who is shifting to facebook? In the all important social networking Web we have to know WHO is frequenting facebook over myspace and why. Call it the demographics of influence…I expect this revenue gap is going to close very fast.

An entry on emarketer.com included the following claim: MySpace entered into an advertising agreement with Google in 2006 that would pay the social network roughly $300 million a year, ending in June 2010. But TechCrunch.com reported that a new deal between Google and MySpace would be worth only $50 million to $75 million yearly, punching a big hole in the social network’s revenues. Who better than Google to predict future traffic trends…

The contrast evident in the comScore chart below from this time one year ago is incredible. Last May 2008, MySpace was more than twice as large as Facebook, and Twitter was hardly on the radar. This past May sees Facebook as the new leader, MySpace is in a slight decline [some might say trend], and the Twitter expansion has been nearly 2700%.

Social Networking: May 2009 vs. May 2008 Source: comScore Media Metrix

What really happened at AOL? And what is going to happen within the online adult entertainment industry? As we approach the mid-point of 2009 what are your predictions for the 2010 landscape? What will the tradeshow lineup look like? What will the publications look like? What role will message forums and resource sites play in the future? How will things change? It’s just business…

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The First Annual Barcelona Summit is just around the corner and organizer Andreas Bischoff assures us it will set new event standards. It is billed as the first truly Pan European B2B and webmaster conference for the online adult industry and with the great help and support of founding sponsors and exhibitors the inaugural Summit has proudly announced participation representing 24 countries. With over 220 attendees already counted, the event promises to be a truly international affair.

The Summit offers you contacts over a wide spectrum of the industry. From webmasters to content producers, SEOs to graphic designers, Europe´s largest cam sites to international billing…

It all starts on Monday, the 15th of June with an AVN/CommerceGate sponsored golf tournament at the prestigious Montanyá Golf Club located near Barcelona - a great day outdoors near the beautiful Montseny National Park.

With an action packed, internationally oriented schedule, The Barcelona Summit offers you cross-border-networking-opportunities, country-oriented business panels, super webmasters, and really fun workshops with the stars from Private and SexSense.

Topping all this off will be an exquisite Spanish culinary experience and two superb parties with live Latin bands. All this will take place in the brilliant Summit venue hotel, ME Barcelona (on the Condé Nast hotlist for 2009).

Come and enjoy some fabulous business opportunities and expand your business empire in a 5-Star location in Europe´s hottest party capital.

Andreas tells me you don´t want to miss The Barcelona Summit!

Experts to Examine Strategies to Raise Your Company's Search Engine Rankings, Drive Website Traffic and Dramatically Increase the ROI of Online News Releases.

PRWeb will host a free webinar exploring recommended techniques to maximize the value of your news to reach potential customers and generate targeted leads. The webinar is entitled "How to Improve your ROI with Online News Releases," and it will be held on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 2:00 pm EDT.

Mihaela Vorvoreanu, PhD, Society of New Communications Research fellow and assistant professor at Clemson University, and one of the researchers behind "Exploring the ROI of Online Press Releases," will discuss ways you can use news to successfully build an online presence and improve search engine rankings. The webinar will also feature Richard Lee of Pillar Consulting Corp, who will discuss how he was able to send a single online news release and generate thousands of dollars worth of new business.

This webinar is designed to provide an educational and informational resource for organizations to gain insight into the best practices and practical techniques that can be applied to their efforts to increase online visibility. A replay of the webinar will be available free of charge following the event.

Learn from the experts!

• Dramatically improve ROI
• Increase company visibility and rankings in search engines like Google
• Drive qualified, ready-to-buy traffic to your website
• Get your news to top journalists and media outlets

PRWeb is recognized as a leading online news and press release distribution service worldwide. Since 1997, PRWeb has been changing the way businesses, marketing departments and public relations firms think about press releases. For more information please visit PRWeb.com.

Click here to register for the PRWeb webinar.

June is fast approaching, and with it comes the exciting annual Xbiz Summer Forum, presenting great opportunities for Webmasters and Sponsors to interact and discuss the latest trends in adult entertainment.

Webbilling.com will be at The Hard Rock to discuss new capabilities in monetizing international users, especially in the major European markets. The Summer Forum is one of the most outstanding events of the year, and I look forward to discussing payment options which require no card of any kind, converting surfers you already have in your traffic! Don’t leave a single join unfulfilled – use your existing resources.

I’ve written for many years about tradeshow ROI – Your success is a direct result of your planning efforts before the event, so please contact me for information on positioning yourself for the inevitable economic resurgence. What you are doing right now will determine your future success. Let us help you maximize your efforts. Write me now and let’s exchange some information so we can talk the first week of June in Las Vegas!

Only a few days ago, eMarketer ran an article that online sales were up based on a study that showed US online retail sales on average were up 11% in Q1 2009. That has now been qualified as further data indicate predictions for 2009 are not so optimistic.

Historic annual sales growth has increased steadily but eMarketer forecasts that continued recessionary pressures will cause online sales to actually contract in 2009—now estimated at a 0.4% decline.



eMarketer senior analyst Jeffrey Grau predicts online sales to be virtually flat for 2009 and expects a return to growth in 2010 assuming the economy is in recovery then, and to approach full stride again in 2011.



According to eMarketer projections, online sales will rebound to double-digit growth from 2011 to 2013. In the meantime as we see everywhere, there are opportunities for innovative online retailers even in the bottom of the downturn.

Look for improvement from those online retailers that can fill the void with superior customer service, rich product information and greater shopping conveniences – 2009 is all about picking up loyal market share because as things turn around you will be poised to experience rapid growth.

Be well aware, even as consumers are reining in spending, they are increasingly researching purchases online - Make sure when they finally feel comfortable making the buying decision they are coming to you to complete the transaction. Jeffrey Grau says, “There is a new breed of consumers extending their research to everyday products.”

These shoppers go online to find out whether a toy is safe, a shampoo is unscented or a diaper manufacturer is environmentally responsible – their information consumption must be satisfied! The way consumers shop is changing, and savvy online retailers will capitalize on their new behavior—and satisfy their information appetites.

For more on how a weakening economy could spell opportunity for online retailers, check out the new eMarketer report, E-Commerce in a Recession: The Impact on Consumers and Retailers (available only to eMarketer Total Access Subscribers).

Are you tracking 2009 Business-to-Business Marketing Trends? I know you’re thinking about what is going on but how are you analyzing current events and adapting to them and how are they shaping your future strategies and changing your one and five year plans?

I was cruising around the Internet and discovered a free upcoming webinar discussing the latest trends in B2B marketing – listen in so you can make informed competitive plans for the rest of the year. How has the current economic climate affected business-to-business (B2B) marketing budgets in general for 2009? To answer this question, MarketingProfs.com, in conjunction with Forrester Research, recently conducted a study to track spending in 2008 and forecast tactical changes for 2009.

Guest Speakers will be Roy Young, President, and Sharon Hudson, Director of Advertising, at MarketingProfs.com. They intend to share which tactics today’s B2B marketers find most effective for lead generation and brand awareness and review the study data to help you evaluate your 2009 plans in light of the latest industry trends and best practices.

Attend the Webinar to discover:

1. What budget changes marketers are making in response to today’s uncertain economic climate.
2. How B2B marketers are allocating their budgets among new media options.
3. What works best now for generating leads and building brands.

Date:

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Time:

11 AM PDT/ 2 PM EDT

REGISTER NOW!

We’re all seeking to monetize our e-commerce efforts in every way possible, and you can’t move without seeing another article on viral video marketing and the utilization of social networks to drive traffic and revenues.

I came across an opportunity this week to hear a speaker who may share some real knowledge on the subject with anyone interesting in participating. If you are continuing to develop and enhance your social network marketing expertise, Geoff Ramsey, CEO of eMarketer.com will be hosting a free webinar on Thursday, May 7, 2009, 1 PM ET:

Social Media Stats and Strategies: Success Stories Marketers Need to Know

EMarketer says he will address the exciting and challenging subject, separating the hype from the reality – if he succeeds, that will be novel and refreshing ;-) He is expected to delve into the critical issues facing marketers as they endeavor to "join consumer conversations" taking place on social forums, blogs, Twitter and other community-focused online venues.

In addition to sizing the market for social network consumer participation and the advertising dollars spent on social sites, Mr. Ramsey plans to showcase the most important data, opportunities, threats, best practices and case studies that marketers need in order to navigate their way through the social media maze – according to their published promotion of the event.

Some real information on the true size and scope of the social market would be welcome, along with some realistic assessment of the potential returns, opportunities, and especially the pitfalls – and of course, what does the future hold?

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And if you are going to localize your efforts by utilizing these strategies on the equivalent EU networks by country, please email me now so we can make sure you can convert all that traffic! Optimize all the alternatives in your cascade to maximize your EUR, GBP, and global revenue. Same Traffic = More Joins. This is found money – you are doing everything to get visitors to your sites - now make sure they can pay!

There are just two months to go until show time – dateline SFO! Cybernet organizers want you to know you can save over $100 by registering for the Cybernet Expo EARLY BIRD rate of only $99! But this offer ends on May 1st which is less than two weeks away!

Now is the time to start making your arrangements. Commit to this great industry meeting by registering for the show, booking your room at an unreal San Francisco special rate of only $169 / night (They recommend check in on June 25 and check out on June 28 – That is really helpful!). Keep your eyes open for the best air fare rates – this show is really a great value when everything is all in.

Organizers say their mission is to give you the best quality show possible while at the same time giving you the best bang for your buck. I think they fulfill their mission. Participate in daily seminars and classes designed to teach you how to grow a profitable website business as well as some special networking events and industry-only parties that are all second to none!

Head on over to Cybernet Expo Registration and should you have any questions, feel free to email YNOT LAJ.

Join the Webbilling team in San Francisco as Cybernet Expo celebrates 12 dedicated years! See you June 25-27!