So it’s Friday again and fling has the $100 Friday special!  As you may know by now, I’m a big believer in positive mental thinking.  So let’s put our minds together and wish for a fling sign up today!

Between 6pm – 9pm EST – just before you login to your stats – think:

“I WILL GET A FLING PAID SIGNUP!”

It worked last week for me, so I’m 1:1 in conversions using this method.

Quick update on my virtuagirl stats – my new galleries are kicking ass in terms of ctr and installs – however still no sales.  But it does take a few days for people to buy into it, so I’m hoping to see some sales here any day.

I got one of my new galleries listed on freeones, so traffic is through the roof now!

Here’s are the number March 1 – This morning:

• Entry Page Hits: 8366
• Clicks to Totemcash: 1403
• CTR: 17%
• Installs: 61
• Signups: 2 (no new sales)
• Gallery with most hits: Rachel Roxxx (5779 total, 4743 from freeones in 2 days)

Still a respectable ctr – especially for a tgp submit.

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I was racking my brains last night on a new gallery to submit – particularly when it’s time to submit to thehun again. I really want to get listed there, duh.

Last time I got a vg gallery accepted there and made a couple of sales.  I’ve submitted at least 2 more vg galleries since then – and they have not gotten listed

After looking at my various sponsors, their galleries and content – this time I decided to go with topbucks.  I really like their pink visual pass site and really think it should convert.  Only problem right now is they don’t give me content, so I have to use my own.  I bought some nice stuff cheap at scarlette – like $2 for a set of 100+ pics.  The quality on these ‘bargain basement bin’ pics is about a 7 out of 10.  You really have to cherry pic the individual pics, but you do get some gems out of it.

The good thing about using your own content is you can watermark your domain name into the pic.

Now my problem was picking a template, coming up with some sales text.  I usually just hit the sponsor’s site and rip off what they use.  I try to pick the things that highlight their best features.

My last post showing how I made a gallery was fairly popular, so I’m gonna repeat that briefly here using my new gallery as an example.

I’m using a free template I got from a now pay only membership site (so sorry it’s not free anymore).

BEFORE:

Clean out the old graphics and text:

Put my stuff in:

All done! – Look Here: Ellen Nude

I spent about 2 hours making this gallery.  That’s a lot longer than the usual 1 hour, but this is a relatively new sponsor for me, so working out all the sales points was tuff.  I tried several different ways of presenting the sponsor before deciding on the final gallery.  Hopefully this gallery will get listed at thehun and convert like virtuagirl does for me.

EDIT: Another new thing I’m doing here is linking directly to the join page instead of there landing page.  I say “CLICK HERE FOR INSTANT ACCESS” instead of “CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE FREE…”.  I’m going to expirement with going to the join page this month and see if I get any better conversions.  Right now I’m getting so little conversions by going to a landing page with more free samples, I figured it wouldn’t hurt.  I kinda got the idea from mikesinner at mp forum – remember the guy who just builds blogs on free hosts? I think he said he just links to the join page.  His conversions seem pretty good, so why not?

One nagging thought that keeps coming to mind is a post I read somewhere at greenguys about how fancy galleries don’t convert as well as plain jane 10 year old looking stuff.  When you look at all the galleries floating around, that’s pretty much what people are doing – simple thumbs and text.  Occassionally you’ll see some nice work – but for the most part – something a 5 year old could do.

I don’t know, I like to take pride in my work.  Even if the galleries take longer to make, I want to look back and say to myself “I did a good job on that.”  I’ve said it before – making money is not the end all be all for everything.  You have to enjoy what you’re doing or you’ll quit.  If you don’t quit, you’ll be carrying around negative energy and just become a mean person.

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I’m pretty excited to see us all helping each other out in the comments. I’m trying to get this buddypress plugin to work so we can be more web 2.0 and interact a little better. Although I love being center stage – where my posts get all the attention – I’d really like to build a friendly community where you can shine – make your own posts, links to your blogs, and network with other like minded webmasters.

Right now, this theme is just not working with the buddypress plugin – something to do with the permalinks I think. I’ve tested some buddypress compatible themes and they work – but I really like this theme. So until I get this worked out, you may see a different theme every now and then when you come back.

Well, that’s all for now. Now make some sales on fling today!

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