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ORIGINAL: ResidentSadist

But have you enrolled clients from CM?  I am talking about online traffic at CM (CollarMe) not CC (CollarChat). 

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ORIGINAL: LadyPact
We'll have to disagree here.  No matter how much the investment was in time, anything greater than zero in financial cost when obtained from free is still profit.  I know it's worked that way for folks selling products and other services.  I'll be happy to give you a few names through private email who have successfully picked up clients for sessions through CM.  Either that, or they looked Me in the face and lied.

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ORIGINAL: LadyNTrainer

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ORIGINAL: ResidentSadist

But have you enrolled clients from CM?  I am talking about online traffic at CM (CollarMe) not CC (CollarChat). 

Yes, I have.  My rules are that I don't "cold call" (eg, I never solicit business by emailing other people uninvited, that is spam) and I rarely talk about the business side of my kink life on the forums unless it's relevant to a discussion.  So I'm sure I get somewhat less economic use out of this site than "professionals" who do not conduct themselves in what I would consider a very professional manner. 

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ORIGINAL: LadyPact
We'll have to disagree here.  No matter how much the investment was in time, anything greater than zero in financial cost when obtained from free is still profit.  I know it's worked that way for folks selling products and other services.  I'll be happy to give you a few names through private email who have successfully picked up clients for sessions through CM.  Either that, or they looked Me in the face and lied.

If I spend hours posting on the forums, and my return is one session booked, it is not a net profit, it is a net loss.  I could be spending those hours MUCH more profitably doing other things and making more money.

I definitely have booked clients from the "other side", just not the forums specifically.

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ORIGINAL: LadyNTrainer

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ORIGINAL: ResidentSadist

But have you enrolled clients from CM?  I am talking about online traffic at CM (CollarMe) not CC (CollarChat). 

Yes, I have.  My rules are that I don't "cold call" (eg, I never solicit business by emailing other people uninvited, that is spam) and I rarely talk about the business side of my kink life on the forums unless it's relevant to a discussion.  So I'm sure I get somewhat less economic use out of this site than "professionals" who do not conduct themselves in what I would consider a very professional manner. 

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ORIGINAL: LadyPact
We'll have to disagree here.  No matter how much the investment was in time, anything greater than zero in financial cost when obtained from free is still profit.  I know it's worked that way for folks selling products and other services.  I'll be happy to give you a few names through private email who have successfully picked up clients for sessions through CM.  Either that, or they looked Me in the face and lied.

If I spend hours posting on the forums, and my return is one session booked, it is not a net profit, it is a net loss.  I could be spending those hours MUCH more profitably doing other things and making more money.

I definitely have booked clients from the "other side", just not the forums specifically.

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ORIGINAL: LadyPact
Maybe I'm not phrasing Myself properly.  I'd agree with you and Lady C if looking at from the aspect of the forums being a cost effective tool for drumming up business.  By far, there are way better venues for that.  However, if you're looking at it from the angle that the forums are entertainment with the fringe benefit that it can pull a client every now and again, it's a bit different.  The CM forums are pretty much kick back time anyway, aren't they?  Even if no clients came from it, folks who happen to be pros will still be here to shoot the breeze, talk about topics, etc.  That's why I say if a client comes from it, that's just a bonus.

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ORIGINAL: LadyPact

In your case, LnT, it might also be that the service you provide on the professional side is different than the average pro/client session.  I could be wrong here, but I think that the 'trainer' part is a different niche.  It's a rather specific service, so that might make the difference.  Just an opinion.

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With the past 30 days, more than 700 Pro Dommes have logged into CM, many of them new.  That is about 1 per hour.  Of those 700 Dommes, 350 maintain their presence here logging within the last 24 hour period.  That's one every 4 minutes.  This is only the tip of the iceberg as I did not search other keywords that are code for hire like blackmail, session etc.

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ORIGINAL: LadyConstanze
Could be, and I think the reason why LnT and myself never gotten any clients from here is that we both never gave the impression of being overly service orientated tops, as in "Just name your fetish and let me know what I should do for you and how you'd like to be trained... As long as you pay, almost everything is possible and we call your kink fulfillment domination, that makes it all alright..."