LadyConstanze
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ORIGINAL: LadyPact Unfortunately, I don't think it is able to be pinned down. How many contacts get made view a link at the bottom of forum posts? We have a number who come to the forums who basically use the place to get their names out there or direct people to pro services or pay sites. If one client/customer comes from the forums, free advertising pays off. To date, I have not put on a demo or organized an event that didn't get at least one person participate because they saw some mention of it from CM. (Either upcoming events, discussion on the forums, or a mention in My journal.) I have every reason that it works the same way for pros who are doing so for personal profit. It seriously doesn't, at least not if you're in Europe. You say if ONE CLIENT comes from that it paid off, not really because for that one at least 10 will take up your time, block your phone line, try to engage you in discussions that take up your time, then posting takes time, I mean if you spent a few hours posting, that's not a good pay off, it's actually a really bad ROI in terms of marketing. Seriously not worth it, there are forums that deal exclusively with pro domination and if you are looking for clients you'd be much better off, come on, you can't have missed all those posts bitching about pros and the subs with that sense of entitlement that they should get their kink and for free, as they "give themselves". The problem is that it will be those guys who contact you, by email or by phone as they think it is their revenge to steal your time since they're not getting kink a la carte for free. Webpages now are also much cheaper than they used to be, I was monitoring traffic, the ones coming from forums were spending hours clicking on every picture, gobbling up bandwidth from your site and raising the costs (now less of an issue as website provider politics have changed), never actually reading anything, they just went straight to galleries, in short looking for free wank fodder. What worked (well, at least it did until 3 or 4 years ago) was banner exchanges and links, advertising and being listed in directories, also doing demos for free or free classes in the kink community. You might have paid something for it or spent time, but if you spent time doing demos you met nice people and they often recommended you. If you have to spend hours of work to get people interested, then have to go through all the time wasters and you might end up with one client, it's seriously not worth it, because considering the effort you put in and the time you spend, you might end up earning 50 pence an hour.
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