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ResidentSadist -> RE: Site stuck in the past (8/19/2013 7:46:01 PM)
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I hear ya! There was a time when $400,000.00 - $500,000.00 a year was real money and these sites would have been well designed and attended. But the owners of CM & Fet must feel that isn't enough money to chase after, it is too much work or just outside their field of vision. Danni's hard drive was making 7 million a year a few years ago when I last looked. They have a fraction of the traffic. They are ranked 55,724 in the US. CM is in the top 2000. Before the CollarMe site started dropping in ranks, CollarMe was 1,468 most popular in US. Danni pulled 7 mil a year being the 55,724 most popular site in the US. Granted, she is the only woman in the world who appeared on the cover of both the Wall Street Journal and Juggs magazine, but fractionally, and by sheer traffic weight alone, CM should be wealthy and have a paid staff with the best IT department and server software available.
Did you know that in 2011:
1 in every 5,000 North American internet users visit collarme.com daily.
1 in every 22,155 global internet users visit collarme.com daily.
I met someone from the oil industry a few years ago that turned down a medical deal because it only made $150,000,000.00 annually (at 70% profit) and it wasn't enough money to waste his time on. He knew the figures when he came down but thought the world market slice was bigger, he didn't release it was already near cap. We got drunk, he jumped back in his jet and went home.
. . . and so it goes with CM & FL. People say the owners don't care, in a small way they are right. They care to the limited degree they can afford to care or are able to care. They gave us these sites to fill a great need. They had the vision to do that. But their focus in life is elsewhere . . . or this is outside their expertise. So they do their best to keep it going, or do the best their business expertise in this field allows instead of hiring or partnering with someone that is an expert in the field and will make both the owners and the visitors happier.
ya ya ya . . . put the mirror down, I can see I am on a soapbox preachin' to the choir. However, I am not just preaching. I have been slowly accumulating resources to see if I can put the management muscle behind a free membership style leather web and get it launched. I remain in touch with several of my fav ex mods and post authors from CM and they all say they will get involved with my leatherlifestyle.org project. I don't know what will come of it because like CM & FL, I have my main focus elsewhere. I just came out of retirement and revived a business that was making considerably more than a leather web could.
Luv ya bro, BCNU!
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