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Re: New site for Escorts and punters to advertise and find each other
« Reply #15 on: 10 July 2015, 02:50:35 pm »
Well I've created a profile on there. It was pretty straight forward and easy to do.Lets hope you get some decent traffic on there.

Did you not post your rates or am I missing something? No individual girls seems to have rates up...?

I have my rates up!

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« Reply #16 on: 10 July 2015, 02:54:36 pm »
Yes theres a rates section where you put them in where you edit your profile.

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« Reply #17 on: 10 July 2015, 03:03:20 pm »
Midsstudent, its on her Escort tab.

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« Reply #18 on: 10 July 2015, 03:11:38 pm »
.. we have launched marketing campaigns which should start kicking in towards the end of next month. The idea is to get to page one on Google with pay-per-click advertising also. I expect the traffic to be immense in the coming months - question is can I afford to keep the advertising going (just a joke, it is a big expense but its been budgeted for).

How are you going to use Adwords? ("When promoting adult content, you may not do any of the following: ..  promote escort services or other services that may be interpreted as providing sexual acts in exchange for compensation")

In any case, advertising may well be a significant expense, but..

The site is simply a marketplace for adult service providers and service seekers. Its all free to use

.. where's the income going to come from?

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We do not allow BAREBACK

How do you intend stopping anyone? At the moment, there seems to be nothing about anyone's services and you can't search for any of them.
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« Reply #19 on: 10 July 2015, 03:21:21 pm »
Hi xw5. No not using Adwords, white hat SEO.

Income comes from paid web development, separate from the site. If we can get enough traffic to deem 'worth it' we will introduce web cam streaming which will generate revenue.

While I like to be transparent as possible, I equally do not want to give away our strategy to competitors. 

There are services escorts can choose which you can view on the escorts tab of their profiles (not all escorts have filled them in as this was a recent addition), but nothing to search for them yet. In fact the search filtering is due a overhaul. Already from feedback today changes need to be made. All profiles will be human vetted. Any mention of bareback will be picked up.

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« Reply #20 on: 10 July 2015, 05:39:47 pm »
Ah, so you're not claiming to be able to stop consenting adults having unprotected sex, you're just not going to let them advertise it on your site, or at least not using the word 'bareback'. Are there other (legal) services you disapprove of and won't be allowing, or or just that one?

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« Reply #21 on: 10 July 2015, 05:52:10 pm »
Hey Amy,

Yes correct - just no advertising of it. How could software ever possibly control what people ACTUALLY do?  Well there is Terminator :)

Currently bareback is the only service prohibited, and I would also like to create a tight booking system to eliminate time-wasters.

However, if there are services which is frowned upon by a landslide majority of the community then we would look at disallow advertising of such on a case by case basis.

You have any recommendations? 

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« Reply #22 on: 10 July 2015, 06:16:53 pm »
How on earth will you 'eliminate' time wasters?

It's just occurred to me... are you just planning to try and copy adultwork?

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« Reply #23 on: 10 July 2015, 07:01:40 pm »
Midsstudent,

Well, I say eliminate but I mean more minimise. Of course you will never really get rid of time-wasters but I think minimising the impact they can have is the key. I have a few ideas but still designing it. For example, you can choose to only show you phone number to members who have got more than x amount of feedback. Therefore minimising the chance you will get a phone call from a time-waster.

If you want to call it 'just copy' i'm not going to argue. But I cannot deny the similarities and some inspiration does come from them. Anyone set out to do anything in this space would be foolish not to take into account their significant presence in the industry. However i am looking past them and into the future, hoping to innovate the industry through software. We are after all profession web developers as opposed to adult industry experts but we are learning and hoping to learn more from you to give you what you need.

Midsstudent, are you an escort? You don't seem very impressed with us, is there something we can do to change that?

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« Reply #24 on: 10 July 2015, 07:34:35 pm »
Midsstudent, are you an escort? You don't seem very impressed with us, is there something we can do to change that?

Anyone who isn't an advertiser who posts in this forum is a sex worker!

However, if there are services which is frowned upon by a landslide majority of the community then we would look at disallow advertising of such on a case by case basis.

I'd also agree with Daisy that it's not a good idea to try and weed out more niche services. It wouldn't benefit you in any way and would just mean that people will look elsewhere. What's your reasoning behind not allowing advertising of such services? There'll always be demand for it, so as a directory it doesn't make sense for you to not advertise for it!

Sure, I think bareback services are dangerous, and I don't see the appeal of things like hardsports but there's a market out there for them, so why try to control advertising of it on your website?
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« Reply #25 on: 10 July 2015, 08:13:12 pm »
I am quite honestly a little surprised that our decision is not favoured. I thought this is what most escorts would want?

Bareback is the only service we constrain and its because this activity could affect the community as a whole and not just the parties involved if disease were to spread. I would have thought most escorts would prefer their client to be 'clean' even with protection.

Would love to hear everyone's opinion on this and whether or not we should allow it as a service?

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« Reply #26 on: 10 July 2015, 08:30:30 pm »
I see review sections on your site.
I am not keen on review sites.
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Lucie268

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« Reply #27 on: 10 July 2015, 08:34:36 pm »
I am quite honestly a little surprised that our decision is not favoured. I thought this is what most escorts would want?

Bareback is the only service we constrain and its because this activity could affect the community as a whole and not just the parties involved if disease were to spread. I would have thought most escorts would prefer their client to be 'clean' even with protection.

Would love to hear everyone's opinion on this and whether or not we should allow it as a service?

But why do you say you'd also favour disallowing other services that are not wanted by the majority? Also not to put you down, but what makes you think you not allowing bareback advertising would have any affect at all on the community of punters and sex workers? Either people will advertise elsewhere, or people will not advertise on your site but still provide it. Also there's no saying what sexual practices punters and sex workers do in their private life!

Like you and Amy said, you can't control what people are doing, so why do you think your advertising terms will have any impact on the number of STIs going around?

Besides this, some positive feedback for you - I like the web design, I think it looks nice and is easy to use. I also like that you can follow members - does this mean you have a newsfeed?
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Re: New site for Escorts and punters to advertise and find each other
« Reply #28 on: 10 July 2015, 09:03:02 pm »
I am quite honestly a little surprised that our decision is not favoured. I thought this is what most escorts would want?

Bareback is the only service we constrain and its because this activity could affect the community as a whole and not just the parties involved if disease were to spread. I would have thought most escorts would prefer their client to be 'clean' even with protection.

What people are trying to explain is that it's not your place to sit in judgement of grown adults and the services they choose to offer or partake of - why would you think that prossies would want you to tell them which of their services they can and can't advertise? You're a directory site, not the sex police.

Few (if any) of us are daft enough to believe that punters never have unprotected sex with anybody ever, and we decide on the level of risk we're prepared to take accordingly. If you don't want unprotected penetration mentioned (and I take it you're OK with unprotected oral?) or anything else - explicit/porno pics, for example - on your site that is entirely up to you. It's your site and different places have different rules, but why shouldn't people offering or looking for X service be able to find and contact each other easily?

What is not your remit is attempting to meddle in our business by making crass assumptions about how we, our punters and our industry think, feel and behave; you stick to what you know, and we'll do likewise. In other words, provide the ad spaces you're promoting here and let us get on with the rest - if we want your views on what sort of sex we should have, we'll ask.

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« Reply #29 on: 10 July 2015, 09:05:12 pm »
So... you're going to be paying someone other than Google to get ads, you'll be spending time/money looking at everything everyone writes. Hope you've got a small pile of money you don't want.

As ever with directories, the advice is give up now. Yes, existing directories have their faults and don't do anything particularly difficult technically, but the successful ones are 'good enough' and have the user base you will never have. Have a look at all the people here who have thought they could do better than AW et all, realise where they are now, and give up.

In your case, you could probably do some nice sites for people - concentrate on that, or go straight to being a webcam site. You'll have other problems, but fewer of them.
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