Powerboat.ie
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Hi folks,
Many thanks to BK for clearing me in advance to post on this.
Some of you wil already know me, but by way of introduction I'm more of a "hobbiest" webmaster.
Through marketing my Irish boating business, I picked up an interest in E Marketing leading me to set up an Irish online boat club which now has 1,500 members and 150,000 page views per month.
Along the way I dabbled with building other community type websites and learning about other related subjects such as SEO,affiliate marketing etc. It's been fun and interesting.
I've just set up an Irish dating site www.thirtyflirty.com aimed at Irish Thirty Somethings. I've added an automated Affiliate function to the site as a marketing tool. This is where I'd appreciate your collective advice!
At the moment we have 300 actual members on the site and the dynamics are building slowly. I reckon that I really need about 1,000 members (critical mass) before it reaches an activity level that will justify charging for Premium membership. To start with, I am allowing the first 1,000 members to join as Free Premium members. After that, I think that affilliate marketing is the way to go.
Would potential affiliates such as yourselves sign up for a short initial "no return" period ( advertising a free to join site - No comission) until we reached the critical mass when we could reward these founder affiliates with a more generous commission say (30%)?
Or, would I be better off to market the site to critical mass level by using normal newpaper / magazine advertising ? I don't think that Google adwords are the way to go as the level of competition is so high and we'd end up losing a shed load of money in the great swamp.
Kind regards,
Stuart
Many thanks to BK for clearing me in advance to post on this.
Some of you wil already know me, but by way of introduction I'm more of a "hobbiest" webmaster.
Through marketing my Irish boating business, I picked up an interest in E Marketing leading me to set up an Irish online boat club which now has 1,500 members and 150,000 page views per month.
Along the way I dabbled with building other community type websites and learning about other related subjects such as SEO,affiliate marketing etc. It's been fun and interesting.
I've just set up an Irish dating site www.thirtyflirty.com aimed at Irish Thirty Somethings. I've added an automated Affiliate function to the site as a marketing tool. This is where I'd appreciate your collective advice!
At the moment we have 300 actual members on the site and the dynamics are building slowly. I reckon that I really need about 1,000 members (critical mass) before it reaches an activity level that will justify charging for Premium membership. To start with, I am allowing the first 1,000 members to join as Free Premium members. After that, I think that affilliate marketing is the way to go.
Would potential affiliates such as yourselves sign up for a short initial "no return" period ( advertising a free to join site - No comission) until we reached the critical mass when we could reward these founder affiliates with a more generous commission say (30%)?
Or, would I be better off to market the site to critical mass level by using normal newpaper / magazine advertising ? I don't think that Google adwords are the way to go as the level of competition is so high and we'd end up losing a shed load of money in the great swamp.
Kind regards,
Stuart