ohwell - 9:40 pm on Jul 13, 2006 (gmt 0)

Jim, Around 2000 when the web went belly up for advertising especially adult, I spent about 3 years+ doing nothing but try to write good ad copy with banners, FPAs, text, ect ect ect. I tried everything. You are right. An ad is an ad, Folks hate them. You sell by giving folks what they want. Not by giving them a "perfect ad experience".

My goodness I want to scream when I hear that "quality landing page" BS. They no nothing about selling. I do. You do. We sell and then pass our profit back to them. That is the business model at work here.

Pretty ad pages will get you no further in sales. In the early days of adult, 1996-1998, everyone who was in the know, knew ugly pages sold. Pretty pages wasted your time and did not sell.

Surfers could care less about how much you stroke em. Believe me I have tried every way of stroking a surfer there is. Either you have what they want or you dont. Grant it your stuff must look professional and courtious ect but beyond that you can not persuade an American to buy something they don't want. Americans have seen, and are experts in avoiding every pitch there is. They grow up watching commercials on TV all day long. They are experts at sensing a pitch.