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Why didn't EP management ever show competence in getting serious advertising revenue on this website?

Why didn't they hire somebody who was a real pro at getting the advertising flow the website needed? This site had a huge membership! I stopped seeing ads in 2014 as a Supporter. Before then, the kind of ads I would see were "Meet Russian Women", Adult Friend Finder, and ads that would show a pretty young woman with gigantic breasts and saying she is 2.3 miles away from me, LOL! Somebody else described the ads to me as "there are still busty ones, plus male enhancement ones, moneymaking schemes, and ones that feature bizarre and disturbing physical deformities, ostensibly clickbait articles leading to more advertisements." Atrocious! If Playboy and Penthouse have had ads for all these decades, why couldn't EP develop a strong advertising operation?

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heartbreakerlifetaker

The MOST members that were ever accounted for is just under 300,000, vs FB which has 1.5 BILLION. And FB can be used as a business website.
Tell you what. YOU try to sell ad space on a site like EP, and you'll learn what site-traffic is, and why EP had to use bots to add traffic to the site so advertisers thought they were hitting peak-periods.
You'd starve to death.

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conceptualclarity · M

I'm happy to have come across somebody who is as knowledgeable about EP as you are, heartbreakerlifetaker. Please add me back.

heartbreakerlifetaker

I'm not really that knowledgeable about EP. I just have a lot or marketing experience. All I had to do is reverse-engineer what was going on. I mean, there is absolutely no logic behind the type of questions that are being asked here, like the bots ask. And the user names always had a name + a number. No friends, and always their first day.
All I did was put the pieces together.

conceptualclarity · M

How did you know about "around 2010-2014, 40% of the users were American, 30% European, and the rest "other" since that's not at all common knowledge? If you have some link where you found info like that, please share it with me.
In 2012 EP was claiming to have "over 10 million people a month sharing over 20 million experiences" (http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/4139).
I am very concerned about the impact of ad blockers on free websites. But I don't think that we are yet at the point of the doom that has been predicted.
Q&A has puzzled me. I have long noticed that if you go to the main Q&A page, 95% of the questions are inane. But if you ask an intelligent question yourself, you get good intelligent answers.

morestay

I have wondered that myself along with how they just let this place get taken over by trolls and pervs. Really seems they didn't care and wanted it to go down. Can't come up with a satisfactory answer.

heartbreakerlifetaker

Let's hear you ideas on how to stop the trolls and pervs.

morestay

Ban their isp!

conceptualclarity · M

I believe a website's management can get people to understand which things are and aren't acceptable conduct on the site, but I think it's harder if top brass is too stingy to adequately staff the website.

Enlightener

Kanjoya just used the site to tailor their employee surveys. The site was never really supposed to make money.

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Enlightener

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/experience-project

sychoticmadman

that's the question why not?

Enlightener

Because it was used for the employee surveys which is what kanjoya actually does.

AnukBinary

there's something else going on it doesn't make sense that none of us will probably ever know or understand. it's really fishy when it's just getting shut down

Enlightener

There's a really cool way you can generate money using sites like these, I've thought of it and will try it out.

conceptualclarity · M

I'm curious.

Maybe you should join forces with SimilarWorlds.

abscdfgres

demographics changed. Schoolkids came with the app and usually teens do not have credit cards.

in10RjFox

why bother when you never paid a dime ?

Enlightener

Read up. He paid to support ep.

in10RjFox

that reply is just not for him.. but to the entirety .. if all had paid.. then they don't need advertisement.. rite?

sychoticmadman

good question. Im guessing there is no answer

JuanLira

Money issues

Enlightener

No no.

JuanLira

Ok, no

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