anybody notice a severe drop in sales?

[kmdguy]

I've been with AB for a couple of years and they have performed pretty well for me during that time. Over the last 2 years I'd get about 1-3 signups per day, which for my goals was good. But I noticed about 2 months ago all of a sudden it went from 1-3 signups per day to MAYBE 1 signup per week and it's been there ever since. I haven't changed anything in my plan and so I was wondering if there were signup script changes or something going on that would cause such an severe drop starting about 2 months ago.

I can graph my AB performance over the last 2 years and it's been pretty stable, then out of nowhere, 2 months ago we're down well over 50%. When I see spikes like that in Excel it definitely causes me to want to investigate.

Any thoughts?

[AB-QA]

All i can really say to you is that with the financial uncertainty going on in the USA and Europe over this past year, sales are going to take a hit for everyone. People are more worried about paying the bills at the moment.

I will assure you we have not changed anything so just keep plugging away and ride out the storm. We have been here before and it will get better.

[kmdguy]

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I can certainly understand the overall economic conditions are causing the impulse-buy of adult to be less impulsive. And I'll continue to stick with AB as I do like ya'll and the services you offer.

I only asked about this because I've seen with other "systems" when I've noticed some kind of hiccup in the graphs that they can potentially coincide with changes that were made on their end with their signup scripts or pricing adjustments or other experiments that were being made to the system so I didn't know if anything like that had been going on over at AB too recently which might account for it.

Thanks again for the reply.

[bustymilfs]

One option submit twice as much to get the same converting traffic or wait it out and stay the course I am currently a without a signup for 10 days for a site that usually averages 3-5 per week. Think we just need to keep posting...set up the infrastructure of movies to particular galleries and hope we get out of this slump. I think if we keep setting up a successful bridge between major galleries by star and the movie pages, in the long run we'll be ok. The key is patience. We're all gonna be working our asses off for little while without immediate reward. Rob has given us some great movies to promote and sell... it will take time. In the mean time I will devote to setting up infrastructure and key links. Hopefully I'll be around for a while...but call a spade a spade...this is killing me too and it may only worsen ...batten down the hatches folks!

[fluevog]

The key is patience. We're all gonna be working our asses off for little while without immediate reward....this is killing me too and it may only worsen ...batten down the hatches folks!

You hit the nail on the head..This is the worst I've seen in the past 5 years with AB. Lets hope it improves within the next year.