309423 Are you a female high school dropout, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five?
Are you tired of lying around in bed all day with nothing to do?
Well. you never need get up again, because in six short weeks, I can train you to be high paying ho...
Just think-fifteen hundred dollars a week, without even leaving the comfort of your own bedroom..
Sound too good to be true?
Just send for my new book, "I Wanna Be a Ho."-Velvet Jones (Velvet Jones School of Technology)
 
 

 
[09:50] UNixD0g: what means "Cross Sales" ?
[09:51] fuzebox: extra trial checkbox on a credit card page
[09:51] Furious_Female: those are the unchecked or pre-checked
[09:51] Furious_Female: "join other site" options on the join page
[09:51] Sands_laptop: It's a scam!
[09:52] fuzebox: "yes! i would like 2 days access to Hot Movie Source for $1"
[09:52] Sands_laptop: J/k
[09:52] Furious_Female: its how sponsors make money
[09:52] Furious_Female: lol
[09:52] Sands_laptop: Exactly.
[09:52] Sands_laptop: It's a scam!
[09:52] Sands_laptop: Again, j/k
[09:52] MasterNappy: I thought they were actual crosses
[09:52] MasterNappy: to ease the guilt for some porn buyers O_O
[09:53] Furious_Female: everything is a x-sale these days, even at offline stores...
[09:53] Furious_Female: rather annoying =(
[09:53] Furious_Female: "want to buy an extended warranty?"
[09:53] Furious_Female: or "are you a club member? No?
[09:53] Furious_Female: Would you like to join?"
[09:53] Furious_Female: NO BITCH I WANT TO LEAVE THE STORE
[09:53] Furious_Female: SMILE
[09:53] UNixD0g: oh, ok SMILE
[09:53] Sands_laptop: Yeah, but this is porn, so that makes it shady and wrong.
[09:54] Furious_Female: lol
[09:54] Furious_Female: Yes, of course
[09:54] UNixD0g: So Cross Sales means
[09:54] UNixD0g: that have multiple prices access in the same page?
[09:54] Sands_laptop: Nah.
[09:54] UNixD0g: ah, i understand
[09:54] Furious_Female: go to a join page
[09:54] Furious_Female: look for the other options below the credit card form
[09:54] Furious_Female: or above sometimes
[09:54] Sands_laptop: Say you've got Sponsor A..
[09:54] MasterNappy: its basically like, 2 clerks at checkout
[09:54] MasterNappy: and one of them tosses in an extra can of tomato sauce in your
[09:55] MasterNappy: cart, and if you dont take that can out, they charge you for it
[09:55] MasterNappy: or
[09:55] UNixD0g: when you purchase the acces, they charge you for other sites too
[09:55] MasterNappy: they ask if you want another can of sauce
[09:55] MasterNappy: only if you have it checked at the bottom of the page
[09:55] MasterNappy: that you want to
[09:55] Sands_laptop: Sponsor A talks to Sponsor B and says,
[09:55] Sands_laptop: "Put a little check box on your websites signup page that says
[09:55] Sands_laptop: 'Would you also like a 3-day trial for SponsorB'ssite.com"...
[09:55] UNixD0g: i understand
[09:55] Sands_laptop: Errr, SponsorA'ssite.com
[09:55] Sands_laptop: Nix my example.
[09:56] Sands_laptop: I'll just confuse you.
[09:56] UNixD0g: ok ok i understand ;D
[09:56] UNixD0g: i know what it is
[09:56] MasterNappy: or in the case of my affiliate program, sponsor a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l
[09:56] UNixD0g: i already see that a few times
[09:56] Sands_laptop: When a woman loves a man...
[09:56] Furious_Female: I've seen up to 3 cross sales on a join form O_O
[09:56] Furious_Female: like $250 worth of extras lol
[09:56] Sands_laptop: And after three days, they sleep in the same bed.
[09:56] Sands_laptop: Then a stork brings the baby.
[09:56] Sands_laptop: And that's how you get a cross-sell.
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WOULD YOU LIKE FRIES
WITH THAT?

I wanted to be a firefighter when I was a kid.
(my mom says I wanted to be a trashman too)

Something about big trucks I guess.

I have this poster framed and waiting to get hung in my office.

I really enjoy the way they think over at Despair, Inc., and you should too. THUMBSUP!

While you're there, check out


available in 3 distinct editions
(for leaders of varying distinction)
I have been noticing an awful lot of discussion lately in the adult webmaster community relating to business ethics, and i made the observation to some friends of mine that it felt like there was starting be some real lines in the sand being drawn with regard to fucking the other guy to make a buck.

A1R3K has some really inspiring thoughts here.

I have both gained new respect and been really fucking surprised by quite a few people in the past couple days.
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