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Hi,
I've just noticed that the English version of Smartbarre is gone. Why?? Are you going to restore it or not and, if yes, when??
Now about payments: as long as you remain a "French only" site (that's what you are, as long as the English version exists no more), you'll probably always have trouble with payments cause the "big money" come from MANY and INTERNATIONAL advertisers, big ones AND SMALL TOO, if they are numerous. You should stop relying on the French "regies" only. And MOST OF ALL, please make your counts correctly, i.e. DON'T PAY TO MEMBERS MORE THAN YOU CAN AFFORD !!! Also, don't SPEND more than you can earn... Otherwise you'll be unable to pay your members and they will eventually call you a "SCAM" and you'll be forced to close the site and that would really be a pity because you have the best program of this kind !
The surf bars are a great concept and you really sit on a gold mine but if you're not smart enough you'll lose what you have now and smarter guys (I already know some...) will come along and make the money you could have made if you were smarter. Hope this will ring some bell where necessary, of course if there is someone on the staff who can understand what I meant here... :) I am ready to help with some suggestions...
And please, please, don't forget to answer my original question!!! :)
Best of luck!
rumelan
Dernière modification par rumelan (07-07-09 13:13:29)
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Hi rumelan,
You are right, we need members outside france and even europe.
We must first of all remake the english version to accept international advertisers.
The old one was not updated and need to be rewritten to bring in it only english members (and all members that understand english) with english adverts.
Thanks, we hope we can soon offer this.
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"we hope we can soon offer this"... How soon? Could you be a bit more precise? Are you really working on this right now or is it just an intention for an undefinite future? You probably know there are other French guys who already did it... Their bar starts automatically when members start their computers which seems to increase members' usage of the bar... So we expect good things from you too, at least as good as what can be seen on the market right now! Cross my fingers for you!
About payments, if you don't have funds anymore to pay what you have to pay right now, you should probably reset member's accounts to lower cash amounts or even to 0 BUT when you start again, you should REALLY be better at making your accounts so that it would NOT happen again in the future. Better pay very few and provide continuity than pay much and be forced to close after a few months. The best and SIMPLEST system would be as such: put aside the net profit of the month, take what you want for yourself and give the rest to the members according to their points. If the months' profit is 1$, share that 1$ with the members, according to each one's points, if the months' profit is 0 or even negative, just tell members that you can't pay them for that month because there was no profit... Those who don't understand are free to leave... Of course, having 0 profit is not good for anyone. This is why we'll all work to bring in new members and the advertisers will follow "au fur et a mesure" :) as the membership grows and so will the advertising revenue too so that members will earn more... Anyway, the first and most important thing is that you MAKE YOUR ACCOUNTING WELL and, of course, that you bring back fast that English version, with better options than the old one and possibly with an automatic start of the bar built in just like those new guys have implemented in their new "French-English" bar.
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