Posted: 2007-05-17 23:50:20
First let me say I enjoy this forum board and I do get very good information from it. I travel to Cape Town regualary on business and also on holidays and need one site that does it all not many sites that do a little each. My reason for responding is that maybe I can help it improve. Most of the girls will tell you that they make a lot of money from international clients yet this site is not easy find. It does not rate high on search engines. International clients use the web to get the info they need before they travel but have to visit many sites to get the whole picture of whats on offer. Escorting seems to be a major business in South Africa yet very little is advertised. From a business point of view is that the idea of getting punters to help promote the advertising and lack of girls diaplayed for especially Cape town shows that little money is invested into the site. From an international view I have recommended the site for the forum only but there it ends. When many of the people tried to register they waited hours and even days to get back a verification code. It is estimated now that people will only wait less tahn 10 seconds for a site to open and little longer for a response. Everyone I spoke to said they did not wait to register as it took too long.This is a loss of potential customers.
European site offer many girls sometimes hundreds through agressive advertising and then there are many addons which intices customers to join. This site offer little but the forum.
In my opinion it wont be long before you will see foriegn companies turning out websites offering information and quality content as has happened with many countries that have recently joined the EU. The existing websites in their countries dried up when the experienced people took over.
Now to sum up this site could be the best in the whole of South Africa if it went in a new direction with more quality content. You should do like others have done and maybe join forces with European sites. There is no point of having 100 precent of something small when you can have 50 precent of something huge. South African websites are years behind not in design but in content and direction.
European sites currently make around R250,000 per month (not to be sniffed at i might add). This a little inside info for you.
Hopefully you will take something from my post and make ESA a site to be reckoned with.
Cheers Michael