Just read an article in this month's playboy about an indenpendent provider in vegas, our own "Nikki Avalon".  The article goes into quite a bit of detail about being an indenpendent esscort and even talks a bit about TER....what do you thing this will do to the community?

Where did you get this information?  Guess you must have some inside info that you cannot share.  TER is pretty public.  They advertise with full page ads in magazines every month.  It does amaze me how many people don't know this.  Oh well, we all know it all  sometimes. lol

Might I ask you to qualify that statement a bit?

Nikki - Probably means you're too swamped right now to answer your mail expeditiously.  I have written twice asking if a particular time was available and not heard back.  

If the time isn't available, it doesn't make sense to fill in all the screening info does it?
If you require all info to be filled in before responding at all, please let us know.

Thanks

TER has 430,000 published reviews; it's not exactly a secret. I'll guess the average reviewer has about 8 reviews, so about 50-60 thousand "active" members. I'd guess there are at least 10x as many lurkers, so a good 500,000 or more people who consult the site at least semi-regularly.

Playboy Magazine has a circulation of 3 million in the US (4.5 million worldwide). If we assume 20% of purchasers/subscribers read the article in question, then maybe 600 thousand people or so read it.

Now there must be some degree of overlap between current TER users and readers unfamiliar with it; I'll guess that nearly all TER users would read an article in Playboy about the "hobby"; if 10% of TER users read Playboy, then we have on the order of a half-million people introduced to TER for the first time.

How many might actually visit the site? Quite a few might visit once, but it requires a VIP membership to see the good stuff, so many wont bother to return. If a fifth of them wind up followinf the site, then TER might see a 15-20% increase in readership.

This is all pure estimation of course, but based on some conservative assumptions.

I do know I have had no problems with the site, so it hasn't been slammed, certainly. 20% sounds good.

As far as revealing the community, I don't think it's been splashed over the public by any means.

For Ms. Avalon, I'm sure it's a huge boon, though, so congrats to her

O.