Quote from: ladyofthemansion on 02 July 2013, 03:33:16 pm

I will not be interested if its an 070 number.

But you can opt out. I have my mobile number showing now.

Yep, whilst I commend the efforts of Amy in achieving these changes, reading your last few posts shows me you still aren't on the same page as us yet.

Yes I do use the word 'Escort' however many users of general 'classifieds' sites are not familiar with a lot of sex work jargon, many do think an Escort is someone who accompanies gentlemen to dinner, which is why many have faltered when I've specified I'm not a masseuse.

200-400 enquiries a month?I wish. Maximum I get from a VS ad is around 20, perhaps 10 after the initial rush and I may get 1 booking from those ten. Remainder consist of a guy who wants me to drive for 1 hour (each way) to see him for less than ?100, others who are as Amy says expecting something bargain basement, and some who don't understand booking etiquette - phoning wanting me to be wherever they are in ten minutes (and I'm not talking in the same town) at 11pm at night.

Reading forums and speaking to clients majority view 070 numbers as scams and assume the advertiser is creaming off the profit, they aren't popular and they aren't needed when so many ladies have their own websites they can point the guys to. Website which contain lots of useful information.

I'll have a look at the forum and when I get time will see if I can get an ad worked out that'll be acceptable. Given I tend to be busy during the day, it's probably going to be an evening submission but hopefully will be looked at first thing the following day.

That is funny because I had to opt out from the 070 number as was changed in the first place without my permission. So the rules seemed to be relaxed it sounds when suits. And another issue is that not all viva customer services people are aware. So therefore what one might agree the other will not. First hand experience here. Many will allow things when others moderate they clamp down hard. I analyse actions. That is why all of a sudden photos get removed because what one thought in the first place to allow the other comes along disagreeing. So the end result is a confused escort. It sure left me that way after so long then photo's removed. I don't see this improving. It all boils down to every one has different views. likes and dislikes. So can this get any better?. Doubt it if any thing worse. That is why we need to be extra careful tip toeing. I pleaded once in devastation, to let me know why they removed photo. They finally told me so thankful for that. I love advertising with Viva just am very cautious when it comes to changing/adding things to my ad.

I'll second what others have said, I think that URLs ought to be permitted, otherwise there should be a very clear and prominent "click here for website". Why aren't they? It gives more credibility to the escort who has posted the ad (shows an established web presence) and it looks more professional. Personally I don't feel comfortable with clients who haven't seen my website (and are calling from an ad that doesn't permit the necessary details to be listed) as there's too many questions from them and, as others have said, there's a fundamental lack of understanding about who we are, what's on offer, and often they think we aren't professional escorts but just some person who's just stuck an ad up. A lack of clear information or denying links to websites to obtain this information is unhelpful and wastes the time of everyone involved.

Quote from: Lady_Lust_XXX on 03 July 2013, 10:15:43 am

Quote from: Vivastreet on 02 July 2013, 10:50:01 am

....... We know that in this category we can send around 200-400 contacts average per month (depending on ad type), we understand that some of these are going to be 'time wasters' or asking for further information.

Where I think your team may be failing in quoting the right figure of people that contact us is  if they are looking at the number of views we have per ad or the number of guys who check out our numbers.

As many guys who visit vivastreet are only browsing, it is only a fraction of guys who look at our ads that call us and even then many may not turn into clients.

I may be totally off with these thoughts but I wanted to put it out there anyway.

Hi Lady Lust, thanks for your comments. Firstly I know VivaProtect (070) isn't popular with some people, however it does give VivaStreet and the escorts using it some useful insights, on top of the additional features. I can say from running a report on users with VivaProtect in the escort section that 68 ads last month had over 200 calls and another 84 had between 100 & 199 calls. What we dont know is how many turn into 'bookings' for you as you rightly say and also time wasters.

Obviously a lot of things can effect the number of calls an ad poster gets on the site such as price, location, pictures, ad description and so on and from looking at the stats there is a huge variance between different ads. There is obviously a similar correlation in all our categories.

I am hoping with the test group we have, we can share the results and feedback on the site experiences / stats once its completed, we will obviously keep any people taking part confidential (unless they want to say they took part) but with there permission it would be good to share 'overall average' figures with the group?

Thank you,

The Vivastreet Team

Maybe you could consider letting ladies who have the 070 numbers advertise for free as you will make plenty from the calls. Otherwise I'm tempted to get my own 070 number and use that.