DirtyRabbit.com Launch day – Sunday 22nd August 2010

We are now only 2 days away from launching the site and its all hands on deck! Thankfully the To-Do list appears to be reducing rather than increasing but it feels like there is still loads to do! Adam worked late into the night last night sorting out bugs and I feel like I am drowning under idea after idea about what we can do with the site once it’s launched, really need to just concentrate on the present moment so were ready to go come Sunday. There are a good few tweeks needed when it comes to email and our FAQs, so once I have finished writing this, I will have to get on with it.

Bank account secured!

I am glad to report that we are now the proud owners of a Business Bank account! After all of the messing around and being rejected because ‘they don’t give bank accounts to social networks’, we have finally landed ourselves with a top-notch account and a very friendly bank manager, go us! Next on the agenda will be some kind of insurance (not sure what kind!), and an appointment with an accountant who just so happens to be a family friend. Things are coming together nicely. I also created a PayPal Business account the other day so we are now ready to take payments through the website.

Twitter and Facebook…

Our Facebook Page is still going well, we are now up to 75 fans, the next milestone will be 100 which I hope we get to within a couple of weeks! Once the site is up and running I hope people will find the page easily and join it, but you can never predict these things. Our Twitter profile is stuck on 21 followers, so I am starting to lose faith in it a bit. I am going to stick with it for another 8 weeks or so and see what happens, but I’m not convinced about Twitter at all. Still can’t get my head around why it exists. Whats the difference between it and a Facebook status update…..? Anyway, I won’t give up just yet.

Ad space – free to a good home!

I am still totally baffled as to why the take up of our free ad space has been so slim. Thankfully we have 5 or 6 companies (including Rampant Rabbit and SexToys.co.uk!) who have gladly taken our space, but the other 30 or so companies I have contacted haven’t even bothered emailing me back. A very odd situation. Anyway, I have given up asking anymore as it’s just a waste of my time. I have created an Adsense account for the Nice side and a Netklix account for the Naughty side. We might as well host some ads and give ourselves the opportunity to earn a bit of money. I am hoping that once we have a good reputation we can sell ad space to people rather than just giving it away for free, fingers crossed I will be able to do that within a year.

‘Choices are the hinges of destiny’

We have spent most of this morning debating [arguing] about which direction we would like DirtyRabbit.com to go in! It appears that we are in opposing camps so will need to work out a solution that makes us both happy. I am keen on the site going further down the ‘adult/niche network’ path, but Adam would rather it go more ‘mainstream’. We have been batting some ideas around concerning merchandising and events, which we have always wanted to get into, but we can’t seem to decide what kind of merchandise and events. My head has been filled with all sorts of ideas from DirtyRabbit themed Rampant Rabbbits to dating services offered through the site, to a DirtyRabbit Night/Gentleman’s club – the possibilities are endless! We need to keep it relatively mainstream though so that we get secure advertising contracts from people outside the adult industry and so that we can appeal to a large enough audience. We don’t want to scare people off by being too in yer face! I guess the site will evolve over time depending on what the users want to see and do on the site. We have always said that we want our users to direct the evolution of the site, so that we don’t end up with the Facebook mentality of ‘like it or lump it’. I guess time will tell….

--Miss Bunny xx