Ouch. that is not true. You have this all wrong...
This site was actually made for the ladies and the community as a whole - not for just the guys!
This site is all about community, sp friendly environment, a place where the ladies can contribute and not worry about some jerk slandering them or a mob of posters jumping all over her and making her feel unappreciated. A free place for them to promote themselves and a place for everyone to enjoy.
I would agree that the review boards are for the guys. The other "escort discussion forums" that allow slander and hate posts are made solely for the guys as well. Many of these other sites force the ladies to pay for ads in order to advertise on the site!
Even though this site is supported by escorts-canada we do not force the ladies to advertise with us in order to use cerb... we even installed a very expensive live chat room (With audio and video) so the ladies could promote themselves on here in real time!
I am shocked to see someone say that this site was built for the guys!
The guys coming to the site is for YOUR benefit and the traffic that leaves this site and visits escorts-canada is for the benefit of the advertisers on escorts-canada (and in turn a benefit to us). More importantly we are doing something positive for the community here!! Something positive for the industry as a whole.
When we developed the site I actually wrote most of the business plan (as it was mostly my brain child) but it was a group effort by all our staff to create this site.
(This is from the original business plan of the site)
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Goals
1) Our main goal is to develop a new type of escort discussion site unlike anything currently running.
This is to prove that a positive discussion site without slander, hate or fighting can become successful and build a positive community for the escort industry in Canada. Our goal would be to make the discussion site a safe and friendly place where the ladies would not feel threatened, become slandered, harassed or be afraid to contribute in the discussions with the men and other ladies.
The feedback we receive from many of the ladies indicates that they are often afraid to post on public discussion boards in fear that the competition, a bad volunteer moderator or a bad date would slander them and damage the ladies reputation.
Our goal would be to build a discussion site where the ladies would not feel threatened to respond and contribute. A environment where a positive community can be established the benefits everyone involved (the ladies, the men and us by bringing new advertisers and new traffic to our escort directories).
Over time we feel the guys will appreciate this environment more as well but we expect a great deal of resistance from the male community at first and will be a uphill battle to win over the men with this new format of discussion site.
2) A place where the ladies could promote themselves for free (this would bring some of the unreachable ladies to the site that would not normally advertise with escorts-canada - The legitimate ladies who do not wish to purchase paid ad space or are just starting out and can not afford to pay for advertising. This would give them an alternative to supporting new escort directories who offer free trial ads and would draw traffic to our network instead of supporting these "new" sites.
From our research we find that some of the ladies would rather post daily ads for the days they are available to work as opposed to monthly subscriptions. This reason may still be an excuse to save money by avoiding purchasing ads but we are missing out on those ads for our visitors. By offering a free place for these ladies to post daily ads we will regain some of that lost traffic.
Posting daily ads requires a lot of "extra leg work" for the lady (or agency) but some do prefer this and it would give those advertisers a alternative to using sites like ******** and *******)
3) Create a community based site where the men and the ladies could openly discuss the industry in a positive way, in public view to show the world that the stereotypes of this industry are wrong. This would be a open public forum to show the people outside of this industry as well that the media is only portraying the negative elements of this industry.
4) Launch a bad date section for the ladies that would be readily available to all escorts-canada and localescorts advertisers as well as advertisers who routinely use new discussion site. This would be a PRIVATE area where the ladies could warn one another and help each other out.
5) We would moderate the site in-house to remove unwanted advertisers (spam, bait and switch, trickery posts, dangerous encounters, etc.). We would use paid staff members to moderate the site on a joint moderation account (as opposed to having a volunteer based moderation).
Development Costs
Instead of spending money on advertising with other discussion boards that reinforce the negative stereotypes of the industry we could use the advertising revenue to launch this new discussion site where we can ensure the ladies, industry and our own reputation are upheld. This way would not be seen as a company that "supports" these slanderous sites when trying to acquire escort traffic for our network of escort directories.
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Now as for being made by all guys...
I admit most of us on the development side are guys but not all... Many of you who advertise with escorts-canada or localescorts have spoken with Carolyn at our head office. She has been a HUGE contributor to the development of cerb and helps with the moderation (less these days but in the beginning she was a huge part of cerb and she still does help out a lot). Back in the first year a lady named Heather was also a huge part of the site development as well but she is no longer with our company (but still a very good friend to us all here)
Plus a number of the industry ladies who we have long working relationships with advise us on many things. We often bounce idea's back and forth with these ladies and ask for their advise.
This is now a COMMUNITY site but please do not ever think this is a site BUILT FOR GUYS FOR GUYS as that is not true and I am very upset that one of the ladies would make this statement. I just wanted to set the record straight so that everyone knows exactly what this site was intended for and is all about.