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Originally Posted by Nautilus
I do not think it did. If you have quality original stuff, if only 20 vids, you'll do just fine in today's market, both sales are rebills wise. Surfers are not going to go to another site only because it promised more. They expect to get off and that's it. If your 20 vids get the job done, you'll do just fine both sales and rebills wise.
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Really? Show me a successful site that only has 20 videos available at any given moment that doesn't give you access to bonus sites. Believe me, I'd love to get away with that! You may be able to start with 20 videos, but you better plan on weekly updates at a minimum to keep people around.
Remember when Napster got shut down? Everyone was whining and complaining because they had gotten spoiled by having unlimited and free access to all the music they wanted. Yeah, that is more about piracy. I'm just using that as an example of a spoiled consumer base. And that's what we have with porn. Not only are we selling content for pennies, we're giving away sooooooooo much of it just trying to get people to become a member. Now there's this HUGE pile of FREE porn out there and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger (yet another issue).
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Other industries are the whole different story. Sure you need to pay extra for your personal gym trainer, but how is it any different from paying extra for personal one-on-one cam show with the model you like? And gym is not charging you extra for every device you exercise with.
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Exactly, why not make premium content an extra cost? Instead sites continue to put more and more and more content, add more features, give access to more bonus sites, all while keeping the monthly membership the same. Oh wait....maybe because the porn customer is completely spoiled and if the price goes up $5 a month they quit
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As to the music and movie industries, last time I heard their sales are declining. Doesn't that sound like a flawed business model?
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Not true.
Warner Brothers claims a loss of $17 million loss in the 3rd quarter, BUT Digital revenue GAINED 29%, accounting for 15% of total sales compared to 11% last year.
CD sales may be down, but digital music is on the rise
As for movies, box office revenue has risen from $7.5 billion in 2000 to $9.66 billion in 2007.
Ok..so we could rattle of stats till our faces turned blue
Still, as I said, this is, to me, part of the larger problem.
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Great idea, thanks for sharing. I think it might work, at least for us.
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Thanks! Liking the healthy debate. Hopefully it will generate ideas and solutions.