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Old 03-25-2009, 08:24 AM  
CarlosTheGaucho
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Originally Posted by Templar View Post
I've suffered a HUGE drop in sales since August and I've had more than a couple webmasters email me with "Did they turn they internet off?" Seriously, one guy had a friend buy a subscription from another state just to see if his site was still alive.

What's the culprit? I'm not so quick to dismiss the economy since it seems to be more than coincidence that it all hit at the same time. The danger could be that surfers will change their patterns permanently because of it. Another culprit, at least in some of the specialized nichemarkets I service, is the uploading of videos to peer to peer networking sites. Some webmasters make less, more specialized videos and if you can download them by the dozen off of *****, well how long is that webmaster going to last?

I'm going to stay put hoping that a turn around in the economy will make a difference, if it doesn't then I'll probably be going back to computer repair.
I would dare to say that a generic average 1000 uniques sent to a generic average porn site (trying to talk abstractly, as far as you have many variables in the game, such as niche, source of traffic, etc. ) definitely doesn't have the potential that it used to have.

I am afraid the days of the wild wild porn west are gone forever, and the numbers will never recover, open your eyes, check people's PC's and laptops, they have there hundreds of giga bytes of stolen and downloaded video out there, they have no problem to fill it with new stuff any day they want.

You might still make a good living if you target the right audience with the right product, but you'll hardly make what you COULD do even say 4 years ago. and you'll hardly ever effectively target the GENERAL audience that only wants a quick jack off.

The core reason for the steady and huge demand was totally destroyed by giving out the fast jack off for free.

What do you want to do?

Camz, dating? - good luck and a wealthy sponsor!

TV - good money, but you need to be really tough and have a bit of luck too to close them

DVD - dead

Mobile - fuck mobile - carriers are charging you to death (50 - 60 pct.) it's a huge hassle and you most likely need a company that has a contract with them as a middleman, and now with the new super flashy phones, you can go to the internet directly anyway not having to deal with their overpriced bullshit

off portal makes sense, on portal is a major fuck up

What did I miss?

Magazines, phone sex?

Christ, you don't want to deal with 60 something sleazy matadors, trying to explain you how they made money for their first golden chain in the 70's and how it sells

No way

BUT

Are you able to make a living on the internet ? YES

Are you able to make them convert ? YES

BUT you can't be dumb, too conservative, unprofessional, unexperienced etc.

You gotta keep an eye clearly on what makes YOUR money, what do you get per 1000 uniques?

You gotta keep the pimp hand strong on who YOU do business with - are you sending traffic to someone who's fucking up and stealing YOUR OWN traffic running some shady no affiliate links free shit?

End of the post!

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