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Old 04-01-2009, 09:59 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by SomeCreep View Post
You can't. In general, sales are declining for the entire porn industry and there is no breaking that trend. The only thing you can do is keep generating more and more traffic to compensate for worsening ratios.
I agreed with most of what you said except this one.

There is very little significant traffic that buys porn on the Internet. The people who do buy or did buy are here already. And in these hard times it's even more true. So how do you generate more traffic that will buy at the same ratios or similar?

You raise your "traffic game and take it from other paysites. Then they raise their traffic game and take it back, from you and others, then they all raise their game and take it all back. All the time everyone is raising their traffic game to stand still.

Raising your traffic game costs more money, money that comes from content. Content is what makes the customers buy and all the time sponsors and paysites are raising their game on the traffic they're lowering it on the members area.

Giving more people less reasons to spend money.

We have remember the one and only reason the big Tubes exist is they don't spend a large part of their turn over on traffic.

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Yeah, I totally see that side of it and have heard that argument before. The problem with porn is there is not really and concerts or t-shirts to sell. Nobody walks around wearing "Redtube" shirts or will ever see Redtube.com play live. Most people use porn 1 to X many times per day or week - wipe the sperm off the keyboard and go about their lives.

The "music industry" argument doesn't apply.
Using arguments that don't apply to porn is a GFY trait.
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