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Old 08-04-2009, 07:32 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Nicky View Post
Who say's you can't have both?
Today we have to concentrate more on getting more out of the traffic we have and less on getting more that won't sign up. Anyone who thinks after the last 3-4 years of falling ratios we stay trying to sell what others give away and we don't change our direction has obviously run out of ideas.

Traffic to Tubes is increasing over all, traffic to paysites is dropping. As Theking pointed out only those who had no clue would continue down the same route.

"No Traffic = 100% Chance Of Never Making A Sale - Period!"

Doc, heard this so many times it's boring and a lie about what I'm saying. you still think we should go down the route we have been on for years with it being obvious it was not working.

Doc this is what more traffic has meant over the years. Every time a sponsor came out with a new method of driving traffic the rest copied him, making the new development useless. More traffic means more spent on traffic and less spent on the product. Or it meant putting up more free content. It's very easy to come up with your figures because they're uttely pointless. The truth is it's harder to get traffic today to paysites and harder to get it to spend money. Quoting figures is pointless when we all know getting it to materialise is a lot harder.

If I have 100,000 hits coming to my site every day and double it to 200,000 the rest of the industry will fight (spend more money) to get it back. Easy to say isn't it and in truth not the answer long term.
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