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Originally Posted by BFT3K
Sure, that makes sense... in Mentalville!
Remember all of the free porn BEFORE the internet? Oh wait, there wasn't any. I guess that's why people didn't ever buy adult magazines, and adult VHS rentals never made anyone any money in the past. Massive free porn is clearly the sensible answer, obviously!
You have been around long enough to know that sales were WAY better BEFORE tubes, so I have no idea what you are talkng about.
I agree that some free pics and 10 second previews helped ONLINE sales in the past, but today's free web content level negates the need to buy almost any adult anymore.
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I have been around long enough to notice trends, that porn has grown, the mediums have changed... not just in porn either.
The majority of you are still selling content and doing direct sales to people.
IE: Build a website that has content, sell something through banners and links. A trend that has been dieing all over the Internet, YEARS before Tubes came around.
I look back at our Industry and I see people design better, but still build the exact same thing as we did, 2, 5, and 10+ years ago. Just because the quality of the content has improved, doesn't mean - we have advanced forward.
Free porn STILL drives us, it STILL can produce godly amounts of sales. The thing is 90% of you are trying to sell people, on methods PROVEN not to work anymore. It's why TV, Magazine, Newspapers, etc sales / ads, buying power is down.. They sell - the same way we do.
People STILL generate 100's into the 1000's of sales a day. But they aren't doing it with 10 year old marketing techniques.
Edit: One last thing.... 80's porn was published on VHS, 70's in magazines, DVD's came in, 90's Interent, mediums changed again... It's almost 2010, what do you think most people missed?