Originally Posted by After Shock Media

Well it technically could always be followed along and I made a fortune from it and peoples personal biases. I know already you were into AOL traffic like I was cause we competed if you knew it or not. I wanted as much AOL traffic as possible, while others laughed at me. To me the standard AOL user (hacks aside) had already proven to me that they had a credit card in the house, and was at least willing to type it into their computer. From there we would take AOL traffic and drop them into a free site upselling an AVS site, which was just a larger version of your free site. Good AVS sites rebilled like a mofo as well. From there you upsold your AVS buyers and rebillers to your own personal even larger niche paysite. You were really getting a shit load of bang for the buck content wise. Even when they hit the paysite the would still buy, be it sex toys or unrelated/non competing niches - often through the very same chain yet again of sending them to another AVS.

Not counting rebills, I could typically expect 3-4 purchases out of one customer and they would be HAPPY. Somewhere people got greedy and wanted all of that upfront and would rather just fuck them out of it. Well that and giving to much away thinking more was better. If person A was giving out 15 pictures, just consider how much more traffic you may get if you gave 20, or the HC or the cum shot and so forth.

As someone mentioned already we can never get the genie back in the bottle. Best we can do is find ways to satisfy the consumers in a way they are willing to pay for. Just find it sad that I went from 1:100 with AOL traffic and a customer that would buy 4 times on average and rebill 3-4 times per stage at a minimum (AVS, Paysite) to now where SE traffic is still lucky to be at 1:500 with quality keys and they may rebill twice if your lucky with 1 purchase. As traffic gets more "free" the more fucked the ratio. TGP was 1:500 and now it often is 1:5000 etc. Come to think of it todays SE traffic is yesterdays TGP traffic ratios.