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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
How many of the "leaders" were people who started when it was easy and would never get off the ground if they started now?
I see few leaders and lots of copiers.
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You know...a lot of people always say that. It was "easy".
And yeah, around 2000 it was sort of easy I suppose.
But when I first started online in the mid '90's, it wasn't "easy" to get started. Yeah, once you understood how the whole thing worked...then you could make money much easier than now by far.
But it wasn't "easy" to get to that point. If it was, there would have been thousands and thousands of big tgp guys making the kind of money we did with AL4A and Ampland. But there weren't.
There were just a handful of us.
And then there were thousand of unsuccessful ones and mid-range ones.
Just like now.
There are only a handful of tube sites with real traffic. And thousands of unsuccessful ones.
It's kinda always been that way.
It's real easy right now to get in the business. But it's not easy for those unsuccessful ones to survive anymore for sure.
10 years ago I would have said that a guy running a free site and only making 4 figures a month was unsuccessful. If you weren't making high 5 figures a month and 6 to 7 figures a year you weren't in the game.
These days if a guy opens a free site...he's gonna be damn lucky to make 3 figures a month. lol
So they try all that SEO stuff and open 500 new sites and link 'em all around.
Bottom line is you still have to SELL something to somebody in the end. And that is tough to do when everything is being stolen and is free and the masses know it. At that point all the business sense in the world won't help you SELL porn. You might be able to use your business acumen to figure out ways to "monetize" the situation. But sell more porn to people getting it free? Now that's a more difficult problem.