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Originally Posted by Argos88
No offense at all, BUT what you say sounds stupid too.. you are not seeing the whole picture here..
If your sales at the end of the month, are fine, then why are you complaining at all??
Now, if you are complaining about day1=40 sales... and day2=2 sales.. and at the end of the month, your sales are overall sucked, then yes... I'm right and ILLEGAL sites distributing your content, ARE AFFECTING YOUR BUSINESS....
If you get 40 sales one day... You are seeing 40 sales that day.. But IT DOESN'T "NECCESARILY", I repeat... Doesn't NECCESARILY mean you got 40 sales that day.. (yes, quote this LINE if you want, I know a lot of people will like it, but I'm not saying anything special here, anyone who owns a program know this already)
And again.. You need to take the WHOLE month in consideration.... Does your MONTHLY sales decreased?? THEN YES.. Illegal sites, are DEFINITELY affecting your business.. and the processor has PROBABLY nothing to do with it...
Does your monthly OVERALL SALES remain the same as always?? Then.. no reason to complain at all... Easy as that, dude...
again you need to open your eyes and see the whole picture here.. Otherwise, you won't fix the problem or be able to move on to another business.
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Glad no offense taken because none was intended.
Perhaps I'm not communicating well enough here but you seem to be missing the point. LOL But to address what you wrote speicifically first:
Yes, i DO take the 'long-term view'. And i understand about buying patterns, paychecks (when ppl get them), etc etc. Free porn is an overall factor, yes.
But when sales go UP then DOWN like a yo-yo, and they have NEVER done this before 6 weeks ago, then something is amiss. Again, when you have a site that is amazingly consistent - 500 visitors WHAM a sale, over and over again, for months, with over 2.5 million visitors to the site - then somethings wrong here. Across the board wrong. Tubes and free porn were arund last month, In March, in January, last year....Yet traffic remains the same, the sources are the same, everything is the same EXCEPT - UP and DOWN wild swings.
Honestly now, if I DIDN'T raise my eyebrows at this then I wouldn't be a very good businessman, now would I? Just trust that all will 'even out' at the end of the month and don't worry about. Okay, maybe this is a good strategy if you're responsible for yourself alone, or for a small number of partners. But I run over 20 Paysites, and am in business with over a dozen models & producers. So when sales go down guess what? My phone rings, my ICQ goes DING DING DING and my email box gets flooded: Mister Peabody, WTF?
So what do i do then? "Don't worry about it honey, take the long-term view, all will even out..." Shah, YOU try talking like that a freaked-out model who just realized her weekly paycheck is going to be 65% LESS than it was last week.
And then, how long does this model (or any of them) stick around? The trust factor starts to go way down. "I USED to make X with Mister Peabody, now I'm making X...hmmmm....where's the money going? In Mister P.'s pocket?" Shit like that.
So there are many, many, many factors here, my friend. So please don't tell me I'm not looking at the 'big picture'. By year's end I'll be a million-dollar company, and I didn't get there by short-term thinking. LOL