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Originally Posted by harvey
Paul, like it or not, there are many models where you can give the content for free and still make shitloads of money. As a matter of fact, with the current state of business, it's easier for me to think about "FREEMIUM" models than any paid business model. Is that good? No. Is that the way it should be? I don't think so. Is the way things are? YES. You can fight against it, but you already lost the battle. So just better give up and start thinking out of the box or just become a victim of current business affairs. Yes, adapt or die and yadda yadda, but it was never more true than today.
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Yes a few will make money. But will the industry make more money? Great if you're one of the few. Sucks for all the rest.
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See, I've said it almost 2 years ago, how business would develop, how sites would lose traffic and customers, how the affiliate model would end, what would be the reasons why things would happen and what would be the logical steps to follow, ending with the debacle of tube sites. Until now, everything I said happened to the A, just waiting for the tube debacle. Most tube sites that stay in their current form will die in a 2 years span. You can call me a wizard, you can say I'm full of shit, but until now, reality shown I'm 100% true. And based on that statistic alone, please believe me when I say that the tube debacle won't be the solution either, if anything, it will make things even worse (there are many reasons why).
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The solution is simple. Stop relying on selling content others give away for free and sell content they can't.
Tube sites won't close until the industry wins back the customers it's lost to them.
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So, with this future context, what are you and everybody else going to do? The freemium model is something to consider and it offers a lot of possibilities, and most of them will make money. At least more than what current sites are doing. And quite frankly, until business shows a turn of events, I don't see many choices out of freemium models (I see a few, though, but even those would highly benefit with the addition of a parallel freemium model)
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Yes the free models will make money for a few. The majority will lose. The danger is, if the product your selling to make money starts being given away for free then again your screwed. What if paysites started to give away dating and cams? 5 years ago no one would of said this business would implode because people were giving away free porn. It has so don't say it could not happen.
The only model that has made substantial money by giving content away for free is the SE model. I also don't see any great future for the free model. Unless you have something substantial to sell. Selling ad space for people looking for information is different to selling ad space to people looking for free entertainment.