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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Robbie, think of it as a missed opportunity. One year when you were attending Internext in LV you could of walked along the corridor, gone into the AVN show and sold your CM scenes for $5,000 a piece. Not 2010, but 2000 for sure. If they were worth $5,000 a scene that is to DVD companies. Even $1,000 a scene would of been nice. Then fly to Berlin and go to the Internet and porn show there. Again sell the same scene for $5,000. $10,000 for a single scene. Produce 12 DVDs a year and that's your shoot budget paid for. All free money. ;)
Who cares if my content is good or not? Magazines paying 10 times more than Internet sites.  |
Yes...theoretically that would have been true in 2000 IF I had a CM scene to sell (started that in 07).
You're kinda glossing over the fact that in 2000 there were a lot less folks with computers and only a tiny fraction with a broadband internet connection. So more people were buying porn DVD's and/or magazines then.
That isn't the case today.
Nobody in their right mind is going to sneak down to an adult bookstore in a small town, pay $50 for a DVD, take a chance that their car will be seen and they will be recognized...Why would they, when from the comfort of their own home they can buy a membership for $29.99 and get hundreds if not thousands of scenes of EXACTLY what they want? Not what some company told them was "hot", but what the customer himself gets off on.
I know that for content shooters like yourself, this isn't the best situation. If you were still hungry to kick it in porn (I assume that you aren't because you've said a few times that you are almost semi-retired from it and did well enough to not have to work anymore), I would say that you would make 1000 times more money by shooting for your own paysite exclusively.
Just shoot the exact stuff that makes YOUR dick get hard because you will then give it all your knowledge, skill, and passion for that particular "niche".
Remember...there are over 6 billion people in this world and about half of us are men. So that's 3 billion plus guys that are potential customers. Only takes a couple of thousand of those guys to make you a lot of money every month.