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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
We've been fucking over the customers for 12 years and maybe more. Now can't figure out why they are so hard to get off free porn. Is it really any wonder this game is shrinking?
Tubes are not a game changer. They are another logical step in the process of giving out free porn. It's only now after 12 years of fucking over the customers, Tubes are so much better for customers.
This is a guess as I asked on another board about conversion figures on a Tube, surfers to sign up, and never got an answer. However
TGP Galleries could get 500 surfers hit them, 100 click the links and 1 buy. That's a conversion rate of 1-500.
Tubes from what I read convert on banner clicks 1-5,000. We had a lot of content on a big Tube site and though we got lots of views, good votes in the poll. The link See More of Paul Markham Teens converted at 1-25,000. The vast majority clicked back the moment they knew it was a link to a paysite.
Do the maths. Yes the Internet brought porn to millions who could never find it before. But the TGP figures prove most were just free viewers from day 1.
And we did our utmost to make sure they never needed to buy. Even at 100 gallery views and 1 sale. We were losing out to 99% of our potential customer base. And we called it "Internet Marketing" and felt superior because offline porn never understood it. 
We had people standing in a line, to a bar selling water, in the middle of a desert. And hosed them down with free water. |
I've seen many people answer you on how well and bad they convert tube traffic.... Just like I've seen 1:100k ratios on galleries even 8 years ago.
The reason your link didn't convert is because it's a blind link... on a gallery it would have bombed as well, it wouldn't have done good last year, 5 years ago or 15 years ago. You're trying to say Galleries had a 20% click ratio, and that's just wrong.
If you took out free porn, you would take away the millions of people. You wouldn't be able to compete with those that buy up all the traffic sources.... free porn is how you and most of us stay in business... without it, you're just another hamburger flipper.
I've never seen a gallery post send 100+ sales a day, day after day - and I've seen tubes do that for years now. And that's just to one of the sponsors they have. The biggest TGP ever, never had enough traffic to even compete at that level so even trying to compare them, is pure silly.
Get out and get yourself some traffic... sales today are bigger than ever, they just moved to a different location.