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Originally Posted by Nathan
This is a very important and interesting point you make here. Yes, online porn in general has a very low barrier to entry. But this low barrier to entry gets you to the bottom of the hill, not to the top. In your analogy with international shipping, the low barrier to entry get's you basically to the equivalent of a packaging factory owner that serves a packaging company that in turn servers some international shipping company. It arguably also let's you climb the ladder faster than other industries, and there are a ton of the bottom level people in this industry.
BUT, the barrier to entry into the top league is by far bigger. It is still doable to make it big if you come to the right place at the right time, and have enough contacts in the industry, but from 0 to 100 is obviously very very hard. If it were this easy, we would have 500 big tube sites competing over the top 5 traffic ranks. But we do not. We have only a handful or two meaningful big tubes, with maybe 20 to follow which are decent in size and worth looking at, and then 500 small ones which combined have the size of tube #30.
That's not a low barrier of entry, that shows its actually becoming higher.
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Even at the bottom of the hill they take from you at the top. When they load the Internet with free porn they take 2 ways. Providing an alternative to buying from you and loading the Internet with free porn. Every small site getting sign ups, takes from you. Every Tube with low traffic takes from you.
The porn moguls of the past were in printed porn. Because the bar was set at a height that few could get in. Flynt, Heffner, Guccioni, Raymond, Desmond, Sullivan, Gold and probably more made enough to kick into different areas of business. Yes Guccioni screwed up and fell. The odds of an online guy guy passing them are extreme. No one not even you will achieve that. Why.
Too many little fish nibbling at your food.
Even for those who can get into the top tier, it's not a real top tier. When compared with printed porn.
The bar was lower for filmed porn once video tape was available. Now digital is available the bar is lower.
Yes I'm one of those who could shoot, market and sell film stills porn. I would of never of made $3,000 a set if anyone could do it.
You would of had to pay $500,000 for Mansef if the bar were higher to online porn and it would of been worth far more. The only winner in the low bar game is the small fish.
Am I alone in my thinking?
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