After 10 years of listening to the twaddle written on boards and the state of the industry it's amazing how little people have learned.
It's so clearly not about traffic, niche and markets or even free and piracy. It's about the product. The customer is clearly rejecting the product, for a variety of reasons, not good enough is the main one. Price and length of membership follow behind that and then trust.
If you need 1,000 people to look at free content to get a sign up, there's something very very wrong. Everything in porn is niche, teens to girls in custard. Now micro niche is the claimed money maker. Because the major niches are selling????
Marketing is what? If online porn had a clue what marketing was it would have gone from ratios of 1-50 to 1-5,000, depending on traffic and sites. Marketing is about improving sales, not throwing more people at a product that sell s less and less.
Free. If free is competing with paid. Then the paid for product isn't good enough. The actual idea that you have to keep giving away more and more free content to get a sign up is about as stupid an idea as ever.
$30 for 30 days recurring is to pay for traffic. That's it. Most of the customer no longer has to buy and rejects that option.
But no doubt I will be called wrong, while the industry continues going down.
