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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
If it works for music, it must work for porn. Just like bottled water and MacDonalds marketing works for porn. Whoops, no it doesn't.
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The porn industry already has this......
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
If 99% of affiliates disappeared this year, traffic would remain the same. Affiliates don't create surfers (traffic) they merely guide it. Too many affiliates = too many distractions. The customer is spoilt for choice. And the only way this industry seems to be able to get affiliates is high payout, tons of tools, support and it costs.
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That's so wrong and incorrect it's not even funny. Affiliates create EXTREME world wise exposure into areas of the Internet no program could ever reach into.
We've lost a godly amount of affiliates over the last 10 years, mostly do to 2257.
The only way to get affiliates today is to do actual sales... which is why 99% of our Industry is 'actually' failing.
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
The result is simple. The product isn't good enough to get people to buy.
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Like everyone in the world... something suck, others rock. It's for sure not all crap as you try to make it sound and not everyone should shoot perfect porn, not everyone wants that!
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
The illusion is that people came online just to look at porn and the free porn created the traffic. Stupidity. Those people were coming online and would of found tours if there were 0 affiliates. The increase in porn traffic was due to the increase in people getting connected.
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How would they have found us? How would have all those micro niches been found out? How would those people have known what to even type in?
Well people are still getting connected today and traffic isn't skyrocketing. Probably because the Internet is more than porn and chatrooms today, but that's just a guess.
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Any one around in 1995 will remember the awesome conversion rates from Newsgroups. Because buying porn was so much better than free porn. Today we've gone full circle. Free porn is far far better than paid porn.
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I've pushed 100's of sales daily and into the millions in profit from newsgroups back in the day... however I made FAR more money with affiliates.
I remember entire paysites that were pirated in the 90's from nothing but newsgroup content. It seemed like every week someone was opening a new paysite with nothing but newsgroup content.
I also remember 1:50k ratios, 20k ratios, total bomb traffic sources, the same crap we see today. Without question, it was not all golden, it was not build it and make millions.... SHIT TONS of programs and paysites, with killer content, failed in the 90's.
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
The solution is simple, turn that around or make as much money as you can before you have to leave. Because the slide is still going down.
Harsh words, but true.
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Other than for those that see the slide going up.....