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Originally Posted by Verbal
Paul, I have no issue with you and I'm glad that you are able to enjoy the fruits of your labor, but please don't make the mistake of comparing today's business model with that of 20, 10, or even 2 years ago.
I for one would love to see you (publicly) start something from scratch today and see if you could make it work ... just for shits and giggles. I'm sure it would shut a lot of people up.  |
No the business model has changed 180 degrees. in 1991 we had far less traffic and made far more money. The turn over porn shops made would show most here how the online porn game has gutted porn totally. There's still some money left in the retail end of offline porn, research
Ann Summers and
Beate Uhste to see what they still can make today. Then imagine what was made 10, 20 years ago. I know personally that porn shops were extremely lucrative in the 60s.
I'm not able to work properly, yet I did shoot a scene last year that even though I was in no condition to do so, gets very high scores from surfers. There was also a BG scene I shot of a guy with 2 girls and again high scores and lots of positive results.
The problem today is this total focus on driving traffic as if that will solve the problem. The definition of madness is trying the same thing that isn't working over and over again in the hope it will work. We know that giving away free porn isn't working long term, we see here it isn't working shot term. There are millions of porn consumers who have no intention of paying for what is being offered.
There are two option. Give up selling pre recorded porn, not today but plan that into your future. Or change what you offer.
Are Met Art turning a premium porn domain into a free porn tube?
It's not cookie cutter tours that are the problem, it's cookie cutter porn. With people thinking the key to the quality of the porn is the date shot of definition of the image. Churning out cookie cutter porn has done more damage than people imagine.
It's obvious the business model of giving away porn for free, leave a market for selling the porn devastated and leads to being nothing but traffic sellers to what little is left Webcam and Dating. Maybe when the surfers realise that paying for webcam and dating is a foolish as paying for porn, the traffic market will implode. Yes there's free options now, which are hurting. Still what are the stats showing on conversion and traffic rates for these sectors?