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Originally Posted by Roald
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Yes there were far better payers for content in offline than online porn. The only way to make big money as a shooter in online porn was to put your content onto your own sites. Selling it to sponsors exclusive paid shit money. Unlike traffic they were not willing to pay decent amounts fr content. So few if any were brought over as in-house or content production heads. Online simply couldn't or wouldn't compete on the payment level. Why is the question.
This doesn't apply to just me, it applies to most of the offline shooters of any worth. Even when offline porn was reduced to a side show how many of the offline shooters are coming over to produce a great product? Yes very few.
Yet we all know great content converts. Met Art, FTV, PG, etc. We all know the sites that convert well, retain longer ad get members coming back. And we all now the sites that are just not good enough, converting badly, retaining badly and need more traffic to earn the same. There's another difference, the latter don't need to spend mega bucks promoting themselves, the former did. And became the "bros" of affiliates.
Shap went part of the way to create a good site, he could of gone further and created a great site. Yes he made a good return, he could of made a great return. As a content producer I reviewed his site's content. I found sets that would never get published in a magazine, some by the so called top dog here. simply not enough poses, not the right poses, not the right looks off the model and on some it seemed getting a light in the background to glow was more important than getting the picture of the model right. The shooter makes excuses why he didn't do much magazine work. The truth is obvious to someone who got a lot of magazine work published.
And before the idiots talk about me shooting 80s style or for magazines that are now gone. We shot solo girl sets worth $3,000. Custom paid $500 a set and video. Maybe Twistys paid more, ATK paid less. So did a lot of other sponsors.
The big accusation, until I slam dunked it, was offline porn didn't understand the Internet and come here to make more money. Well it's a two way street. Online porn was simply clueless about offline porn and didn't go there to make more money. The excuses for this failing are usually stupid, couldn't be bothered, didn't have the time, etc. That's not good business practices. You eventually went to get stands at the Venus show. 5-6 years to late, in your defense how many other online porn companies did the same?
The media coverage of the "Bang Bus" in a offline porn show might of paid for the outlay, meeting customers face to face always will. But people have to get out of their little boxes to see what's outside to view the opportunities.