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Originally Posted by Robbie
I didn't mean closed to opportunity.
I meant...closed to revealing what's behind the curtain.
Google doesn't let ANYBODY give out their secrets. Just ask an SEO guy about Google algorithms...nobody really knows shit. lol
Or the formula for Coca-Cola. It's a secret, kept in an actual physical vault.
We create FANTASY. People should think that a porn star girl actually wakes up in the morning wearing perfect makeup and high heels and ready to fuck.
Everything we do to pull the curtain back and reveal how things work destroys the very thing we are trying to sell: A sexual fantasy.
That's what I mean.
Our industry gives out it's own secrets of business.
Look back at The Beatles for instance. When they came out, everybody thought that they all lived together in some kind of clubhouse and wrote songs all day while they ran from screaming hordes of women. lol
That was pure GENIUS of marketing.
Nobody in their organization was allowed to go to the press and tell the reality behind the scenes. It would have been a dumb move.
And I am of the opinion that it's a dumb move to pull back the curtain on our industry to the general public.
Just not aware of any other industry that does that to itself.  |
Well, it's all about control in the end. The Beatles, Coca Cola et al could control their image and marketing much easier both in terms of when they were being established (a much differant, non-Internet world) and how they went about it. With porn we are not talking about a single entity, like Pepsi or The Stones. We are talking about a largely Internet-based Industry (which translates into a mostly anonymous Industry) hyper-focused on each individual's own outcome. So despite the shows and meetups, and despite companies doing business together, in the end you cannot control another website or company. So this means you bob and weave and compromise and bend and strive to work together with people. All that back-and-forth is bound to lead to some 'secrets' being let out.
But also, WHAT 'secrets' exactly? Building a website, building an online business - much of it is translateable to 'mainstream'. What I mean is that even if you never saw a naked woman in your life you could still build the infra-structure of an Adult business (website, affiliate program, billing, scripts, etc). The only real differance is the content. Now, that content is powerful (sex sells) but, in the end, ther'es no 'secret' to selling porn. Some can do it better than others but it is not rocket science. LOL
Which leads to another basic fact (as DWB mentioned): ANYONE can start doing this shit. Look at me, starting in my mom's basement with $0 and not knowing what a "jpeg" was. So of course you are going to attract desperate, short-term-thinking fucktards out for a quick buck who don't care how they git it.
I'm not talking about ME of course.
