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Originally Posted by SilentKnight
For some producers it seemed the mentality was "Hmm...the more I give away for free, the more promotional material and exposure...hence more traffic and sign-ups."
I used to see some producers give away vast amounts of their full-size images thinking it would lure more sign-ups. And quite a number of those same producers folded shop with the rest of 'em.
We even adopted that thinking for a while when sign-ups slowed down - we'd increase the freebies everywhere - especially Usenet newsgroups in the earliest days.
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You're right, the thinking was always give away more for free to get more traffic = equals more sign ups. Until we had billions getting off to free porn and a tiny fraction buying. Yet every year we saw a huge drop in ratios, from 1-50 to 1-200 to 1-1,000 and today 1-30,000.
Few stopped to think "Can we get 1-50 with all the surfers we have now?"