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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
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This is it Paul. To answer the question of the thread "How should we have adapted"? THIS.
All we need is someone to drive traffic, design the site, organize affiliates....basically all the things you should have learned how to do yourself. But, being older and established in print, these new skills were, like a Baby Boomer trying to figure out a Blackberry, beyond you.
Back 10-15 years ago you could have easily reached six figs (profit) if you had done the above. Rebills were strong back then so it was relatively easy (compared to today) to build a Membership base. The above is basically what it means to be a Program Owner (not an affiliate) and you were not interested, couldn't see the profit potential, the skills were above your competence level and then there's that photographer's superior attitude. LOL
Enjoy your retirement Paul and stop looking back.  |
If someone with your skills had come to me and proved they could drive the kind of numbers to my site that Rochard claims everyone could do, I would have listened.
The problem was the type of offers got from 1998 to recently. They were, hand over my content so they erect a site, drive traffic, take the money and pay me, or not, on a partnership deal. I tried a couple and got ripped off.
People making $1k a day don't need to partner up with anyone, they could buy our entire library for $25,000 and own it lock stock and barrel. No partnership, no interference, no monthly profit payments. The problem was they never had the money, Rochard wants us to believe people making $365 a year profit with crap content aren't going to progress into a better level. Most programs couldn't afford $500 for a solo girl exclusive set and video or $1,500 for BG.
The difference between sites making $1k a day and $1k a fortnight is the content. Getting it accepted on a good TGP, getting it liked enough by enough people to clink the link then getting enough to buy it and keeping enough to rebill.
You forget we had a paysite and it was relatively successful considering the site was an offshoot of our magazine work and content stores. To make it more successful getting more affiliates wasn't the key, it was shooting a totally different type of content, GG and BG. Which had a ceiling for how many magazines bought.
But look what Stefan's site was like, a lot of BG and he admits it wasn't a success. Because not every site is a success.