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Old 11-16-2019, 02:47 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by fuzebox View Post
I knew it wouldn't be long until Paul got in here
So make a contribution disputing what I'm saying.

The reason so many started as one man bands and never progressed beyond that to earn the really big money. Was they were never that successful. Because they could just about cobble together a TGP, submit it to TGP sites and hope, make a basic site, point a camera at a girl, there were just to many of them for them all to succeed. The few who did moved up the pecking order to owning a site that had good content, worked efficiently, etc, because they hired professionals to do the jobs they couldn't.

It takes money, skills, expertise at every level to launch a site that stands out with content that doesn't need fancy words no one reads, works properly and isn't something any self taught programmer can put up.

There are lots of independent content producers with decades of experience, content, the ability to shoot a lot more, the money to invest in sites, programmers who could build a site, etc. People should have been coming to them asking to be in charge of the traffic generation and building great sites. But all they could bleat is the offline guys don't get the Internet while asking for content, without paying for it, and demanding we leave everything to them.
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