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Let's put to rest the "You missed the boat" argument.
In around 1996 offline became aware of online porn. We looked at it and it held no lure for most of us. A few knew programmers who built a site and the returns were piss poor. I opened a site and made it to take credit card payments for videos I sold mail order. I started selling my images online to sites and brokers in 1996. No desire to open a site.
Prior to 2000 there was no shortage of great content producers, from Suze Randall level to my level and below me. We rarely sold content outright, we sold licenses. Private and companies like it paid $25,000 for outright. There was a dirth of content available for online license or sales.
The reason why so few made the switch was because the offers were often a joke or a con. Site owners would offer peanuts for content or go with the 50% profit share that turned out to be very little. Most or us avoided online because we saw 100s of failures for 1 great site.
A few of you are great at driving traffic in huge numbers. Does that carry through to sales and profit? Often no because the content of the site isn't good enough to first drive traffic, convert, retain and bring it back in 6 months for the updates. Creating content that drives, converts, retains and brings back members is a full time job. You can't go to an agent for 5 girls you shoot loads of content in a week of a level that will drive, convert, retain and bring it back. But 1,000s of you tried.
Because most of you didn't have the money, couldn't create a site that tempted any offline content producer. So you produced a dirth of garbage sites and told yourself that's what the surfer wants. While MetArt, Evil Angel, Private etc were making money.
We were already on a boat in 1st or 2nd class earning a good living. Most of the people you tempted couldn't get on our boat.
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