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Jakez

I knew you would say exactly that Do you even know what a campaign is?

You said over and over how 1:100 is now 1:1000 and I posted stats from a banner on a tube with long videos that does BETTER than 1:100 consistently. AND I even posted the CTR which is 5.79% which is very fucking decent for a banner even if it wasn't on a tube site. Here I will spell it out for you: nearly 6 out of 100 visitors to the site click the banner and out of every 100 of those that clicked 1 buy a membership. And yeah I use imgur because it's a quick drag and drop upload to post, plus I wouldn't want a couple small images making me go over my tiny bandwidth limit good one retard. You're really picking at little shit like that trying to hold and argument?

Have you ever even been an affiliate before? Have you ever been involved with a tube in any way? I don't try to tell you what you're doing wrong in selling your content.

And you think some magical law would hide porn away in members areas? Yeah lets do that so all the tubes move to some shit country with no laws and hog even more of the traffic. GENIUS!

I agree with you that everyone is giving away more and more free and the end result does not look good, but I don't see anyone getting together to do anything about it. Other than that problem, I have more than proved you wrong on many points. Are you so stubborn you can't admit when you're wrong?

Is this guy really going senile or something?

In his mind I guess we should also start a fight against showing previews before movies when you goto the theater. They're giving away plots left and right!

On banners next to videos, I average anywhere from 2%-7%, sometimes as high as 20% on a site with very low traffic. Those banners sponsors make for affiliates to use are garbage as far as CTR goes. If you want a high CTR just crop a nice image or something. No need to have a flashing banner with a bunch of fancy text and crap, such an obvious ad, you have to blend in with the page.

You've never seen those cards gas stations give you to use and get free gas for pumping only at their stations?

Nice tour. Try not advertising on just the biggest tubes. Just a guess but I'm sure the traffic blows.

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Fabien

YOU GET MY VOTE ON THIS ONE

Fabien

Nice way to put it.

You can't sell something that you can get for free PERIOD.

Fabien

Of course you can do money with Tube sites but not selling memberships. At least not like in the "good ol' days"

Traffic is traffic. Lots of things you can do with it

Fabien

Huh ?

Where do you get that info from ?

carzygirls

Other sites are now stealing tube traffic...

Fabien

Or write Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton sex scandal and get listed on AltaVista and send traffic to Xpics

Coup

I make a few bucks on mainstream tubes

Barefootsies

True dat fine sire.

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The Porn Nerd

Thanks, and yes you're right. LOL Crazy-good CTR for a giant tube, relatively speaking, but shitty sales thus far.

Your stats: are you talking about banners for cams and dating? Or paysites?

And are you suggesting advertising on smaller tubes instead of the biggies?
Great posts, BTW.

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Paul Markham

The word imagine means imagine. It obviously flew over your head what it was meant to mean. Good luck understanding the rest of this.

For many men viewing porn is a need. They are partly hooked to it. The idea of spending the money online spent in selling to them clearly shows how little the online guys understood about porn.

Porn is largely used as a visual aid to masturbation. It's because men need to see something to get stimulated and women can imagine it. Men would travel to Soho London from all over the Home Counties to buy porn under the counter, in States and countries where porn was illegal to be sold men would buy Playboy or Penthouse. Men sought out porn to buy before the Internet came along and removed that need.

Suddenly porn was delivered to their computer. Online porn's mistake was in thinking it had to be heavily sold. It never was, because it never needed to be. The actual idea that you need to throw tons of free porn and spend more than anything else on doing so at men to sell it is so fucked up it's laughable.

Yes I did. Sarcasm also seems to be beyond you. Adam does run paysites and however good or bad they are he's one or two steps up the ladder than you. You take the piss out of people who are so far above you it makes you look pitiful. Stick to jibing at people below you. Small list but it will hide your lack of achievements better.

You obviously have no clue how GFY works. Putting someone on Ignore is as easy as taking someone off ignore.

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Paul Markham

So you would of been one of those the industry didn't need and wouldn't of got a job here. Life sucks.

Actually that statement condemns you. If the sponsors hadn't of rushed to give away free porn. You wouldn't of needed free porn. You really don't think very widely.

Why is so much free porn needed by affiliates? Because there is so much free porn available and sales are in the 0.01% level. With just a text link and tours the surfer can't jerk off to, ratios would be in the 50% level. Traffic would be lower, sales would be sky high.

I know it is the way it is. Doesn't stop me pointing at the stupidity of it and the people who thought it was a great idea.

You got that check because by the time LFP came to the table affiliates were the barrier between the customer and the seller.

Giving away free samples = giving away free porn.
And by the time piracy was a big problem the consumer was taught not to pay for porn.

Piracy is a bad issue and believe me I've been anti piracy long before you came online. Ever heard of a guy called Steve Easton.

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Great site http://www.erosexotica.com/index1.html

Well the sample at the top. Then all the free sites at the bottom are the same shit everyone else has. If online porn could afford the level of the Eros Exotica it would be in a far better shape. Doesn't have to be this style or niche, just this porn quality.

However it was fine when it was decimating offline porn.

Free porn, legal or not, is now biting the hand that feeds it.

POETIC JUSTICE.

Even those who made their living years ago throwing out free porn are screaming.

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Ron2k1

You forget the people who type in the URL of the watermark. Many people do type in the URL in stead of clicking a link or banner.

I also do it myself sometimes when I see an exciting weird clip, I check out the paysite of the tour. So watermarking does work if done properly. You must use a clear bright good looking watermark.

Also I only have experience with promoting BDSM content on tubes, so maybe it's different for other niches. But for BDSM content it works pretty well.

Chosen

No.
Probably because I don't have any tube sites.

Paul Markham

This from a sponsor clearly illustrates the harm "Traffic is King and the affiliates system has done to the business.

With hindsight no one but affiliates, and the few who moved on from being affiliates like Robbie, should be thinking they were in any way required to sell porn.

The entire logic of affiliates was flawed from the beginning. You didn't need them at all. You don't need 1,000s of people putting up a barrier between the porn buying sector and the porn selling sector. Having someone on a street corner with a sign pointing to a porn shop. Is fine, having him give out free samples and paying him 50% for every customer he sends is so fucking mad. Only online porn does it.

Making the task of doing this reliant on who could give out the most and best free porn, then archiving it. Is so fucking fucked up only those committing business suicide would contemplate it. Because it was inevitable to where it will go. More free porn than anyone could ever wish for and a sponsor think getting $226 from satisfying the needs of 5 million people as being good.

Even assuming Robbie is blowing up the 5 million and let's cut it down to 1,000 who really want Claudia-Marie. That's less than 10 joins in 1,000. Yes 0.01%. That in anyones book is fucked up. FUBAR.

And anyone who is stupid enough to think Tubes are the end game of giving porn away is as stupid as the guys who first thought of giving porn away to sell porn.

REMEMBER THIS;

SOMEONE WILL COME UP WITH A TOOL TO GIVE AWAY MORE FREE PORN BEFORE LONG.

Maybe then the Tube owners will be in here telling everyone how the new system is fucking up there business of giving away free porn.

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TheDoc

Free porn = hundreds of millions of people looking at porn.

All paid porn = Tens of thousand people at a time looking, and still not everyone is buying.

If it was all paid, the industry would be much smaller, produce far less sales overall, and contain probably 75% less people - the Industry wouldn't have the volume to cover everyone. Free porn, DRIVES, the entire Industry, it is the entire Industry and without it.... EVERYONE here would be out of business.

Only idiots think free porn killed the Industry, straight up... if you think this, you're a fucking idiot.

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My 14 year old nephew told me he and all his friends at school look at tube porn at just about every weekend party someone has.

So let me congratulate the winners there.


Don't be one of those webmasters who get caught up in the design and flash of a website. You only do so at your own peril and miss out on sales if that is how you gauge a good site.


Very well said.

buildingfutures

Dang, that was a long read.

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Paul Markham

You must be smoking some pretty good stuff. Be sure to pass the roach around bro.

That has to be the most fucked up excuse for affiliates that was ever invented.

Free porn = hundreds of millions of people looking at porn.

All paid porn = Tens of thousand people at a time looking, instead of millions buying.

If they like is so much to look at it, most would buy it if they had to.

You're a failure looking for an excuse of your own short comings.

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TheDoc

And they do buy... they just don't buy from you because you don't market to them.

Could you broadcast anymore that you don't have a clue about traffic? The logic on this is about as simple as it gets... and clearly without question and without a doubt people looking at free porn buy porn. Just like people not looking at any porn, can be shown offers from porn, and buy it. ie: Why spam still makes sales.

That's the volume factor you've NEVER experienced or seen in your life. That's how I know you're talking 100% out of your ass.

Oh yes, you claiming I've failed means I've failed... hahaha, I can send a mailing and produce more sales 'this morning' than you'll produce in the next month. Now get back to pretending like you have a clue so I can rail on you more.

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Btw Paul.... it may seem like I rail on you, but if you notice I never question your experience with shooting. I don't argue it, nor care to attempt to say you're not experienced in it, that would be pure silly of me.

Understand, I've shot some porn, we've produced 100's of videos, 1000's of photo sets, but that doesn't mean I'm experienced in it. I can share my experiences but they're very limited in the scope of things..

Don't take this as a bash, but that's you with traffic/marketing online. Your skill isn't traffic, but you like to pretend it is.

Maybe I should go around and start pretending I can shoot porn simply because I produced so much of it? That's what you're doing here, but with traffic and it's pure silly...

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As a salesman or marketing man you're a failure.

By thinking that if "hundreds of millions" are consuming a product you're only able to sell to "Tens of thousand". You do nothing but make obvious your failure.

Hundreds of millions indicate hundreds of millions of men interested in a product. Selling to 50 million gives you less than a 50% sales ratios. Selling to 1 million gives you less than a 1% sales ratio. That in any field of selling to interested people is an awful ratio.

This isn't handing out a free biscuit in a super market. This is setting up a store that people go into and take as many biscuits as they want, in any flavour or type.

Now if you think that's good, then you have a very very low target and don't think very highly of yourself.

Volume selling is something you're clueless about. Volume giving the product away to make a few bucks you have figured out. Sending out a mailer is giving out text to a site. Giving away free porn is something else.

You're clueless about volume selling of porn. That was what we used to do. Now we give it away in the hope some will buy.

Even the guy standing in the street handing out leaflets is doing more selling than you are.

If you're so confident and not full of bullshit, send out a mailer for a site I will set up and I will pay you 50% of 100% of the joins.

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Paul Markham

Show us the proof.

As for marketing porn. What do you think I was doing for the last 33 years?

If you could produce anything like "100's of videos, 1000's of photo sets," you would be running a site and not some affiliate. Because sending all this great traffic to your site, by giving it all away. Would be making you millions.

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Ron2k1

I think you missed the point of TheDoc.

If you have been doing something for 33 years it doesn't automatically mean you are very good at it.

When I was younger I played football for almost 10 years in a row, but after 10 years I was still a very poor skilled football player. I just didn't have any talent for it.

TheDoc

Damn you're stupid.... everything has a drop off ratio, nothing sells at 100% even people that walk into stores to buy something to always buy. Free porn is just one market within our Industry as well, it's drop off ratio could be 90% and it's still a volume game - and that's something you clearly do not understand.

To compare porn to biscuits, the biscuit shop would only 'crumbs' for free, it's not like paysites give away everything for free and it's not like tubes have entire paysites on them.

Yep, I'm clueless... I've produced 300+ sales daily from my own traffic, 100's daily from affiliates, 100's daily from mailers, and done millions and millions of hits daily. But yeah, totally fucking clueless.


Confident? Oh yeah, my mailing techniques are extremely proven. I don't promote any product, sales wise, that I don't own. That's one reason the lists do so well. And, that's what I do for others, I don't mail my list to people - I set up YOUR lists to mail with my rules, emails, etc.

If you want this, it's $5k setup and 100% of the first mailing. My results are guaranteed.

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very painful to read ....

TheDoc

For 33 years you've been marketing/selling via b2b, not b2c. You sell to the magazines, shops, and they sell to the consumer. You do sell to the consumer 'through' your content, that's how you know your market... but your actual sales skills, are b2b.

Hahahaha, proof... I've owned a major program - very well known for it as well. Then several smaller ones, a kick ass content plugin that everyone in the niche had, even had our own studios in LA for many years, then Edmonton Canada and have been producing content for roughly 12 years.

And yes, I'm an Affiliate as well.... how else would I now how to produce sales in house?

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Maybe they won't hurt sales if made responsible, with short video clips, 1 minute max., I don't know.

Is there a way to find out what WP plugin or whatever , this site is using?

http://www.femdomtube.org/

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Robbie

How disrespectful of you Paul.

I've been in the entertainment business all my life. Longer than you have for sure. And yes, playing in bands, and entertaining LIVE crowds around the world taught me how to market and entertain "old school"...almost carnie-style.

You? You were a camera guy working for other people. I've never been disrespectful to you at all. But if you want to talk about people the "industry didn't need"...then let's be honest.

At the beginning of YOUR career you were just another young, hungry guy trying to make it. If you had not "made it" someone else would have been there doing those magazine shoots and making that same paycheck you did.

What I do isn't something that anybody with a camera and a few years can "learn".
You have no right or even any reason to be disrespectful to me in any way at all.

I hope you have a nice life. I do respect you as a photographer. I also agree that piracy and the stealing of entire members areas and studio catalogs is killing this business. I don't agree that the affiliate/sponsor business model we had before did anything but elevate the business.

I'm not going to discuss this with you anymore. And I would ask you to please not be a jackass when you address me. I have shown you that much respect. I'd like it back. I have placed you in a category with people that I don't talk to in that manner, but I won't sit here and have you talk to me like that for no reason at all.

Let's keep our debate civil with one another and let the trolls and "witty" comments from them keep them at their low level, and let's at least act like we have a little class when we talk to each other. Agreed?

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Paul Markham

Doing something as an amateur for 10 years shows a love for the activity. You gave up because you weren't very good at it, I gave up because at 60 I had made enough money to retire. Even though money still flows in from the last 20+ years work.

Doing something professionally for 33 years proves a lot of things. You're good at what you do, you're good at selling what you do, you're good at keeping up with trends in the market, you're good at marketing.

Throwing tons of free porn at possible customers in the hope of selling to 1 in a 1,000 shows you're not very good at anything but throwing free porn at 1,000s of people. And losing sales.

Accusing someone who has sold millions B2C, that he only sold B2B is a sign of stupidity.

Astral Blue

But Doc isn't the sharpest tool in the box. Even he's to thick about real selling to understand that selling sets to magazines, largely relies on the magazine buyers reactions to the sets. Putting our pictures on a front cover shows exactly how little he knows about selling B2B.

But Doc is just an affiliate with a big mouth and nothing to back it up. Where's all the content he shot? Look at his signature. Any signs of a man making millions?


10 second clips would hurt the business even less. Static ads would give the business a huge boost. A boost that would make some multimillionaires and put Doc back to flippin burgers.

The hate of Piracy and Tubes with full length scenes exposes the real problem. Too much free porn available. Except it isn't free. A lot of the time it's put up at great expense by the industry itself.

Does anyone disagree with this statement.

Without free porn, there would be a lot more porn sold online.

Except those that think surfers are too dumb to find it or won't come looking for it.

How did we build a multi billion dollar industry before the Internet and clowns giving porn away?

This shows the truth prior to the Internet.

Paid porn = hundreds of millions of people paying to look at porn.

I'm waiting for Doc to stick his size 11s down his throat. Come on Doc.

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The big problem when debating the issue of free porn and the devastation it caused with online people is.

They are clueless about the porn industry prior to the Internet.

They think it revolved around a few video-DVD companies operating out of The Valley LA and the rest was not worth a dime.

They don§t even use common sense. So here's some pointers for them.

Printed porn was enormous. Simply Gigantic.

A country like the UK sold well over a million printed porn magazines a month. With a population around 55 million that's 2%. Use the same % for the US and EU and you're on your way to the true buying numbers.

Now add the rest of the world. Exclude China, Muslim countries and a few other minor places. And it's clear magazines were selling at a rate of close to 100 million every month.

Now add cable. Before the Internet cable was available in most of the developed world and Adult Channels were wide spread. In the UK Richard Clive Desmond made millions out of porn, most of it from owning Television X and Red Hot TV, he sold off his print porn empire after the Internet devastated printed porn. He seems to have survived.

Will we ever see an online porn mogul reach these heights?

So cable both soft and hardcore were big earners.

Then there's DVD/Video. Any decent feature film was shot in 3 versions, hard, medium and soft. Often the softcore version was worth more than the hardcore. Because it could be sold anywhere that would allow soft core, even a few Muslim countries.

In fact there were many companies who only shot softcore because of the profit and lack of hassle.

And prior to the Internet all films after release into cinema went to video shops. For rental and sale. Today the high street video rental business are a dying bread. For porn it was reckoned 50% of video sales were via rental.

When discussing it with most they ignore all that happened then. Unless they gloat at how the Internet and it's free porn made these industries a shadow of what they were. As the punch away at their keyboards in their spare bedroom or living room they only count their wages and think they are part of the new wave of selling porn.

Some don't even think beyond their own posts.

Boasting 100s of millions look at porn, 10,000 buy porn yet still not everyone is buying, and ratios are falling. About the dumbest statement ever.

Well he can't come up with a single shred of proof of his boasted sales figures. so let's assume what we may from that. His site in his signature definitely shows a porn mogul doing 300 sales a day = $9,000 and $3,285,000 a year in sales.

Go sell your bullshit somewhere else, I'm not buying it. Prove it or brand yourself a failure at lying.

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Disrespectful or not, is it true. Could you made the money you did, in porn. make without giving away free porn supplied by others?

As fr what you do and I did. There are 10,0000s of affiliates, 1,000s of site owners and only 100s of magazine shooters. The magazines didn't pay us well because 1,000s could do it.

If my saying the truth to you is disrespecting you, then should I not say it?

I rarely worked for other people. The real money was in working for myself and marketing and selling my goods.

Piracy is another form of free porn, nothing more and nothing less. Unless yours and CM abilities are so bloody marvelous surfers have to have her. Then any free porn will do. You're a guy who made money via free porn now scream at one form of free porn. ALL free porn hurt the porn industry and only the dumb think they need to give porn away to sell it.

It took the dumb Internet gurus to come up with that scheme.

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Yeah, that's why I said you know 'your market' which has nothing to do with marketing to consumers and is damn sure different when it comes to marketing to online consumers or even reaching the market!

You're making yourself look rather stupid. Tons of people here promoted my programs. Our main niche was big dicks, then big boobs, but we did many others. Like I need to show you anything I do or justify my history to a person that means nothing to my business.

What about my signature? Tdcss is a product site that sells products, it's another revenue stream, stacking on with others.... it kinda shocks me this slips past you when you sell old used content in yours, but that's your only revenue stream.

Other than porn makes more today than it ever did before the Internet... that's because more people can access porn more ways than ever before. As a single example, not everyone with a smartphone owns a pc, making those people a unique market you're not tapping into.

Keep trying.... maybe if you read my posts enough it will sink into your thick skull.

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Paul, if porn didn't exist on the interweb, people would be taking pics of pages within their dirty mags with their digital cameras or phones to post online and they'd also be recording amateur videos to post and eventually tubes would still come along, except the tubes and entire internet would be filled with free amateur videos LOL. Then who would be in trouble the most? YOU.

You said at one time the UK was selling printed porn to 2% of it's population. When porn came to the internet, was it not selling 1:50 or better? Who was to know or care that one day it would be the way it is now, no one was going to turn down those huge profits 10+ years ago just because it "might" become too widespread and free one day. But you can call them idiots for not being able to see the future. Get real.

No one woke up one day and said "We have to start giving away as much free porn as possible!", it was very gradual. Evolution maybe? Do you really think it could be kept as text links forever? Like everyone is going to be thinking "Man, if I could just show some titties on the tour page I would get so many sales! But I'm going to just keep posting text links and make the same as everyone else because I can see the future 20 years from now if I show some skin and it looks bad for everyone and I have a very kind heart".

What would your solution to car crashes be? Make cars illegal?
Should dealerships stop giving test drives? Wouldn't want them getting a taste of owning the car!

You live in an imaginary world.



Yeah, I think that's why you usually see a watermark like "www.pornhub.com/PaysiteName", so they can track how many type in. Maybe someone has some numbers from something like that they can share?

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Robbie

Maybe you don't understand what I've done in this business.
I owned a content company called Pure Candy Images that I sold to Brad Shaw back in 2002. I shot all the content for that and made a lot of money selling content. At the same time I was an affiliate as well and we owned a couple of "generic" paysites using our content and content that we bought as well.

And years before I got into online porn...I was male talent for Center Stage Productions from the early 1990's until I started Pure Candy Images in 1998. I also owned and worked in my own male strip show.

So yes Paul...I made a nice bit of money before online porn and made a lot of money with online porn without being an affiliate running promotional materials given to me by paysites. And I'm STILL making a LOT of money with Claudia-Marie's site right now.

But the several million dollars I have made as an affiliate (and continue to make money) on TOP of the other money I make is something that I am very happy and proud to have been able to make.

Despite the bullshit that is said on this board...there is me and only a couple of dozen like me that EVER made this kind of money as affiliates throughout the years.

And yes, you are being disrespectful because what you are saying is not the "truth". It's YOUR uneducated opinion about something that you don't understand.

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paul markham - is without a shadow of a doubt - the dumbest person that posts on gfy

Robbie

No he's not. Not at all. He is intelligent and has done well for himself. He just hasn't had much experience in selling porn to customers. He's a strong shooter with a pretty straight forward idea of how to market and sell.

Nothing wrong with that.

The problem I have with him is his assumption that he is somehow smarter than me or more clever than I am and can kick my ass in this business. And that just ain't the case.

A lot of what he says is true obviously. But he refuses to acknowledge that we DID achieve a "sweet spot" in terms of the Free/Paid ratio for almost 14 years and made a TON of money selling to people who otherwise couldn't buy porn (99% or more of the towns in the U.S. have NO adult bookstores...and many of them are illegal to ship to anyway)

With the explosion of piracy really taking off in large numbers in 2008 was when the decline began. That is what we have seen for the last 2 1/2 to 3 years. Before that? It was a gold mine for everyone.

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The Porn Nerd

Bottom line for me (since I started in '08 or thereabouts) is that this IS a "race to zero" so it's a ridiculous time to start a "company" with employees and try and grow said company to a large, TopBucks-esque size. Good fucking luck dude and dudettes.

BUT being a small(ish) one- or two-man show can still work wonders. Look at Robbie. How many "employees" do you have Robbie? Your profit margin is probably HUGE compared to someone who owns a multi-million-dollar operation, with 30-50 employees. You need only take care of yourself and your family, that's it. (I assume all this so forgive if I am wrong here.)

For those who choose to go that route, and can tough it out over the next 3-5 years, life may indeed but never-endingly sweet for you. This is my hope. Large companies tho? Tick tick tick...

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I did have four guys working for me. Over the last 3 years though I found every one of them a new gig. So now it's just me since the middle of January.

And you're right...it's ALL profit for me. And I can move fast as hell. If I sense something needs to be changed or tweaked...or if I wake up in the middle of the night with an idea...I can make it happen instantly without any screwing around.

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The Porn Nerd

LOL Well, I would hope if you woke up in the middle of the night you'd give CM a poke before you ran to a keyboard. :D

But I'm the same way - finishing up "Screw My Wife Club" (my next paysite) this weekend while adding dating and cam links around my network, always thinking of ways to squeeze more juice out of the lemon. I used to be so precious about popups and cross-sells but since I see everyone else doing it I figure it's worth a shot. I assume people do these things because they work?

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Robbie

Pop ups will do nothing for you except piss people off.
And I think you mean "upsell" instead of "cross sell"

There is nothing wrong at all with creating a non-affiliate tour (preferrably the page that you link to from your "warning" page) and putting a couple of upsells that are either somehow related and/or will not compete with your own product...but can make you some extra money.

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The Porn Nerd

Yes, I meant "upsell" not "cross-sell", I was cross-eyed when I wrote that.

We'll see - 1/2 day of promoting dating and already a few dozen free signups (no dough yet) but encouraging. Only long-term will tell if dating hurts membership sales or not tho (or just adds to the kitty, like I'm hoping).

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Paul Markham

= If there was no porn on the Internet, there would be porn on the Internet. Excellent sense.

The Internet couldn't convert at 2% of those who clicked on a banner, let alone 2% of the population. Still making great sense I see.

They decided the best way to sell it was to give it away.

The only thing that stopped the progress of how much they gave away was server and BW costs.

My solution is pay affiliates what they deserve, 5% at best. Give them minimum support. Delete ll the hosted affiliates stuff on sponsors servers. And with the money saved make the members area the most important part of the business.

Slashing prices also.

Will it happen? No. Because the lunatics have taken over the asylum and the business is still being formed by the least important people in it.

Robbie said in a few posts before that if he went, it would be tough to replace him. If I went it would be easy. I think this illustrates the bloated importance affiliates have of themselves. If they went there would be no need to replace them. If the shooters went, who would shoot the porn.

People have learned by now you can't give a camera to anyone and expect decent porn to be churned out. Affiliates are nothing but a barrier between customers and sellers.

Apologies to Robbie, I thought he only did TGP sites and his sites today. It seems he has worked at other things in porn, thank you for educating me.

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Paul Markham

Well considering I'm the longest serving person in porn and one of the most successful, being dumb hasn't held me back.

Why do you think so many lever people are struggling then?

Again people reveal their stupidity so easily.

This is what I've done in porn, for the stupid.

Was a model in the 60, 70s, 90s, and 2000s.

Started selling photographs to the end user via mail oder in 1977. The expanded to shooting sets in 1979. In 1982 shot my first 3 videos, which was for a client, then moved into shooting them for myself and selling mail order and overseas so B2C and B2B. The majority of that business which is what Astral Blue was direct to the customer with them writing in an order and posting it. Communication with customer to client was essential and many gave comments about the work. Far better for communication the the Internet because it required pen and paper for the customer to get his goods.

A single video of Astral Blue content was 3 solo girl scenes and would sell on average 1,000 times at a price of $40 to me. By the time we were raided for selling non certificated videos by the local trading standards I had a list of 300 titles. Do the maths.

While running Astral Blue I employed 2 people full time. They did little more than post out videos, the Post office van came twice a day to pick up sacks full of parcels.

During this time I was still shooting for magazines and sold to Barely Legal and achieved the first 2 front covers. This must of been mid 90s and they were still clients in 2009. Like most magazines we retained these customers for decades.

Met Eva in 1998 and instead of retiring in 2000. I married her, moved to Czech and gained a new lease on life and a new level of business. Simply the girls here were awesome. In the UK I would find 2-3 good girls a year and 1-2 great girls every couple of years. Here we were finding a good girl every month and a couple of great girls every year. From shooting Less than 400 sets from 1988 to 1998. we shot over 2000 from 1999 to 2008. And the value of each set was far more.

Sold to magazines in the beginning, then opened the content stores and then the paysites. Also sold to DVD companies. While here we ran a staff level that grew from 1 to 8 in a few years. From shooting and working in the house we rented to renting a 3,500 studio and office. And bought our house with cash.

Nearly 3 years after devastating events that made us decide to close down production and effectively let the business run on auto pilot we still make money. Eva's accident, my cancer and the demise of our main market would of put most of you out of business. We still carry on.

For a dumb guy who never adapted, not a bad CV.

And I didn't even mention getting $3,000 for an afternoons shoot.

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Paul Markham

But I didn't open a paysite in 1998 and become a big paysite owner.

And that in those who have only one string to their bow makes me a failure, has been, never been and a person who couldn't adapt.

I did however point out to many that building sites with shit content from people who couldn't sell in any other market and paying affiliates a fortune to sell to people wanting porn. Would lead to disaster.

Still what a failure I've been.

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