Originally Posted by Robbie

The reason I say the economy isn't the main problem is my own experiences before through a bad economy. All facets of the entertainment business always have a great rise in sales in tough economic times.

It's happening now in every other form of entertainment EXCEPT porn. For the first time in history...the majority of people are aware that porn is now free. It never was like this before. We've had higher unemployment, higher interest rates, etc. Even a nightmare of a "gas crisis" in the 1970's. But porn and every other form of entertainment broke records for sales during those times.

But not now.

I have to admit that I'm a bit baffled that you and many other smart people don't think that having the product available for free and to everyone and that knowledge being widespread in the mainstream population would have this devastating effect.

I saw this happening a year ago. Claudia-Marie.Com took off from day one. It fulfilled it's target audience's needs perfectly.

Then sales started dropping off. Rebills started dropping off. Instead of growing it started going sideways.

That is when I started investigating and opened my eyes. When I was able to download my entire members area for free in a thousand different places...I knew what the problem was. And the fact that the links were posted on every big tit surfer forum out there told me that my target audience was getting it for free.

Once I got that under control, our sales and rebills returned to normal and it has been good times at Claudia-Marie.Com ever since.

The economy hasn't slowed us down one bit. But piracy sure as hell did. That's what I saw with my own two eyes. Hell, when I first started seeing the newscasters proclaiming we were going into a recession...I was telling everyone that the porn biz was about to enter a new golden age because people look for an escape from their worries.

But piracy stepped in at just the right moment to destroy that.

Honestly, I don't envy you with opening something new. Yes, you can do it if you're smart and bust your ass and maybe even listen to my experience and use that to jump ahead of the learning curve. But with so much free porn out there now, and so many people out there convinced that all porn is now free...it's a tough sell. I wish you luck, and remind you that to be successful you're gonna need to make your own luck.

Originally Posted by Robbie

Thanks. And I like your site. I'm gonna sign up to promote it on my tgp's.