| Desirae |
02-17-2010 08:54 PM |
Great Post!
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Originally Posted by Robbie
(Post 16417871)
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.
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I totally agree with your post here. It is sad, lame, and discouraging that here in GFY where "the industry meets" more people don't jump on board and discuss it further. I can't wrap my head around it. I would think that every single person in the adult industry would be fighting to defend their work. I know that so many in the adult industry feel that there is nothing to be done....Just because we produce adult material doesn't mean we deserve to be screwed over. I've been doing a lot of research- trying to make some sense of why this assault on the adult industry has been swept under the rug. I read a lot of posts from the public on certain articles and many of them believe that porn should be free. They are so damn used to getting everything for free that they can't even fathom paying. I remember when I first started my site I put up a 1-2 min teaser clip, my host at the time freaked out and said, "OMG! You are giving away the farm-I could cum to that!" I know there are still people paying for porn, but to say that it hasn't done damage is just ignorant. I appreciate a post like yours-it is refreshing to hear to say the least.
Desirae |
