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Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ
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Paul, the problem with giving you good/great advice, less then a week later you'll ask/say the same thing. So here's my last attempt. You don't have to spend a boatload of money to get a site designed properly. For instance, having a VERY complex WPMU networks (recently) re-designed by a guy I met at Odesk who's charged me a whopping $450.
This guys specialty was to design WP themes around adSense sales. Did it work? - Yes, it took 4.5 days to recoup my investment as I then contracted him for the rest of my networks.
My point? The good designers and professional people are out there if you just simply look, but the main problem? - You as most, don't have a clue on what you want or truly need. You actually expect the person you're hiring to know as they usually don't know, but have no problem charging you "in the know" prices.
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Good designs are pretty cheap, $5,000 and a bit more would of got you a good design. A CMS isn't expensive either. We had to build one ourselves for the content stores as the off the shelf then weren't suitable in our opinion. Still off the shelve ones were around.
The problem was content. In the early days before affordable digital cameras, it was a case of scanning slides. Digitising videos wasn't hard as the cameras by then were around. Yet speeds were slow for video. So buying content was a problem for most.
Then digital stills cameras came out and every webmaster with a site, decided he could now shoot porn. :upsidedow No idea how to make a girl work properly, find one, angles, setting or anything. So most decided to shoot "Amateur Cameraman" style and say this is what the surfer really wanted.
As you say good people were out there who had been shooting porn for years and very good at it. Yet they were expensive and filling a site with their work was way beyond the purse of most. Still if Bangbus, Alsscan and a few others could do it, so could they. So there wasn't a need for a good product. :1orglaugh
And 1,000s of rubbish sites popped up that were lucky to get a sale off 1,000 views on a TGP site. Not clicks on a banner, actual people who saw the samples and then went through the tour to buy.
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Most of the success you hear on this forum always has some BS attached to it. I've seen someone post they buy big houses and planes posting BS stats just to say on ICQ, dude I am going broke, my wife is leaving me, and need help. Or they'll fly around to world to all the conventions to keep up their passed persona as they'll liquidate real assets to do this even at a loss. These dumb clowns actually bought into the life as they'll never leave it.
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Agreed. That's why when people with silly nick names and nothing of value that they own in their signature get much respect from me.
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Although most will "try" to transition into some type MS? Most will fail miserably because it's actually real marketing and real web-work. Meaning, you need to spend the time and money on the process of elimination to make it profitable. In short, you'll lose massive amounts of money until you understand, you're the problem, adjust, do what needs to be done, collect real money, or move on.
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Marketing a shit product is really tough. Somewhere along the line the surfer has to see content to be convinced the site is worth his $30 a month. All the written promises in the world will not convince him average porn is great porn. Unless you rely on always conning the foolish, the ultimate converter is the product.
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So when you say shit like, Surfers are real tough to market- It ain't the arrows there Chief that's the problem./
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So what conversion rate do you think would show surfers are easy to convert? I would say convincing 1% of surfers who see the product is pretty poor. And there's the main area of disagreement. What online porn people accept as bloody marvellous. I think is pretty shitty. You can find any excuse you like to hide the truth like 99% will never buy. simple truth is converting 1-100 proves
Surfers are real tough to market and the only way to improve it is with the product.