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Old 10-20-2006, 06:55 PM  
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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo View Post
I think people had way too high expectations. Any well known name who comes out with a program is probably not going to be able to live up to the hype. It's porn, it's surfers masturbating to videos on their monitor, no one is going to re-invent the wheel here.

I do think the exclusive content thing is blown out of proportion. Yes it makes a site better. But it also is extremely expensive and most of your sites with exclusive content are either a) very small b) were small and grew over time. Most surfers can't tell the difference in the two, and with $35 trial, it's not your problem what they think once they join. If this was a revshare program, I can see the complaints, but it's not.

In the end though, he who has most traffic wins. It doesn't matter whether it's exclusive, whether the billing company is too large, or whether some people post negatively on the boards about him. If he can get traffic, he will make money. I like the designs of the sites a lot in fact, and I'd imagine they'll probably do pretty well.

My only request would be to have some more niches available to promote.
Thanks Pocket, nice to see we can argue politics but still agree on business.
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