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Old 03-02-2007, 03:34 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Doctor Dre View Post
There is one thing you have to understand : There are many ways to do business, and everybody must have a different business plan. If we would all be doing the same thing, we would be sharing peices of a very small pie.

You are a small to medium affiliate site owner. Non exclusive has worked for you. Bangbros/NastyD and all the other big guys are there for one reason right now : Quality exclusive content and great productions.

It's very hard to get accepted on tgps and other sites without exclusive content.

It's also very hard to get good reviews on review sites without exclusive content.

I doubt there is one program doing 200-300 + sales a day having only non exclusive content.
Yes good points and different business plans are good.

I agree totally that the present business plan has worked very well for Bangbros/NastyD etc. But has it worked well for others trying to start up or should we just let them dominate the industry by competing with them on their terms?

Yes it is tough to get accepted on a TGP with content that is not exclusive to the submitter. If you're an affiliate taking the same content as 100 other guys it's very tough. Multiply that to the affiliates some programs have and you realise why affiliates do so badly. Maybe they would be better off buying content.

Would the sponsors be better off?

Why do review sites review a site on an aspect that is of little interest to the surfer?

I doubt if there are many programs that started up in the last 5 years doing 200 joins a day. So what is the reason for the high number of joins, having exclusive content of getting in before everyone else?

And if you think 200 people a day are joining a site because it's exclusive you're in the wrong business.

If you think 200 people a day join because the content is good, because the sponsor is able to spend the right amount of money on getting it created properly. Then you are in the right business.

As I said the sponsors moved the sponsors moved the bar up on running a good paysite. And lowered the bar on being an affiliate. Good moves for the sponsors.

Preaching we should all follow the business plan of sites who started up 5 or more years ago is plain stupid, unless you are one of those sites and have a lot to gain from it.

With our content being so saturated, what a lie that was, and running a paysite so tough, nose grows another 6 inches, what do you think?
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