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Originally Posted by interracialtoons
See, stuff like cheep hosting, cheap bandwith, $35 per trial join, Free hosted galleries, free content, Free hosting, credit on exit consoles, etc...
Were invented because to make it easier for webmasters to make money because it was clear the some were not getting rich.
There are many reasons why people who bust ass and really do a great job don't get rich...the above scenario is just one of them.
The reality...it's not easy to get rich...it just looks that way from the outside in.
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What you are missing from your list is "jaded consumers", "credit card fraud", "P2P sharing", "give it all away video sharing sites", "spyware / scumware / affilaite code stealers", "zango", and any number of other things that have lead to the porn consumer being very, very picky about what the signup for. As a result, what use to be a 1 in 400 business (and sometimes 1 in 100) is now really about a 1 in 2000 to 1 in 4000 (depending on who you talk to) business.
I looked at my personal traffic stats even this year to last... for month of march up 40%. Sales? flat. It took 40% more traffic to make the same money - and that is in a single year. The trend over 10 years isn't any better. The only saving grace is that I have great hosting that doesn't cost all that much, keeping the bottom line in check.
My personal prediction is within 2 years the affiiliate model in online porn will be all but dead, because conversions will continue to get worse, and the costs of bandwidth are no longer dropping fast enough to make up for it (and they don't have much further to drop before they are a rounding error cost).
Keep working on it.
