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Originally Posted by Lifer
Not enough - That's for sure.
The days of making big money with porn are over.
There are too many amateurs out there giving porn away.
They don't know how to market and don't understand the f "tease".
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I agree. I make a good living, but I would probably make a GREAT living in another job with the hours I put in. I started in this biz back in 1989. Back then any idiot could make a killing in this business. The problem is that I'm still an idiot, but times have changed. I'm having to increase my skills each year in order to keep up.
You folks giving away so much free content is the problem I believe. Ya, everyone wants to be a pornographer now, and it's much easier to do these days than it was years ago, but I am always having to give my members a reason to join my sites when they can get their porn fix for free. I shoot my own content and it's unusual so that really helps.
Content is getting cheapened by everyone giving away so much. As a result, it's taking more and more extreme content in order to get a customer to join a site.
I provide my customers with the unusual, but I fight the urge to give away too much free like so many people do. A good friend of mine who has a very successful site (several thousand members) tells me that "you can never give away too much free stuff." I can't argue because he's making more money than me, but I sure don't agree. He has tons of pictures available for free on his tour and tons of forums and the like with more free shit. I just can't do it. I spend a lot of time, money, and effort shooting content, and I just find it hard to "give away". If you look at many of my sites you'll notice that they's very little nudity unless you "pay". Customers should have to pay to see that. Many of my models like that too. They like the fact that not every Tom, Dick, and Harry will see them nude. Instead only serious and paying customers who demonstrate they appreciate the nude body by paying will be able to. That excludes their parents, teacher, boyfriend, etc.
Had a model call me crying once about her boyfriend who was upset that she had posed for me. He had seen her pictures on the Internet and was giving her a hard time about it. She felt completely different when she hung up the phone though as I got her to understand that SHE should be the one upset because not only is her boyfriend looking at porn, but paying for it which is how he saw her sets at my site. This guy must be seriously into porn I explained to her!
She called him, told him off, and broke off their relationship!
I strongly believe that most of the members at "some" of my sites are boyfriends that joined only to see if I fucked their girlfriend yet. I use to provide a one picture preview of each and everyone available at all of my sites. I stopped because boyfriends were watching some of my sites to see if their girlfriends would appear (hey, I can't help that your girlfriend is a whore). I changed my templates so that now only the last 20 or so updates are previewed. Membership went up drastically and has stayed up. If the boyfriend wants to see if I fucked their girlfriend, he'll have to pay me!
Ok, getting off topic.