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Originally Posted by rokanrol
Thanks Paul, this is the most interest and serious opinion I read in this thread.
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Thank you. Consider that a lot of people post on boards to promote their company and what they say is largely selling to others around them. If you're selling to affiliates then it would be unwise to say your site is not converting as well as it was. What the affiliate who joins thinks 6 months down the line is not important, but this has always beens a short sited industry.
The porn industry has for 20 years over produced the product and it all worked when the consumer had no choice. He had to buy a video, then a DVD, then he could rent it. To compete many companies rather than producing a better product produced more product for the same money. Just more boxes on more shelves.
Then the Internet found porn, or was it the other way around, and in the last few years they adopted the same approach. More product, sites, for the same money. Many complain about too much free porn, most of them were the ones spending more on putting up the free porn than on what the consumer was buying.
Then Net speeds rose, BW and hosting costs dropped to a level that were so low people could give everything away. Torrents were not a help but the big problem is Tube sites. They satisfy the real demand for porn.
Porn is mostly a product to stimulate a man to masturbate. It takes 10 minutes to masturbate. So a 20 minute scene on a website giving it away for free is perfect for most consumers. Add to this that most porn is produced for low costs with little "merit or real quality" and you have buyers who are now able to get the product being sold to them for free.
Sites that truly offer something that is different, a different blonde getting fucked on a different sofa is the same porn as 100,000 other blondes getting fucked on other sofas, will survive. you need to be able to create or deliver something worth buying.
This is a short post of the situation today. Everyone will now post their replies telling you I'm a clueless old fart. But little else, or tell you their site is different.