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Hey guys...back in 2001 and 2002 people were screaming that sales were off and the "industry" was through. Problem was they were all pushing the old Max Cash and ARS stuff. What they didn't realize was that "Reality" sites were taking off like a motherfucker. Nasty Dollars was large and in charge. But to hear the majority of the webmasters the "industry" was dead.
mynameisjim, you made a good point. But what if you reversed that line of thinking? Perhaps the sales you are doing IS representative of the "industry".
I can't sell a damn membership to save my soul to any of the big generic "mega-sites" anymore. That shit is all over the tubes. Yet, my claudia-marie.com site is growing and growing.
Just like in 2002, I didn't base any conclusions about the "industry" on sales to programs that had fallen out of favor. I simply looked to the next big thing. The big thing then was "reality" sites.
In actuality...2001 and 2002 were HUGE moneymaking years in this "industry"...but about half of the guys that had been making good money the previous 5 years just didn't change it up. They stuck to their old pop-ups, and 404 traps and kept building those stupid little "Freesites" that were just a warning page and then a couple of pics with a link to the site...and then when they couldn't make money anymore they declared the "industry" dead.
It wasn't. And it isn't. You just need to think like a surfer. Yes, you can go to the tube and torrents and see a shitload of free porn.
So what you should do is go there and see which ones of the affiliate programs you use are all over the place for free. Then take a close look at the remaining affiliate programs.
Which ones have EXCLUSIVE content, member interaction, and have protected their content and kept it off of the tubes and torrents? And if it's a niche...then it's pure gold.
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