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Originally Posted by Voodoo
I'm not talking about "art", I'm speaking of people who are "Designers" for adult and/or mainstream products & sites. A website is (in most cases) an advertisment for a product or service or to display content. Most mainstream companies have entire marketing departments who come up with concepts and marketing campaigns that they convey to their design team who execute these concepts.
However, in adult, the majority of companies don't have such departments and leave it up to the designers to come up with the concepts, or the owners come up with them. If neither of these individuals have any real sales and marketing experience, it would seem to be a fruitless venture to even have something developed, as it will be a crap shoot whether it actually sells or not.
Sales experience is vital to developing brands, products and the marketability of said products or services.
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Agreed. Still, mainstream business do it for a reason, not just because they have the money to do it. If you want good-looking websites you dont want your designers to start worrying about anything else than communicating the idea and, basically, making things pretty. Ive been there, and once you start worrying about stuff like ROI, CPA, uniques, etc. your 'artistic' side goes to shit and you find yourself not giving a fuck about aesthetics anymore, all you care about is the damn numbers.
I say let the designers take care of making things pretty, and leave the sales and marketing to the more business-oriented ppl.
