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Originally Posted by MIS
Paul Markham & PornMD. Thank you for your point of views. It really helps to get an overall idea of what everyone thinks about specific challenges and the solutions to them.
As far as the trolls, I don't want to know a thing about you as much as you don't know a thing about me, and lets keep it that way. I am here to communicate on a whole other level with webmasters in the same industry as me, not bitch about how much my life sucks. My philosophy is, you cannot be the leader in any industry if you come to a point where you are reach a level of success that you do not even bother to research what others think or invision in the same industry as you.... But then, that's the difference on who leads who at the end of the day. For all you know, I could be the owner of Youporn and already leading all of you. (Just saying) I am sure he is reading this already.
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You're welcome.
If customers are moving to Tubes, the undeniable fact is that Tubes cater better to our customers needs than we do. We have convinced ourselves we are doing everything right. But the facts say the opposite. Yet even with the facts showing we are losing few will do anything about it.
And that's the sad part. They believe if they close Tubes all the customers will flock back.
I will tell you this.
They will not.
Some will go to legal Tubes that have 4-6 minute clips, many hosted by sponsors so the Tube site can sell dating sites. Some will go Torrent, some will just go to the Tubes sites that have not been cleaned out. Some will go for 3 day memberships which is not so bad and some will stop buying.
But this has never been truer.
To sell a product you have to have a product people want.
And the solution in a shrinking market is to sell to more of the people you have buying, not send more traffic to poorly performing sites or add more affiliates sending traffic. The traffic pool is a repeat buying educated bunch. They will no longer swallow our lines telling them we have the greatest site ever. They've been conned too many times.
How you improve your product is easy to do, the problem is many are scared to do it. and MIS pointed out the problems.
More options on memberships. Length and price.
More content.
More varied style of content in a site.
Better content.
Live girls for members.
Open the site so the surfers see the site is not a rip off.
Because the solution is no longer getting more affiliates to send more traffic. Everyone's stats show the problem is getting the same amount of traffic today and the same ratios. We have to start selling to the buyers.
And making sure he leaves wanting to buy again.
Because an eager customer is always worth more than 10 reluctant ones.
And as for the industry leaders, they are the guys who led us to this place.