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Well the GFY has a lot of people telling stories, a few that posted stats too. And I know Duke Dollars is rockin it.. the man posted it himself, record year several months so far and I will proudly confirm it.
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Cool! I personally never made a lot promoting their stuff, but I'm always happy to hear somebody is doing well.
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I know people kicking ass today, often don't admit it because our industry is the copy freaks of the Internet. If you come up with a half ass decent niche and someone gets wind of it... it's copied 10 times over.
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Maybe. But I'm talking personal friends of mine that own a lot of big programs. And when I'm sitting there man to man with them and they tell me what they are seeing in sales, not to mention all the ICQ's I've gotten from people formerly employed and now asking me for work, I have to think the majority are NOT kicking ass.
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You had a hell of a run... the problem was you quit building. One or a handful of properties won't last forever, at least not with out more being built to support it.
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That's not true at all. We were always working and always pushing to make our stuff the best. From creating entire porn parody comedy sites to implementing "web 2.0" before we even knew what it meant...we were constantly changing and coming up with new things to entertain people. When the tubes and torrents started taking our traffic we didn't even understand what was happening. Matter of fact, it led to the dissolution of my former partnership. My partners thought I was doing something to cause us to lose traffic! LOL! The arguments over that led to a split. Little did we know that in Nov. of 2006 we were just seeing the beginning of what we have today. We had no idea what a "torrent" was.
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How many new sites have you created to support this major site?
Have you opened yourself up to social networks in a large way, and used them to feed your other social network/bookmark sites, and reached out to your Visitors to build a relationship with them?
You stated on a trend.. did you follow the along or stop?
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Answer is "yes". I was on top of myspace when it first came out...pushing our tgps. There is and was ZERO interest in us. Conversely I have pushed CM on myspace, twitter, and facebook with EXCELLENT results. But again, the things we do are a little different on that site and apparently meet the needs of the big tit niche in a different way than what is out there currently.
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Torrents were going far before 2007 along with piracy... which was just as big if not bigger, it was for sure in the media more before 2006.
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Difference is...nobody knew about them on a major scale. Not one person that I knew in 2006 had any idea what a "torrent" was. These days? Every person that has a computer knows what they are...and knows that the entire members areas of most paysites are ripped on them.
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Affiliates.. what is your ratio of affiliate sales vs. internal sales?[QUOTE]
I just looked at NATS. In the last 10 minutes I had 4 sales come in. 3 were type ins, 1 from an affiliate.
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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Everything is more than peachy.. it's super green.
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Okay, so all those companies cutting back on shooting new scenes and all the people who are now looking for work in the porn biz because they got laid off is an indication of good times? Hell, I think the big companies are still bloated. I can do everything I do with just me and my programmer. But still...apparently there was enough fat on the bone until now to be way overbloated for those companies...but not anymore. Wonder why? Because everything is "super green"?
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Not sure who that is.. I don't get on the TV much, too busy following trends  |
Now you're pulling my leg.
He was the guy who worked as publicist for Saddam when we invaded Iraq and our troops were inside of Baghdad and he was appearing on televison claiming that they were winning the war. lol