Before I post this... I will say, we did make 100's of sales daily from newsgroups/usenet. For several years, 24/7 we loaded them up and pumped out those numbers, and I can't find anything we ever uploaded today and I remember exactly where some of it went.
Anyway, Paul is full of shit... more than once he has claimed he has promoted on newsgroups/usenet... for years he has been saying it.
This took like 10 seconds to find on google.
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
You don't need to spend 50% of your turnover selling porn, porn is a product that sells itself. Men love it, men seek it and prior to the affiliate programs loading images onto Newsgroups brought great traffic.
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Any one around in 1995 will remember the awesome conversion rates from Newsgroups. Because buying porn was so much better than free porn. Today we've gone full circle. Free porn is far far better than paid porn.
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With a friend we released a set of 6 CDs and advertised them on the Usenet. The twist was they were free and all you had to do was pay the post and packing. 200 images for $4.95 per disc cheaper if you bought the 6, I think. Sound crazy now but this was 1995 approx.
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