Online porn has been very good for Eva and I. Extremely good. It doubled our sales. Having a content store was planned to be a small extra income to the offline sales, it turned out to be far more. Best move I ever made in business.
3 years ago we were hit by double tragedies. Without offline sales and the money coming in from the content we had shot and not sold out right we would be far worse off financially. It's given us an income for 3 years and even though coming to an end, it still manages to add money for us.
Even without the demise of magazines. Without the online sales there no way we could of shot for over a year. Eva was in a plastic corset, for 6 months and after that unable to work. I was in therapy to get rid of my cancer. The recent shoot for Manwin proved one thing to me. I'm a long way from working with a camera again.
So the Internet for 3 years has been our main and now our only business source of income.
My belief is for sponsors, content producers, independent site owners. It could of been far better. Offline would of been doomed, because of the ease of buying online. Look at bookstores, Borders and others are closing because of online e-book sales.
We chose to pay far too much to drive traffic. We made traffic our king and affiliates the Emperors. When there was no need to. Yes give some away, it promotes interest and gives people a sample of what you're selling. But don't give away the entire scene. Don't give away enough to make buying unnecessary. We made a convenience buy into an inconvenience buy.
We relied on recurring sales and gave the member little reason to stay. Even in the best sites, the format was repeated over and over again. The viewer became bored and moved on. In the worse sites, well we know what happened.
Most here made their income on the status quo, so against any criticism. Maybe they are scared that in an industry that paid out 10% they wouldn't make it. That only leaves more money for those who could make it.
What they don't see is the truth. By giving the product away in the quantities we do and making it the most important thing in online porn. They turned off more customers than they ever turned on. If you convert 1-50, you lose 49 interested people. If you convert 1-500 you lose 499 interested people. So converting 1-5,000 which many Tubes do, you're simply losing money.
Warchild recently boasted he could convert 1-500 of banner clicks. He never replied when I asked him how many surfers viewed his Tube samples to get a single click.
Look at the views on this site.
http://www.pornhub.com/ millions of views. That to me isn't millions of sales.
It's millions of potential customers who don't buy. And don't tell me about all the people who only came to the Internet to get free porn. Would they of come for paid porn also? Maybe not so many, but more than who eventually ended up buying. So many talk about the marvelous access to porn the Internet proved to be. So why give it away for free in the quantities we did?
So yes online porn has been good for me and good for others. Imagine it being 10 times better for YOU.
You think I'm too old to think outside the box, to think of how it is and what ever. I think there's a better way to make money online, not only for me.
For you as well. If you're good enough to make it.