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Originally Posted by DamianJ
You answer my question about your lies about newsgroups and I'll answer that one.
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I said I knew what the conversion rates were. I don't believe I ever said I never did any submitting to newsgroups. Now you can now spend hours looking for me saying I never.
The reason you'll find little of Paul Markham Teens or Astral Blue, is something you will have to work out for yourself. Go on figure out why I never did it for Paul Markham Teens or recently.
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Shame you won't be delivering a scene worth 3k though 
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It's worth is based on what we sold scenes for.
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I thought that was the whole point of every post you've made here since 1992. Spend more on content, get a better product, make more money cos the customers will like it better than a cheap scene.
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Asking shooters to shoot 5 scenes for $1500, like ATK, and many more did is crazy. It's like paying a marketing man $50 a day. You get what you pay for.
Or the custom shooters are to blame and not the sponsors. They should of been working for a better market. Well sponsors are to blame for not also selling offline. As far as pics were concerned it was an easy sale.
Get the first set accepted and used, then the publisher would look at more, get your name in the mag and others would always see you. If they were on the other side of the Atlantic or World, it didn't matter. Once in, sales were easy. Editors took shooters out for lunch very often. They were always very pleased to see us. Easier than selling custom work and in it's day, not so long ago, it was more solid.
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In fact, you meant that people should spend more, so YOU can make more, and then laugh in their faces about conning them!
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Would we of made more if they paid the same price as magazines? Would we of been better off going the exclusive route for $3,000 a scene?
You're not thinking again.
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Brilliant business model.
I take my hat off to you.
You are the master!
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And so you should.
You keep talking, like so many trolls, as if I was the ONLY magazine shooter in the world. Flattering but no true. You miss the part that I keep saying over and over again. No decent offline shooter turned his hand to shooting custom in a big way. Today a few have, but only because offline porn has shrunk. Even so it's a few.
Since 1998 prices paid for content weren't good enough to tempt good shooter to this part of porn. Forget about the "they didn't understand" there was nothing to understand. Forget the "the surfer wanted amateur" it was BS. Otherwise the surfer really did change as online started to earn money. No it was an excuse. I could shoot amateur if paid the right money.
How that effected sales is a guess. It definitely didn't increase them. Sites were able to spring up for a lot less money than was really needed, members got disappointed or bored and moved on and sometime the content being used by affiliates simply wasn't good enough. Some sites were able to advertise on The Hun, because they knew traffic would convert. Others would lose money on a free gallery because traffic didn't convert.
So now it's your turn.
A. Would you rather be good at your job and earn $30,000 a year?
B. Or crap and earn $300,000 a year?
Answer the question and why you chose that option.
Or will you find an excuse and show yourself as a liar?