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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Sitting here tapping away at the computer for a few hours every day, instead of GFY, might be nice.
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I could give your solo girls a lot of advice on how to shape themselves on their sites. Interested? As you see from the documentary I can be positive. Try me out.
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building a community to follow me and my exploits over the years. That I could do. Not doing anything more than just post.
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your friend Damian attracts marketing clients by writing a blog. its a good approach and allows potential customers a way to get to know you. once you have a platform for your ideas, then you just have to contact site owners. many would pay a fee to improve their sales or retention, and there are tens of thousands of sites out there. convincing them to give you money would be a good use of your typing skills
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
plsureking showed a site that displays the right way to go about it.
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when the big porn crash of 2008 started happening, i was a webmaster for 1 big client and just a few other small fries. the big guy - MattsModels - had stopped working on his site for almost a year so he could work on his surfing and drumming. when the crash happened, his sales and retention tanked and he started bleeding money fast.
the crash was mainly due to the recession, not tubes, although the tubes did help give surfers a way to satisfy their needs when there was no longer any credit floating around.
As sales dropped month after month, Matt decided the best course of action would be to lock me out of the servers and go silent, rather than keep paying my high wages. He stopped updating the site, did a 404 job on his MattsMoney cash program (screwing lots of affiliates), and moved into the spare bedroom of one of his ex-models.
The result for me was that Matt fucked me out of $18k in back invoices and i lost my main source of income. since i had been charging appropriately high prices for at least 5 years prior, i had about a year of savings in the bank. that's when i started PornCMS. looking at the market, and knowing that generic porn was now dead, i knew i needed to focus on solo models and small niches. the other cms makers didn't see this opportunity and i grew very fast. last year i noticed that gay solo was getting huge so i started hitting that market hard. now i've got hundreds of sites on my servers paying me every month and i sell full licenses every month too.
when Matt's site went broke i tried to find him a buyer (so he could pay me). i found a German group willing to pay current market value (about $150k), but Matt wanted 10x more. his reason was that he spent 10 years of sweat and tears shooting the content and so he thought it was worth more. emotional pricing. now the site is nothing, his content is worth nothing, and he is broke. he could have easily opened 10 solo model sites in 2007-2008 (when i suggested it) and he would still be the "king of amateurs".
success in porn has always been about seeing the opportunities in the market and going after them. those that dwell on the past have always been hurt. those that only follow the leaders never make much. you have to look forward, not back.
damn that was long lol...