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Originally Posted by jigga
The adult industry bullshitted with the best of them in the last 15 years. If you look at who's prospering these days, it's rarely the bullshitters with the cookie-cutter sites.
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First, I did not say "bullshitting" meant "lying", and I did not say you should do "cookie-cutter sites". In fact, I said the opposite. Make unique interesting tours that DO NOT look like every other site on the Web.
(Plus, Mercedes and BMW have FINE and expensive products but they "bullshit" with the best of them. Listen to their ads! When you actually go in to BUY a Mercedes you find out that only 000.1% actually qualify for that advertised "deal". But guess what? You want a Mercedes, you're there in the showroom, so you.....BUY! Amazing, isn't it?)
TheSquealer: I could quote every single post you made in this thread (and probably others) but I won't waste page space. LOL But I have a pithy little statement for you in a moment.
Paul: No one in the history of Earth makes a sale to every single customer who enters their shop or website. Robbie made excellent points on this. It is, and has always been and will always be, about PERCENTAGES. How MANY customers can you sell to? One hundred people enter a car dealership, 14 buy a car. "Hey, you lost 86 sales! You must suck at marketing!" No man, you just suck at understanding reality.
I know you'll say: "I never said
everyone would buy..." but then you turn right around and scoff at a 1:200 conversion rate! Paul, my dear friend: if YOU made 1:200 conversions on ANY of your online sites you would not be posting in ignorance.
Finally (for TheSquealer): The porn business is filled with people who could not get a job doing anything else.
For many, this is their "last chance salon". They don't have the ability to project themselves, psychologically, into the minds of a customer or surfer. They only know what THEY like. So if THEY (the porn webmaster) likes big-titted blondes then that's what they try to sell. But what about the guy who likes redheads? Umm.....
Example to Paul about scientifically tweaking: I designed and re-designed MILF Mia, one of my best-converting sites (now) - seven times in 1 1/2 years. I tried everything I could think of to sell her and the BEST I could do was 1 sale a day. LOL She would get 10k uniques and only get a single sale. But instead of just throwing up my hands and saying "Ah well, that's what she can do, this business must be dying..." I scientifically A-B tested every new design until I discovered exactly what was "wrong" and it wasn't the industry, or tubes, or the surfers, or anything. It was this:
People were whacking it to the Tour.
So I did THIS design:
http://www.milfmia.com/index1.html
Hardly any nudity, tiny thumbs that go, not to GIANT (whackable) pics, but directly to the Join page. Now? 4-5 sales on a typical day, with potential for more growth as traffic increases. Some days she gets 10 sales.
Anyway, I now make $75,000 a year off that Mia site (including rebills) so it was worth it to me to do all that tweaking.
But honestly, why do I even bother trying to explain? LOL I've seen your tours Paul. If you had mass amounts of video I could design a site for you and make you more successful overnight then you've ever been before. But I decided you would be a GIANT know-it-all/clueless fuck PITA (Pain In The Ass) so I have never offered this to you. Your loss (literally).
But we can discuss all this when I see you in Brno. Now how do you suppose Mister Peabody could fly to Europe, fuck gorgeous Czech girls for his own paysites, make a profit and come to Brno if sales were declining?
Ahhh gotta love Paul Markham! :D