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Originally Posted by Paul Markham And they will crash like paysites did when the customers move over to free webcam and dating sites, like they did with paysites. Free porn alway existed and it did hit sales. It's now people can see it clearly that they're hurting. It will happen to webcams and dating. Then paysites might come back, because Tubes will lose advertising revenue.

There have been free sex cams in chatrooms for years and it has gone nowhere --Why?

For reason that 90% are guys "snaking" on cam -- stroking their cocks and looking for women to watch them. That is what you get for free ... Good deal for gay guys :=))

Other cam sites have adopted the tips model in free chat this leads to "sexually explicit activity." While I have no problem with sexually explicit activity per se I do feel that it should be restricted view -- that restriction being that all reasonable attempts be made to prevent minors from viewing sexually explicit activity, this is mainly for legal reasons. Also, I don't need the bad publicity nor governmental interference that would come with the unwise decision, IMHO, to allow sexually explicit activity in the free chats.

The difference is that we (as a cam business) actively manage the scenario in free chat whereas using Yahoo chat (and its cams) as example; the circumstance is that of *user actions* creating an affirmative defense of any liability for Yahoo as to the act itself -- this is a major consideration from my point of view.



Offline publishing has become irrelevant as a profitable business activity. Paul, if you learned lessons from it 20 years ago that you could apply to contemporary marketing efforts then they are of value. If those lessons are limited to the enterprise of offline publishing they are worthless ...

I think the "rules" of selling are basically static but the marketing angle in selling is ever evolving. I still use the same basics of selling that I used 30 years ago but apply contemporary marketing influence to both my business model and the presentation of my offer. People still buy for the same basic reasons that they bought 3,000 years ago but if you are still trying to sell buggy whips today you won't sell shit ... Complaining that no one is buying my buggy whips is futile -- there is no market for buggy whips other than a very small niche.

Now, if I was trying to sell whips and chains to persons of Fetish, S&M or B&D interests I might find a decent marketplace in which I can prosper ...