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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
You're a marketing man. So point out the flaw in this often used statement.
"If they can sell bottle water and water is free, then we should be able to sell porn."
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It's a poor analogy to begin with. A poor analogy offered to an idiot for a misguided and backwards dissection.
People buy bottled water because they are buying an image. They are buying an idea. Fresh, Spring, Mountains, Pure, Healthy etc etc etc etc etc etc. Just like with bottled porn sales, you have no real idea why people buy and what they are paying for and what causes them to buy.
You continually single out one minor factor (and a subjective one) like "quality" and remain totally ignorant that has little to do with sales. It has to do with value and users finding what they are looking for, a product that is well packaged, targeting that exact person, their exact needs/tastes and a very clear, well laid out site that is consistent from start to finish in its presentation. People don't necessarily need "quality" and one's idea of "quality" is different from another. An amateur site isn't selling "quality", its selling "amateur" and the quality of the actual videos is almost always horrible. In fact, being a good quality video is a negative, not a positive.
YOU don't understand these simple facts and one of the many flaws in YOUR reasoning is that water is in fact free everywhere, yet people pay for it. Just as with porn. Water is available in every single household for free. There is not a single person that pays for bottled water that doesn't have unfettered access to free water. So obviously, availability, free or not, isn't much of a factor in bottled water sales just as it is only a minor factor in porn sales. It's all marketing.
