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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
You assume, they wouldn't of come for paid porn?
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Are you talking the reality of history or your wishfull thinking... You asked about what hurt SELLING PORN ONLINE.. Keep your topics straight.
How about we actually talk about reality instead of some fantasy dream.
The internet porn biz came about because of guys making scanned images freely available on websites, prior to that newsgroups and old style BBSs.. From there someone offered to buy a banner spot for something on a site and the biz was born. Paysites came AFTER free porn and traffic.
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
traffic sellers need someone to sell to. The value of their traffic is determined by the value of the market and traffic. In that order.
Who do you sell traffic to if every thing's free, or more and more is going over to free. Your income isn't determined by the volume of clickers, it's determined by the volume of sales of those clickers, it that's falling. Your income falls.
And that my friend, is why sales is always king. That's where the only money is.
Good luck selling traffic when it doesn't buy much.  |
Again.. You asked about what hurt selling porn online... The future is unwritten and the same can be said of every business model that sells advertising space. As long as sites like tubes have the traffic, there will be someone willing to buy that traffic whether it's dating sites, cams, sex toys, penis pills or whatever. It does not matter one bit if every porn paysite out there disappeared tomorrow because there will be something that porn surfers will be willing to buy and thus can be advertised on the traffic sites. Yes, demand for buying advertising on those sites can and will diminish over time as more and more porn membership companies die. But everything is cyclic and eventually things will come back around again but not for many years to come.
As I said.. The industry is no longer about selling porn memberships. It's about generating traffic and selling advertising space. The reality though is that the online biz has really always been about traffic. It's just that because affiliates were getting paid a commission on paysite memberships that things weren't really black and white. But in effect, the porn membership companies were paying affiliates for advertising.. For their traffic... The smart guys figured out early that their business was about traffic generation, not about making pretty sites and thus they threw as much porn at the surfer as they could in order to generate that traffic.
Seriously dude.. What products do google, facebook etc sell? None. They sell advertising space to those that have products to sell. I understand it's a difficult concept to grasp but surely you should be cluing in by now.