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Old 01-24-2012, 09:21 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by NoWhErE View Post
If by pornographers you mean people that shoot porn (I don't see how else you could define one). So the answer would be : whatever ratio of producers to other employees he has.

Obviously the producers aren't the ones coding the sites, setting up the banners, tracking stats, marketing the product on 3rd party sites and optimizing the campaigns based on stats.

Where he talks about being more of a techy team means that the product "just doesn't sell itself". He carefully analyzes each and every bit of information he gets to understand his traffic and display exactly what his traffic wants based on that data.

Doing so takes alot of people and ressources, but doesn't require the people who shoot the content or get off on the content in order to sell it.
You would never call many of the people at the heads of great porn houses shooters, Larry Flynt for one. But he's a pornographer. It's someone who understands the product, knows his customers needs. Simply a consumer of porn like his customers are, not the guys who take the free stuff, the guys who put their hands in their pockets.

I've met many shooters who shoot porn. but wouldn't call them pornographers. Just guys who know how to take a nice picture or video.
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