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Far-L · 04-14-2012, 02:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Robbie

I have seen the social networking of pornhub. It's not conducive to making sales.

The social networking that I'm killing it with are Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc.

And it all has to do with CM interacting with people and all in an environment of NO porn pics or vids. They find their way to the site on their own and it's all "their idea" to do it (just like the movie "Inception").
We just plant the seed.

It's pure gold. And it doesn't and can't work on a site like Pornhub where people are overcome with full free porn scenes and have already jerked off and came all over their monitor screen.

All I can say is...all of you who THINK you are branding yourself on Pornhub and other big tube sites like that: Well, you are...to a certain extent. But the real site that is being branded, relatively speaking, is the tube site. Not you.

That's why they are now wanting all of you to join there "partner programs" or whatever the fuck they want to call it.
Don't you think that if the traffic was soooooo good that they would do what we did with our TGP's?

You know...just join all the different affiliate programs, use all their supposed skills at picking the right footage, use all their supposed "marketing skills", and place everything just 100% perfect and make far more money than they do now.

Right?
Wonder why they don't do that? Especially since you have them in this thread claiming that they know how to help you make sales and pick the right vids etc., etc.

Answer: Because the more of you that upload your content to their sites, the more money THEY make off of the traffic while YOU make peanuts comparatively. They know they can't make big money off of paysite sales from their tubes. If they could...they would do it themselves. They've already claimed they know how.

The sheer desperation of a lot of paysite owners is what is allowing these guys to do this. First they crippled everybody with piracy. And now they get everyone to feed them legal content to make even more money for the tube site.

Good luck to all of you playing that game.

You make tons of assumptions about stuff, but the amount of testing and tweaking you did to improve conversions doesn't seem like really a whole lot and not enough to justify what you are laying down as facts - for example, I never see you referring to any A/B testing. By your account it just seems like you put something up, it didn't work and you moved on; still, you go off like you have an expert opinion and even acknowledge that you are doing your own tubes.

Having "partner accounts", where major tgps had to approve the program and the program/affiliates did all the work, was exactly where most major TGPs eventually evolved to.

Your reasoning and thinking that the communities on the tubes are not solid social network marketing opportunities is pure speculation. Your assumption about "they already got off" is just not accurate. I am not saying that what you are doing is better or worse, more power to you if those areas are more productive for you and you are able to "plant inceptions" to get traffic. My experience is that "planting inceptions" is a whole lot easier once the brain has been washed in the liquid glow of a great orgasm.

I'll give you credit for thinking outside the box and not just doing what everyone else does but I don't agree with your proclamations and assessments.