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Originally Posted by raymor
As a former manager of a burger joint, I know that on our busiest and most profitable nights, yes we lost money on burgers. Tuesdays are half price burger nights at Sonic and we'd sell 2,500 sodas, costing 35¢, for $1.89 each.(A $30 box of coke syrup makes a hundred 32 oz sodas). That's a 540% markup. Soda absolutely IS a huge profit center for burger joints. An 89¢ burger loses money in order to sell soda.
Now we just need to figure out how to get people to buy "soda" with their porn. I suspect Google has the right idea. They do not try to sell email related products via Gmail, nor office products via Google docs, so we don't have to sell adult products via porn. Playboy sells cologne, mens fashion, etc. via porn.
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Having a day in the week, when sales are low, as a cut price membership day, might work. We tried having a day in the week where sponsors paid out huge bonuses to affiliates for sign ups. Let's try giving the surfer something.
The advertising point is good and if mainstream industries allowed advertising on porn sites the paysite model might eventually put to rest. Until then it's a very small selection of advertisers.
However as Nicky says we can now monetise this free traffic at $10 per 20,000 surfers.
200,000 uniques a day = $100 a day. $36,500 a year. Less traffic, hosting, content, programs, etc. Must clear at least the wage of a Macdonalds burger flipper and you don't have to leave your bedroom.
I forgot to include the sign ups to the paysites featured on the Tube. Someone can do the maths for how well paysites sell off tubes giving away free porn.