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Originally Posted by lagcam
But as you said yourself, there were less people to buy from so I am sure magazines must have had to buy the odd piece of crap to use as a filler? Probably even had to pay about $3k for it....
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True there were less to buy from. There were few who could find the right girls, shoot sets correctly and knew how to make the little improvements that made a picture work. There were loads submitting to the magazines, few got through.
Anyone who thinks lots weren't trying to emulate what us guys did and earn the money, is an idiot.
Still the Internet changed all that and the demand for anyone who could find a girl, point a camera and do it cheap was created.
The problem was the belief that content wasn't king. By people who were giving away content, using content on a tour to get a conversion and relying on content to keep the converted surfer buying from the site.
Updates became more important than quality. So a site full of crap filler was adding more crap filler, so the surfer would stay for more crap filler.
Did you ever understand why some sites samples got more people to go to the site, more to convert and more to rebill? Clue, it had nothing to do with traffic.
But any problem with "Not enough sales" was met with the same reply. Send more traffic. Like getting more sales from the traffic you have is beyond them.