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Old 10-17-2012, 12:26 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
You have an island filled with people surrounded by an ocean. The ocean is constantly growing and removing more land from the island as it does so. As the ocean expands your island becomes smaller and the people formally on your island drown and become a part of the ocean.

The ocean represents the people who do not pay for porn (ever growing), the island represents the financial well being of your porn business and the people on your island represent those who will pay for porn (ever shrinking).

As long as the water keeps rising you'll either slowly lose it all or you'll have to learn how to profit from the rising water or otherwise neutralize it. I can be terrible at analogies sometimes but this sums up porn in 2012.
spot on. Fantastic way to put it. If this lot could control the people like they could control sheep. The "water" wouldn't be rising.

And that's what this thread is about. They don't control people in any way at all. Their method of getting people to a site comes down to standing in a street with a bunch of leaflets offering them to passers by. Some offering leaflets to a targeted market, yet even these rarely convert 10%. The better the targeting the better the result. Still when the prospect sees the leaflet it's content of the leaflet that makes them read, when they go to the shop it's content that makes them buy, if they come beck it was the content that brought them back. At no time have I said don't hand out leaflets. Even Damian with his emailig method is relying on content of the emails to get the best reaction.

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But without people (your traffic) buying that content, it stays on shelves...

True or False?
Stupidity. When did I say we do not need any traffic what so ever. If that's your best argument. Go think of your next job.

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Traffic is millions of people who are in fact sheep.
Show me your site that converts 99% of all the people on it.

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Originally Posted by Manwin
Today, Manwin alone has 65 million uniques a day.
Because you have a ton of content. Take the content off and see how many you have. And if they were sheep, you would make 65 million sales. Instead of selling at a few dollars a 1,000. Sheep are pay better.

[QUOTETheSquealer] This fucking idiot builds a childs wagon[/QUOTE]

Show us your wagon please.

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dd an irresistible offer, herd-mentality and a nifty countdown-timer and away goes your free will..
Show us your irresistible offer and we will believe you didn't pull that post out of your ass.
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