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Let me take a shot at this from a different angle.
Back in the golden age, it seemed like money was just laying on the ground, waiting to be picked up. If you built a website, the customers would find it and spend money on your content.
Here are the challenges that have come about over the past several years.
1. Piracy: It has had a corrosive effect on sales and will continue to do so. However, most of our paying customers are in their 30's are older ( they have disposable income, which suggests a decent job, which suggests they are are a little older) and are happy to pay for quality unique content. About 20% of my customers are responsible for 75% of my sales.
2. Google: They have been making it very difficult and expensive to get search engine traffic. You cannot find my website unless you use the title in your search.
3. Tube sites: Even the legit tube sites are taking our traffic and offering for free what we hope to sell. This provides a heavy disincentive to be a content producer and a heavy incentive to just copy a tube site, steal everyone else's content, and get rich.
4. Competition from other producers/webmasters: Most of us have gotten smarter about how we do things and we work harder at it. This is normal and healthy in every expanding business environment and is good in the long run.
As far as solutions, Adult King is working hard to make it harder and less profitable for the pirates to steal our stuff and upload it. There are easy fixes that our billers could do to make it a lot harder for people to steal our videos and remain anonymous, but my biller (CC Bill) seems to have no interest at all in doing that.
I have no clue as to what to do about Google. They seem to have it in for us. Whenever I search for material from a model, I get pages of tube sites before I ever get to the website where she and her webmaster will make any money. I am getting very tired of even searching for stuff.
I am sure I have missed some things, but it is a start.
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