Originally Posted by Jon

That's not sad.. that's called adapt or die.

This industry is made up of businesses that succeed and when one fails, they either adapt/adjust or they need to just stop and quit.

That's how all industries function.

Just because when this industry first began in the 90's and pioneered nearly every damn marketing, payment processing, website development, management system, marketing strategy, the entire advertising and monetizing industry of the interwebs, etc etc.. doesn't mean that people in this industry should have it easy or have some free or low/cheap barrier to entry in order to turn a profit.

No fucking way.

Sure, back in the 90's, we had it made. In fact, if you couldn't figure out how to bank hard, there must have been something very wrong with you. It was a cash machine on crack. Those were the days.. But then a bunch of idiots rolled up and decided it was easier to compete by just giving shit away for free, or worse, to tease consumers by giving them a bunch of pics and then movie clips away for free as a "preview" incentive.. as if guys needed a fuckin preview to convince them to buy or not. That's where this industry went wrong. The TGP crap.. and it just grew as an accepted practice from then on.

Now fast forward to 2010+...

Nowadays consumers are fully aware they can get all of that teaser shit for free, and all of the full "premium" versions for free too! So why pay?

And you know what that does? It makes life a lot tougher for all of those tgp and mgp dickheads fail as a cause and effect of the same stupid game they started with.

So... if you can't figure out how to adapt and profit, get the fuck out of the industry. Go find something easier, cheaper, more accepted, something you can tell your wife's mother about that won't get you weird looks.

But those original profit margins are not gonna happen again so quit sitting around trying to wish for it.

You guys used to be the most forward thinking, advanced, out of the box creative marketing and sales mavens in all the land.. and now... copy and paste and playing defense and catch up.

I only have respect for those corps and players in this industry now that have not only survived for this long, but are thriving in secret while the rest of you squabble around for their table scraps. Everyone else needs to get their game on and be creative again, otherwise its gonna be a short lived career in an industry that sells addictive material that most every male of the human species is addicted to, naturally.

Enough whining about it. Do something, or fuck off. End of story.

(I'll invoice you kiddies later for the motivational service)