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Originally Posted by deltav
Also asking for specific profits or whatever like you're doing, you do realize it's like asking "How much does a restaurant make?", right? So many variables it's impossible to give even a reasonable range let alone an 'average' figure.
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It is 100% completely the same thing. (But if you ask enough people sometimes you get lucky.)
The problem is this.
I am trying to do the research. I have gone to the library and tried to find books on Internet business, Internet marketing, et cetera. I hate to say it but the best of books are garbage; just a bunch of circle talk and nothing more. So next I contacted the local universities and in both cases was refered to their computer science departments and again, circle talk. Lastly I have telephoned several marketing companies and a media buyer and none of them appear to know anything. In fact the media buyer put me on hold and passed me to their system's administrator.
I am an old fashioned business man and the language I am looking for is numbers, case studies and comparables. Terms and experssions such as reach and coverage, cost per thousand, pass along readership, demographics, etc. Basically all the stuff anyone would find in a first year business school text.
Instead what I am always getting is "oh you can do this or that" plus you can "use this site or that site" to generate traffic to your site. Leaving me to wonder am I looking in the wrong places for information ?
Now my business is profitable. (Again it could be better but it has been worst)
In addition to keeping very strict control of where my product goes, one of the things I also do is keep strict control of how much of my product is on the market. (Basic supply and demand principles) Unfortunately this means I am producing a lot less these days so I am back to investigating the Internet.
Now I keep hearing about origional content.
My question is what exactly is origional content? What has NOT already been done?
As for my productions, well I cater to a type of niche and if I started putting that on line my business would most likely start suffering from many of the same problems most other production companies are already complaining about.
So I guess I am looking for ways to fiddle and learn. Perhaps I can stumble on something.