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Originally Posted by Struggle4Bucks
I started with my membership-site a few years ago. Long after what some call the golden years of porn. Recently I launched a new site and will launch another one within a month.
That would be not possible without money coming in... or did you think my bank is funding my porn? Or did you think i'm sucking cock besides the freeway? 
So... i don't know how it used to be; don't know how it is to see millions of dollars flying in; don't know how it is to run an office with 20 employees. It also means i never had to fire most of that 20 employees; never got paranoid/depressed from drasticly dropping moneyflow and seeying your bizz going to shit. I started in the "porn is dead" era... so... i started with nothing and only have bizz and opportunities to gain.
I'm not really concerned about people not willing to pay for porn!!!!!! I have great conversions... people still pay for porn. That said... i don't have that much traffic. So... i'm really more concerned about affiliates getting ass-fucked by google and dying out all over the place...
If i want to grow i need new traffic sources... and affiliates having trouble keeping traffic up and gaining new traffic themselfs. All i see are these "looking for ccbill sponsors" threads. It's really sad most affiliates nowadays need ccbill programs only because they send so little traffic they can't afford to have a few bucks sitting in EpochStats waiting till they reach minimum.
So are paysites trending up or down? For me it has everything to do with traffic. I have sales; i have good conversions so if traffic would grow for me the trend would be up! |
I think we started about the same time in this crazy paysite business (2008-2009), long after the "Golden Era" of which you speak. So tho I get attacked every so often about my (usually) bright and sunny outlooik about the health of the porn biz it's really because I, like you, do not remember "the good times". I only remember the last 5-6 years, where I also went from nothing to having a good, steady business.
We are in completely differant niches and genres I think so it's interesting we have some of the same issues. My conversions are excellent and I would compare them to many successful websites out there. But growing traffic without buying it is a challenge, a DAILY challenge, and harder now than ever. Having said that, I have raised my traffic about 20% in the last six months (and it was a bitch to do so) so I am seeing sales increase, therefore I am "growing". As easily and as quickly as I would have ten years ago? Most certainly not. But fuck, I wish The Beatles were still together, too. I'm sure 1968 was a much more thrilling and interesting year than 2013 was.
So the fuck WHAT? I live in the NOW, and my credit card bills and mortgage certainly does, so that's ALL I concern myself with. I'm sure there comes a point when an affiliate says to himself "Fuck this shit I can make more working al Wal-Mart" and leaves the Biz. Nothing I can do to help them stay, not really, so it's bye-bye Affiliate #238 or whatever. Let's focus on the ones we do have and try to find new ones...
It's a Struggle for Bucks, what can I say? LOL
