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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
The early days of promoting porn was a mess compared with today. But that would of happened anyway.
In the days before the Internet, I ran a porn mail order firm with a spend of $1,000 and upwards a month in advertising. Seling sample tapes at Ģ5 for a hour. The initial sale of sample tapes well covered the spend and then some. The idea was to get them hooked as buyers of the main tapes Ģ20-Ģ25 for an hour. I was only selling in the UK. I had a $500,000 turnover at 50% profit. In 1995. I was a smallish player. The tapes were mostly soft and single girl.
Never ever underestimate consumers willingness to pay for porn.
Bring in a million users isn't the same as selling to 100 customers.  |
your maths miss one point called competition.
even when you were 10 and made together 5 million in an hour it is still divided by 10.
devide it by 10.000 or 100.000 who want to eat your cake and NOBODY makes money.
you are not talking about internet paul - canīt you not see that? you talk about a biz what what nice when you shared it with a few friends and colleagues and your dreams would come true if everyone who is making money now is leaving the field and give it back to you and your few friends. this is NOT the internet paul - not even in the NEAR of the internet 2018.
there is nothing like porn and mainstream anymore. i was 3 years ago at the first affiliate world in bankgok. exept from me there have been 3 other adult guys there and I got an email from the organizer before the show that they have researched that I am a porn guy and they warned me not to bring any offensive stuff.
i was on the same exhibition again last december and 50% of the companies and media buyers there are on the one or the other way in adult. without agreed meetings or a booth i made there so much business that I have problems to find the traffic for all them.
and the mix of all that products they sell brings MUCH more money.
no porn memebership site would be able to pay even 1/10 of our prices because they can not make it profitable.
so what shall i tell my publishers? letīs sell 90% cheaper to give this guys with a fucking hard to sell product a chance too?
what do you think they would answer ?
you really do not understand the big game because you never played it - which is not meant in any way pejorative - but with such skills you can not tell people who are MAKING huge money with it that it does not work. the mouse that eats the crumbs under the table does not know how to fill the table - if the mouse would know it it would not be a mouse.