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Old 03-11-2004, 05:58 PM  
Paul Markham
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Originally posted by Fletch XXX


People need to remember the online side of the adult industry is not the WHOLE industry.

Content providers should always be doing print work and not just selling content online.

80% of the guys shooting content for the net could not shoot for magazines. Most of them want slides and they would not know where to start shooting/lighting for slides. Then the actual content requirement would be way beyond them. Let's face it, what the net accepts as content editors mostly would laugh at.

But not all content providers are suffering. Our sales continue to go one way and that's up, on both sites.

The clients buying from www.paulmarkham.com where we have the newer and better stuff. Are coming back week after week, as soon as we send a newsletter we get sales. On www.bargainbasementcontent.com, our blowout content site we also get regular sales but smaller amounts and from more people.

IMHO what has happened is the surfer has found the sites who can spot/produce the good stuff and largely ignoring the sites buying from Content Providers for the wrong reasons. The surfer does not care if you bought it from a cool guy for $5, he's interested in whether he can jerk off to it. Sites with poor quality porn are left to buy blow outs and the spiral of decline is set.

In a year or so the content producing business will turn around and paysites will have to pay more for better content and those who produce it will be in the driving seat.
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