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I think that I made this industry a lot of money instead of costing it too much... Sites like mine are inevidable. And judging by the amount of advertising inquiries that come in every day people must be making money Rose. So your opinion that my site only does bad for the industry (of course you're entitled to your own opinion) is not based on the numbers I have here. Looking at those numbers people make money. Most advertisers renew their banners on my page. And why would 75,000 people click on a banner every day if they found everything they want for free. A paysite that offers the same quality that can be found on the web for free is indeed hurt by the free porn. But why make people pay for what they can find for free.
Indeed, there are free chats and livecams out there, but I'm pretty sure that if they submit to my site and get listed that they'll be out of business pretty quick.
Is pay tv hurt by the public channels? Are exclusive restaurants hurt by McDonnalds? Are sweet hotels hurt by youth hostels? Is volkswagen hurt by Ferrari? I don't think so. Quality has it's price. If paysites would agree with what you say, why would they have invented affiliate programs? Those programs are made to traffic into money. Affiliate programs would be absolutely worthless without sites like mine. 'cause without galleries and linksites paysites are limited to search-engine advertising and adds in printed media. And you know as well as I do that those don't do affiliates.
If we'd close all free sites today what will happen then? Search-engines would make a lot of money. So people would start building search-engines and link-sites or some other directory of what's out there. Simply 'cause traffic means being able to send traffic over to a sponsor, which means making money. So soon advertisers will start giving free previews away. And soon they will start giving free content to create the most goodwill and the highest amount of impressions on their banners in order to make sales. But isn't that exactly what is happening right now? The way things are going right now is inevidable. Saying that free content is costing paysites revenue is naive.
If there's no previews on the web anymore people would start putting their own pictures on the web (like what happened 8 years ago when I started). I think amateurpages would be one of first to see an oppertunity there. And they would be right. This market is a little more complicated then "what's avaible for free can't be sold anymore". It's about telling people what's out there. Giving people options. And trying to please the customer so eventually he'll pay and stay. 'cause the real money is in recurring sales. I know this market very well Rose, I looked at it from more than just my side.
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