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Originally posted by MaskedMan
too many gallery makers and not enough people who know html.
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Over the past 4 years, half of the "webmasters" I share traffic sources with are probably surfers turned wannabe pornographers. Of course the enticing $$Webmasters click here!$$ links on join pages don't help sway others from wanting to jump on the bandwagon.
Surfers are getting smarter, processors are scrubber harding and the gap between click and sale is widening.
Then everybody and their grandma wants to open their own site(s) with an affiliate program, thinking they can make millions.
Free enterprise is one thing, but most businesses and franchises have standards to live up to, the adult/internet marketing community should be no different. I don't care if I'm slinging porn or pills or remote control cars, there's nothing more irritating than watching things decay at the speed of stupidity.
When some people started in this biz 4 or 6 years ago, they weren't thinking long term. They just wanted to make as much money as they could, as fast as they could. Consequences be damned. Now years later, it's harder and more competitive and they had a taste of the money, so they aren't about to go get a 9-5 again (if they had one to begin with). So they degraded the good traffic sources and now they make everyone scramble to make in a week what we used to make by noon on a Sunday.
You know how many people I've seen over the years say "I'm helping my brother in law or cousin or neighbor get started or (insert some idiot who knows nothing more than how to open MSIE)". - It's ridiculous, they don't realize they are giving away money they could be making for themselves? They seem to think there's an infinite amount of porn sales out there. Not true anymore. There's only X amount that we ALL have to share now and that number is decreasing by the second.
Trust nobody.