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Originally posted by insidethegame
Geee, Selling DIRECTLY to the paying customer and cutting out the cost of the middle man(Free site webmasters).Now that?s a new concept. LOLOLOL
Large companies with razor thin retail margins based on volume are feeling the pressure of increased competition so they increase direct marketing to the buyer with out having to incur the expense of a bloated sales force,any of you ever read the history of any other kind of industry at this stage of growth and competion.LOL,get a clue guys,try to think at least a few steps ahead.
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Using what the original poster said, it would seem that the double opt in list owners are the new middle men. It's not like they aren't getting paid for their lists, right? There is still a middle man, it's just the list owner instead of the free site owner.
There are always middle men, by the way. In a sense, the paysites themselves are the middle men between the content brokers and the surfers. The content brokers are the middle men between the photographers and the paysites. The photographers are the middle men between the models and the content brokers. We are all middle men (or women).
Does anyone know when, what year at least, the first site appeared that gave you a free membership to a password protected site in exchange for only your confirmed email address?