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Do you honestly think I would have lasted nearly three decades by not catering to what the end user wants? I'm still selling to the same companies I was selling to at nearly the beginning of my career. do you think they would keep buying from me because I get an image in focus and properly exposed?  |
It's difficult sometimes to type out everything one means and wants to say. Were we to have this conversation in person there would be a lot less confusion I'm sure.
Yes, you cater to the end user of course, but your target audience isn't exactly the same as mine. I have surfers who love amateur material shot by boyfriends and husbands using digital cameras and bad lighting and techniques. I have extreme fetish surfers who simply aren't interested in girls who have the kind of beauty that you like to shoot Paul. I was merely trying to point out the slight difference and also the similarity between the two business models.
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I specialise in a few niches, Teen, Girl-Next-Door, Amateur, Readers Wives, being the main ones. I do so because I do not have a clue how to shoot or market as many niches as you do. I also have a paysite that is going very, very well with little effort.
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Don't sell yourself short. I'm sure that if you were to ever delv into other niches you would soon clue in to what those surfers really want as well. This touches on the essential point of this thread.... it's about having the ability as a webmaster to listen to the surfer, and being able to find what they are most interested in. That means viewing content shots as content... and not "would I hit it" :D
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Very true, but do they buy it very often and do they buy the average stuff that's put out?
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That's just it... those looking for specific stuff aren't interested in "average stuff".... but trust me, some of these extreme niches, when properly marketed, can see some pretty amazing ratios. Granted, traffic levels are usually small, but so what? 1:40 to 1:80.. are not unheard of. Some do even better than that.
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What I'm saying is, if you want to sell porn well and make a lot of money you have to get the porn right. Because no matter how well you apply all your marketing and traffic skills if at the end of the day the porn does not do it you're going to struggle.
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Yes. But get the porn right according to who? That's my point Paul... most guys think only about their own personal tastes. I'm suggesting they start thinking in a broader sense, and consider what their target audience is interested in.... and I call this the webmaster's perspective.
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Luckily for me some people do not understand the difference between smoking hot and tepid, as you point out, and have to spread themselves to make the same impact.
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Finding your target and focussing on hitting it 100% isn't a bad thing, and you are living proof of that. If my being "spread out" helps your cause, I can certainly say the reverse is true. :D