Every now and then --- actually pretty often ? some nutter comes along and says, ?There's no money anymore in porn?. ?The industry's dead?. ?Time to abandon ship?. Etc. Etc.
The main reason he'll give for this is...there's too much free content (due to tube sites and amateur producers).
It makes me want to face palm.
Let's get this right out of the way now.
Mainstream markets aren't any different! Every other blogger is giving away tons of good content, free ebooks, free videos,etc..
The internet is awash with quality free content.
No matter your market...you're going to have to overcome this.
How?
Salesmanship. Positioning. Marketing.
You have to increase the perceived value to the extent that people are willing to part with their money.
It's the exact same in adult.
A lot of guys say you can't make money producing vanilla porn. It's gotta be Japanese midgets fucking unicorns or something in order to convert. And I say...bullshit.
You just need to stop marketing vanilla porn as...vanilla porn. Find your unique value proposition. Create it out of thin air.
Again, it's all about increasing people's perception of value. The reality is irrelevant.
It amazes me how much doom and gloom there is in the adult industry.
If anything, you guys have two ENORMOUS advantages.
1. There's a guaranteed, everlasting, ever-growing market of horny people.
2. The vast majority of entrepreneurs and small businessmen would never get their hands dirty in porn. Whether they're afraid of what their family might think, or that God might smite them...that's a huge barrier to entry.
You put those two factors together and it spells opportunity for us lucky degenerates.
And as a guy coming from mainstream IM, it astounds me how much money a lot of adult webmasters are leaving on the table.
You all have traffic and email lists that'd make guys in other industries drool over their keyboards.
The opportunity to make boatloads of cash --- is still out there.
So I just wanted to tell you guys, ?Keep your chins up?. And to the naysayers...fuck off.
Peace out,
Julian
The main reason he'll give for this is...there's too much free content (due to tube sites and amateur producers).
It makes me want to face palm.
Let's get this right out of the way now.
Mainstream markets aren't any different! Every other blogger is giving away tons of good content, free ebooks, free videos,etc..
The internet is awash with quality free content.
No matter your market...you're going to have to overcome this.
How?
Salesmanship. Positioning. Marketing.
You have to increase the perceived value to the extent that people are willing to part with their money.
It's the exact same in adult.
A lot of guys say you can't make money producing vanilla porn. It's gotta be Japanese midgets fucking unicorns or something in order to convert. And I say...bullshit.
You just need to stop marketing vanilla porn as...vanilla porn. Find your unique value proposition. Create it out of thin air.
Again, it's all about increasing people's perception of value. The reality is irrelevant.
It amazes me how much doom and gloom there is in the adult industry.
If anything, you guys have two ENORMOUS advantages.
1. There's a guaranteed, everlasting, ever-growing market of horny people.
2. The vast majority of entrepreneurs and small businessmen would never get their hands dirty in porn. Whether they're afraid of what their family might think, or that God might smite them...that's a huge barrier to entry.
You put those two factors together and it spells opportunity for us lucky degenerates.
And as a guy coming from mainstream IM, it astounds me how much money a lot of adult webmasters are leaving on the table.
You all have traffic and email lists that'd make guys in other industries drool over their keyboards.
The opportunity to make boatloads of cash --- is still out there.
So I just wanted to tell you guys, ?Keep your chins up?. And to the naysayers...fuck off.
Peace out,
Julian
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