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You see there problem?

:1orglaugh :321GFY

The real problem for porn with online porn is the ease of entry to online porn.

At the lowest level of entry is the affiliate model. There's not much required to being an affiliate and never was. This led to saturation of this level and they ended up competing with each other, largely on who could give away the most free porn. Yes some later went on to buying adwords and blogs/SEO. Still the growth in free porn is evidence in itself to the saturation of this level.

Then paysites. Putting up a paysite isn't hard. It costs a bit and this was a barrier for some. The major cost was content, in the beginning sites were opening with as little as 20 scenes and not adding a lot of content. Some bought non exclusive and stopped buying, then after a few years found their members area was full of "saturated content". :Oh crap

The cull was always the profit margin, could someone make enough to give up the day job? As doing it part time as a hobby was possible to most.

Well that depends what the "day job" paid. US, judging by the intelligence of some here their ceiling would be around $30,000 a year $600 a week. Nothing difficult about that. Take out the travel costs to work, other costs of working for a wage, tax deductions and $30,000 matching the wage of being employed and it's a better paying job.

Reading many of the posts you realise few of these people have earned or worked in a higher grade.

We ended up with a very weak herd and the biggest problem was everything the lowest needed to survive was laid out on the table for them. Their overheads were minimal to nothing. And we took giant steps on the road to 2012.

Today there's probably less money taken in porn than for the last 15 or 20 years. Offline which was a big industry is all but gone. DVD, sales and rental, Cable as a money tree, phone lines, magazines, hotels, etc. Even porn shops are feeling the pinch. Very little money left in any of those. What we do know is the money that was spent there, isn't being spent online. If it was this industry would be booming.

And it's clearly not. Manwin might be the biggest company in online porn. Still no one knows for sure how big they are. Fabian told us he had a 9 figure sum by Wall Street bankers or investors to invest. 4 + months after announcing it has anyone seen him spending it? Manwin must be keeping very quiet or the investors are patient.

Still we have papill0n, B.Barnato, ottopottomouse, Cherry7, DamianJ, TheSquealer, to tell us how much they know and how little I know. as they post without giving a clue what they really know. Guys on $30,000 a year. Banging a keyboard from their spare room?

who knows.

Go on guys waste more time replying to me. I'm going to work in the garden.

I always find this "sales method" retarded as hell, same as "whats your budget" question. That is just WRONG.

I'm asking for a quote because:
a) I obviously can't do/make it myself
b) Am not familiar with the subject

That kinda implies I do not know the expenses for it nor what should the expected profit margin be for it, and then again as a customer - I always want to pay less.

So to shorten this shit up..
Why the fuck didn't you just tell the guy its xyz$ per photo set, xyz$ per video, THEN proceed with bartering and option explaining if that is even needed?

Because he has no idea at all about even the most basic of sales techniques.

I don't shoot any more.
I didn't shoot custom much unless it's for a decent price.
I don't have Asian girls and if I did I would ask for top dollar.

I was just seeing what this guy thought this content was worth or what he was willing to pay.

SIK Only in this business would a person reply with a post stating he was going into something he doesn't know the price of, hasn't thought it through properly, doesn't know what's involved or cost to create the product, doesn't have a budget, doesn't know the profit margin, starts talking about cutting costs before establishing the quality of the product and always wants to pay less.

Met Art are who they are because they do not run their business like that.

In this business, no one questions your mistakes. I do.

discuss please

SIK and others.

This is the way it works in most businesses. If a company works in one field of an industry and wants to move into another. It does a lot of research, creates a business plan, sets out a strategy to obtain the product, market and sell the product, then launches the whole thing.

It doesn't send random emails to people they have no clue can create the product and ask for a price without setting out a lot more criteria.

I'm sure you know what it takes to create voyeur content, what the profit margin is between great voyeur and mediocre voyeur content. If you want to go into the Asian Met Art level. Do some research first.

:2 cents:

The whole 'depends on what you will pay for it' thing is some complete bullshit. It sounds like he wanted some content that has already been shot anyway, and wants a price for it. It seems like other content producers in this thread agree with the buyers prices never coming close to their production costs, fine. But what do you expect when you ask them to come up with the price? You expect them to be generous?

Anyway, you mentioned something about "egotistical thinking". LOL of the century. Paul you need to look at every post you make and think to yourself "am I being a hypocrite?". I honestly guarantee 95% of your posts would never happen were you to do this.

in conclusion

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Sorry about the model's luck. They should demand more money.

But that is how exploitation works. The people who do not know their worth or can not do anything about it, works for much cheaper than they should while the producer and the owner of the material making all the profits. That applies to porn just as much as it does to shoes and furniture.


That is correct. Too many people can take photos.

However, amateur content is hot for a reason. They don't want "pros" taking photos. And there are more of them than there are pros. And it sells just as well.

There is a nut for every bolt.

It's to show the person on ignore they are wasting their time with you.


This is the truth. But as much as that is bad for professionals, it is great for the amateur market.


We do have a weak herd and it has been thinning and will continue to do so.

I don't have the figures to back it up, but I'm not sure I'd agree with that. I think the money has just been redirected. Cams being one example. Lots of money there. There is still a LOT of money in the business, it's all just changed hands. Porn as you grew to know it has changed, that money is gone. Now it's somewhere new. And that is a hard pill to swallow.



Video killed the radio star.

I think everyone knows the money didn't really come from wall street.


It depends on how they asked the question.

"Can you shoot Asian teens" is a loaded question.

How do you want me to shoot them? Solo or hardcore? How much video, how many pics? How many outfit changes? What kind of location? Do you want smoking hot girls or average looking amateurs? Do we need the best hair and make up or can the girl do it herself. ALL of these things can add a lot of money to the cost.

My answer would have been, show me an example of what you want it to look like, and I'll give you a price. And even then, I'd bet anything he would want the most expensive option and want to pay peanuts for it. That is 99% of the people who ask for content these days. Most companies/people these days don't want to spend much on content.

Is it that they don't understand the difference between their and there?

Please add some depth to your arguments and cite sources.

I don't do that. I take your posts where you demonstrate how little you know (like when you got AIDA and FAB statements horribly wrong) and I explain why you are wrong.

I always use your own posts to demonstrate your lack of knowledge.

Trust me, I know the drill. I even tend to ask how are models acting skills are and how much do they like to smile. The guy from Paul's email is a "clumsy negotiator" (at best).

But STILL I find it very wrong from a provider to ask "how much are you willing to pay?".
You also can't exclude the potential language barrier - perhaps I simply don't know how to ask you the detailed questions?

Indeed IT IS easier if the person ordering content knows exactly what they want, but if not - you gotta be the one guiding them through the process, and even suggesting a better idea based on your experience and even upsell skills.

Once again, I really find it unprofessional (in ANY business) to ask "how much would you care to pay for it?". For fucks sake, where would that lead - you order a steak and waiter asks how much are you willing to pay for it so he can tell chef to wash his hands or not?

Cherry is a fool. his added value isn't anything of value, except in his head. Still spot on with the analogy of a worker getting less than a boss. Cherry has extreme socialists of even communists thinking, so he thinks we should all earn the same. That's how he justifies his low wage. :1orglaugh

Porn has rarely been about camera skills. The model is the equipment that has to be mastered. How do you get a girl who's not an actress to convince the audience she's not bored. Cherry will filll us in on that. he read the book.

Is this the amateur photographer or amateur model market?

:thumbsup

As you don't have figures on what all the cam sites make, that's a guess.

Using logic, is it logical all those buying per-recorded porn moved over to web cams?

Free killed the porn business, well not yet but it gave it one very bad cold. :winkwink:

The only people it could of come from are venture capitalists. They don't gamble. Where ever it came from I expected some big news of where it had started to go. By now.


Most people never spent much on the product. That's why the top shooters offline rarely shot for anyone online. They would of, if people would of paid them to. Even the "glam" sites were using people who could never compete with the Steve Hicks, Viv Thomas level of the offline porn world.

If you're on my end of the business, you would be amazed at the dick heads who walk up to you with the notion that we work for peanuts. Czech girls model for $50 a day, I shoot for $50 a day, etc. In fact people here on GFY find it amazing or even unbelievable that a guy who is basically a shooter of no outstanding talent if compared with the whole business, DVTimes to Suze Randall. Can actually make a decent living and retire with no financial worries without driving traffic, opening a paysite, shooting custom. That's why they jump on Damian and Squealers lies as if they are the truth.

Squealer is the clown. He actually visited our studio with all the scenes and equipment, saw the office with the office only staff, met the studio staff, saw I wasn't kissing his butt for business and he judges my success on the car I choose to drive models around in and our 3 bedroom detached house in the countryside. Didn't know diddly squat and thought 8 years ago I was broke. Yet people believe him today when clearly I wasn't going broke 8 years ago.

His stupidity clearly matched by others?

I saw you were a broke loser with zero social etiquette, sense of courtesy, professionalism or even what could be described as an appropriate sense of self awareness.

I saw someone who was obviously grossly exaggerating their success online (as you continue to do today).

I saw you were in panic as you tried to copy the "content blowout" model, launch paysites and tgps (all failed miserably as could easily be predicted). Remember when you used to argue that "cheap content" would ruin this industry? Fucking retard.

I saw you were desperate and had insane plans to lease your "studio" for $1000's per day even though it was an absolute shithole.

I saw you begging on this board for money.

I saw you announcing your wife had to get a job because you were destitute.

I also saw that you were irretrievably stupid and though i agreed to work with your wife and assistant, it wasn't even worth it to know you were within a 100 KM radius.

And yeah...

You clearly were going broke Paul. You created the threads here yourself to beg for money. You admitted that Eva, who was actually the one shooting all your content leading up to that point had to get a job to support both of you.

The only one who believes Paul Markham is his oldest and only friend... Paul Markham.

:2 cents:

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I do think that Models should be respected and be paid a fair wage. I would also like to see them organize and have more power in the industry.

If a shoot requires little resources to produce, the cost is low and the product will have low value.

If we add value to the product to make it more attractive, more sexy, unique and exclusive, we make it more valuable and sought after.

So we

Select Models
Script Productions
use
Professional Lighting
Professional Cameras
Professional Sound
use
professional crew (like wot works in TV and film proper )
Buy Clothing and Sets
Edit Film
Add sound effects
Compose Music to Picture
Mix sound tracks to Stereo or 5,1 sound


Paul Markham does not have the understanding, knowledge or ability to add value to his product, and this is why it has little value. The value back in the day was that he had access to naked pretty girls and others didn't.

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you are such a knob.

I am starting a book that you will reply to one of the three people, proving your fictious ignore list is just one of your many and varied lies.

24 hours
36 hours
48 hours
1 week

Any takers?

Paul gets the "views", you gotta give him that ...

I think any mental, broke, retard trying to do something difficult they have no experience in doing whilst claiming they are amazingly rich and experts in that area would get views.

So did guys like sexeducation.

No you have to thank all my stalkers telling me how useless I am.

Damian works from home and masquerades as a marketing man.

Cherry7, his models will tell you why they look so bored on his shoots. He's just spent 30 minutes trying to impress them with how clever he is. He doesn't realise the girls he's trying to impress have been shot by real photographers. And know he's a dumb ass amateur.

Porno Jew, does anyone have a clue what he does or who he is?

Squealer, does anyone have a clue what he does or who he is?

papill0n, does anyone have a clue what he does or who he is?

Freaky_Akula, does anyone have a clue what he does or who he is?

B.Barnato, does anyone have a clue what he does or who he is?

So many people on here fall into the, does anyone have a clue what he does or who he is? Category.

Without them my threads would be a lot smaller. so I love them. Having them on ignore makes it sweet as well. :thumbsup

B.Barnato
VP of Mergers and Acquisitions
Paul Markham Content Store

:1orglaugh

Rather that then be a broke, bitter liar stealing money from two governments whilst sending his wife out to work as a secretary to pay the bills.

Anyway, was it just another lie when you said you wouldn't be coming back here because you weren't bothered and everyone here was an idiot?

lolsome.

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"Oh I hate these dumb ass amateurs, I wish Paul Markham had not retired"

Stalkers lol. Don't act like you don't love the attention. And I'm not talking about thread bumps.

My stalkers are busy

Porno Jew, does anyone have a clue what he does or who he is?

Squealer, does anyone have a clue what he does or who he is?

papill0n, does anyone have a clue what he does or who he is?

Freaky_Akula, does anyone have a clue what he does or who he is?

B.Barnato, does anyone have a clue what he does or who he is?


Add

ottopottomouse, does anyone have a clue what he does or who he is?


Jakez, does anyone have a clue what he does or who he is?


This lists keeps growing.

bump for Paul

Sounds like a waste of time to me :2 cents:

im on my own ignore list

I usually stay out of these threads, but I feel today, I have something relevant to say...

I'm going to an event near Brighton this weekend - Back in January, I was given the numbers of 3 Hotels, that were nearby, and recommended by the event organiser.

I called them up and asked how much a night for 3 nights on these dates?

Hotel A said £55 a night
Hotel B said £110 a night
Hotel C said £170 a night

I booked at Hotel B, cause I didn't want to try and stay at the cheapest, and poss have a shitty room, and nor did I want to stay at the most expensive, and throw extra money away on people calling me sir, with phoney airs and graces...

The point I'm making, is that I had NO IDEA of price, so I asked and I was told. Then I was able to make an informed decision...

NOT ONE OF THE HOTELS ASKED ME HOW MUCH I COULD AFFORD TO SPEND, OR WHAT MY BUDGET WAS...





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Paul - As you normally say - Comments please?

It's easy for a person who was in porn prior to online taking it over, to be disappointed.

1995 given what the Internet had to offer, the future should of been great.

With world wide access, direct to peoples homes, places of work, 24/7/365. The prospect for smaller producers to go direct to customers at a low price, the ease of publishing porn. With new technologies and speed of the Internet stepping up all the time.

What could possibly go wrong?

We now know. It was too easy and the entry level was dropped to a level where a "marketing man". displays on his site, why not to do business with him.

Or a person masquerading as an "erotic film maker" is clearly not.

And 1,000s think they sell and market porn because they can get 1,000s to millions on their site and send a tiny % to a website where an even smaller % spend money. Al the time giving away the biggest deterrent to actually spending money on porn.

Who thought in 1995 we would be mostly using recorded porn to sell ad space?

Disappointing? Yes given what we could of achieved.

The person you were speaking to wasn't selling the hotel room. He was taking an order.

he was basically an order taker, filling in a form. someone who was "selling" the hotel would ask questions that related to what he had to offer without revealing the price. something like this.

We have a beautiful Presidential suite that has a bedroom, lounge with a dining table and chairs for 4, leather sofa with two armchairs and a jacuzzi with a sauna. Plus bath, shower and separate toilet. It's excellent for entertaining people and also offers superb views of the sea.

A bit over the top, still it shows what a salesman does and an order taker does. Obviously the speech can be shortened and for other rooms it would go down in scale.

A salesman doesn't ask for budget before selling his product/services.

The above is basic selling and marketing. :winkwink:

So way over Damian's head. :thumbsup

Still for £170 a night I'm sure you're not staying at the Savoy. :winkwink:

Well, OK... I guess I'll give you that. :thumbsup

How many times do you think anyone in a hotel would ever say to anyone "how much do you want to spend"?

There are other ways of selling. Asking the prospective customer what he needs the product for. This can be done many ways depending on what you're selling.

Asking an open question, which is one that can't be answered with a yes or no.

For instance a hotel clerk might ask what you need the room for, with a convention in town that's an obvious question.

Often in this business asking someone his budget will tell you whether the guy is an idiot or has a clue. Especially the guy the OP was about.

Now to online porn.

The most important thing about selling a repeat sale product, where the loyalty of the buyer to the brand and mode of purchase is paramount. Is customer satisfaction. It's not traffic even though getting a customer is important, it does not pip keeping him buying.

Therefore once he hits the affiliates site, he needs to see something that is different, outstanding and fills him with the desire to see more. I'm assuming he's hit the niche/style he likes.

Then when he hits the site the expectations need to be met and surpassed by the content on the tour, not the design, layout, join buttons or text. He's buying porn and the most important thing is the product, then the design, layout, join buttons and text.

If he sees something he's seen a 1,000 times before, he's likely to move on. If on the other hand he sees something different or new or better, etc. Than he's seen before, he's more likely to buy.

Once he has bought if he's inside a site that surpasses others he's joined. The site has a far better chance of retaining him or coming back in a few month for more.

This you will see form your buying habits, in the malls that you go to, shops, supermarkets you buy from and the products that are always your favorite.

There's absolutely nothing that's rocket science here.

Online porn thought they could break these rules and give away tones of free porn to send people to sites that converted badly and retained worse. Yet they called it great, so selling to 1-100s and keeping them a few months became great. :upsidedow

Now it's 1-1,000 and retention is dropping and you see what the customers think of it. but we still think all is fine, so not to worry. All we need is more traffic.

Thank you.

I see our very own marketing man is in here with his sage advice. The guy who's blog open with a reason not to do business with him.

= I have a stalker and he does't like me. And I can't put up a blog.

I've told him that this is wrong, but he clearly knows better. :1orglaugh

Wait ! (I have just re-read your post a few times...)

But... Isn't that exactly what you did, though???

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