This will be my best year ever. Anyone not doing business with me should be.
I've been top of the food chain for 16 years.
What do you do now? Paysites? Affiliate programs? Tubes? Payment processing? Im just wondering what is doing well right now because my year s-u-c-k-e-d and im a little fucked and you dont have a sig.
I have been saying this about streaming video years ago and people have laughed...
But I could say from my point of view which sites are doing well but at the end it mostly boils down to: you get along when you use tubes as a tool, you die out when you fight them
I have been saying this about streaming video years ago and people have laughed...
But I could say from my point of view which sites are doing well but at the end it mostly boils down to: you get along when you use tubes as a tool, you die out when you fight them
Yes I agree, and working with tubes has been a major factor in my little company still being around six years later and actually growing (shock). BUT changes are coming in Tubeland. As with all businesses and business models, the tubes are settling in to their positions and the landscape will change yet again.
All this would be fine EXCEPT once tubes go down (in terms of traffic) where does all the traffic go then? I am guessing NOT back to the TGPs and Blogs, so where? This is what worries me now, and for 2015.
Month over month growth.
Protect your content. Even if it is a losing battle.
Streaming only. Surfers do not care. They're trained now by Netflix, etc.
Kill fraud immediately. Many reasons here.
Keep your brand strong any way you can.
Products that are just run of the mill failed or fail.
You can't stay in the box anymore. Get out of it.
Build traffic internally.
The sky did not fall if you have a brand, it just a little more challenging to grow.
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Streaming only so as to protect video downloads? I don't think there's any kind of stream that can't be easily ripped with current tools out there
Month over month growth.
Protect your content. Even if it is a losing battle.
Streaming only. Surfers do not care. They're trained now by Netflix, etc.
Kill fraud immediately. Many reasons here.
Keep your brand strong any way you can.
Products that are just run of the mill failed or fail.
You can't stay in the box anymore. Get out of it.
Build traffic internally.
The sky did not fall if you have a brand, it just a little more challenging to grow.
.
BAM!!! right on the nose and that's what we been doing and is the plan for all new sites coming out of the factory for 2015.
One thing I have noticed as a guy who has been around a while, every year they claim it is harder.
I just saw someone say he wished he had started in 2007. I started n 2002 and was told I had missed the good old days 1997. I kicked it in 2004-2008. And for me 2007 was past the peak. The handwriting was on the wall for the small affiliate. And now the Porn Nerd started in 2012 and is still growing.
I have a new product that is releasing in January 2015. It's a first to market angle type thing. A very cool play on trends, sexuality in 2015, and good old fashioned sexy time happenings.
If there are ad networks reading, contact me and let's get you an offer set up! Mobile/Desktop.
I will also buy CPM/PPC if you can restrict keywords. No crap blend or RON traffic.
Note: Streaming does not stop piracy. It greatly reduces it. If some thief wants to steal from you, he is going to do it. Doesn't matter what you do to stop them. Thieves are not concerned with the best quality. At the end of the day, if it plays on the monitor and can be seen with the human eye, it can be recorded and pirated a number of ways. Same with grabbing streams, or resurrecting cached copies of movies played. What you do with streaming is remove a very large percentage of the population that can't steal it, isn't motivated to steal it, or is ethically prohibited. The studies I did showed that surfers who saw download links actually thought that they can download and OWN something they download. They assume they can do whatever they want with a downloaded file in their mind, because YOU sold it to them. With the streaming model you remove ownership.
BAM!!! right on the nose and that's what we been doing and is the plan for all new sites coming out of the factory for 2015.
Eric you are truly an inspiration, thanks
Oui Oui! I'm just a guy who learned some things the hard way.
Originally posted by Yanks_Todd
For sure.
1. I wasn't being facetious when I said that seeric nailed all his points. He did, those are most of the recipe we use, all great tips.
2. What I believe he also implied but didn't say directly is you need to make killer content in a niche that will sell. Yes, This!
3. If you have the eye balls and produce 100 naked pics of a hot girl or guy and 99 of them are free, there are more then enough people who will pay good money for the 100th pic. Pick a good niche and don't sell that 100th pic too cheap. Protect it as well, as seeric said.
4. I believe that the consumers that are buying porn are the folks that don't give a flying fuck about $30-$40. I like Scotch, in this market make Macallan 30 Sherry Wood, not Cutty Sark. There is a huge market for free cutty sark, but there are plenty of people that would rather buy the good stuff then search for the cheap stuff. Find those folks.
5. Relationships - built them with the tubes, review sites, your vendors your customers and your competitors. Ask how you can be involved with them.
6. Customer Service. Here is a shocker, don't rip your customers off. Exceed their expectations and try to keep them around.
7. Social - twitter, facebook (kinda), Tumblr and reddit. But don't just post BS, interact. It is more of a grind then it used to be but the effort has a nice shelf life.
8. Work with the people in your content niche, they are your competition, but your best friends as well. Members area presence trades and content trades work well.
Hope that helps.
Originally posted by Yanks_Todd
Post of the fucking year here. Seriously, bravo on all points.
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