Starting a new business successfully.

Could you sell Paul's shitty content? That there would be the true test.

I take issue with that statement and I'll tell you why.

1. Uber
2. PayPal
3. Twitter
4. Tesla -- Solar City
5. Amazon
6. Netflix

These are some examples of 21st Century (contemporary) marketing successes. They all involve a past-time business segment (transportation, retailing, finance,entertainment) where a neglected market segment was secured from the incumbent who had neglected this under served consumer segment. These usurpers captured their neglected market segment initially -- then have scaled out that segment.

I'm prompted to write this because of all the threads I see from people who think starting an online porn business/site is easy.

It's the opposite and people should think long and hard about it. This is 2016 and we've had 20+ plus years of online porn.

For a business/site to succeed it has to bring something new and better to the table. Or just shave off a micro-layer from all the others doing the same. Because there are others who have been around for years, successful and have all the elements needed to keep going. Imagine opening a grocery store opposite a Tescos or Ralphs. With products they sell, but far fewer, same price and the same level of service. Will it succeed?

That's the situation every startup porn site faces. Your product has to be different and better than the competitions. How you do that is hard to answer with one rule for all. Because for most people, the solution is beyond their grasp. If it were achievable for all, everyone would do it and we would all be back at square one.

Myfreecam did come up with a new model of camming and made a killing. Then Chaturbate popped up, now there are more and the old model cam sites are dying.

Don't know the first porn Tube, but the same happened. One popped up, then a few more. now there are so many only the top tier make real money.

Same with Teen porn. Barely Legal magazine, then there were 20 in the US.

Girls getting fucked in cars, leg sex, big tits, gonzo, reality, POV, and so on.

The last thing the consumer needs is another site doing what 100s of other sites do.

No one does it "the old way" that is the equivalent of opening a VHS rental store. You evolve or you die. Has been that way since the Earth was formed.

Selling "content" has gone the way of the dinosaur, selling "perception" now that is alive and well, Ask Microsoft, Apple, etc, etc, etc. Marketing of any kind is all about perception, people have not bought 250 million George Foreman grills because they are the best thing ever, they bought them because they were marketed well.

If sales were based on "The Best" the Mercedes would be the best selling car in America, not the mediocre Toyota Camery

Could you sell Paul's shitty content? That there would be the true test.

I'm not sure that I would be able to give it away for free.

Excellent post! Spot on. Many of those industries enjoyed oligopoly style control over their markets, and when you have this - what's the point of innovating (making your service better), they grew complacent and opened big windows for new players

I would add Banks and "Fintech" maybe even Fintech/Crypto Assets, that is an industry which is begging for a shake up - huge profits, dominated by a handful of giants (in my country anyway) - and slow but steadily, they are seeing a new system crop up which is designed not to fight them, but build something new and simply walk around them and their antiquated ways. I just noticed, you actually did write "finance" in there, haha. Posting anyway ;)

ps. twitter hasn't even made a profit yet. Curious if they found somebody to buy the company yet? know they were/are looking.

I still have customers who can sell it. They must be better at selling porn than you are.

So is it easy to sell average content or is it hard?

Make up your mind already. You seem confused

I wasn't talking about porn -- fuck that LOL

I am talking about peeing with the ''big dogs" internet broadcasting with the people sharing the loot.

IPO buddy -- not some small time sleaze.

Top feeding You are swimming in the muck at the bottom -- I am very tired of that shit. Besides there are less and less fish to eat at the bottom