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2012 04-10-2009 12:52 PM

i just googled my cock on twitter

collegeboobies 04-10-2009 12:54 PM

thanks for the update

AGS-17 04-10-2009 02:33 PM

Great :) :)

HomerSimpson 04-10-2009 02:34 PM

I have read this thread so my sales should go up now :)

Just kidding... you have some good points there but tubes sites are reality now and we can't avoid that, but we need to seek a solution how to close them or work/live with them. Since tube sites are probably making lot of money content owners should hire lawyers on percent of won trials (no cost to them to start the whole thing) and take all that to the court and take a piece of cash of illegal tube sites. On the other hand if user wants to see full length videos maybe solution is in censoring "action" scenes and forcing user to pay to see the whole thing same as on pay tv channels (free ones have no action visible).

Elixir 04-10-2009 03:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by biskoppen (Post 15729592)
Congrats to the winners

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

papill0n 04-10-2009 03:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LiveDose (Post 15729762)
I'm thinking about starting a tgp. Any advice?

use 800x600 thumbs :2 cents:

Hustlin Entertainment 04-10-2009 03:27 PM

MIS, hit me up i remember you from the starbucks.biz:winkwink: icq:147106110
l8

2012 04-10-2009 03:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RageCash-Ben (Post 15731214)
use 800x600 thumbs :2 cents:

i agree, this is the only way to fly

hypedough 04-10-2009 03:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Splum (Post 15729590)
There is not a single adult webmaster(and I use that term VERY loosely) that will read that entire post, they can barely see past the bong smoke.

Having said that I agree with you on most of your points.

Great this fucker gets up early to troll on here.

AtlantisCash 04-10-2009 04:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HomerSimpson (Post 15731016)
I have read this thread so my sales should go up now :)

Just kidding... you have some good points there but tubes sites are reality now and we can't avoid that, but we need to seek a solution how to close them or work/live with them. Since tube sites are probably making lot of money content owners should hire lawyers on percent of won trials (no cost to them to start the whole thing) and take all that to the court and take a piece of cash of illegal tube sites. On the other hand if user wants to see full length videos maybe solution is in censoring "action" scenes and forcing user to pay to see the whole thing same as on pay tv channels (free ones have no action visible).


Not true at all, as i always said, if You support censorship as a weapon, someone may knock Your door with the same weapon.

***

a specially as adult webmasters we should ask our selfs what we want?

if the answer is money, we should do anything possible going that direction, if not, some of us can keep play the game with ordinary redneck methods, but please never cry if someone steps on Your plate though.

btw. my "statement" which is after stars to the unrelated to Your post, it's something to the community, not to You personally.

AtlantisCash 04-10-2009 04:24 PM

Mis, very nice post.

People like You contribute the rise of average Gfy population's IQ Level here.

FrozenJag 04-10-2009 05:15 PM

Excellent post. Bookmarked for future reading in a day or two.

Sam Granger 04-10-2009 06:10 PM

Fact is, more and more porn is becoming freely available. Why pay if you can rub one off for free? (Wow, this tube is great, found some nice free porn. Hmm, I'll come back tomorrow... and the day after) Tube sites provide full free clips, it's not even teasing people to sign up. Unless it's a legal tube with short clips that is or it's a really specific niche and it's the only video which is linked to a sponsor. But think that's the case?

Huggles 04-10-2009 06:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sam Granger (Post 15731666)
Tube sites provide full free clips, it's not even teasing people to sign up.


Galleries were awesome income.


Not so much anymore.


Why? Simple!


I can build a gallery for a site that will have 4, 20 second clips. These will tease a surfer's cock rock hard but probably not get him off. That is why I made good money and an easy stream of income for a long time.

Things have changed when my non-webmaster friends all say that it's so much better to just goto pornhub, redtube, spankwire, or -insert name here- tube and watch full movies for free. It's the fact that an unlimited supply of free, full movies = surfer gets off easily and for free.

maxjohan 04-10-2009 06:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Splum (Post 15729590)
There is not a single adult webmaster(and I use that term VERY loosely) that will read that entire post, they can barely see past the bong smoke.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I'm putting that in siggy, if i get permission...Lol

brassmonkey 04-10-2009 06:47 PM

ok thank you

MikeSmoke 04-10-2009 09:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PornMD (Post 15729861)
Fact #10: I love lamp.

Do you really love the lamp, or are you just saying it because you saw it? :1orglaugh

Paul Markham 04-11-2009 12:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by VS_Jeff (Post 15730366)
Fact 1: Video Secrets has already had record months in 2009.

Fact 2: We continue to convert new customers better than any time in our 13 years online.

Fact 3: If you are not promoting Video Secrets, you are losing money.


/Facts

No need to spam in a thread that's talking about our future. All those already promoting VS will know if you're telling the truth and will not want 100 more affiliates taking their business away from them.

The truth is over all web cam is not doing as well as it was.

Paul Markham 04-11-2009 12:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MIS (Post 15729938)
Paul Markham & PornMD. Thank you for your point of views. It really helps to get an overall idea of what everyone thinks about specific challenges and the solutions to them.

As far as the trolls, I don't want to know a thing about you as much as you don't know a thing about me, and lets keep it that way. I am here to communicate on a whole other level with webmasters in the same industry as me, not bitch about how much my life sucks. My philosophy is, you cannot be the leader in any industry if you come to a point where you are reach a level of success that you do not even bother to research what others think or invision in the same industry as you.... But then, that's the difference on who leads who at the end of the day. For all you know, I could be the owner of Youporn and already leading all of you. (Just saying) I am sure he is reading this already.

You're welcome.

If customers are moving to Tubes, the undeniable fact is that Tubes cater better to our customers needs than we do. We have convinced ourselves we are doing everything right. But the facts say the opposite. Yet even with the facts showing we are losing few will do anything about it.

And that's the sad part. They believe if they close Tubes all the customers will flock back. :Oh crap

I will tell you this.

They will not.

Some will go to legal Tubes that have 4-6 minute clips, many hosted by sponsors so the Tube site can sell dating sites. Some will go Torrent, some will just go to the Tubes sites that have not been cleaned out. Some will go for 3 day memberships which is not so bad and some will stop buying.

But this has never been truer.

To sell a product you have to have a product people want.

And the solution in a shrinking market is to sell to more of the people you have buying, not send more traffic to poorly performing sites or add more affiliates sending traffic. The traffic pool is a repeat buying educated bunch. They will no longer swallow our lines telling them we have the greatest site ever. They've been conned too many times.

How you improve your product is easy to do, the problem is many are scared to do it. and MIS pointed out the problems.

More options on memberships. Length and price.
More content.
More varied style of content in a site.
Better content.
Live girls for members.
Open the site so the surfers see the site is not a rip off.

Because the solution is no longer getting more affiliates to send more traffic. Everyone's stats show the problem is getting the same amount of traffic today and the same ratios. We have to start selling to the buyers.

And making sure he leaves wanting to buy again.

Because an eager customer is always worth more than 10 reluctant ones.

And as for the industry leaders, they are the guys who led us to this place. :Oh crap

topnotch, standup guy 04-11-2009 01:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by VS_Jeff (Post 15730366)
Fact 1: Video Secrets has already had record months in 2009.

Fact 2: We continue to convert new customers better than any time in our 13 years online.

Fact 3: If you are not promoting Video Secrets, you are losing money.



/Facts

Fact 4: You've just succeeded in cheapening your brand with this lame spam.

frankie_gunn 04-11-2009 01:39 AM

In my opinion, your post is the most useful one on this board.

Thank you.

druid66 04-11-2009 04:59 AM

MIS, you gave me thinking. thank you.

-D.

blonda80 04-11-2009 05:09 AM

interesting post

Special Ed 04-11-2009 09:07 AM

Very interesting comments by a few webmasters' here. Nice to read something worth while!
In today's Adult market, you have to be exclusive and as unique as possible without crossing the line!

seeandsee 04-11-2009 09:27 AM

i blame tubes for all

PornHero 04-11-2009 10:39 AM

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Fact #7: Not enough vision and innovation in our industry. Everyone copies someone else's idea, that is why you have website names that made up of generic 4 word keywords that are repetitive over and over again. TeenFuckingBlack, BlackFuckingTeen, AnalTeenBlack, etc the shit gets old after a while. Can you please get some ideas in design and brand building from mainstream web2.0? What is wrong with a digg website for adults? why must every single site be a copy of the past 10,000 sites. Surfers are fucking bored with what we have to offer them, you are not focusing and spending time on user experience as much as you are focusing and spending time on how to setup yet another sponsor program with the same niche content as 10,000 other sites.
I agree with this part the most - surfers are bored with the standard porn site.

it was bound to happen that the easy money and gravy train of the early online porn days would come to an end.

The online porn business has treated me well for over 10 years and I'm still making a profit so I can't complain. I am now branching out to mainstream projects, there's lots of opportunity there since everyone and their grandparents are now online - it reminds me of the early days of web porn.:2 cents:

Jakez 04-11-2009 01:55 PM

Step 1: Get a large community together to upload videos to porn tubes that are cut off in the middle of the video and it says something along the lines like "You have been downloading a virus while watching this".. or anything that would scare the shit out of them.

Step 2: People get scared of tube sites and tube sites slowly die or at least stop dominating so much.

Step 3: This probably wouldn't work but I think it sounds kewl.

AtlantisCash 04-11-2009 07:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jakez (Post 15733490)
Step 1: Get a large community together to upload videos to porn tubes that are cut off in the middle of the video and it says something along the lines like "You have been downloading a virus while watching this".. or anything that would scare the shit out of them.

Step 2: People get scared of tube sites and tube sites slowly die or at least stop dominating so much.

Step 3: This probably wouldn't work but I think it sounds kewl.


i wonder when will You people stop blaming one thing rather then seeing the entire picture?

then wonder why Your sales are becoming even shittier day by day, i totally agree with Mis and Paul Markham's last post.

Jakez 04-11-2009 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by AtlantisCash (Post 15734200)
i wonder when will You people stop blaming one thing rather then seeing the entire picture?

then wonder why Your sales are becoming even shittier day by day, i totally agree with Mis and Paul Markham's last post.

I do see the entire picture and hate when people make the usual "tubes are teh ruin" threads, just thought that was a good idea lol.

Dirty F 04-11-2009 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by MIS (Post 15729557)

Fact #6: Boycott all business relationships with websites and sponsors that employ bad practices which damage the consumer base for our industry. I am not going to name any sponsors, but you know some of the top sponsors, who for example, cross sale a $2.95 trial membership into a $200/month worth of subscriptions. Do you think when "Joe the plumber" opens his credit card statement, he is going to be thrilled with his choice to surf and buy a membership to a porn site? Statistics show, that such consumers almost never purchase such a product again, and will always view it as scam. You have just lost a consumer who could potentially bring 1000s of dollars in sales across the industry in exchange for a quick $200 dollar. Everyone is destroying each others consumer base this way. Think about this over 1000s of consumers a day. You are losing out billions of dollars a year in revenue pursuing such practices. People talk about bad experiences more than positive ones, so you are reducing the growth of such consumer base as well.

99% of the people who cry about their income and blame it on the tubes are RIGHT NOW sending traffic to sponsors who do what i just quoted. This industry has some of the biggest idiots i've ever seen.

Dirty F 04-11-2009 10:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by VS_Jeff (Post 15730366)
Fact 1: Video Secrets has already had record months in 2009.

Fact 2: We continue to convert new customers better than any time in our 13 years online.

Fact 3: If you are not promoting Video Secrets, you are losing money.



/Facts

Fact: If you worked for me i'd fire you.

Dirty F 04-11-2009 10:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by .:R I O:. (Post 15730132)
Your sales down because lower surfers with their lower clicks. Your surfers down because TUBEs and dating sites!

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

JD 04-11-2009 10:36 PM

yawn x 10

Paul Markham 04-13-2009 01:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Special "Ed" (Post 15732745)
Very interesting comments by a few webmasters' here. Nice to read something worth while!
In today's Adult market, you have to be exclusive and as unique as possible without crossing the line!

Talking about a problem can lead to solving it.

I agree with you about it being exclusive and unique, you forgot to add good ;).

The problem is few will invest enough money, time and effort in a producing something that is good, exclusive and unique. They will shoot it themselves because a few with the talent could and survived, forgetting all those who could not survive. Or they will approach professional shooters and cringe at the price and end up with someone who churns out scene after scene to get it into a low budget.

A few do shoot for themselves and do well and a few do pay others to shoot with a budget that allows for producing a good product. But mostly they look on it like ATK, anyone who can get a cute in focus to do 5 sets and videos in a day for $1200 to $1500 can have the job.

Then spend the money on driving traffic to a site with this content in. If it converted well it was another warning to the customers to be on their guard and not believe everything a tour said, if it converted badly it sunk.

You can't make a silk purse on the budget for a sows ear.

viencarl 04-13-2009 02:54 AM

welcome back business thread :):):)

mule 04-13-2009 04:30 AM

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Originally Posted by 12clicks (Post 15729798)
another noob confusing facts with guesswork.
get back to me with your facts when you've done something in this business

Another totally useless 12clicks post :1orglaugh
Ron, how come all your posts
a) contain absolutely no information
b) give the impression that you have inside information
and c) imply that the person you're responding to is an idiot/failure?
Why do you even bother to respond to the people you call noobs? It really makes you look stupid.

xiaomaster 04-13-2009 06:29 AM

Great post! Keep it up ;)

12clicks 04-13-2009 10:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mule (Post 15737304)
Another totally useless 12clicks post :1orglaugh
Ron, how come all your posts
a) contain absolutely no information
b) give the impression that you have inside information
and c) imply that the person you're responding to is an idiot/failure?
Why do you even bother to respond to the people you call noobs? It really makes you look stupid.

because I do not throw pearls before swine and I'm drawn to idiot posts.

how come all of your posts come at night when the business day is long over?:1orglaugh

MIS 04-13-2009 11:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 12clicks (Post 15729798)
another noob confusing facts with guesswork.
get back to me with your facts when you've done something in this business

If I must be a noob in your eyes, then I want to know why you consider yourself above me. So to find out, I did the following:

I clicked the banner in your signature

I arrived at 12clickscash.com

I clicked your tab "sites", and I see yet another set of generic niches just like the 100s of other similar sponsors. I immediately decided to never push traffic your way, you have nothing outside the box to offer me (you just lost potentially 1000s of signups). So lets go see it from the surfer's point of view.

I clicked the first site NastyPinkTeens.com

I went to signup and I get 2 days trial then convert to $30 a month, ok not too bad.

What is bad:

All the following boxes are ALREADY CHECKED!

**********************************
1 Free 3 Day Trial To TabooStories.com
Free Trial to SuncoastAmateurs.com
4 day Free trial to FullMoonGangBangs.com
**********************************

at the very bottom

TabooStories.com will convert to $34.62 a month after your 4 day free trial
SuncoastAmateurs will convert to $39.50 a month after your 1 day free trial
FullMoonGangBangs.com will convert to $38.00 a month after your 4 day free trial

Total subscriptions from an innocent 2 days free trial = $150+

How many more subscriptions will come from this person across the industry after he sees $150 on his statement? Do you realize that you doing this, and 10,000 other sites doing this, is driving people away from buying porn? Both me and you know, only "the newbie" surfer will fall for your cross-sale bullshit, and that's the exact kind of surfer you actually try to convert into a consumer who will purchase porn for a long time (first impressions are everything). You give someone a first time bad impression, he is GONE!! I personally have read and seen on many occasions where people discussed how they got ripped off by porn sites and even pinpointing the site name, company, etc asking other people to stay away from it. This happens a lot, on daily basis. Why should such a consumer go to ANY paysite again, when he/she can just get some free porn outside of paysites?

You consider yourself above me the "noob" because you are doing exactly what I am trying to tell people to boycott, and on that ground I gladly accept the "noob" title. If everyone boycotts your practices, then more people will start to actually get more signups, because people will not be scared of porn charges on their credit cards.

Google is currently taking a strong initiative against CPA companies that employ cross sales in their business. They already started to ban shitload of websites from Adwords and Adsense that do this cross sale bullshit or people who promote websites that do such things. Google had to do this, because their CTR on ads and people's conversions were dropping, thus google was starting to see less money from advertisers overall. By google taking a stand against cross sales and scammy looking websites, and filtering out the garbage practices, they are driving their CTR and consumer purchases from ADs higher, and in return more websites will be advertising with google.

Are you implying that google is "noob" as well?

mule 04-13-2009 12:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 12clicks (Post 15738061)
because I do not throw pearls before swine and I'm drawn to idiot posts.

how come all of your posts come at night when the business day is long over?:1orglaugh

I live in Holland. I make my money while you sleep.


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