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If you're selling a product these are some things you should never do.
Give it away in such volume, free is competing with you.
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Free competes with you if you're not on the site...
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Spend half the turnover on giving it away.
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It doesn't cost paysites hardly anything to give it away - sometimes it's even free.
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Believe giving it away is marketing.
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Freemium marketing isn't new and has worked for decades.
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Make your product no different or very little different from those competing with you.
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True, the world simply doesn't need two kinds of sliced bread.
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Kid yourself "Branding" works on a crap product. It builds up expectations in the users mind that is easily destroyed.
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Hustler, PB, TB, RK, very few do it at all... Probably safe to say 1% do, the rest of us ignore it like we should.
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Think advertising (marketing) is giving the product away on a continual and growing basis. So the consumer can get his daily dose for free.
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This is a form of advertising/marketing, one of many. It's not like porn companies "only" do this with the content they have.
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Con customers in any way.
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The majority of porn buyers haven't been conned. Very few companies (like in all industries) do this.
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Thank God the Adult Internet didn't do any of those things. Otherwise the market wouldn't be booming. LOL
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Nothing you listed is a factor as to why the market appears down.