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Old 04-16-2012, 06:00 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by ThePornTubeGuy
Hey Paul, You just hit the nail right on the head.

Do you think that the main problem for declining memberships to pay sites might be that the tens of millions of users visiting tube sites every day actually get to separate the wheat from the chaff? The users have a huge buffet of content to consume each and every day. The days of producing masses of cheap "point and shoot" content may just be over.
You have to know the history of online porn to understand why it is, as it is. 1998 it started to take off. The vast majority had the ability to put something up online, some had the ability to launch a site. Driving traffic was easy, there were so few competitors, online porn was a novelty and still conversion ratios from surfers to buyers was crap.

Because the two things the vast majority lacked was money to hire a professional shooter or the skills to shoot something worth buying. The cry then was the online audience didn't want the quality porn offline was selling them, they wanted the stuff the online was able to produce. As the budgets and abilities of some rose in the quality stakes, magically the surfers changed their desires.

Still does online employ the best shooters as a norm?

No, which is why there are so few producing great content and so many producing point and shoot scenes with no forethought.

These people will tell you if they market it right and get all the tools right, they can sell anything. Which is total bullshit. There example is Macdonalds selling crap burgers. Yes a company with professional marketing people, a multi million dollar marketing budget and a laboratory of people refining the product can sell a crap burger. That doesn't mean some Ma & Pa or small team operation can sell crap porn when everyone is giving it away. Macdonalds last time I went past wasn't giving away free burgers to advertise Chinese Take Aways.

The consumer market for porn is possibly every male with hair on his balls, unless he shaves. The buyers market is far far smaller. It's an educated audience, don't take my word for it. Everyone was telling us the surfers are more educated than they were. People living in the past????

A male who buys porn has often been looking at porn for anything over 4 years. He's learned to differentiate wheat from chaff. He might "hit it" or even jerk off to it. but he won't buy unless he's given more powerful reasons than most do.

So the culture was and still is, "If you send enough traffic, you can sell anything."

Ruseful, with the stats you boast I wouldn't bother marketing for porn submitters. I would just go out there, sort the wheat from the chaff. Make a deal to market them and do the whole thing yourself and get a nice juicy commission for your troubles. You obviously know how to crack it so why let others in on your valuable traffic.

Once you prove this to a site owner.

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You will also notice the low % of actual affiliate sales here. only $665.07 of a gross new sales of $4661.91

This would amount to the affiliates being responsible for $1300 in sales which is around 28% of sales. So, 72% are direct type ins un affiliated sales.

I reiterate, we ONLY promote on the tubes.
You can be on a very generous deal. Why give it away if it's this easy?
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