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Originally Posted by garce
Really? Why, oh why.
This thread is now the poster child of why I will continue to post bat-shit insane comments at GFY.
You are all fucking useless. Not one single person here has an original idea. You're going to milk your cash cow until Google decides to shut off your source of traffic, then you're all going to say:
"This sponsor doesn't pay! They used to pay when I had good Google traffic, but now I'm broke." Then you'll blame CCBill for your failure and fade into obscurity - which is exactly where you belong.
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So do you have one and if so, why not share it?
Because if it's any good 100 to 10,000 others will copy it and it useless. An original idea that can be copied is no help to the guy who thought it up. Plus getting it doesn't supply the money to see it through.
Still in the 3.5 decades I've seen few come up with an original idea. And there's always the hurdle of, if it's too original the customer won't get it either.
Often all we did was use others ideas and adapt the technology available to fit porn. Some of our most inventive ideas were limited to how to give away porn or scam people.
This is part of the problem. So many thought or said the Internet made it all different. It didn't to the guy who was paying for it, to him it was just porn to jerk off to. The guy who invented Biros wouldn't of made money if he gave them all away. Unless he sold advertising space on them.
Still most clung to the notion that it was all different and applied it exactly what they were capable of doing as the "New way forward". Obviously true in my field, so many who faded fast continually told me we would be gone and weren't producing what surfers wanted. Yet they were and I should copy them. They're gone and I'm still here and retired on the earnings of doing it wrong.
The reason for their comments and the hatred I seem to attract is simple. Often my ideas didn't fit peoples budgets, or capabilities or worse still. Attract affiliates to send them tons of traffic. And that's been the main selling aim of most sites, attract affiliates to send traffic often to the expense of attracting and keeping customers happy. Affiliates and sponsors looking for them can now tell us this is rubbish.
Paying 50% or more for a join isn't leaving enough money for the rest of the job. Then the cost and effort of supporting and marketing to them had to be paid. To the buyer traffic isn't king. To the seller it's not either, getting affiliates is. To affiliates, if the best way to increase your income is to get traffic using a method that deters more sales than it gets. Traffic isn't King either.
In business there's only one King, $$$$$.
The big difference online was now 10,000s could put up a paysite to sell porn. Which meant spreading the money thinner than before. For a tiny handful there was a real pot of gold, for a few more the income of a top businessman. For the other 98% a good wage. Of those that made it passed $1,000 a week.
Creating a great business for the 98% was never going to be possible. Play with the %. It doesn't change the principal.