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Originally Posted by AdultPornMasta
You know, Paul, I'm thinking that your suggestion may well indeed be a viable business model with tons of profit.
What is to stop a small company from doing the same?
I am going to research this and get back to you.
Thank you for you input.
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The problem with a small company is the small money it can raise. Think of it like this.
A surfer can join a big Manwin site with 5,000 great scenes or a small site with 50. What amount of free content can a small company put out, how much traffic will they get, how great can their tour be, how much will they convert and retain and what will their % of profit be on each $30?
If the small company can get around this by producing something better than a big Manwin site, they have a chance. If not they are going to struggle.
This will always be the problem, can you afford to employ or team up with a top class shooter who wants $3,000 a solo girl scene, wants to shoot 250 a year and fund him for a year to kick the site off if you're starting from scratch? And that only gives you 5 updates a week, you would need 2 or 3 of these to go up against.
And this has been the problem for 95% of the sites for years. Now the competing and better paying markets are gone a few can afford to employ or commission top shooters. Small companies can't.
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Originally Posted by ravo
That's what I meant too. Paul, you're forgetting that there are free market forces at play here. For each one large company wants to take away "free content to affiliates" there will be dozens of smaller, hungrier companies willing to provide it. Once the "free content for traffic" model was introduced, there's no going back. You can't put the genie back in the bottle.
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And you're forgetting the bloody obvious, read the above. Surfers are people not sheep.