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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
The big tubes, affiliates who can send 100 sales a week will survive.
You then go on to say sites submit, buy ad space. How many sales do you generate yourself and how many do affiliates, are you reliant on your affiliate work for part of your income?
Where are all the new customers coming from?
Do you have any idea how much was made in porn pre-Tubes?
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Yes I know full well what porn was like pre-tubes (and pre-Internet as I wrote for Penthouse magazine and reviewed porn video tapes LOL). But this matters NOT. I cannot invent a time machine. I cannot get into the porn biz five years earlier than I did thus riding that "Golden Era" to sweet retirement.
I began in earnest in 2008, during the biggest bank crisis since the Great Depression. EVERYONE said it was a race to zero. Did that stop me? Hell no! Unlike you I did not/do not sit around pining for the good ol' days. I had/have different metrics I equate with success NOW, in 2020 and beyond.
You keep saying smugly the "occasional sale". Do the math, you say - yet are terrible at doing the maths. If I have 100 websites and just a quarter of them make just 1 sale a day how many is that? Class? What if some of them made MORE than a single sale a day?
Class? What if I had 200 sites?
300?
400??
You think so small Paul. A single website is so much different than a giant network of sites. Can a single new paysite go from zero to a million a year in revenue in 2020? Sure - with enough resources, and that
includes affiliates. Not many want to do this however as there is a bigger return for many on those startup costs but it
can be done. How do I know? Because paysites - new ones - keep opening, week after week after week.
Thing BIG Paul! Like the size of your ego.
