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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
So make a contribution disputing what I'm saying.
The reason so many started as one man bands and never progressed beyond that to earn the really big money. Was they were never that successful. Because they could just about cobble together a TGP, submit it to TGP sites and hope, make a basic site, point a camera at a girl, there were just to many of them for them all to succeed. The few who did moved up the pecking order to owning a site that had good content, worked efficiently, etc, because they hired professionals to do the jobs they couldn't.
It takes money, skills, expertise at every level to launch a site that stands out with content that doesn't need fancy words no one reads, works properly and isn't something any self taught programmer can put up.
There are lots of independent content producers with decades of experience, content, the ability to shoot a lot more, the money to invest in sites, programmers who could build a site, etc. People should have been coming to them asking to be in charge of the traffic generation and building great sites. But all they could bleat is the offline guys don't get the Internet while asking for content, without paying for it, and demanding we leave everything to them.
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when i listen to you explaining to people what they did wrong and how to be really successful, it sounds like a cyclist explaining how to become world champion in formula1.
you always forget that porn is only a tiny part of total internet sales. if porn were not allowed to be sold in the net tomorrow, then almost nothing would get lost...
have you ever thought about why the really big players turn over billions and buy ZERO content for it?
have you ever heard that youtube buys content? facebook buys content? google buys content?
if you still think that the internet was just made for porn you are far from reality.
you can make money with whatever in the internet as long as you are smart enough to
understand how to find the right users for the right product.
internet is that big that every product have a market - no matter how good or bad it is.
the one and only question at the end is the relation between demand and supply.
if there are more sellers than buyers it can not work.
it is that simple and well known since thousands of years.