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bean-aid 12-16-2019 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWENSON (Post 22579405)
On what planet is chat traffic not traffic?

This planet. Chat traffic is ugly, and it's not traffic. It's people being mislead they are going to get laid. This is about traffic... millions of uniques, and how to convert it. Not some philipino saying sucky fucky at your local mcd's but first signup here...

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JSWENSON 12-16-2019 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by beaner (Post 22579412)
This planet. Chat traffic is ugly, and it's not traffic. It's people being mislead they are going to get laid. This is about traffic... millions of uniques, and how to convert it. Not some philipino saying sucky fucky at your local mcd's but first signup here...

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I rarely post here but remembered you as a know it all shit disturber. You and Paul should get along great.

What you described is some dumb fuckistan version of chat traffic. Since I did it an entirely different way almost 20 years ago I am positive that someone else on the planet has figured it out.

Anyhow, I'd take that over 17 Sara Swirls hits per month. :thumbsup

askjoe 12-16-2019 02:52 PM

Hey Paul,

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Originally Posted by Paul Markham (Post 22578598)
Tell us what kind of content people want to consume isn't on Tubes?
The problem today is all the major and average niches are on Tubes being consumed by your customers.

Tell me what kind of music is not playin on radiostations and tvīs ?
You get it now ?

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Originally Posted by Paul Markham (Post 22578598)
Once upon a time we didn't give porn away and people had to buy there and then.
There are mire people consuming porn today, but fewer pay for it.

Once upon a time people had to pay to listen to live music, because there were no radio
or recording devices available (no lp, no tv, no cd, dvd or internet streams).

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Originally Posted by Paul Markham (Post 22578598)
If you had a great product, you would buy traffic. We agree on something.
The problem is getting the great product that other people are not giving a similar
product away for free. Because a similar product does the trick.

Similar is not exact yours. And by the way. Time changes, so people and their behavior does.


If you want to adapt into the new way of monetization, upload your art on tubes and
tag them correctly. See what comes in (this traffic is for free ) .

This way you will give users a bit of your art
and let them decide if they want to buy the whole shabang.

bean-aid 12-16-2019 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWENSON (Post 22579418)
I rarely post here but remembered you as a know it all shit disturber. You and Paul should get along great.

What you described is some dumb fuckistan version of chat traffic. Since I did it an entirely different way almost 20 years ago I am positive that someone else on the planet has figured it out.

Anyhow, I'd take that over 17 Sara Swirls hits per month. :thumbsup

Weren't you the profile that had like a skipping man in the wind when you first started?

JSWENSON 12-16-2019 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by beaner (Post 22579423)
Weren't you the profile that had like a skipping man in the wind when you first started?

Fucking Psy? Psy wasn't out when I "started" here 15+ years ago.

bean-aid 12-16-2019 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWENSON (Post 22579425)
Fucking Psy? Psy wasn't out when I "started" here 15+ years ago.

But you must have kept that till 2010 or so when I first found this board... you were skipping in the wind. Reminds me of a liberal... not sure why.

JSWENSON 12-16-2019 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by beaner (Post 22579426)
But you must have kept that till 2010 or so when I first found this board... you were skipping in the wind. Reminds me of a liberal... not sure why.

Because I'm not a retarded ass conservative maybe. But those threads have their own section now. Keep your ego inflating, big boy talk while promoting the dumbest bitch in the industry here and politics there. :thumbsup

bean-aid 12-16-2019 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWENSON (Post 22579429)
Because I'm not a retarded ass conservative maybe. But those threads have their own section now. Keep your ego inflating, big boy talk while promoting the dumbest bitch in the industry here and politics there. :thumbsup

You are promoting liberal agenda in sig... can you ban yourself to other section?

JSWENSON 12-16-2019 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by beaner (Post 22579433)
You are promoting liberal agenda in sig... can you ban yourself to other section?

Rather watch you start your reign of dumbassery again here. Tell us what brilliant new direction you are pushing the industry this time.

bean-aid 12-16-2019 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWENSON (Post 22579446)
Rather watch you start your reign of dumbassery again here. Tell us what brilliant new direction you are pushing the industry this time.

Glad you asked.

I think traffic should all be directed to a "hub".. that hub be free and collect info. Must be a site that actually makes people come back to. From that hub send to the sales which would likely be cams thru api

JSWENSON 12-16-2019 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by beaner (Post 22579449)
Glad you asked.

I think traffic should all be directed to a "hub".. that hub be free and collect info. Must be a site that actually makes people come back to. From that hub send to the sales which would likely be cams thru api

You might like this new one then. pornHUB.com

Drop a line sometime if you are on Skype ever. ;)

bean-aid 12-16-2019 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWENSON (Post 22579465)
You might like this new one then. pornHUB.com

Drop a line sometime if you are on Skype ever. ;)

Damn.. you have no idea what I'm talking about. A real hub

JSWENSON 12-16-2019 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by beaner (Post 22579470)
Damn.. you have no idea what I'm talking about. A real hub

I know what you're talking about. :upsidedow

bean-aid 12-16-2019 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWENSON (Post 22579475)
I know what you're talking about. :upsidedow

What am I talking about skippy?

Paul Markham 12-17-2019 04:00 AM

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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd (Post 22578800)
As for me I have a different business model Paul. I do not shoot myself anymore but prefer to find Producers who have content they are either not using or monetizing or find non-English content that I can promote in the English-speaking territories. This way I keep production costs at zero but my profit is 100%. :) Yes it's a different way of doing things BUT I have survived and grown this way for a decade so I am not about to stop now. :)

So the quality of the content has no or little effect on you. Or does it?

How do you pay for the content from outside producers?
Are these content owners people with thriving sites or ones who no longer can be bothered?
Are you willing to take anything and send traffic to it which all converts in a similar ratio?
Will you keep sending traffic to sites that don't convert?



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All that you say is true Thommy BUT not all of us have the resources or interests in selling non-porn on porn sites. I do not own a cam company, or a dick pill company. And I am not an affiliate trying to promote these products. Nor am I interested in 60k monthly ad buys to get a 4% return (or even 10% return) selling fake dating memberships or sex video games.

So while you are correct - everyone is a customer - this does not help those of us who only sell one or two porn products. From your perspective, being essentially a middleman who profits from selling ad space on websites, you welcome all comers with money (as you should). :) But for those of us who are porn people (selling porn, shooting porn, etc) your arguments that tubes make great money selling dick pills and video games does not really apply to us. We have two different perspectives here.

But yes, when it comes to "quality porn" that is so subjective it's a joke to discuss what's "quality". :)
We agree on this. :thumbsup

Would we be making more if porn tubes didn't give away 100s of millions porn scenes?
Con a customer once he blames the seller, con him twice he blames himself and doesn't get conned for a third time. By not buying. Thommy scrapes the bottom of the barrel and claims it's making everyone richer? :Oh crap :upsidedow

Paul Markham 12-17-2019 04:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Rochard (Post 22578867)
The answer is still the same. Traffic is king.

You can have the best content in the world, but if you don't have the traffic to sell it no one will ever see it. At the same time, you can sell crappy content to the masses if you have enough traffic.

Stupid argument.

You can have the best traffic in the world, which porn traffic used to be, without content to sell them it's down to Thommy to make a living off it.

You won't sell crappy content if you have enough traffic. And that's the cruncher.

If you have two sites selling the same niche, style, models and (A) is a shot by a good cameraman and (B) shot by someone who is bad. And switch the traffic sending all the traffic to the (B) how long will you stick at it while conversion ratios drop?

How long before you send the traffic to (A)?

How long did you promote Bunny Ranch before you realised it made you less money than sending traffic to other sites with better content?

Why are you no longer sending traffic to porn sites 24/7?

Exactly, you've mostly abandoned selling porn because content is king and is free everywhere.

Paul Markham 12-17-2019 04:12 AM

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Originally Posted by CaptainHowdy (Post 22578894)
Those top sites grew on traffic . . . Demand bettered the quality of that content.

So the top sites grew there traffic, how? By having lots of back links, affiliates sending traffic to them when it didn't convert? :1orglaugh

Affiliates are the ones who say traffic is king, but tell them they won't be getting free samples they can give away, tell them the TGPs are crap and won't get listed, convert their traffic worse than another site and watch as the traffic falls.

Paul Markham 12-17-2019 04:21 AM

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Originally Posted by askjoe (Post 22579420)
Hey Paul,



Tell me what kind of music is not playin on radiostations and tvīs ?
You get it now ?

So musicians and actors are paid for turning up and not the quality of their work?

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Once upon a time people had to pay to listen to live music, because there were no radio
or recording devices available (no lp, no tv, no cd, dvd or internet streams).

Similar is not exact yours. And by the way. Time changes, so people and their behavior does.
Once upon a time????

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If you want to adapt into the new way of monetization, upload your art on tubes and
tag them correctly. See what comes in (this traffic is for free ) .

This way you will give users a bit of your art
and let them decide if they want to buy the whole shabang.
Is it the traffic you send or the content on the site that makes a surfer decide whether to buy? Do you promote sites that don't convert? Does all traffic, in one niche, convert at a similar ratio or are sites converting at different ratios?

thommy 12-17-2019 04:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Paul Markham (Post 22579636)
Stupid argument.

You can have the best traffic in the world, which porn traffic used to be, without content to sell them it's down to Thommy to make a living off it.

You won't sell crappy content if you have enough traffic. And that's the cruncher.


why are you always talking about content?
what is the "content" on a dating site i.e ?
a beautiful young girl or an old fat lady?

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If you have two sites selling the same niche, style, models and (A) is a shot by a good cameraman and (B) shot by someone who is bad. And switch the traffic sending all the traffic to the (B) how long will you stick at it while conversion ratios drop?

How long before you send the traffic to (A)?

ohhh actually you got it correct so replace A with a porn membersite and B with whatever other product that sells better, brings higher profits and have a bigger interest group.

if you have 100.000 potential buyers on a site and only 1000 of them spend 100 dollars per year for porn but ALL others spend 10 dollars for something else - WHERE is the bigger market ?

you should really learn to use a calculater if you can not use your brain.

OldJeff 12-17-2019 04:37 AM

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Originally Posted by beaner (Post 22579350)
You shouldn't post chat sales in a traffic or content thread. Chat sales do not require content, nor traffic... just chat affiliates. And with the $35 fee associated with each chargeback... it's getting really ugly.

Not a chat sale in there

thommy 12-17-2019 05:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Paul Markham (Post 22579646)
So musicians and actors are paid for turning up and not the quality of their work?

tell me what music you hate and i will send you a list of multi millionairs that made ist with this "crap".

JSWENSON 12-17-2019 06:29 AM

Can someone get Paul to break down how stupid Netflix is to have content that cost hundreds of billions to produce and to give it away so cheap?

Or maybe he can break down NBC giving it all away for free.

MaDalton 12-17-2019 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Paul Markham (Post 22579646)
So musicians and actors are paid for turning up and not the quality of their work?

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no further comment needed

JSWENSON 12-17-2019 08:54 AM

Why does amazon sell shit so cheap? Do you know how much money booksellers made before these assholes just gave them away?

The Porn Nerd 12-17-2019 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Paul Markham (Post 22579635)
So the quality of the content has no or little effect on you. Or does it?

How do you pay for the content from outside producers?
Are these content owners people with thriving sites or ones who no longer can be bothered?
Are you willing to take anything and send traffic to it which all converts in a similar ratio?
Will you keep sending traffic to sites that don't convert?

How do you pay for the content from outside producers?
I send them money via PayPal or credit card.

Are these content owners people with thriving sites or ones who no longer can be bothered?
Both. Some have stopped shooting but have a library of content they want to monetize while others film but do so in non-English speaking territories and want a 'western' or English-speaking online presence. Win-win.

Are you willing to take anything and send traffic to it which all converts in a similar ratio?
This is called the 'testing phase' where you send traffic to a new site and see if it converts. If it does not then you play around with the design a few times. If it still does not convert then yes you move on. Understand also that not every site converts 'in a similar ratio'.

So here's the thing Paul: sometimes you simply cannot tell what will convert until you throw traffic at it and it doesn't matter what I think is 'quality content' or not. I had a site recently with some of the best 4K content I have ever seen. Beautifully shot, incredible lighting, music and editing. The girls were gorgeous. The site name (which I always create) was stellar. Guess what? We did a sale or two a week until after two years the guy pulled the site.

Now at the same exact time I launched what I considered to be pure shit content. Old, SD, big '80's-style hair, bad lighting, fake-looking MILFs and burned-out crack whores. Guess what? It's one of my most consistent sites, selling about 20 full Memberships (no trials) a week. So go figure. This is why you always test, test, test.

Will you keep sending traffic to sites that don't convert?
Obviously not - but here's something I have noticed, which is why I do not give up too quickly on a new site: for whatever reason there seems to be what I call "Internet lag time". Meaning, sometimes you send traffic to a site for months and it converts like shit (or not at all). But then suddenly, magically, it begins to convert! Sometimes a slow build until it reaches a plateau and other times ZOOM out of nowhere. Of course, it may never convert well like the example above. But these days my time frame for working a site has grown to over a year minimum before I deem it a 'failure' or not worth my time.

JSWENSON 12-17-2019 02:35 PM

6-12 months for Google to give authority to a site in most cases.

Paul Markham 12-18-2019 03:08 AM

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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd (Post 22579854)
How do you pay for the content from outside producers?
I send them money via PayPal or credit card.

You send them money before you puttheir content online or after and a split of what you take?

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Are these content owners people with thriving sites or ones who no longer can be bothered?
Both. Some have stopped shooting but have a library of content they want to monetize while others film but do so in non-English speaking territories and want a 'western' or English-speaking online presence. Win-win.
So mostly people who no longer find it profitable to send their own traffic. You putting their content into a huge bundle allows them to make some money.

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Are you willing to take anything and send traffic to it which all converts in a similar ratio?
This is called the 'testing phase' where you send traffic to a new site and see if it converts. If it does not then you play around with the design a few times. If it still does not convert then yes you move on. Understand also that not every site converts 'in a similar ratio'.
So the content determines the sales and therefore the traffic. Why don't you agree with me from the beginning. Content is king. Because if traffic was,just sending it would determine sales.

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So here's the thing Paul: sometimes you simply cannot tell what will convert until you throw traffic at it and it doesn't matter what I think is 'quality content' or not. I had a site recently with some of the best 4K content I have ever seen. Beautifully shot, incredible lighting, music and editing. The girls were gorgeous. The site name (which I always create) was stellar. Guess what? We did a sale or two a week until after two years the guy pulled the site.
So something about the content turned viewers off and you're not able to see it and assume everyone isn't able to see it. Send me a link and maybe I can tell you why it turns people off. Because the viewers need more than being sent to a site to make them buy, you just can't see what they can and assume everyone couldn't. But surfers can. Agreeing with me once again content is king.

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Now at the same exact time I launched what I considered to be pure shit content. Old, SD, big '80's-style hair, bad lighting, fake-looking MILFs and burned-out crack whores. Guess what? It's one of my most consistent sites, selling about 20 full Memberships (no trials) a week. So go figure. This is why you always test, test, test.
Agreeing with me once again content is king.

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Will you keep sending traffic to sites that don't convert?
Obviously not - but here's something I have noticed, which is why I do not give up too quickly on a new site: for whatever reason there seems to be what I call "Internet lag time". Meaning, sometimes you send traffic to a site for months and it converts like shit (or not at all). But then suddenly, magically, it begins to convert! Sometimes a slow build until it reaches a plateau and other times ZOOM out of nowhere. Of course, it may never convert well like the example above. But these days my time frame for working a site has grown to over a year minimum before I deem it a 'failure' or not worth my time.
Agreeing with me once again content is king.

Content is the deciding factor in whether a site converts, affiliates send traffic and the business makes money.

PN does agree with me content is king. Throwing more traffic at a site that has bad content doesn't solve the situation. Getting better content does solve the situation.

Paul Markham 12-18-2019 03:21 AM

Most of you agree with PN that sending traffic doesn't determine the success or failure of a site. Upgrading the content does determine the success or failure of a site, so long as you don't over spend on the content.

That's the cruncher. Since day one the Internet has largely been unable to pay what offline pays for content.The exceptions are those with in house content producers usually partners or bosses. No one paid consistently what magazines or DVD companies paid for the product. Until online killed off offline and removed the option.

Unless you pay the top producers the right money you will never get the content needed to turn a surfer into a member, get him to stay a member and to return. Just sending more traffic doesn't change the situation.

Today who works at sending traffic to sites that don't convert, who works at sending traffic to porn sites like they did in 2006. What's changed? Tubes have arrived with 100,000s of free videos and the traffic followed the content.

If traffic were king, content would still get the same traffic, still convert the same and you wouldn't be changing how you work.

thommy 12-18-2019 04:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Paul Markham (Post 22580111)
Most of you agree with PN that sending traffic doesn't determine the success or failure of a site. Upgrading the content does determine the success or failure of a site, so long as you don't over spend on the content.

That's the cruncher. Since day one the Internet has largely been unable to pay what offline pays for content.The exceptions are those with in house content producers usually partners or bosses. No one paid consistently what magazines or DVD companies paid for the product. Until online killed off offline and removed the option.

Unless you pay the top producers the right money you will never get the content needed to turn a surfer into a member, get him to stay a member and to return. Just sending more traffic doesn't change the situation.

Today who works at sending traffic to sites that don't convert, who works at sending traffic to porn sites like they did in 2006. What's changed? Tubes have arrived with 100,000s of free videos and the traffic followed the content.

If traffic were king, content would still get the same traffic, still convert the same and you wouldn't be changing how you work.

I keep wondering what makes you think you're capable of explaining to anyone how to make money.
with what you've brought to the line, it's enough to just survive in a shabby house on a cheap village in CZ. how much on the ground would someone have to be who considers that worthwhile?

I don't think you ever get to the point where you're embarrassing yourself, right?

what keeps you from taking 2 or 3 hundred a thousand euro into your hands - to get 4 or 5 young, fresh people and tell them how they earn money? as the owner of such a company you would earn super with all your knowledge, wouldn't you?

but it just starts with the fact that you don't have 2 or 3 hundred thousand euro for it - which already tells a lot about your success story so far.
you also won't find anyone who will give you 2 or 3 hundred thousand euro for it, because people who have it to risk it as venture capital would run away after 2 minutes if they heard you talking.

you want to teach people how to climb mountains and have never seen a mountain before - and that really makes you the clown of this board

fuzebox 12-18-2019 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Paul Markham (Post 22580111)
and you wouldn't be changing how you work.

This is the crux of Paul's mindset.

SRProductions 12-18-2019 09:32 AM

I hate to say it but traffic > content because you need the traffic to make money to make the content.

Paul Markham 12-19-2019 01:56 AM

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Originally Posted by SRProductions (Post 22580249)
I hate to say it but traffic > content because you need the traffic to make money to make the content.

That's a very good point, you need people to want, like or think they want something to get them to buy it.. As porn is linked to our sex drives I think the need is there even before the product existed.

Bottom line is no one can ignore that Tubes have the most content, surfers are more interested in Tubes than buying and fewer here are prepared to spend their time pushing porn because of that.

thommy 12-19-2019 03:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Paul Markham (Post 22580709)
That's a very good point, you need people to want, like or think they want something to get them to buy it.. As porn is linked to our sex drives I think the need is there even before the product existed.

Bottom line is no one can ignore that Tubes have the most content, surfers are more interested in Tubes than buying and fewer here are prepared to spend their time pushing porn because of that.

yes paul - we all came run porn producers into bankruptcy...
we fill our day by giving free porn away and in the evening we go to clean toilets and bring the neighbors dogs to walk to make some money to survive and pay the servers.
what a shame that we did not listen to you.


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