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Originally Posted by Jim
If most of the money in this business is in English speaking websites, why does it surprise anyone that people that at least partially understand English try to get a piece of the pie?
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In my case five reasons:
(1) Although there are more English speakers in the world, there are also more English speaking webmasters, so in the end there are the same number of possible customers per webmaster. In fact from RedGlow's post there is actually a higher percentage of customers per website, so (if you do not speak English) it should be easier to convert sales from your country than the English speaking world.
(2) Thanks to the chimp you currently have running your country, the US dollar is pretty worthless compared with most other countries' currency. This means that if you live outside the US and get paid in $US, you have to sell twice as many memberships to make your money as you would if you sold them in your own country's currency.
(3) I live in Britain, and I speak English, which is nearly the same language as is spoken in America, so it is easy for me to design sites for American audiences. But for the past few years I have been mostly concentrating on British sites, and only pushing my American sponsors when I have some spare time because (mostly due to the last point) it is a lot easier to make money in UK£ and Euros than it is in US$ sites.
(4) American law is changing fast, and although I know most of you like to try and ignore this or pretend it is not happening, in a few years it is going to be close to impossible to legally make money from Internet porn in USA. If you are American you have no choice but to deal with the problem, but if you are not American you can (and should) be building up your business outside the USA for when the shit hits. Otherwise, when it does, you will be starting from scratch again.
(5) George W. has basically been gambolling with your economy. What he is trying to do is working at the moment, and might continue to work for a long time. But it is more likely to end in a God awful financial crash. This will no doubt affect the entire world, but it will start in the USA, and if your money comes mostly from non American people you will have three to twelve months grace to gather what you can when (if) the crash happens. If most of your money comes from US porn sites you will have no time, so unless you already have enough in the bank to see you through a depression you will be screwed.