What's gone wrong with porn?

[LD]

Paying for porn has become like paying for long distance phone service. Nobody does it anymore...

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by LD

Paying for porn has become like paying for long distance phone service. Nobody does it anymore...

File lockers may be an even bigger problem.

Entire member's areas including all new releases are uploaded daily to them.

But water is free yet it still sells well.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Cleo

But water is free yet it still sells well.

Now that is probably the most useful comment in this thread. Both in the US and UK the laws governing the purity of water are stricter for tap water than they are for bottled water. This means that on average, tap water is better for you than bottled water! Yet every year billions is paid by the public in the belief that it is the other way round. We need to find a way to convince the hilmans that paid porn is better than free porn, even if it isn't!

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by ecchi

tap water is better for you than bottled water!

It's yellow and tastes nasty here but that is a south Florida thing of trying to keep 85˚F degree water safe to drink.

Organic food is another example of people paying way more for perceived better.

You can get lots of TV channels over the air for free but people pay for cable and satellite.

FM and AM radio is free but people pay for satellite radio.

But everything goes for cheaper and free when they aren't making enough money to make ends meet.

[RedCherry]

Originally Posted by Cleo

But water is free yet it still sells well.

Here there is so much calcium in the water, you drink it, you get kidney stones and no way to filter it out, so all we and the cats drink is bottled water.

One thing I do is look at historical trends in Stats Remote. For us, Feb, June and July are always our 3 worst months of the year, so although it is painful to have it dip when we are already about 1/2 of our best income (last year before Panda), I know that August will be better. I also track on my weekly desk calender what I have made each day for at least the last 5 months, so I can see the trends daily.

Yea, I lost a lot of sales from the Google updates, Panda and Penguin. (animals are out to get me). But we have just tried this month a new source of revenue, selling our 3D work in PDF form from an online store that has traffic for this, and sales are doing good, and we are unknowns. Once we build up a following, sales will be much better as I know their top artists are making bank, and our quality is up there with them.

We have had more sales (as far as volume) for our magazines? comics? in the last 5 days since we started then for our 3D paysites all month. $ wise still lower, be we are incredibly optimistic that will change over time.

We are one of the few people I know that both of us are still doing just porn for our income, and income is tight, but like ecchi said, sticking to the same thing isn't working. I still do tgp's and free sites, but I've added social media posts, blogs, and online virtual words, and stores as other sources of places to find customers. You have to change with the times.

[housekeeper]

Originally Posted by Cleo

File lockers may be an even bigger problem.
Entire member's areas including all new releases are uploaded daily to them.

If ALL the file lockers and illegal tubes were taken down completely, and the only way adult content was viewable was either by paysites, VOD, or DVD's, everyone here would see a dramatic increase in sales. Unfortunately it's not a perfect world...

Originally Posted by tickler

Visa/MC gift cards have become a problem also because they generally can't be rebilled and some sponsors are discounting them!

Huh?

[Ramster]

Originally Posted by LD

Paying for porn has become like paying for long distance phone service. Nobody does it anymore...

Not true.