Quote Originally Posted by fabianb View Post
What you could learn from people that run mainstream sites with millions of dollars in revenue is how to maximize this revenue and traffic. When I look at any of your sites I see at least 5 small procedures that are not in use on your sites but are in use by pretty much any straight operator. Probably would add 10-15% revenue on the fly, but I guess 10-15% doesn't mean all that much to you?
And this point bothered me as well. A lot of the tactics used on the straight side of the business just aren't of interest to many of us. I personally feel that the straight side of the business has soiled the entire market's reputation with their dirty tactics. Yes it may add another 10-15% to your revenue, but how many people does it piss off? How many people will never buy another porn membership because of these tactics?

Things like:

-Opening multiple pop-ups and exit consoles or opening a new one every time one is closed down. This kind of tactic has killed the usefulness of pop-ups and made them one of the most hated things on the web.

-Offering free porn by e-mail just to scam people's e-mail addresses, and then, selling those e-mail addresses to other spammers.

-Throwing up 10 original content sets of women fucking themselves with Coke bottles and promising the surfer "thousands of pictures." When the surfer gets inside they don't find thousands of pictures of woman using Coke bottles, but they find thousands of pictures of all kinds of other things that they necessarily didn't want.

-Calling content "exclusive" when it isn't.

I could go on, but those are just some of the tactics used on the straight side of the business that burn my ass. So yes, a lot of us on this side of the business don't engage in those tactics -- many do. But I think by and large the gay side of the business is cleaner, a little more ethical. We're more about long-term brand building than the flash and screw the surfer type of site so prevalent on the straight side of the business. Please don't litter this post with examples of gay scumbags. I know they exist and I'm sure there are plenty of them. But I just don't see a lot of the stand-up gay brands engaging in those kinds of tactics.

Maybe we should invite the straight side of the business to our conference to teach them how to maintain a solid brand without pissing off the surfer.

Michael