On Colin Delia's "Building An Empire" page, there's a quote from Serge:
In another thread presented this week, it looks like Serge thinks we've finally hit the consolidation stage in our "little" internet porn gold rush.

Two questions:
1) How long will the consolidation last before we're down to the 'pure' diehards?
2) Following Serge's path, what's the NEXT pasture?

Carrie,
if I knew "what's next", I'd be "Al Gore" and invent it
;-)))

Consolidation stage can last a few years.

Meanwhile...regardless of the numbers of car manufacturers in USA,
there are plenty of people making money in changing oil, tires, gasoline, etc...

RawAlex, thanks for this analogy
;-))

Nice analogy from Alex. People still make a living from making porn movies (DVD, VHS, hotels), magazines, and phone sex. Easy money appeared when a new means of distribution appeared.

When the next porn medium appears, follow the Botto's and the Levi's to success.



Last edited by Colin at Jan 14 2003, 05:49 AM

Another interesting story. My grandfather tells me that when the automobile first started to become popular, many people opposed it fearing that it would put all the people that took care of the horses out of business. Of course, we know the ending. Many more jobs were created than lost.



Last edited by Colin at Jan 14 2003, 05:54 AM

a lot of things are changing very fast.

spam is getting harder and harder
tgp's convert worse and worse
free hosting is less and less profitable
processing is more expensive
member retention is less and less.

there are a lot of factors still present to some extent that still allow bozos to succeed "regardless of I.Q." . i dont really think a lot will change in terms of the total volume of paysites, total volume of free content etc that will help anyone be more profitable.

business is business. this business is just becoming like any other business in the world. it is maturing and the people who are really poor businessmen will not succeed or will succeed less and less. i think it is really erroneous to point out certain declines and certain areas and make blanket statements about the industry in general and its future. in the middle of the constant whining and complaining, there have been some amazing success stories this year as well.... Bangbus, Lightspeed etc. there are many.

there IS ALWAYS ROOM for someone to work harder, work better, work better, work smarter, market themselves better, innovate, create, experiment and stay ahead of the curve.

"Whats the next pasture"?

who knows. why is it reasonable to assume or hope that there will be another pasture? surfers are smarter, the dot com era of "irrational exhuberance" (as Greenspan put it) is over. The dust has settled. Now its time to really focus on what works, on the basics and on understanding why some people like Alscans can make so much money with so little content and never so much as change the same shitty design in 4 years and people elsewhere are crying that the sky is falling though they have more cash, traffic and resources.

personally, i have never been more optimistic. for each person that complains about things getting worse, i see opportunity.

True words of wisdom!

...and learn from their mistakes too.

I do not know. what is your goil in life?

No longer a webmasters market. It's a surfers market.

Should we retire then?

No, we find out what the surfer wants and give it to him.

Exactly Heather.

But if you can afford to retire.....I recommend that as well.......Until boredom sets in.

I'm not retired and I'm already bored :P

You go ahead. I'm going to find out what he wants and SELL it to him.

Bollocks! I'll tease him ,tell him he can't have what I have got,then when he is desperate sell it to him :)
:nyanya:

damn you Colin, you beat me to it.

Finding out what the surfer wants!!!!

Thats like asking a woman what she wants, for R-n's sake!!!! :)

It varies by the season,month,week,and day. :)

You guys do that.I'm going to create a demand for something.....OK I don't know exactly what yet...but when I do, LOOKOUT! Caquse you will ALL want it! ;)



Last edited by Nickatilynx at Jan 14 2003, 02:39 PM

As long as we were both there "in spirit"

You were a hooker in another lifetime.

Well its the oldest profession :)

HOw about shoes Nickster, I'd be willing to spend a few bucks today ;)

What kind of business plan is that? I am going to find what customers/surfers want - then give it away in huge amounts. I am going to convince surfers they can get everything free on the net. And if they do join a site, I will send them to another company who will bang their credit card $120 a month for the rest of their lives. I may even teach them how to charge back as well.

:okthumb: :okthumb:

MikeAI you will find many like minded people on gfy :)

KK,

Hmmmmm....its not as crazy as it initially sounds.Online shoe mall.hmmmmm
What is it with women and shoes????
I know women with literally hundreds of pairs of shoes....Why?

the GFY method, huh?

Edit: Duh, Nick already said that... :headwall:



Last edited by Rox at Jan 14 2003, 12:33 PM

If you're talking about me, be specific ;)

Why? Why not!

Ok, I'll be specific! I mean YOU!!!! :)

Its a sickness isn't it? :)

Semantics.

I prefer to call it a fetish, thank you.

Ahhhh ... that means there's money to be made from it :D

Of course Vick ;)

I'm not alone and remember that shoes aren't free...

Fucking eureka!!!

I'm going to open a site with pictures of shoes...then charge $39.95 per month (plus recurring) for more pictures of those shoes and a couple lucky winners will actually win a date with the shoes pictured!!

I won't even have to spend much on advertising...I'll just post a few times and maybe buy an ad spot on a board or two.......

Be sure and put those censorship star thingies over any open toed sandals on your tour. :awinky:

And dont show the boots unless they have pants legs covering them...

;)

:zoinks:

did somebody say shoes?!

i never have been able to get into buying shoes online, browsing yes, but a shoe needs to slide onto my foot before its worthy of purchase ...

nick, what kind of a question is 'why do women need so many shoes?'?!?!?!
have you never been in a situation where you have the perfect outfit and not 1 single shoe that sets it off??!?!?!

LMAO

oprano has had an overnight turnaround ... now, instead of everything getting back to tits and ass, its shoes, weightloss and pregnancy tips ;-))))

sounds like a name change might be in order, or maybe just a new spelling - OPRAHno :bulb1:

odd shoe fact

the guys that sold linkexchange.com to microsoft for $300 million back in the day. They later bought drugs.com domain for $800k and than dumped it at a loss. They run one of the largest online shoe stores zappos.com

From what i can tell, their site is very popular.
You can even read the feedback from all the shoeholics
http://www.bizrate.com/ratings_guide/cust_....xpml?mid=22763

>> Following Serge's Path


Why fallow anyone's path ?
build your own path and fallow it.

Slav,
haven't you followed Webfather's path?
;-))))

sure in one way or many ways i did,
but that doesnt mean one shouldnt be building his one paths :))

Ahhhhh now I see your point.

We've all been there.


(too gay?) :nyanya:

Guess you're really fucked if you need a pair

i need 2 pers

Excuse my newly-un-retired ignorance..but is Slavvdog the same guy as Slavik?

Nick..you fucking nancy :P

The next big thing will be content on multiple platforms/medias/devices working as one unity... The internet will still be used to transport this content, but they way you overall interact with the content will be much different than today... there will be a new era for content producers, marketing wizards etc. much like in 1996-1997, however this time "the price to enter" will be alot higher.

Consolidation - its going to happen and have probably already been going on for more than a year or so... we will have even less people working with adult sites at the end of 2003, while some companies will have grown alot bigger in numbers like traffic..

hey Heather, yup the same Gringo :)

good to see you on the boards again, hows your new biz in Mexico doing ?