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Originally posted by *KK*@Feb 15 2003, 07:19 AM
Sorry Dravyk, but given the fact that most everyone buys from the same content producers, same plug in people and the same feed companies, basically ALL paysites are the same and surfers should never join more than one, by your reckoning.
If thats the case we can all give up now...
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Yes we all -- in a sense -- buy from the same content providers and same plugin companies, does not mean:
a) every large paysite has to be constructed in the way I described to 90 others
b ) every paysite has to be connected at all to every other paysite in that sponsor's stable
c) that (guessing these numbers out of a hat) with three dozen plugin companies and 400 plugin products everyone has to use the same five only and the same 100 only (which tends to be the case)
d) that paysite owners can't shoot their own exclusive content
e) that every members area has to be in the same cookie mold every where you go
I could go on, but what you got by "my reckoning" you reckoned wrongly. If this is the ONLY model for a members area, then yeah maybe we should give up because surfers are already tired of it.
A small niched site deliverying, oh 15K of pics of only that niche, and which displays care to be different or the best in that one area and displays (a certain feature lacking in most cases
creativity is going to have greater retention than the 2 million image site with 4k niched content interconnecting to 90 clones.
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This sort of explains low rention rates, no?
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Yes.
Also explains why if you sell a surfer a membership site to XYZCash, you'll never again sell that surfer to another XYZCash site because they've seen all of 100 XYZ's sites already having joined one of them.
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talk about beating a dead horse
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I like horse-beating especially when they are dead. It's a new niche. Wow, this could be site number 101. Anyone got 10 pics so I can throw up a new paysite? :P