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Originally posted by Vick@Jun 24 2003, 06:30 PM
Further compounding the problem is MANY so called webmasters couldn't sell a cure to cancer to an oncology lab
- there is an ASTOUNDING LACK OF SALES SAVVY AND ABILITY IN THIS INDUSTRY. Not so much on the part of affiliate programs/pay sites (or I should say some paysites) as much as free site owners
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That's right on the money. This industry has been technically highly innovative and contributed to Internet being the success it is, but when it comes to the people that make a living from it, many of them are sales retards (the free site people). A lot of the people who made nice coin a few years ago did so simply because they happened to be in the right place at the right time, not because they actually knew what they were doing.
Today, they're trying the same methods that worked back then and they don't work anymore, so the only way of getting more sales, they think, is by throwing out a shitload of free content which in turn will attract more traffic, which will, hopefully, make them more sales. And then you have the next guy doing the same, he needs the traffic too 'cause he's just as stupid as the first one. And voilá, we have a snowball effect.