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Originally posted by cj@Jan 10 2005, 08:54 PM
If AVN hadn't behaved in their 'holier than thou' porn royalty way since the beginning of the adult internet, perhaps companies wouldn't feel so justified in LEECHING off the masses they've gathered in 1 place.
AVN claims to be a representative of the adult Internet, and yet a big portion of porn BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS stopped paying $250 for badges and 1000's of dollars for booths LONG AGO. AVN placed themselves in a position where they could rip everyone off with overpriced booths, overpriced ads, overpriced promotional opportunities when there weren't ever enough webmasters to justify the rates. Now that the shows are crowded with dickheads and empty booths, AVN is wondering why it went that way?!
Lets call a spade a spade ...
AVN is great for the "Oh my god I touched a pornstar" webmasters of this business, but I don't think there's many webmasters at Oprano who take the magazine, the company or any of its Hollywood wannabe crap seriously.
This business started splitting in 2 a couple of years ago, so lets just accept the future for what it is ... AVN has the quantity, cybernet/klixxx and the 'AVN reject' network around it has the quality & loyalty that AVN lost through bad networking.
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I generally agree... that's why I jumped onboard.
In my opinion the magazine and convention are pretty well put together, so they're relatively solid products, however, AVN has exercised bad customer relations (being diplomatic here) over the years. I figure, having been a client for 6 years I have a better idea of what they need to fix than they do! So far I've been met very warmly in that. It's only been a month so far, but I really see AVNOnline and Internext waking up and realizing they need to change.
Feel free to sit on how they've been in the past, it's deserved, but I personally see an opportunity to shape the show and mag into something we all can use to improve our business. Feel free to send me feedback if you care to... I also understand if you don't.
