Simple things work best when looking for sign ups.

[Paul Markham]

Originally Posted by fusionx

This, to me, is the entire key. Of course, you need traffic and quality content. But, what you wrote about above is what most sites lack.

Think of the service industry - bars, resturants, etc. Even barbershops. What brings people back? Is the the food quality? Some places that do fantastic business have average or only slightly above average food. In bars and clubs, a budweiser tastes the same pretty much everywhere.

The really successful businesses make the customer feel wanted. They feel informed, and they feel in control. They feel like they are a part of the environment - a very welcome, necessary part. That's what you're doing, Paul, and it borders on genius in this industry

I feel one of the biggest problems this industry has is it's collective images and service it offers the membership. We complain about the surfer not wanting to pay for porn, then try to extort it.

There are many sites that do it the right way, I just want to stand with them.

But think of it, $30 a day will buy a new piece of non exclusive content. Do you think giving the members 1 piece a day will make 2 more members stay on for another month?

If all sites did it this way how much of a threat would "Free Porn" be to us?