Democratisation of Media

[softball]

Everyone deals with their customers or they pay the price... This business is upside down. It believes it's in business with itself, when truly it's in business with its customers!"

I have been prattling on about this for over a decade with tgp's and whatever they are morphing into. Its like a snake swallowing its tail. No wealth is created nor brought within. The battle cry has never been "Import or die". Blind links to move traffic around just piss off prospective "customers" (I have never liked the term surfer...call them what you would like them to be). This business is polluted with moron tgp owners who think that traffic is "King", which I think is the ultimate unprofitable oxymoron. Great traffic is "King" as is great "Content". But in our business, the unwashed masses have never understood what great traffic is....It is great marketing. The "traffic" is irrelevant....its how the eyeballs get to the appropriate content.
The old school guys that frequented these boards never did have clue, and lots believed them. Crooked, misdirected traffic...like dialer and any other scam bulllshit was not marketing. It was and is grifting. The heroes of this industry were grifters....con men. They made out and they made money. Not with skill, but with graft. Its like drug dealers. It never took any talent, because it is now becoming patently obvious that these fellas had none.
Now the business is suffering. A bit circuitous, but the logic is clear. They treated customers like surfers, ripped off millions, and left the building.