content or traffic

[Paul Markham]

Originally Posted by Bishop

Traffic is harder.

Content quality is in the eye of the beholder.

Traffic is either good or bad.

Not 100% true.

This is about making money. It's about finding content 10,000 people will buy the stuff 100 people in the entire universe who would buy. Would you know the traffic is good or bad if the content was crap?

Agreed that you can find someone somewhere who will like the weirdest or crappiest content available. But can you recognise the porn the majority of people into that niche will spend $30 to see and stay for long enough to justify giving the cream traffic drivers $50 a sign up?

Jace seems to think he has quality pornographers sitting round waiting for his phone call. Well the truth is quality pornographers are working all the time and are not short of money.

If you want to know what's the most important the answer is simple. It's the one you don't have right that you need the most. I do not need quality content, I got it and the skills to create more. However some with all the traffic could put content as more important because no matter how many hits you get, the bottom line is the number of signs ups you make.

Gonzo thanks for the compliments, just really a side line at the moment, but who knows for the future.

[Jace]

Originally Posted by Paul Markham

Jace seems to think he has quality pornographers sitting round waiting for his phone call. Well the truth is quality pornographers are working all the time and are not short of money.

Unlike most people in this business Paul I have really tried to go out of my way to help people when I can, and luckily a lot of those people are photographers. I have one here in Atlanta that shoots mainly for Playboy that I can call any time of the day or night, he always picks up the phone, and I can get his next avilable day at no charge. I also have 2 photographers in LA and 1 in Florida that I consider friends that I have helped out and would do the same for me.

I make it a point in my world to help people, and if they don't help me back when I need it it doesn't bother me, but it is always an added bonus when they do

[Bishop]

Originally Posted by Paul Markham

Not 100% true.

This is about making money. It's about finding content 10,000 people will buy the stuff 100 people in the entire universe who would buy. Would you know the traffic is good or bad if the content was crap?

Agreed that you can find someone somewhere who will like the weirdest or crappiest content available. But can you recognise the porn the majority of people into that niche will spend $30 to see and stay for long enough to justify giving the cream traffic drivers $50 a sign up?

Jace seems to think he has quality pornographers sitting round waiting for his phone call. Well the truth is quality pornographers are working all the time and are not short of money.

If you want to know what's the most important the answer is simple. It's the one you don't have right that you need the most. I do not need quality content, I got it and the skills to create more. However some with all the traffic could put content as more important because no matter how many hits you get, the bottom line is the number of signs ups you make.

Gonzo thanks for the compliments, just really a side line at the moment, but who knows for the future.

Good post Paul but our perspectives are different. With VOD you have the all the popular stuff that you know people want to see and all the odd stuff that only a few want to see. The content people like is a matter of personal taste.

If the plan was to build a site that had one specific type of content and not everything then the quality of the content becomes much more important. The importance of the traffic would be the same.

This goes back to one of the earlest instructions that I think we have all told people who are just starting in this industry. Build what you like. Build sites that you would pay to see the inside of. If you don't like it why would anyone else want to see it? Those of us - like you - that have been doing this for a long time have a better knack for building any kind of site and have it perform well. That takes time to learn and it is understandable that some people choose to only concentrate on one type of site, the niche they feel most comfortable with.