November 15, 2009

with porn, all things are pos­si­ble

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[Originally published November 29, 2005:]

I was having a long con­ver­sa­tion with a friend last night about “Busi­ness Porn”:

Busi­ness Porn is just like Ordi­nary Porn or Real Estate Porn, except ins­tead of it being about the women we wished we could sleep with, or the hou­ses we wish we owned, it’s about all those cool, luc­ra­tive, exci­ting jobs and busi­nes­ses that we wish we had, ins­tead of the nor­mal, tedious, sch­leppy crap most of us end up doing to pay the bills.

Does your blog suf­fer from low traf­fic? It’s pro­bably because there’s not enough porn on it. Sex Porn, Real Estate Porn, Wine Porn, Biz Porn, Emo­tio­nal Porn, it doesn’t mat­ter.

Porn = Traf­fic.
Porn = Mar­ke­ting.
Porn = Sales.

With Porn, all things are pos­si­ble.

So now you know.

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17 Responses to “with porn, all things are pos­si­ble”

  1. Gareth Wong says:

    That might be the case..

    sadly unlike Porn, the gratification might take considerably longer (which means more ‘voyeurs’ in the business porn category) or some just purely aspirational (like real estate porn)..

    following the analogy, reality is that the pedigree of business news (most abundant) porn, it is not be all and end all.. and even likes of WSJ/FT/Guardian/LATimes etc. have at times revenue/profit challenge..

    Interesting ways of thinking about it though. ;-)

    @GarethWong

  2. ochuko says:

    LOL @ cosmic vagina.. where on earth do you get these wild imaginations from? :)

  3. Evers says:

    Hmmm…. Faith porn? (I’m a pastor, what can I say?)

  4. Z says:

    how else do you think the “big bang” happened?

  5. andrea says:

    I wrote a post called “Steampunk Bob Ross” for that very reason: art porn.

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  7. Facebook User says:

    Reminds me of something I heard a while ago, don’t remember where, about the magazine industry. For the most part, people don’t read magazines that reflect who they are – they read magazines that reflect how they’d like to be.

  8. To many people put out crap that is just boring. I’m guilty of this. I try so hard to put out valuable stuff that end up sucking. It’s good if you want dry material that gives you the facts, but that’s not what people want.

    I’ve been inserting more emotional “oomph” into my posts and it helps. People can relate and share.

    After reading this post I realize that I need to take it up even another notch.

  9. Jon says:

    @Evers….wouldn’t Faith Porn be Televangalism?

  10. So, the Internet really IS for Porn!

  11. All this talk about web marketing and blog traffic is making me HOT!

  12. Jobs, cars, travel, tea cozies, I’d imagine there’s porn for anything and everything.

    Porn = passion, content that grabs the audience, gets them excited, keeps them coming back for more.

  13. Terry Cooper says:

    The web has become a veritable pornucopia! Will we ever be sated?

  14. JTH says:

    Wife use to watch HGTV … I called it decorating porn

    Food Channel … now I can understand that one

    Ciao
    Chip

  15. Evers says:

    @ Jon – actually, that might be giving the televangelists too much credit.

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  17. David says:

    You have mastered the creative-outlet-for-bitter-resignation porn.

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