November 15, 2009
with porn, all things are possible
[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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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
LOL @ cosmic vagina.. where on earth do you get these wild imaginations from?
Hmmm.… Faith porn? (I’m a pastor, what can I say?)
how else do you think the “big bang” happened?
I wrote a post called “Steampunk Bob Ross” for that very reason: art porn.
[…] To get more traffic to your site you may need porn. […]
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.
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.
@Evers.…wouldn’t Faith Porn be Televangalism?
So, the Internet really IS for Porn!
All this talk about web marketing and blog traffic is making me HOT!
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.
The web has become a veritable pornucopia! Will we ever be sated?
Wife use to watch HGTV … I called it decorating porn
Food Channel … now I can understand that one
Ciao
Chip
@ Jon — actually, that might be giving the televangelists too much credit.
[…] Cheap trick: Sex sells. Porn pays. […]
You have mastered the creative-outlet-for-bitter-resignation porn.