The budget has been increased for new hot
Broke Straight Boys I am looking for examples of smoking hot guys. Post here what kind of guys you want to see here.
We also have more models posting here with more to come. No other sites let's you chat with the models like
Broke Straight Boys
Our behind the scenes have been longer and better. Please make sure you check them out.
We are also the only site that does Pride events. This let's our members meet some of the great porn stars on this site. We are also going to be adding more guys to the tour next year.
I also have some more projects in the works so stay tuned.
Thanks,
Mark
Mark, every time you tell us "huge improvements are forthcoming" I have learned to become somewhat nervous. Sometimes too much of a great thing has the opposite effect! When you say the budget has been increased, I sincerely hope that you don't mean you are spending more money hiring big name/expensive porn stars who have to give a cut of their salary to their commissioned agent!
The specialness and unique qualities that have made
Broke Straight Boys such a big success were the personal things, as Mike touched on. But I don't think having a huge presence at pride events or encouraging the models to participate in the forum is necessarily a porn site's main drawing point.
While those are all great things, it absolutely boils down to the scenes themselves, that's why most of us are here (or cancel). If the scenes aren't hot, everything else is just gimmickery. No porn site will become wildly popular because of having the best gimmicks out there, it just won't happen.
You guys struggled with the intro of
Broke Straight Boys 2.0, a lot of people hated it. You oversold, and under-delivered. But in your defense, you have really started making some huge improvements which are very obvious and you have done a great job making those improvements. Keep doing what you're doing, but don't over commercialize everything. The more gimmicks, the more commercialized your site becomes and the more that makes it seem like a cookie cutter factory. Yes of course it's important to promote, but considering the genre, there can be such a thing as
over promoting. I believe if big changes are on the horizon, and the budget has had to be increased, that's almost like admitting failure. The more a site has to promote itself in order to attract new business, it aims a very bright spotlight on it and the focus is taken away from the very genre that the site claims to adhere to which is, I thought anyway,
Broke Straight Boys
There are 1,001 porn sites out there catering to the same exact theme, all claiming to feature "amateur" "straight" guys "having gay sex for the first time", and their message falls flat on its face once you see a couple scenes and recognize most of the scene participants because you've already seen them having gay sex on other sites previously.
Of course
Broke Straight Boys is a business, and of course you need to continue attracting new members and keeping existing members in order to stay in business. But I don't think the key to success is by over-promoting yourselves and over-advertising the product to your own existing members, which I've noticed is happening. You're pushing
Broke Straight Boys merchandise, and the site is turning into an advertising heavy site. One of the reasons people pay for access is to rid themselves of advertising they are subjected to on the free sites and blogs.
With as much advertising as you're starting to clutter the site up with, you'd think it's a free site or something and frankly, I'm surprised that you don't provide the forum for free.
I think you guys have made some HUGE improvements in the way of scene content, I just don't want to see you mess that up. Since you advertised that you've had to start throwing more money at
Broke Straight Boys, I'm fearful that means you will stray even further away from the core theme of the site. I beg of you, do not start hiring big name porn stars because that will absolutely KILL your numbers. It's already a very crowded market, the amateur straight guys having gay sex for the first time themed porn site is already I'd say 50% of the market as it is. Many of them are already doing that, and people are getting bored with the same old thing on all the sites. In order to stand out, you have to do it better than anyone else. And the way you do that is to get great guys to be in the scenes, and they have to have HOT sex that people will want to watch. If you bore people, they will cancel. If you bombard them with promotions and advertisements, you clutter up the site with unwanted material.
There is an old Latin phrase, "Res ipsa loquitur", which translated says "The thing speaks for itself". I think that if you guys do what you do better than anyone else, people will come flocking to the site.
I seriously think that you have a great thing going on by bringing in guys who for the most part, we haven't seen before. That's what many of us would love to see. I don't think there should be any one type of guy, otherwise you'll turn into another Seancody.com or Corbin Fisher, where you see the same exact type of guy in scene after scene. We all have diverse tastes and preferences, not everyone is into crew cuts and tattoos anymore than everyone will be into long hair or the preppy look.
Each guy brings his own unique style, personality, and charms. As long as a guy isn't fake, and is himself, he will have plenty of fans. But if you start throwing highly paid guys who are professional models with an agent into the mix, the unique charm and unique qualities that have made
Broke Straight Boys so endearing to many thousands of members of the years will be lost. It will become boring, mechanical, and about as fun as watching grass grow.
Guys like Jimmy, while he has his detractors, he's also a very polarizing figure. No matter what scene he's in, plenty of passionate and provocative discussion is sure to follow here on the forum and he generates tons of interest. No amount of promotion can generate that, Jimmy generates his own interest in him whether you love him or hate him as a performer. In my opinion, guys like Jimmy are priceless and worth millions if you were to try and put a pricetag on it.
I think the number 1 factor that will make any guy successful on this site, and the site's success will follow in his footsteps as a result, is this: AUTHENTICITY.
If a guy is in-authentic, it's easy to spot a mile away. If he's acting, it's obvious. I believe that's why Mick is so wildly popular, in spite of the fact that he's a well known gay porn star prior to working on
Broke Straight Boys: Mick is 100% authentic in everything he does. His charm cannot be acted out, no matter how talented of an actor. He's a true gentleman, and 1 in 1,000. Same with Jimmy, he is 100% authentic. He's not putting on any airs, and while he can be provocative, he generates HUGE amounts of interest and discussion which is priceless.
Please keep bringing in guys who are authentic amateurs, with interesting personalities, nice looking, and most importantly, don't bring in big name actors. Big name actors are a dime a dozen, and can be seen for free on the tube sites at any time by anyone with a computer.
I will leave you with this very true statement, which could be the key to any site's success and popularity: Do something better than anyone else, and people will come flocking on their own. Don't ruin it by losing sight of your core foundations which made you a huge success to begin with. If you lose sight of what you originally set out to do, you do so at the risk of "jumping the shark".
Abe
