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Originally Posted by kane
I've always been curious of this. How did you get started in this business and what were the first sites you created? I think it would be interesting to hear how the Twistys Empire was born.
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I'll try to keep it short. here are the cliff notes time line
1996 had just stopped playing Junior hockey and found out about the web.
- Found PK's site. Ripped it and changed the logo. Got a link trade with Slick Rick (my first link Trade) those of you who don't know Slick Rick then started Ynot and then TheBestPorn
. After a few days I received a letter from PK's lawyer so i had to pull the site.
- Since PK was so powerful figured I'd get listed on her site. Created a little free site on my university account I think it was concordia.ca/~shap LOL. I got listed on friday 5:45pm and monday 8am I received a call from the head of the department informing me that over the weekend I had used 99.5% of all bandwidth the school ever used in 3 days and I was banned from any computer services.
At that point I knew I was onto something. Around that time Ynot was hopping as the industry community. I wanted to make my mark with the big boys like Serge, Fantasyman etc. So I started a site where they each had to submit their best picture and my surfers would vote on the best pic. The winner got a free banner spot on the site for the month. It was great these guys pounded me with traffic. Was a great way to build up.
Then i started PicWarehouse as a link site and then it became a CJ site and was one of the bigger ones. Then started clean tgps bigbreastlovers and sexape to capitalize on all the traffic I had on picwarehouse.
After 5 years of playing the free site game and seeing only a few really good paysites (Karups, Scoreland, ATK) my wife and I decided it was time to get into the paysite game. We came up with the name Twistys and decided to have a babe site. The idea was for $10k we could get really hot content from matrix and jokersx and get launched and be able to test the market. Oct 10, 2001 we launched. The site only would get a handful of sales until June/July of 2002 when it really took off. We held back on promoting it because we didn't think the site would convert or do well which was silly. Never hold back without testing and knowing for sure if something will work or not.