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Originally Posted by Vjo
It really is an iffy, volatile, ever changing biz as you say.
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EVERY online biz is. Almost every site online, rises, falls just as quickly and fades into obscurity. All the early players in adult are gone. Not because of "free porn" but because the circumstances under which they were making so much money, rapidly changed. Those 10 tgp whales became minnows. Those 5 SEO guys sending 100 joins a day come and go with Google updates. The spammers sending 50-500 joins a day, faded in and faded out in accordance to their ability to keep finding/setting up new smtp relays. Consumer tastes change. Markets change. Competition changes things and so on. A friend of mine sent 100 joins a day to silvercash for a VERY long time, never so much as a thank you and when they ran into Mike at a show, they wanted to talk to him for 5 minutes and he brushed them off and links were pulled. Imagine the long term financial impact of something as small as losing 100 joins a day when you are doing good and what it means when things slow down.
This business is full of idiots who typically only made it by doing one thing and just frantically repeating it until it stops working and then suddenly the world is to blame as they go back to a 9-5. Whether its link lists or CJ sites or tgps or spam, or SEO work, or whatever.
Somehow people in this biz think they must be different. Everyone thinks they are entitled to success no matter what happens. There are very few online making enterprises that were online and successful 8 years ago that are online and equally successful today.... its true in mainstream, its true in adult.
The internet has always been a highly fluid and rapidly changing environment. Few should expect to be successful for any real period of time.