Originally Posted by Ruseful

I think you actually got your math slightly wrong there but yes, I spend around $200k a month shooting new content. But not all of that content is for my sites, I shoot quite a few scenes exclusively for other sites. This is good revenue for me and they know they are getting the best content shot.

I started with 3 guys and invested no where near the millions you say. I launched 2 sites and then only launched new sites, and took on more employees, as the company could afford it. My first site launched August 2011, second in Sept. Then 3rd in Dec 2011, 4th and 5th in Jan/feb 2012 and so on. Every cent is pumped back into the company to grow, and now we are really on a roll.

As for my site designs, they work for me. I have never received one complaint about the text size and I have no issues with the join pages either, nor do the people that hit them and convert. I like the colour scheme. I dont like the green you use, but each to our own hey Oh, and yes, I do popunders on my sites, brings me in $10k a month and pays the mortgage Yep, after the initial hit of new members, sure it will plateaux but not as much as you may think. There are always new users each and every day visiting the tubes. I pretty much guarantee that within a few visits to the tubes, they would have watched one of my clips.

You dont need millions to do what I did. I could have launched on a fraction of the budget, hired cameras instead of buying them, only launching with 1 site instead of 2, but I did decide to make the investment I did. Hell, I could have made the investment to launch with 8 sites, but I was in no rush to build what I knew I could following my tube strategy. The guide I published on how to monetize the tubes, I actually wrote for my original crew and editor. This is before we even picked up a camera. I had a plan, based on the knowledge I had gleaned from running YouPorn, and I stuck to the plan. I have personally helped 100's of content owners make a success with the tubes. Teengfs, BackRoomCastingCouch, Gamma...the list is huge, and believe me, it grows each week.

Your last paragraphs do actually sum up whats wrong with a lot of people in this industry. Its not 2005 anymore, and you do actually have to work a whole lot harder than I imagine you did back then. Want to know what I was doing in 2005? I was a dog breeder in the UK with 21 breeding bitches, and I am from a travelling family, and proud of it.