I don't do this full-time and I'm not a whale making hundreds of sales every day but I do make enough sales every month to where it's worth it for me to continue. I really enjoy building adult sites (what guy doesn't like looking at porn!? I find it's more exciting then making mainstream sites) and it's an awesome feeling to work on some sites and to see your work payoff when your stats start to rise and you start getting sales from that new campaign you created for your latest websites you built
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I've seen some users here occasionally post some AMAZING stats with some huge dollar signs (from relatively
recent paysite sales!) and when I see that I get pumped up and I strive to make even more adult sites and get more sales so maybe one day I can have a network as huge as they have.
It's definitely not easy being an adult affiliate and we do have the odds stacked against us at times (and I'm not even talking about piracy...I'm talking about late payments, no payments, shady sponsors, sponsor pulling lame shit, etc) but like everything else in life...it is what you make of it!