Two bits of luck for us:
1. Back in 1998 we had a forum and were shooting for other sites just for fun and just by pure luck a couple that we knew running a solo site came up to stay for a few days to shoot content with us. When they were up they used our office PC to check their stats and they showed me the screen and they were were grossing over $23 fucking k a day (with Lancelot back then, blast from the past) for what was basically just a small photo site so we shot, built and had our own LS site shot, built and up online in about two weeks flat!
We got the site ready and submitted it to the processor and back then they said it would be about a week to get everything done. The processor got it all done on the friday instead of the monday we were expecting and by the sunday we already had over a thousand members just from our own forum traffic!
2. Speaking to a very well known guy from here back in about 2003 he said to forget about photos as the future was video. I took his advice and we concentrated on video and started our CCBill program and never looked back.
Those were the days
