Hi all,
This is my story.
I have always loved the industry. When I was like 10 years old we discussed with my friends what we want to do for living. They said they wanna be football players etc, I said I want to be a porn star. Later I just wanted to be in the adult business in general.
So about a year a go, I decided to follow my passion.
I bought a DSLR and a video camera and took nude photographs of many girls. Then I built a web store and started selling 28 x 20 inch offset printed, high quality, posters. I did everything, so that the site would feel professional: SSL-licences, trust logos, beautiful UI etc.
After that, I bought ads from JuicyAds, TrafficJunky, AdWords, Bing Ads, Search.xxx ads, Facebook, send couple thousand emails to double opt-in adult lists and sent couple comments to related forums and build a Facebook page for the site. I got lot of traffic, but _zero_ sells. I tried to modify the site, changed prices etc and ran ad campaigns again, no help, no sales. After the ad campaigns were stopped, the traffic dropped to zero.
So I tried a different approach. I built my own tube platform, which would fetch only the best videos (by different factors) from popular tube sites from a specific niche. I built three different tube sites for three different niches.
After that, I bought ads and traffic from different adult brokers and high pr links from related sites. I did get lots of traffic, but after I paused the campaigns, the only traffic I had was from organic search and that's only like 1 000 visitors / day / site. Before the traffic from organic search was like ten times that, but then google results dropped. And I wouldn't be happy to 10 000 visits / day either - for a free tube site...
So I thought maybe I could build my own traffic. I did set up like 20 different blogs. From day one I had been running a blog which tells about sex travelling. The other blogs were for images only, since I didn't have time or resources for other content.
After that, I paid people to generate links to these blogs. It has been four months now and all I get is 100 visits / day to the whole network.
So I tried something else. I built a service, where people could upload photos and videos of themselves nude and browse content sent by other members - for free.
Again, I found myself buying lots of traffic and ads, which again didn't result to anything - didn't really get regular visitors or members.
Totally I have spent like $20.000 for content, links, traffic and other services and about $50.000 worth of my own time. And the only thing which I have got from this, is that it has been fucking fun doing it.
So that's about it. Do you have any suggestions what I should do different or do next? Exiting from adult business isn't an option.
