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  • myjah
    Back in the harbor
    • Sep 2003
    • 11482

    #1

    So, you planned to get rich in Adult

    What's your story? How did you land here?

    I had a friend in this industry and I was intrigued by his financial success...got (willingly) sucked in. I still love it...and you?
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  • JFK
    FUBAR the ORIGINATOR
    • Jan 2002
    • 67373

    #2
    didnt you leave Met Art ?

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    • myjah
      Back in the harbor
      • Sep 2003
      • 11482

      #3
      Originally posted by JFK
      didnt you leave Met Art ?
      Dec 31st
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      AVN Media Network
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      [email protected]

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      • JFK
        FUBAR the ORIGINATOR
        • Jan 2002
        • 67373

        #4
        Originally posted by myjah
        Dec 31st
        aaha , OK , sorry thought I saw a thread on it

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        • myjah
          Back in the harbor
          • Sep 2003
          • 11482

          #5
          Originally posted by JFK
          aaha , OK , sorry thought I saw a thread on it
          No worries See you in Vegas.
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          AVN Media Network
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          • stonehammer
            Confirmed User
            • Feb 2008
            • 1430

            #6
            i started in gallery submitting...

            god damn long time ago, promoted naughty america alot back then

            back then i was still a teen...and super horny...so i got free porn + money....why not..
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            • pornmasta
              Too lazy to set a custom title
              • Jun 2006
              • 20017

              #7
              with a time machine

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              • Klen
                • Aug 2006
                • 32235

                #8
                I was looking for free hosting so i found revshare hosting,then i found cozyfrog board,asked is this real thing,answered how it is and that's it.

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                • Raymonpow
                  Registered User
                  • Oct 2013
                  • 38

                  #9
                  I told someone about my great idea to earn money from the internet....my idea was shit, but he told me about adult business...and slowly i started, with different stations and mistakes, but in the end it worked!

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                  • Barefootsies
                    Choice is an Illusion
                    • Feb 2005
                    • 42635

                    #10
                    Originally posted by myjah
                    What's your story? How did you land here?
                    I started with a celebrity site as a hobby for myself, taught myself HTML and some level of design with photoshop. The site became popular and I was paying $1000-1500.00 in bandwidth per month out of my own pocket. I then changed it over to a membership site to help pay the bandwidth bill, from there I just followed the money.

                    I did not get into any of this to "become rich" per se. I just wanted a decent living and to work for myself.
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                    • jódete
                      So Fucking Banned
                      • Oct 2013
                      • 635

                      #11
                      Originally posted by myjah
                      What's your story? How did you land here?

                      I had a friend in this industry and I was intrigued by his financial success...got (willingly) sucked in. I still love it...and you?
                      started back in 1999 with friends doin adult personal ads. i took off, went into security consulting. helped them with their adult sites in between consulting gigs. i retired an pulled the 1999 domain off the parking page. 14 years later im bck in the adult biz.

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                      • Stephen
                        Consigliere
                        • Feb 2003
                        • 1771

                        #12
                        I wasn't trying to get rich. After Hurricane Marilyn destroyed my mainstream photo/video business, I decided the best thing was to pursue opportunities that did not rely on a local customer base and so turned my new Internet porn hobby into a business...

                        Still rolling with the punches, but also eyeing more mainstream photo/video work again (even though I know better)

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                        • ajrocks
                          Confirmed User
                          • Nov 2004
                          • 4526

                          #13
                          One thing you need to do is be very careful who you partner with. You wouldn't want to end up in a position where you've helped build a multi million dollar company and have a buddy/boss screw you in the end.

                          The only way to get rich in this business is to have some good ideas and know how to build out and market them yourself.
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                          • sperbonzo
                            I'd rather be on my boat.
                            • May 2003
                            • 9750

                            #14
                            In 93 working with a company in LA that was doing phone sex, and we picked up an online content delivery system from Virtual Dreams Inc. In 94 we got a merchant account from First Bank of Beverly Hills, and they gave us a POS machine. People would BBS their card numbers to us and someone would punch them into the machine, and we would BBS back a password. Got out of the business in 96 to run a big call center in Iowa, then moved to Miami in 99 and started with a billing company as online billing had now become automated. The company went down in 02 and I started my own company at that point. Had various partnerships with alternative billing projects, built and sold a Check21 business, and still have my company today. Only about 15% of my revenues are in adult these days, but I still have a ton of friends in this business.




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                            • secureizef
                              Confirmed User
                              • Nov 2013
                              • 173

                              #15
                              the adult industry has been good to me so far.

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                              • myjah
                                Back in the harbor
                                • Sep 2003
                                • 11482

                                #16
                                Originally posted by ajrocks
                                One thing you need to do is be very careful who you partner with. You wouldn't want to end up in a position where you've helped build a multi million dollar company and have a buddy/boss screw you in the end.

                                The only way to get rich in this business is to have some good ideas and know how to build out and market them yourself.
                                Yeah, imagine that ;)

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                                • ilnjscb
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Jun 2009
                                  • 8973

                                  #17
                                  Originally posted by sperbonzo
                                  In 93 working with a company in LA that was doing phone sex, and we picked up an online content delivery system from Virtual Dreams Inc. In 94 we got a merchant account from First Bank of Beverly Hills, and they gave us a POS machine. People would BBS their card numbers to us and someone would punch them into the machine, and we would BBS back a password. Got out of the business in 96 to run a big call center in Iowa, then moved to Miami in 99 and started with a billing company as online billing had now become automated. The company went down in 02 and I started my own company at that point. Had various partnerships with alternative billing projects, built and sold a Check21 business, and still have my company today. Only about 15% of my revenues are in adult these days, but I still have a ton of friends in this business.




                                  .
                                  Payments is an interesting world right now. I was trying to accept payments in Brasil, you have to actually have a business there to get cybersource to settle payments there. England is the same way. The new thing is currency control.

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                                  • peterlanders
                                    Registered User
                                    • Aug 2013
                                    • 28

                                    #18
                                    When a friend of mine bought a new BMW 7, i asked him if he robbed a bank.....he told me about his TGPs at that time..... i was infected

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                                    • DamianJ
                                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                                      • Jul 2006
                                      • 15808

                                      #19
                                      Responded to an ad in a trade marketing magazine for Online Marketing Manager of Playboy UK.

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                                      • Zee
                                        Registered User
                                        • Oct 2008
                                        • 30

                                        #20
                                        Started out as a temporary thing 15 years ago. LOL
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                                        • Roald
                                          SecretFriends.com
                                          • May 2001
                                          • 27910

                                          #21
                                          Same story here, buddy in uni sold she male porn and dragged me in ;)


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                                          • myjah
                                            Back in the harbor
                                            • Sep 2003
                                            • 11482

                                            #22
                                            Originally posted by Roald
                                            Same story here, buddy in uni sold she male porn and dragged me in ;)
                                            Uni sounds like juvi here ;)

                                            Get online on Skype, trying to do work here in the US
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                                            • Sam - Mr. Skin
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                                              • Feb 2010
                                              • 1688

                                              #23
                                              Doctor told my parents my dick was in the 96th percentile so they groomed me for the adult business but I realized there was no money on the performer side so I decided to get into the online business. The rest is history.
                                              Last edited by Sam - Mr. Skin; 12-16-2013, 11:26 AM.

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                                              • sperbonzo
                                                I'd rather be on my boat.
                                                • May 2003
                                                • 9750

                                                #24
                                                Originally posted by ilnjscb
                                                Payments is an interesting world right now. I was trying to accept payments in Brasil, you have to actually have a business there to get cybersource to settle payments there. England is the same way. The new thing is currency control.
                                                Absolutely. As governments get themselves further and further into debt, they are going to look for more and more ways/excuses to control the flow of money around the world, and reserve for themselves ways to allow the government to grab those monies whenever they wish to.



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                                                • xNetworx
                                                  So Fucking What
                                                  • Jan 2004
                                                  • 14445

                                                  #25
                                                  Started with AC Gold back in the day

                                                  Then owning and promoting pay sites

                                                  Now Cams

                                                  Never got "rich" but have always been very comfortable

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                                                  • robwod
                                                    Confirmed User
                                                    • Nov 2005
                                                    • 2540

                                                    #26
                                                    I started with BBS -> then Newsgroups in the mid-90's, then bought a bunch of content and started a series of AVS sites under Adult Check and Validate.

                                                    By 1999, I had a fairly established and popular adult site that the Models and Playmates were mentioning everywhere, from the Glamourcon's to appearances on Stern, from guest hostesses mention us on Entertainment Tonight to an E! show at the time called "Wild On" giving us mentions from their guest hostesses.

                                                    That site is still going strong to this day. Of course, we've since branched out in several other areas and diversified revenues along the way.

                                                    There's still a lot of good people to work with in this industry, and some very smart entrepreneurs. And you can still make a comfortable living -- and doing it honestly ;)
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                                                    • ilnjscb
                                                      Confirmed User
                                                      • Jun 2009
                                                      • 8973

                                                      #27
                                                      Originally posted by Sam - Mr. Skin
                                                      Doctor told my parents my dick was in the 96th percentile so they groomed me for the adult business but I realized there was no money on the performer side so I decided to get into the online business. The rest is history.

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                                                      • j3rkules
                                                        VIP
                                                        • Jul 2013
                                                        • 22111

                                                        #28
                                                        Originally posted by Sam - Mr. Skin
                                                        Doctor told my parents my dick was in the 96th percentile so they groomed me for the adult business but I realized there was no money on the performer side so I decided to get into the online business. The rest is history.

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                                                        • American Psycho
                                                          Confirmed User
                                                          • Feb 2009
                                                          • 3068

                                                          #29
                                                          Village voice ad in 2000ish to build an adult website.
                                                          Got the gig amd turned into a job running screwmag.com for al goldstein , one of the main guys in print xxx with hef and flynt.
                                                          He was a super wack job and eccntric beyond imagine.

                                                          Walked around the office with a gun in his belt when he got paranoid.

                                                          My desk was litteraly in a closet (que gay jokes)
                                                          Thank got I got out of there!

                                                          Now I'm rich!
                                                          Last edited by American Psycho; 12-16-2013, 12:46 PM.

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                                                          • kittykatt
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                                                            • Jun 2013
                                                            • 584

                                                            #30
                                                            I was blessed with an amazingly talented mother who decided to teach me her skills
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                                                            • brassmonkey
                                                              Pay It Forward
                                                              • Sep 2005
                                                              • 77396

                                                              #31
                                                              hoping to be done with adult early 2014
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                                                              • Rochard
                                                                Jägermeister Test Pilot
                                                                • Dec 2001
                                                                • 75733

                                                                #32
                                                                I've been here for over fifteen years. I've been so lucky - I've always made really good money, lived well, just bought a vacation house... Life is great.

                                                                I'm still making money, life is sweet. Don't see this changing any time soon.
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                                                                • happyending
                                                                  Confirmed User
                                                                  • Feb 2013
                                                                  • 137

                                                                  #33
                                                                  Doing it for the 'Free' Pr0n

                                                                  I just joined the Industry for the 'Free' Pr0n.

                                                                  Just kidding lol

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                                                                  • SilentKnight
                                                                    Megan Fox's fluffer
                                                                    • Oct 2005
                                                                    • 24818

                                                                    #34
                                                                    After creating several thousand 'fantasy bondage' photo-art images in the mid-90s that became a constant fixture on alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.bondage newsgroup...a friend suggested (in 1999) we launch and display them on a website.

                                                                    He and I created KastleArchives.com

                                                                    We had no master plan or money-making aspirations - it was just a novelty hobby to do at the time.

                                                                    But we were caught off-guard. Much to our surprise it caught fire rather quickly. Within a matter of weeks we were exceeding the 2gb/day bandwidth allowance with our free hosting (GoCasino). They notified us they were giving us the boot.

                                                                    So we shifted gears, switched hosting...reformated to a paysite. Soon after we expanded with our own bondage photography - launched a second site, then a third...and a fourth.

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                                                                    • myjah
                                                                      Back in the harbor
                                                                      • Sep 2003
                                                                      • 11482

                                                                      #35
                                                                      Originally posted by kittykatt
                                                                      I was blessed with an amazingly talented mother who decided to teach me her skills
                                                                      yes, yes you are
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                                                                      • seopro
                                                                        Confirmed User
                                                                        • Oct 2002
                                                                        • 48

                                                                        #36
                                                                        when i came for my first interview i was told it was 'dating'.
                                                                        then when i saw the truth, didn't want to leave
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                                                                        • KevinMoxyMedia
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                                                                          • Oct 2012
                                                                          • 25

                                                                          #37
                                                                          adult beats 9-5

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                                                                          • dehash
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                                                                            • May 2011
                                                                            • 889

                                                                            #38
                                                                            Nice stories. I like to read threads like this one. Thanks for sharing.
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                                                                            • Klen
                                                                              • Aug 2006
                                                                              • 32235

                                                                              #39
                                                                              Originally posted by KevinMoxyMedia
                                                                              adult beats 9-5
                                                                              I dont know what to say as i never had 9-5 job

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                                                                              • tony286
                                                                                lurker
                                                                                • Aug 2002
                                                                                • 57021

                                                                                #40
                                                                                Originally posted by sperbonzo
                                                                                In 93 working with a company in LA that was doing phone sex



                                                                                .
                                                                                I always thought I had heard you voice before. lol My goal wasnt to be rich , it was to make a decent living without an asshole boss and I get to hang out with my wife. When we started if you told me I would make my living doing this I would laughed. It was like a goof that started to make money.

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                                                                                • secureizef
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                                                                                  • Nov 2013
                                                                                  • 173

                                                                                  #41
                                                                                  depends what the rich definition is...

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                                                                                  • sperbonzo
                                                                                    I'd rather be on my boat.
                                                                                    • May 2003
                                                                                    • 9750

                                                                                    #42
                                                                                    Originally posted by tony286
                                                                                    I always thought I had heard you voice before. .
                                                                                    Your voice has always sounded familiar to me as well.....






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                                                                                    • Colmike9
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                                                                                      • Dec 2011
                                                                                      • 7230

                                                                                      #43
                                                                                      4 years ago I was robbed 3 times in 2 weeks, so I was stuck in a shitty apartment on a big campus with no food or anything at all, really.. So I went out on move out day and found 3 computers in an alley and rigged them together to barely work, running around 400MHz, 128Mb RAM, XP that was hacked so it only loaded IE from CTRL+ALT+DEL and restarted every 45 minutes without warning, using an intermittent internet connection at 0.7Kbps. Then I cashed a bunch of small PPS program checks at local smoke shops until I was able to get my own house in a nice part of town where I grew up.

                                                                                      Slow start, but I'm happy as hell now pulling my way out of poverty with internet marketing.
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                                                                                      • DerKramer
                                                                                        Registered User
                                                                                        • Oct 2013
                                                                                        • 44

                                                                                        #44
                                                                                        Great story! Good Luck!

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                                                                                        • Tofu
                                                                                          The Video Specialist
                                                                                          • Jul 2003
                                                                                          • 5615

                                                                                          #45
                                                                                          Originally posted by tony286
                                                                                          I always thought I had heard you voice before. lol My goal wasnt to be rich , it was to make a decent living without an asshole boss and I get to hang out with my wife. When we started if you told me I would make my living doing this I would laughed. It was like a goof that started to make money.
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                                                                                          • TNVeric
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                                                                                            • May 2002
                                                                                            • 82

                                                                                            #46
                                                                                            LA Traffic

                                                                                            I had this nasty commute each day from the OC to Lockheed in Burbank, so one day, I am sitting in LA traffic circa 1998 (thank god for howard stern!) and heard on the radio that a recent study found that one of the most searched items on the internet was NUDE CELEBRITIES. I thought wow, work at home and no commute!! so I launched a small Celebrity paysite through IBILL. It actually did fairly well considering I managed it on a part time basis, made about 32k a year off it until IBILL imploded.

                                                                                            Then one fateful day I happen to have a discussion with one of my members - Steve Jones. He mentioned he started this cheerleader site LS-University.com and was doing quite well with it. He was extremely helpful in getting me started and I eventually hooked up with the owner of THURSDAY NIGHT VIDEO (also a member), who had some incredible looking models and truly amazing content. I told him he would make a lot more money having a paysite rather than selling videos online, so THURSDAY NIGHT VIDEO became TNVGirls. The site wound up doing very well considering that I still managed it on a part time basis, and you all know this business definitely requires a full time commitment to have good success. I closed the site a few years back to focus more on my mainstream job. Then last year after numerous former members pleaded with me to put TNVGirls back online so I opened the doors again.

                                                                                            Only issue is I am an R&D guy, I can make a great product but am totally lacking in marketing skills. Yes, that is a hint, I am always looking for good marketing help
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                                                                                            • baddog
                                                                                              So Fucking Banned
                                                                                              • Apr 2001
                                                                                              • 107089

                                                                                              #47
                                                                                              I got some AOL spam in 1996 telling me I could make millions; for just $25 I would be set up. At the time I was so broke that my girlfriend gave me the $25.

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                                                                                              • CarlosTheGaucho
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                                                                                                • Oct 2005
                                                                                                • 9559

                                                                                                #48
                                                                                                Started as a university student back in '03 - 04 running two livecam studios (I wish I would start building quality freesites back then).

                                                                                                Came up with a proposal for my most ambitious gig in '05 when I became the go to guy plus a site revamp + TV licensing initiator for Big Sister Media (televized sexhouse), traveled across half the world promoting it.

                                                                                                Tried to build a substantial traffic network from '10 to '11 (during the time my non compete applied) - put together a strategy after reading most of the Google patents, but Panda pretty much killed it, causing a downturn to about 5 pct. of its (till then) rising traffic.

                                                                                                Worked with GSS Interactive after as a marketing manager for about a year (great times). Did and still do some per project PR work.

                                                                                                All and all - I guess I may have been involved in just about any part of the business already - looking forward to the next challenge.
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                                                                                                • shimmy2
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                                                                                                  • Mar 2009
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                                                                                                  #49
                                                                                                  i just like to turn a profit whenever i have to pay for pussy
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                                                                                                  • VinceRuth
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                                                                                                    • Nov 2013
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                                                                                                    #50
                                                                                                    Hmm... you wnat to know story,but how is your story ?
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