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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
Specifically speaking, yes... everything I did, I did to excess. Drinking, smoking, partying, working, arguing, fucking around... I was obsessed with money and status, did a lot of stupid things I'm not proud of, acted like an ass, made bad investments in property, business, and people, was very conflicted on important issues & topics, and had a lot of "growing up" to do. I wasted my 30s and a good part of my 40s being confused, pretentious, petty and stupid. All that is behind me. I am no longer confused about anything, and I have put the childish "toys" away. Today, I am beholden to no one. I dug my own hole, and I crawled out of it myself. Such is life. It's a learning process and meant to be experienced, right? The good and the not so good. It's how we become who we are.
But this is just a forum. I suppose I'm back here out of some nostalgia for days gone by. There was a time when I considered being banned from here equivalent to cutting off one of my arms. Now I know better. The world is a big place. There are certainly far more engaging forums (non-porn related) out there. I'm on them from time to time in various incarnations.
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Ah but what was "the change"? How did it happen? Did you read a book, take a class, go to rehab, get the shit beat out of you by a gang of thugs in the park at 4 am while trying to score, was it a WOMAN, what? I am glad you found clarity, and BTW I would also say being lost and confused in your '30's/'40's is somewhat standard for many people.
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Originally Posted by sonofsam
You're one of the few people here who seem to actually be doing something..
How did you start in adult? as an affiliate, or did you move in and buy a program?
I love reading success stories
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When I started in Jan.2009 I was living at home with my mother (yes, in the basement) and had ZERO money. I had to borrow the $750 CCBill registration fee from a friend in exchange for 10% of the business. I had no 'content' and knew nothing about computers other than using Microsoft Word (I was a journalist back in 80's-'90's).
So I shot my own POV amateur content (yes, in my mom's basement) trading pay for content exchanges and building websites - which I did not know how to do. LOL So I bought 'HTML For Dummies' and created my first paysites using Notepad (because Dreamweaver or any other WYSIWYG editor was too complicated for me). I went after the 'amateur' market for obvious reasons. I was adding a new website to my growing Network about once every 3 weeks.
My 14th website, Fellucia Blow, blew up nine months after being in business and I went from 3 sales a day (my peak) to 30+. Since then I've gotten a few more 'whales' and have become a much better designer. LOL But as I grew I realized I was spending nearly 90% of my time doing repetitive tasks so that's when I started hiring outsourced help. Earlier this year I acquired Ruff Davidson's Aggressive Network (44 websites) and his Aggressive Dollars Affiliate Program. I am still 'integrating' his stuff into my operation, a process I imagine will take 6+ months to finish.
The next step is my tube site (with a twist) along with other traffic sources I am creating (blogs, TGPs, etc). I am done with creating/acquiring paysites for awhile and am now focusing on traffic generation full time. We will see where this all leads...
I am also interested in finding a mainstream project to get excited about but that search continues.