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Originally Posted by Rochard
It was hard NOT to make money. I know one affilaite who bought a domain name, launched a TGP, and was driving a Ferrari before he was legal drinking age.
Instead of branching out into other areas of our industry you stuck with what you knew best, photography. There is nothing wrong with that - we all did this to some degree.
All of us failed to adapt. Looking back at the past twenty years in adult I see I too failed to adapt. I was making so much money running porn sites that I saw no reason to change. Looking back at it all I see exactly what I should have done... Our industry has an amazing business model which is why it works so well, but there is one area of our industry that always makes money no matter what... I am disappointed I didn't move in that direction.
People that were running programs were either doing it for themselves or making so much money doing it that it was hard to get them to go to work for someone else.
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In the content production side I adapted from selling photos, to launching my own paysite and making 150 to 200 sign ups a week by doing very little.
But you are right, very few have adapted into other sides of the business. One webmaster opening a TGP site and being a success is a poor example when 100s opened TGP sites and barely made a mark.
I was never approaching people running programs to team up with after my early encounters with them. I needed a skilled webmaster to handle the traffic side. Designs, galleries, programming, content production we could handle in house, even some affiliate work could be done in house by students working part time.