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D-Money · 02-21-2005, 02:19 PM

10. What did you do with Adult Buffet?

AdultBuffet deserves a long answer because it's a great story.

Back in 1997, I worked at WebSideStory and started the hosting division. I'd cold call everyone for their business, everyone knew from us, but didn't know that we offered hosting. We charged big money, more then 5 times that of what other hosting companies charged. But back then, the other hosts would crash and burn when they maxed routers. At WSS, we had over 45 servers already hosting the counters, so we needed to make sure our NOC was up and running to protect our own investment. I convinced our company owners to hire the very best technical staff and upgrade to the very best equipment. I said, if we're gonna charge the most, we better be the very best out there. They placed it all on me and I promised if they stepped it up I'd produce big numbers. Well, they stepped it up and so did I. Everyone I called asked if we hosted any top 10 sites. I'd say, well, we get more traffic then anyone in the top ten, but that answer didn't fly because we didn't show our numbers. So I hit up the top 10 sites that used our counter and Adultbuffet was number 1. I cold called and spoke with James, hit it off right away. He was scared to move his servers at that time, but I convinced him it would increase his traffic because we had zero packet loss 24/7 and we'd never go down. He switched over to our network and I had my trophy piece. The next calls I made was to the rest of the top ten, then the entire top 10,000 sites. We hosted PicPost.com, Adultbuffet.com and PureHardcore.com, 3 out of the top 10 within the next week. Picpost didn't want to switch over until he would experience problems with his current host. So Adultbuffet unleased the traffic G_ds on his server by adding the words "Buffet Family Member" next to his link and sure enough, Picpost had server problems from the extra traffic. He called me the next day and switched over right away. How could he be mad that I helped create that much traffic? Pretty funny, I was an internet gangsta from the start!

After I left WSS I regged the name Marketingfirm.com and made a horrible looking page in Netscape Composer. I sent James from Adultbuffet the link to see what he thought, without telling me, he added that link to the webmasers area of his site. Over night I took 3 clients each paying a nice fee and I was on my own since then. It was just a rough draft of a site, no design, I still can't believe it brought me 3 clients over night.

I'll always love and respect Adultbuffet for truly giving me a shot at being independant in this biz. And all TGP's are like family to me since then. Nothing but love. I always gave them a ton of passes back then for the Players Balls to make sure the TGP people were taken care of.

More in a few.

02-21-2005, 02:19 PM
D-Money Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Player Del Ray Posts: 9,716	10. What did you do with Adult Buffet? AdultBuffet deserves a long answer because it's a great story. Back in 1997, I worked at WebSideStory and started the hosting division. I'd cold call everyone for their business, everyone knew from us, but didn't know that we offered hosting. We charged big money, more then 5 times that of what other hosting companies charged. But back then, the other hosts would crash and burn when they maxed routers. At WSS, we had over 45 servers already hosting the counters, so we needed to make sure our NOC was up and running to protect our own investment. I convinced our company owners to hire the very best technical staff and upgrade to the very best equipment. I said, if we're gonna charge the most, we better be the very best out there. They placed it all on me and I promised if they stepped it up I'd produce big numbers. Well, they stepped it up and so did I. Everyone I called asked if we hosted any top 10 sites. I'd say, well, we get more traffic then anyone in the top ten, but that answer didn't fly because we didn't show our numbers. So I hit up the top 10 sites that used our counter and Adultbuffet was number 1. I cold called and spoke with James, hit it off right away. He was scared to move his servers at that time, but I convinced him it would increase his traffic because we had zero packet loss 24/7 and we'd never go down. He switched over to our network and I had my trophy piece. The next calls I made was to the rest of the top ten, then the entire top 10,000 sites. We hosted PicPost.com, Adultbuffet.com and PureHardcore.com, 3 out of the top 10 within the next week. Picpost didn't want to switch over until he would experience problems with his current host. So Adultbuffet unleased the traffic G_ds on his server by adding the words "Buffet Family Member" next to his link and sure enough, Picpost had server problems from the extra traffic. He called me the next day and switched over right away. How could he be mad that I helped create that much traffic? Pretty funny, I was an internet gangsta from the start! After I left WSS I regged the name Marketingfirm.com and made a horrible looking page in Netscape Composer. I sent James from Adultbuffet the link to see what he thought, without telling me, he added that link to the webmasers area of his site. Over night I took 3 clients each paying a nice fee and I was on my own since then. It was just a rough draft of a site, no design, I still can't believe it brought me 3 clients over night. I'll always love and respect Adultbuffet for truly giving me a shot at being independant in this biz. And all TGP's are like family to me since then. Nothing but love. I always gave them a ton of passes back then for the Players Balls to make sure the TGP people were taken care of. More in a few. __________________ Still Ballin'