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D-Money · 02-21-2005, 05:22 PM

26. Discuss WebsideStory.

I was working for myself, running an alarm company. I placed brochures in lots of the leasing offices for the corporate office buildings in San Diego. One day, I got a call from WSS, they just moved into an office and needed a security system to protect their computers and NOC. The loved the presentation of my brochure, I pushed being innovative and high tech and I had a picture of me on it. The called to set up an appointment, I came out to meet them that same day and priced myself way higher then the competitors. But I had the toys! I had the remote control key fob to turn on and off the system with built in panic button, and a few other fine futuristic bells and whistles. In a nutshell, they bought and I gave them the best service, their office was just 2 buildings away from my office.

As a security company, I had a 5000 square foot office for just me and my partner, a tech and then a couple of sales people. It was a pretty phat set up for a guy just 25 years old in the business world.

One day, I was pushed out of the company I started by the board of directors my partner put in place. That day I stopped by WSS to let them know I was leaving the company after being screwed out of the ownership I was promised for over a year. They made me an offer on the spot. I was never on a computer before, I had no idea I was to set up a hosting division. For the first month I thought they hired me to do advertising! I took that job because it was in a booming industry, porn doesn't bother me, why not?

They screwed me out of commissions that year by having a clause in my contract that said I made commissions "after the cost of sales". They never broke down my commissions and they were paying me way less then I calculated I should have made, though it was still good money, it wasn't close to what my contract said. Finally, a manager in that company fucked up and explained they were using full salaries and haf salaries of employees as a cost of MY sales. Which was really a cost of doing business. But they took salaries of almost everyone as a cost of my sales and a bunch of other office equipment too. So once I got that info, I freaked out and had it out with the owners. He was guilty, felt cornered and we had a fuck you session, then I left.

But in that time, I was the face of the biggest adult company out there. We were the ONLY counter for a while. We had more traffic then the #1 ranked site using our counter. I gave ideas for the good of the company which are standard ideas today. I created the niched out categories for WSS counters. They only had the Adult 10000. My idea was to create multiple counters, each for a big niche. The Lesbian 1000, Hardcore100, Gay1000 and about 7 more. We more then tripled our traffic and charged a few cents more per click since it was targeted traffic. Needless to say, I was never paid for that idea though I was promised all idea I brought the company I'd make money with. And I created the search function as well for counters.

While working for WSS I advised them to throw a big party at IA2000, I was impressed with the success of Ynot and other parties. I knew then that this is a young industry that wants to party more then walk a trade show floor. So we went big first in the party scene spending over $40k on the first WSS party. I made them their money back and then plenty more in the following month, which pushed them to throw more parties. I guess I was experimenting on their dime, it worked.

02-21-2005, 05:22 PM
D-Money Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Player Del Ray Posts: 9,716	26. Discuss WebsideStory. I was working for myself, running an alarm company. I placed brochures in lots of the leasing offices for the corporate office buildings in San Diego. One day, I got a call from WSS, they just moved into an office and needed a security system to protect their computers and NOC. The loved the presentation of my brochure, I pushed being innovative and high tech and I had a picture of me on it. The called to set up an appointment, I came out to meet them that same day and priced myself way higher then the competitors. But I had the toys! I had the remote control key fob to turn on and off the system with built in panic button, and a few other fine futuristic bells and whistles. In a nutshell, they bought and I gave them the best service, their office was just 2 buildings away from my office. As a security company, I had a 5000 square foot office for just me and my partner, a tech and then a couple of sales people. It was a pretty phat set up for a guy just 25 years old in the business world. One day, I was pushed out of the company I started by the board of directors my partner put in place. That day I stopped by WSS to let them know I was leaving the company after being screwed out of the ownership I was promised for over a year. They made me an offer on the spot. I was never on a computer before, I had no idea I was to set up a hosting division. For the first month I thought they hired me to do advertising! I took that job because it was in a booming industry, porn doesn't bother me, why not? They screwed me out of commissions that year by having a clause in my contract that said I made commissions "after the cost of sales". They never broke down my commissions and they were paying me way less then I calculated I should have made, though it was still good money, it wasn't close to what my contract said. Finally, a manager in that company fucked up and explained they were using full salaries and haf salaries of employees as a cost of MY sales. Which was really a cost of doing business. But they took salaries of almost everyone as a cost of my sales and a bunch of other office equipment too. So once I got that info, I freaked out and had it out with the owners. He was guilty, felt cornered and we had a fuck you session, then I left. But in that time, I was the face of the biggest adult company out there. We were the ONLY counter for a while. We had more traffic then the #1 ranked site using our counter. I gave ideas for the good of the company which are standard ideas today. I created the niched out categories for WSS counters. They only had the Adult 10000. My idea was to create multiple counters, each for a big niche. The Lesbian 1000, Hardcore100, Gay1000 and about 7 more. We more then tripled our traffic and charged a few cents more per click since it was targeted traffic. Needless to say, I was never paid for that idea though I was promised all idea I brought the company I'd make money with. And I created the search function as well for counters. While working for WSS I advised them to throw a big party at IA2000, I was impressed with the success of Ynot and other parties. I knew then that this is a young industry that wants to party more then walk a trade show floor. So we went big first in the party scene spending over $40k on the first WSS party. I made them their money back and then plenty more in the following month, which pushed them to throw more parties. I guess I was experimenting on their dime, it worked. __________________ Still Ballin' Last edited by D-Money; 02-21-2005 at 05:24 PM..