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Karupted Charles · 11-05-2005, 02:16 PM

18a How did you start with Karups?
Well 17 leads to 18. When I needed to cover Christmases expenses it became time to become creative. The only clients I had that were making consistent money on the Internet were adult customers. Many of my friends in the mainstream industry didn't want to work with adult customers so I offered to handle them. I spent many nights reading different boards and learning the business. Started submitting galleries and building free sites. Thats when one of Lou and Jeff's good friends bumped into me. He wanted to get into the business and run a huge paysite like Karups. I explained the cost involved and the risks then told him how much money I expected for running this for him. At that point it looks like I priced myself out of the job. Lou and Jeff liked my balls and my understanding of both the technical aspects and marketing behind the industry and offered me a chance to work for them for a week in Michigan. I was here 3 days when they asked me how long it would take for me to move form NY to Micigan. I went home packed my stuff and moved here 3 days later. It's been 4 years now and though I hate Michigan it was the best thing I ever did. I still remember coming home and hearing the message on my answering machine that Karups wanted me to interview. Good things take time and wonderful things happen all at once.

18b Discuss what you do there now.
Like you said I kind of do it all. With the exception of content purchases there is not much I am not involved in. I was very lucky in finding a great group of company owners that trust me to make decisions because I treat Karups like it is mine. My main duties include dealing with all our hosting and software vendors, working with affiliates to make them more profitable, management of the staff day to day, and business development. Luckily we were able to get a fantastic staff that works its ass off to achieve a common goal be the best at what we do everyday. Adding Dave (mack) was a huge asset as he is so well known and was able to assist big time on making sure we get the marketing tools needed to the webmasters that make it possible for us to stay open and provide such huge content updates.

11-05-2005, 02:16 PM
Karupted Charles Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: MI Posts: 1,662	18a How did you start with Karups? Well 17 leads to 18. When I needed to cover Christmases expenses it became time to become creative. The only clients I had that were making consistent money on the Internet were adult customers. Many of my friends in the mainstream industry didn't want to work with adult customers so I offered to handle them. I spent many nights reading different boards and learning the business. Started submitting galleries and building free sites. Thats when one of Lou and Jeff's good friends bumped into me. He wanted to get into the business and run a huge paysite like Karups. I explained the cost involved and the risks then told him how much money I expected for running this for him. At that point it looks like I priced myself out of the job. Lou and Jeff liked my balls and my understanding of both the technical aspects and marketing behind the industry and offered me a chance to work for them for a week in Michigan. I was here 3 days when they asked me how long it would take for me to move form NY to Micigan. I went home packed my stuff and moved here 3 days later. It's been 4 years now and though I hate Michigan it was the best thing I ever did. I still remember coming home and hearing the message on my answering machine that Karups wanted me to interview. Good things take time and wonderful things happen all at once. 18b Discuss what you do there now. Like you said I kind of do it all. With the exception of content purchases there is not much I am not involved in. I was very lucky in finding a great group of company owners that trust me to make decisions because I treat Karups like it is mine. My main duties include dealing with all our hosting and software vendors, working with affiliates to make them more profitable, management of the staff day to day, and business development. Luckily we were able to get a fantastic staff that works its ass off to achieve a common goal be the best at what we do everyday. Adding Dave (mack) was a huge asset as he is so well known and was able to assist big time on making sure we get the marketing tools needed to the webmasters that make it possible for us to stay open and provide such huge content updates. __________________ TPF 2010 "They are eating our sausages!"