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Originally Posted by wonderman
Yea well maybe the problem is that today it is a lot harder than it was 3 years ago. I would not get into this biz today as a newbie. The amount of effort to make a dime here is greater than what you could expend doing some other things like simply buying a condo. Back in 2001 I spent 50 grand to get sobegirl off the ground. I made it back in 2 months. Today is a different story. But yea, let's all give them high hopes and keep them sending traffic to the galleries.
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It gets geometrically more difficult each passing year for a newbie to start, simply because of the glut of websites and content out there. The A-Z of niches has been all but covered by now, and its tougher to come up with a truly innovative idea.
Back in '95 when we started making fantasy bondage photo illustrations, there was only a half dozen others that were doing similiar work, and maybe only one or two that were doing them with any sort of quality. When we launched our first site in '99, we started exceeding our webhost's 2gb/day bandwidth limit within the first month.
Today, websites that cater to the same niche are abundant as more and more photoartists figure out the photoshop and compositing techniques needed.