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ITraffic 01-19-2015 04:05 PM

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Pseudonymous 01-19-2015 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by ITraffic (Post 20363761)
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did it attempt to be a paysite before that? i assume thats what he would have been speaking about

The Porn Nerd 01-19-2015 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Pseudonymous (Post 20363758)
Your startup is 20k to start a hardcore site? Well now i see why youre numbers and everything you keep saying is ridiculously small. LOL im sorrry but you could never get big with 20k. Ill give you a pretend budget just to help you out. Lets pretend its a couple hundred thousand to do everything (for one single site, and that site being your only focus). JT has already stated he only spent a few hundred k. so lets use that as an example

Dude you really need to stop now. You do not know how many Members I have or how much traffic I get or how many joins I do a day. You are assuming a LOT, and making wrong assumptions.

Now if you think Fellucia Blow is not the same quality as X-Art then you are fucking high and this is where I stop communicating with you.

Mutt was NOT asking how much the big boys make, he was asking what he could reasonably expect if starting a paysite in 2015. Am I wrong there?

OVER and over I stated there are several teirs of paysites. JT's sites nd Brazzers et al are NOT your average everyday hardcore site. I never said I was a big company, in fact the opposite, but I never said I am a one-man show, either. How many employees does Mutt have, BTW?

So you think my sites are shit, think I have no traffic and no members and do not know anything. OK - so we are done here because that is idiotic thinking tho you are entitled to it.

OVER and over again I asked HOW MUCH to start this paysite? Did Mutt (or ANYONE) say $200K to shoot content? IS Mutt going to spend $200K to shoot content? IF so then he could do what JT or Brazzers does, IF not then my projections stand. Oh - and many, many paysites (good ones that make $$$) start with a buget of 20K.

So again, we're done.

Pseudonymous 01-19-2015 04:14 PM

felluciablowhd.com Site Overview is it launched?

But yes it is high quality content, that one i would say is. But the question wasn't whether high quality content should make you successful, if there is other massive problems, then obviously it wont be capable of becoming big. Thats why the question was , whats a big new site capable of doing, with high quality content. You have high quality content on one site, but there are other issues, if there wasn't, that site would be much much bigger

Im making assumptions based on evidence, much evidence. that site is very small.

The Porn Nerd 01-19-2015 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Mutt (Post 20361986)
If you were starting a new paysite today, high quality hardcore exclusive content, what would be a realistic number of members to be at a year later?

Don't reply with 'how long is a piece of string?' I'm not talking about some outlier of a unique paysite, the way X-Art was when it went hardcore, I'm talking about a paysite with content that is really good, appeals to a wide audience but not 'wow i never saw a site like that'.

THIS was the original question. WHERE did we go from this to Brazzers, Fake Taxi, etc etc etc?

By WHAT MUTT WROTE - not what someone else has interpreted FOR Mutt - I stand by my posts. We have NO other info here (costs, traffic, etc) to go on and assuming Mutt meant this or thatis fucking retarded. What is "reasonable"? Wow, that depends doesn't it? On perspective? Is 20K or 200K or 2MILLION "reasonable"?

Mutt began this thread with fluffy questions and now, because I answer them FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, I get shit? Thanks but no thanks.

Where is Mutt?

Struggle4Bucks 01-19-2015 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Pseudonymous (Post 20363758)
Your startup is 20k to start a hardcore site? Well now i see why youre numbers and everything you keep saying is ridiculously small. LOL im sorrry but you could never get big with 20k.

Yes... but wasn't that the point of all points? That's why he and others like me said that budget is the key thing to know...

So now we can assume (because that's what you are implying, right? ) that a budget for OP isn't the issue...and we can try to figure out the big boys numbers to know what to expect...

Pseudonymous 01-19-2015 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd (Post 20363763)
Mutt was NOT asking how much the big boys make, he was asking what he could reasonably expect if starting a paysite in 2015. Am I wrong there?
.

Yes and i quickly corrected what he was seeking out of the question, and clarified for people. dont tell me what he was asking, im telling you. i know what he was asking for and meant out of the post.

The question was, what should a high quality site make in 2015, obviously one that was run by competent marketers and an average budget, 20k for a site is not close to average. somebody couldn't pay me enough money to launch a site if the budget was 20k

The Porn Nerd 01-19-2015 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Pseudonymous (Post 20363764)
felluciablowhd.com Site Overview is it launched?

But yes it is high quality content, that one i would say is. But the question wasn't whether high quality content should make you successful, if there is other massive problems, then obviously it wont be capable of becoming big. Thats why the question was , whats a big new site capable of doing, with high quality content. You have high quality content on one site, but there are other issues, if there wasn't, that site would be much much bigger

Im making assumptions based on evidence, much evidence. that site is very small.

WHAT "evidence"? How "big" do you think Fellucia is or is not? Dude please stop smoking whatever it is you are doing ok?

I just posted Mutt's original question and it was not 'a big new site'. Mutt never mentioned size. Jesus Christ man.

Is it launched? YES. Is it making $$$? YES. Evidence LMAO. All those sites I posted have quality content, everything on Eleganxia (Erotic Revenue) does. Go away now.

ITraffic 01-19-2015 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Pseudonymous (Post 20363762)
did it attempt to be a paysite before that? i assume thats what he would have been speaking about

maybe for a little while initially.

Pseudonymous 01-19-2015 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Struggle4Bucks (Post 20363771)
Yes... but wasn't that the point of all points? That's why he and others like me said that budget is the key thing to know...

So now we can assume (because that's what you are implying, right? ) that a budget for OP isn't the issue...and we can try to figure out the big boys numbers to know what to expect...

Well i mentioend very early that he wanted to know what successful (on a large scale) sites were making in 2015, so that he knows what a good site is capable of doing. vast majority of sucessful big hardcore sites had budgets between 200-1 million.

thats why ive repeated 10x, assume everything average. 20k is not average, maybe for a gfyer on his typical project. but not a high quality project

Struggle4Bucks 01-19-2015 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd (Post 20363763)
Mutt was NOT asking how much the big boys make, he was asking what he could reasonably expect if starting a paysite in 2015. Am I wrong there?

OVER and over again I asked HOW MUCH to start this paysite? Did Mutt (or ANYONE) say $200K to shoot content? IS Mutt going to spend $200K to shoot content? IF so then he could do what JT or Brazzers does, IF not then my projections stand. Oh - and many, many paysites (good ones that make $$$) start with a buget of 20K.

So again, we're done.

i agree with this...

The Porn Nerd 01-19-2015 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Pseudonymous (Post 20363772)
Yes and i quickly corrected what he was seeking out of the question, and clarified for people. dont tell me what he was asking, im telling you. i know what he was asking for and meant out of the post.

The question was, what should a high quality site make in 2015, obviously one that was run by competent marketers and an average budget, 20k for a site is not close to average. somebody couldn't pay me enough money to launch a site if the budget was 20k

YOU clarified? How? Did Mutt TELL you? WTF man, are you a double nick? Now only YOU can extrapolate what Mutt meant?

Wow.

You fucking jump on me when I ask for basic numbers (like content budget, traffic budget, etc) and point out the different levels of investment by saying my shit sucks. LOL I NEVER said my sites were the equal of whomever you bring up. What is wrong with you dude? Want me to pick apart YOUR shitty solo girls sites?

Pseudonymous 01-19-2015 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd (Post 20363770)
THIS was the original question. WHERE did we go from this to Brazzers, Fake Taxi, etc etc etc?

By WHAT MUTT WROTE - not what someone else has interpreted FOR Mutt - I stand by my posts. We have NO other info here (costs, traffic, etc) to go on and assuming Mutt meant this or thatis fucking retarded. What is "reasonable"? Wow, that depends doesn't it? On perspective? Is 20K or 200K or 2MILLION "reasonable"?

Mutt began this thread with fluffy questions and now, because I answer them FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, I get shit? Thanks but no thanks.

Where is Mutt?

I speak for Mutt, i know his opinion and this post was made due to a conversation ME AND MUTT were having . Hes not responding because i am saying what he wants to say. and is too lazy to say. Not everybody likes to waste their time on gfy, i have some time right now though ;) I already mentioend successful sites these days, and their budget was not 20k, nor were they 2 million so why would you think those would be the budgets? i also already said what JT invested prior to you asking and to use that as a budget, if you want. Or even 100k-200k

Struggle4Bucks 01-19-2015 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Pseudonymous (Post 20363777)
Well i mentioend very early that he wanted to know what successful (on a large scale) sites were making in 2015, so that he knows what a good site is capable of doing. vast majority of sucessful big hardcore sites had budgets between 200-1 million.

thats why ive repeated 10x, assume everything average. 20k is not average, maybe for a gfyer on his typical project. but not a high quality project

If this was the question:

If you were starting a new paysite today, high quality hardcore exclusive content, what would be a realistic number of members to be at a year later?

Then the only correct answer would be: depends on budget.

There is more to succes then only HQ hardcore exclusive content so there must be more added to know what to expect. How can we assume that there is 200k-1 million to invest?
HQ quality content was the only variable

Pseudonymous 01-19-2015 04:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Struggle4Bucks (Post 20363786)
If this was the question:

If you were starting a new paysite today, high quality hardcore exclusive content, what would be a realistic number of members to be at a year later?

Then the only correct answer would be: depends on budget.

There is more to succes then only HQ hardcore exclusive content so there must be more added to know what to expect. How can we assume that there is 200k-1 million to invest?
HQ quality content was the only variable

lol you guys are STILL arguing with me as if you dont know what the intentions of the post were. i helped clarify already. you and thepornnerd both must've assumed this post didnt' involve me. i said, i KNOW the intentions of the post. so i helped clarify what he was seeking out of his post. WHy is this so hard for people to understand. :(

When somebody said , depends on budget. i told people what he was wanting to know, which is what top successful sites should make if ran properly. i gave examples of sites that are succeeding these days on the scale mutt is wondering about. which should give you a ballpark budget. but people still acted as if nothing was said, and you dont know if the budget is 0 or 2 million. is blacked, fake taxi, wowgirls, spending 0 or 2 million, no. so dont act as if that could be possible.

Pseudonymous 01-19-2015 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd (Post 20363773)
WHAT "evidence"? How "big" do you think Fellucia is or is not? Dude please stop smoking whatever it is you are doing ok?

I just posted Mutt's original question and it was not 'a big new site'. Mutt never mentioned size. Jesus Christ man.

Is it launched? YES. Is it making $$$? YES. Evidence LMAO. All those sites I posted have quality content, everything on Eleganxia (Erotic Revenue) does. Go away now.

any site that has 0 alexa graph data and a rank of 500,000+ doesn't have much traffic. prove me wrong. ive been doing this for a long time and ive ran atleast 500,000 sites into that thing and its had an accurate rough estimate of every site that isn't fooling the system.

like i said, dont agree? prove me wrong, should be easy to show me one site. it detects any site over 25k daily~ daily in the graph. and any site with over 5-10k daily of traffic should have a ranking of better than 500,000. obviously just rough estimates but yours is so far under these estimates that i can be 99.9 percent confident.

but is there a .1 chance im wrong, yes. i would actually like to be proved wrong. i dont like having incorrect information

Ill have fun and throw out a guess of what kind of traffic it gets, i'd say, under 8,000 a day? am i wrong?

You posted mutt's original question, and now post my posts following it, that clarified what information he was seeking. So like ive said 10x, stop reading the original post only and gathering your own opinion of what he was wondering.

The Porn Nerd 01-19-2015 04:52 PM

1. Start a fucking thread YOURSELF and be more fucking specific THERE.
2. Content is one variable. 200K, great. NOW what? What is the ad budget for Reality Kings? Or X-Art or Wow or Twistys. Fucking pick one.

Why the fuck do you think Brazzers or Bangbros hasn't chimed in here and said "We have x # of Members etc"? THAT is what you are really asking, isn't it?

Wow, great communication skills dude. You could have asked all those things (in your own thread) without attacking me or my sites (and getting everything completely wrong).
And I'M the one with 'massive problems'. LOL


BTW: Did YOU spend more than 20K to start Autumn Riley or one of your solo sites? Just curious since you scoff at 20K.

ITraffic 01-19-2015 04:53 PM

simple question, no? how many members do top existing hardcore paysites have in this day and age?

slapass 01-19-2015 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Pseudonymous (Post 20363472)
ThePornNerd, if you truly think you can't get a ballpark number due to him not mentioning the exact investment number, then how come every big new site is in the same ballpark of traffic and most likely , in the same ballpark when ti comes to member bases (to some degree). Or do you not think most of these big new hardcore paysites are in the same ballpark of member bases? Do you think if i named the the last top 10 hardcore sites in 2015, some will have 50 members and some will have 20,000?

Maybe you guys are unaware but there is a number where most sites will level off at, unless its something insanely unique and a business model that is quite different. But otherwise, most sites use very similar models, very similar budgets for shooting models, similar producers, similar tours and business models, similar marketing strategies, etc - Adult is very cookie cutter. Nobody is spending 10 dollars on a marketing budget and becoming successful in 2015 and nobody is spending a million on marketing, its not exactly like it could be anything, you guys are truly overanalyzing. new big hardcore sites are not pulling in 10,000 members. If there was one, its not the norm for big new hardcore sites so why use it as your number to give to a person trying to figure out a projection to use as a goal?

This is truly like somebody asking me how much will a solo girl site should make if done well in 2015 and i answered with, well is she a famous superstar movie actress, is she going to stick around for 10 years, does she have 3 tits, is she going to work 10 hours a day everyday or 1 hour every 500 days, are you going to spend a million on marketing?

do you get what i mean? these aren't the norms, what model works that often? what model works that little? who invests that much into solo and think it could be worth it? etc etc

I could easily answer the question and have a very high percent of being right. Because i use the norms

You can easily calculate how much of a budget hes talking about when he said high quality content, high quality content has a budget thats relatively easy to project. Production costs are roughly the same for most people. Can you cut corners here and there, yes but in the end, MOST companies are spending around the same on models, producers, editors, etc (for one site) - so the only question that remains is marketing, and since he didn't give a number, assume the average, do you not think theres an average? do you think blacked.com and fake taxi's marketing budget is a world apart?

And you don't think your two examples are world's apart? As an affiliate seller, we know that some sites sell 1:400 and some sell 1:4000. And a big chuck of that is tweaks to the tour, how much the content is out there. How good is the content? Produced well? Edited well? Pirated a lot?

You can name the top ten but can you name the top ten that crashed and burned on similar themes? Execution is the key.

Pseudonymous 01-19-2015 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd (Post 20363801)
1. Start a fucking thread YOURSELF and be more fucking specific THERE.
2. Content is one variable. 200K, great. NOW what? What is the ad budget for Reality Kings? Or X-Art or Wow or Twistys. Fucking pick one.

Why the fuck do you think Brazzers or Bangbros hasn't chimed in here and said "We have x # of Members etc"? THAT is what you are really asking, isn't it?

Wow, great communication skills dude. You could have asked all those things (in your own thread) without attacking me or my sites (and getting everything completely wrong).
And I'M the one with 'massive problems'. LOL


BTW: Did YOU spend more than 20K to start Autumn Riley or one of your solo sites? Just curious since you scoff at 20K.

WHy would i start a thread myself when i could easy answer peoples questions people had about the original post? i didn't think you'd argue with me about what he meant or what teh question was, considering i said i was speaking for him early on

People asked budget, i answered that. Why start my own thread when the OP made for US?

Solo girls take the smallest investments in the whole industry? We are speaking about high quality hardcore. 20k is fine for solo, 20k is alot for tgps and 20k is nothing for a high quality hardcore project. i think that answers that.

Why hasn't brazzers or anyone big chimed in? Because they dont share personal information. Thats a silly question. He was hoping for somebody with loose lips that might know of numbers, which hes already stated. And he was also wondering what you guys thought they made. basically.

The Porn Nerd 01-19-2015 04:56 PM

To answer your question: I never said ANY of my sites could rank in terms of traffic or ad buys so comparing Brazzers to Fellucia Blow is retarded. Her site gets around 10-12 visitors a day BUT it is all 'organic', meaning no ad buys or bought traffic. Plus the conversion ratio is very high. It is actually a niche site (CFNM) so her numbers are outstanding.

Same with ErosExotica and several others. Look man, there are only two ways to "make it" with any kind of online business. Either have one MASSIVE site or many, many sites. It's easier to do the latter, at least for me, which is why I run 3 networks. LOL

Again, start your own thread. I have this nasty habit of responding to the OP.

Struggle4Bucks 01-19-2015 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Pseudonymous (Post 20363792)
lol you guys are STILL arguing with me as if you dont know what the intentions of the post were. i helped clarify already. you and thepornnerd both must've assumed this post didnt' involve me. i said, i KNOW the intentions of the post. so i helped clarify what he was seeking out of his post. WHy is this so hard for people to understand. :(

When somebody said , depends on budget. i told people what he was wanting to know, which is what top successful sites should make if ran properly. i gave examples of sites that are succeeding these days on the scale mutt is wondering about. which should give you a ballpark budget. but people still acted as if nothing was said, and you dont know if the budget is 0 or 2 million. is blacked, fake taxi, wowgirls, spending 0 or 2 million, no. so dont act as if that could be possible.

I never mentioned 2 million. You implied 200k-1million... and only late as 3 posts before this one...

edit... 8 posts before this one...

The Porn Nerd 01-19-2015 04:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pseudonymous (Post 20363805)
WHy would i start a thread myself when i could easy answer peoples questions people had about the original post?


To avoid silly discussions like this one. :)

Pseudonymous 01-19-2015 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by slapass (Post 20363804)
And you don't think your two examples are world's apart? As an affiliate seller, we know that some sites sell 1:400 and some sell 1:4000. And a big chuck of that is tweaks to the tour, how much the content is out there. How good is the content? Produced well? Edited well? Pirated a lot?

You can name the top ten but can you name the top ten that crashed and burned on similar themes? Execution is the key.

Good question but youre wrong, are they worlds apart for some affiliates, yes. Some sites do better for some affiliate sites. So in an affiliates mind, one site probably converts better than the other. But for a paysite, that justm eans they do well with a different market. But in the grand scheme of things, their conversion rates aren't worlds apart. Only time they are worlds apart depends on the age of the site and how saturated it is. A small site with no exposure with good content will convert better, a site that is highly successsful and in 2nd year will convert terrible. But thats why the question was , 1 year into the site and successfully ran. I do think wowgirls,blacked,faketaxi, etc which are all different sites aren't far apart in conversion ratio if you compared it at their one year mark

Pseudonymous 01-19-2015 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd (Post 20363806)
To answer your question: I never said ANY of my sites could rank in terms of traffic or ad buys so comparing Brazzers to Fellucia Blow is retarded. Her site gets around 10-12 visitors a day BUT it is all 'organic', meaning no ad buys or bought traffic. Plus the conversion ratio is very high. It is actually a niche site (CFNM) so her numbers are outstanding.

Same with ErosExotica and several others. Look man, there are only two ways to "make it" with any kind of online business. Either have one MASSIVE site or many, many sites. It's easier to do the latter, at least for me, which is why I run 3 networks. LOL

Again, start your own thread. I have this nasty habit of responding to the OP.

Dont take what i was saying the wrong way, i was going off topic to prove an original point. It just happened to include having to tell you that your site cannot be compared due to certain negative reasons.

Your site and network is fine, and its all good and you are a really good webmaster. Dont take me saying that your sites dont have "high quality content' combined with competent marketing as bashing. Its impossible for you to, you ahven't invested that much or that much time into a single site, from what i know. Everybody has a different business model. Yours is great. Its just not on the scale of the sites we're talking about, since we're talking about a single site as a focus and its capabilities

Pseudonymous 01-19-2015 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Struggle4Bucks (Post 20363807)
I never mentioned 2 million. You implied 200k-1million... and only late as 3 posts before this one...

edit... 8 posts before this one...

yeah i know, somebody else did, my main point of the response was to you, but the numbers i mentioned were in response to some of the numbers people thought it could be, like 0 or 2 million. as they were exaggerating ;)

Pseudonymous 01-19-2015 05:11 PM

Anyway, now that its clearer, what do you think a hardcore site with high quality content, competent marketing and a good sized budget (similar to other successful sites) can get in terms of members, in 2015? After the one year mark. Or well, a reachable goal

.. and i guess the site being your only focus

LOL that better, he should have edited his post to say that. since people were trying to be all smartass and say, well is he investing a quarter. LOL

Shap 01-19-2015 05:17 PM

Maybe you guys should just call each other and discuss this

Struggle4Bucks 01-19-2015 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Pseudonymous (Post 20363822)
LOL that better, he should have edited his post to say that. since people were trying to be all smartass and say, well is he investing a quarter. LOL

Should he have editted his post because it was just too vague... or because there are too many smartasses here?

Call us smartasses all you want... but the fact is that we saw too many smartasses on this board going to "launch a program" with 5K to invest... "what camera should i buy?"

slapass 01-19-2015 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Pseudonymous (Post 20363782)
I speak for Mutt, i know his opinion and this post was made due to a conversation ME AND MUTT were having . Hes not responding because i am saying what he wants to say. and is too lazy to say. Not everybody likes to waste their time on gfy, i have some time right now though ;) I already mentioend successful sites these days, and their budget was not 20k, nor were they 2 million so why would you think those would be the budgets? i also already said what JT invested prior to you asking and to use that as a budget, if you want. Or even 100k-200k

Then the only reason to post the question is he didn't trust your opinion.

Pseudonymous 01-19-2015 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Shap (Post 20363830)
Maybe you guys should just call each other and discuss this

Why? I rather a back and forth dispute (even if it does get repetitive) about business and number projections over 95 percent of the posts on this board, maybe 99 percent. One thing that is never discussed in this industry is numbers, people truly have no idea what to expect out of their sites or what their competition is doing . Alot of people dont know how to analyze traffic numbers or a sites success, so regardless of the back and forth bitching, i think theres more to take from this thread than vast majority of other threads. i think im one of the only people who shares my numbers on gfy and discusses other peoples success. If more people would research like that, there would be alot of webmasters who do alot better.

If you were starting a solo site, and wanted to know profit margins, member base expectations, etc - you could only find that out in threads identical to this, that ive been involved with.

Already in this thread, we have discussed costs of scenes, mentioned successful sites, what you need for an investment in solo, what you need for hardcore, if you want to compete with the large scale sites, etc

theres information to be had from any conversation about the business, no matter how annoying the bickering can be.

and you want us to take it private to go back to the posts about poo and black people?

Also i like having evidence of what people say to refer back to later.

slapass 01-19-2015 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Pseudonymous (Post 20363810)
I do think wowgirls,blacked,faketaxi, etc which are all different sites aren't far apart in conversion ratio if you compared it at their one year mark

I can guarantee you there is a 100% difference between them. One will be doing 100% better then one of the other ones.

Example 1:450 versus 1:900.

Now having said that, I would be super interested to be proven wrong... I jsut know I wouldn't be.

Pseudonymous 01-19-2015 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by slapass (Post 20363836)
Then the only reason to post the question is he didn't trust your opinion.

Did i ever claim to know the answer? Show me a quote, i can show you a quote syaing i dont know. But with the research i explained earlier, i could get a ballpark figure that might be SOMEWHAT close. but i dont care enough. the debate wasn't whether i was right about how many members a site can obtain, it was about whether the question had enough information to be answered by somebody who knew. If you were following, you would know that ;)

Pseudonymous 01-19-2015 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by slapass (Post 20363843)
I can guarantee you there is a 100% difference between them. One will be doing 100% better then one of the other ones.

Example 1:450 versus 1:900.

Now having said that, I would be super interested to be proven wrong... I jsut know I wouldn't be.

100 percent isn't worlds apart. That would be a site with 4000 members vs 2000 members. Is that worlds apart? Lets say there is 5 successful new sites in hardcore. One has 4000, one has 2,000, One has 3500, one has 4200.

Now if somebody asked you, what can i expect out of hardcore if i were to enter hardcore with a good budget and high quality content. Would i say its worlds apart, how deep is the rabbit hole?, thats an impossible question? No. Would you say that? I dont think so. I would say, well i'd say, expect 1500-2000+. Or maybe not expect, but , thats a realistic goal

Like i said, i can answer this question if it were solo, easily. Me and mutt have projected for people often. However, you guys say its impossible for hardcore for some reason.

Struggle4Bucks 01-19-2015 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Pseudonymous (Post 20363844)
the debate wasn't whether i was right about how many members a site can obtain, it was about whether the question had enough information to be answered by somebody who knew. If you were following, you would know that ;)

Exactly 1 hour and 15 minutes ago you implied a budget of between 200k and 1 million...
So... exactly... since that is finally cleared, maybe someone who knows will post...

Pseudonymous 01-19-2015 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Struggle4Bucks (Post 20363851)
Exactly 1 hour and 15 minutes ago you implied a budget of between 200k and 1 million...
So... exactly... since that is finally cleared, maybe someone who knows will post...

Nope incorrect. I said very early in the first page, exampes of sites. Which showed the scale we were discussing. But yes now its spelled out for people.

The people who needed it spelled out most likely couldn't answer.

The Porn Nerd 01-19-2015 05:47 PM

The thing about the Internet is no one can ever really tell what another website does, costs, etc. We can guesstimate but that's about it. Besides, who says all those thousands of "members" are legitimate (if we're talking in the millions in revenue). But that is another topic shhh. LOL

All I can say is this: If you wanted to start a paysite in 2015 and compete with the top paysites out there, and had enough of a budget, you could do so. But that isn't saying much. Why?

Because if you wanted to start a tube site in 2015 and wanted to compete with Pornhub, XHamster et al, regardless of budget you would have a tough time doing it. Paysites create content, which is why they are vital to this Industry. But which has more revenue (big tubes or big paysites) and which is an easier goal to achieve in 2015? I say paysites are more achieveable but it takes a lot of coin to get to the top status, and the profit margins must have shrunk from their high of 5-7 years ago.

So it's all relative, as they say.

Struggle4Bucks 01-19-2015 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Pseudonymous (Post 20363856)
Nope incorrect. I said very early in the first page, exampes of sites. Which showed the scale we were discussing.

And you think that we assume that you know what you are talking about?
Anyone can drop a name of a site; claming or assuming he can achieve that...

drop a budget... so we know what you're talking about... took you one day to drop a budget... was it so difficult?

Pseudonymous 01-19-2015 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd (Post 20363862)
All I can say is this: If you wanted to start a paysite in 2015 and compete with the top paysites out there, and had enough of a budget, you could do so. But that isn't saying much. Why?

You make it sound like if you paid enough, you could do anything. theres only so many places to put money towards in marketing, its not as if a site with 500k can do a whole ton more than somebody with 300k, they can shoot more and extend the life longer, but in terms of marketing, how many places are there to really put that much money towards in adult?

Why do you think most adult companies in similar markets have been around the same size? THeres only sooo many paying subscribers out there, theres only so many marketing avenues, theres only so many available ad spots.

There is a certain level of investment that is required to enter hardcore to compete with the big guys, then there are people who want a bigger cushion and to shoot more scenes, or want to increase revenues 50 percent, so they spend another 500k. but the grand scheem of things, they are still all in the same ballpark

It sounds as if people in this thread are saying 100k can get you 500 members, 500k can get you 10,000 members and a million can get you 50,000 members

Thats not the way it is though, you can spend a fortune more , doesn't mean the results improve a ton. Sometimes to get to a certain level is easy, and to get past that, costs a fortune.

That is the case in adult. So when you say, whats the budget, i say 200k-million because its not even that different to be honest.

These guys with a million aint going to be 5x bigger than the guy who spends 200k. Sometimes people also spend more money to make up for lack of marketing knowledge, or like i said before, to improve 10-150 percent

With all that said, i dont think any of the big sites are worlds apart and giving an estimation of member bases isn't as hard as you guys think, not for people who have ANY inside knowledge, whether thats from working for a company or having your own in the same market. Which is what he stated he was seeking information from. Though i do think with enough research, even a person who isn't involved , could give a rough estimate of member bases based on public traffic information, tube exposure, google trends, torrent site download totals , using a rough estimate of conversion ratio, etc

Struggle4Bucks 01-19-2015 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Pseudonymous (Post 20363842)
and you want us to take it private to go back to the posts about poo and black people?

No you're right, threads like this are better... if we can skip the Babylonian confusion


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