What is your biggest business struggle right now?

[Shap]

Happy 4th Everyone!!!

What are you struggling with right now? Where do you need help? Let me know

[crockett]

Trying to find something in mainstream which pays out like adult rebills did in the mid 2000s.

[Harmon]

hit me up on the Tweeter pls Shaptastic

[TheSquealer]

Finding that drive, hunger and motivation again. That drive that made me lose track of time, work 18 hr days and realize I forgot to eat that day because I was so engrossed in what I was doing.

[sonofsam]

Dealing with government red tape and consulting companies to get around all the regulation of the business I'm starting

Just to meet government requirements in building codes will probably be 6 figures


Shap you should start a new business. You're clearly not cut out for retirement and have that entrepreneur itch to always be working on something

[Shap]

Trying to find something in mainstream which pays out like adult rebills did in the mid 2000s.

What are you trying? Anything working?

[Shap]

hit me up on the Tweeter pls Shaptastic

What's your handle? I'm not on their often. Hit me up if you like. I'm there now

[Shap]

Finding that drive, hunger and motivation again. That drive that made me lose track of time, work 18 hr days and realize I forgot to eat that day because I was so engrossed in what I was doing.

You and me both. I'm with you on that one. From 1998 to 2008 I could out work anyone.

[Shap]

Dealing with government red tape and consulting companies to get around all the regulation of the business I'm starting

Just to meet government requirements in building codes will probably be 6 figures


Shap you should start a new business. You're clearly not cut out for retirement and have that entrepreneur itch to always be working on something

Thanks! That's kind. The guy who posted just before you said it well. I think the key with me is i'm an all in or all out type of guy. Until I'm all in again I'll be searching for that thing that could do it. I think the key for me is momentum and speed. I love free flowing ideas and making them happen. I hate the paperwork, procedures and planning required to really do it right.

[sonofsam]

I hate the paperwork, procedures and planning required to really do it right.

I'm the exact same way, and that stuff makes me feel overwhelmed and like there are always 300 things I don't want to do, but have to be done, which makes me lose drive

What works for that is bringing someone on you can delegate that stuff to, do you can focus on the stuff you're good at an actually enjoy. Makes the whole process more fun

[Barefootsies]

Trying to find something in mainstream which pays out like adult rebills did in the mid 2000s.

Mainstream affiliate email marketing.

[epitome]

Thanks! That's kind. The guy who posted just before you said it well. I think the key with me is i'm an all in or all out type of guy. Until I'm all in again I'll be searching for that thing that could do it. I think the key for me is momentum and speed. I love free flowing ideas and making them happen. I hate the paperwork, procedures and planning required to really do it right.

That's what operations people are for. Every successful team I've seen has the idea person who goes balls out, as well as the operations person to make sure all of the i's are dotted and t's are crossed.

That is why VCs always want a founding team with the different personality types. Usually the dreamer, the anal retentive one, and the engineer.

[crockett]

What are you trying? Anything working?

Honestly I got out of online marketing for quite sometime so it's sort of like starting fresh again.

I've done a bit of drop shipping stuff from China and also been doing ok selling from Amazon.. However it's always feast or fathom.

I hate that everything has to be a new sale and really not big percentage sales like adult which was the $30-50 dollar single sales or rebills.

I know there is good money in mainstream but seems anything similar to adult is always shady stuff or ppc.

I used to do good with selling themes, but I've been out of that a while and not sure how that market is these days with everyone having Facebook pages and so on.

I really hate to get back into adult, but seems cams is likely the only place to get those re bills and big pps again.

[Ruseful]

Retirement's a bitch right

[Shap]

Mainstream affiliate email marketing.

The long term outlook for that isn't great, not the ideal business choice if you want a growing business over the next 5 years.

[Shap]

Retirement's a bitch right

Would be better if my fellow countrymen would invite me over for a football match. Instead they are greedy bastards keeping their pitch to themselves lol

[Ruseful]

Would be better if my fellow countrymen would invite me over for a football match. Instead they are greedy bastards keeping their pitch to themselves lol

Lol, FakeTaxi.com United won 7-3, you would have been proud

[Colmike9]

Depression was a bitch for a while and lost my lack of motivation...
Motivation is back now, though, and so are sales! Out of the ghetto and back in a house with a nice new Mercedes now and nothing but up from here.
(If I owe anyone work, email me and I'll make it right this week)

Hey JT, sorry about all that, hope retirement is going well.

[JuicyBunny]

Need more qualified hands. So fucking busy.

[Shap]

Depression was a bitch for a while and lost my lack of motivation...
Motivation is back now, though, and so are sales! Out of the ghetto and back in a house with a nice new Mercedes now and nothing but up from here.
(If I owe anyone work, email me and I'll make it right this week)

Hey JT, sorry about all that, hope retirement is going well.

Nice congrats to you!

[Shap]

Need more qualified hands. So fucking busy.

What skill set?

[Shap]

Lol, FakeTaxi.com United won 7-3, you would have been proud

Hahaha nice! 3 a side? Or 5 a side?

[Roald]

Taking things to the next level is what I'm struggling with. We're growing again but things don't go fast enough for my taste.

[Shap]

Taking things to the next level is what I'm struggling with. We're growing again but things don't go fast enough for my taste.

Story of my life for 15 years. As long as you are pushing in the right direction that's the key. I think the other key is scaling as fast as you can when you strike gold. That's important!

[MrDeiz]

just released my brand new product to mainstream market we have worked for the last 4 months with a team and ppl don't care about it.

moving further

[Shap]

just released my brand new product to mainstream market we have worked for the last 4 months with a team and ppl don't care about it.

moving further

Ahh bummer. Do you mind me asking what it was? How did you test it?

What's next?

[Ruseful]

Hahaha nice! 3 a side? Or 5 a side?

3. The other team were built like tanks

[Bladewire]

Right now my biggest business struggle is trusting others in business.

Over the last 15 years I've given ideas to people I've personally worked with in the industry (not so much online) and things worked out great for them. A good few years of income, both of the really successful ones kind of puddled out slowly over time, as a lot of things do. I have a few close people I've known for years that I trust.

But what I've been focussed in on like a laser the last last month now, none of them can help with as it's a small programming glitch in a software solution for adult. I've put 2 things together that nobody has thought of, and a little bit of code is getting in the way of them working perfectly together, creating the final solution. Fully open source license, all clear. The bit of code I need made, or will create myself, will not be open source.

I'm afraid that if I get a freelancer they will put 2 & 2 together and run with it. My biggest struggle right now is trusting others.

The second struggle I'm seeing ahead, is implementing it in such a way that it gains traction before being copied by others that clearly don't have the best interest of our industry / community at heart. I'm not that guy that has those connections. While it will make a ton of money and turn things around for many people, and I have the enthusiastic support of my biller (NDA), I want it to go right and fly into what it's meant to be, not being stifled by my lack of connections.

Aside from that life is great and Happy 4th of July everybody !! :-D

[Roald]

Story of my life for 15 years. As long as you are pushing in the right direction that's the key. I think the other key is scaling as fast as you can when you strike gold. That's important!

Pushing in the right direction and seeing this pay back in positive results is what I thrive on. The last 1.5 years here at payserve has been a great learning experience being at the other side of the fence.

We've been working hard on being able to scale things up easily the last year. So yeah we're working on things.

Another struggle is not having more people within the company with a vision.

[MrDeiz]

Ahh bummer. Do you mind me asking what it was? How did you test it?

What's next?

getting educated myself. reading tech crunch and other IT news almost daily, though in recent years i din't read a thing.

i'm very positive and getting back to things i'm familiar with to have a budget for another mainstream venture. give me your email, pls

[L-Pink]

The Fed reducing interest rates to levels where cash is a worthless investment.

[Shap]

getting educated myself. reading tech crunch and other IT news almost daily, though in recent years i din't read a thing.

i'm very positive and getting back to things i'm familiar with to have a budget for another mainstream venture. give me your email, pls

Pornshap at gmail

[$5 submissions]

Trying to find something in mainstream which pays out like adult rebills did in the mid 2000s.

Look into building your KINDLE EMPIRE

Seriously.

Work once. Earn money many times over.

No fulfillment issues. No payment processing drama.

Find a niche. Outsource it to ME and you're GOOD TO GO.

If anyone's interested in CHEAP but HIGH QUALITY Kindle books, shoot an email to info AT webmasterlabor DOT com I'll hook you up RIGHT!

[Va2k]

Mine for hpthost.com is getting the traffic. I do real good on sales, it's just TRAFFIC! LOL

[crockett]

Look into building your KINDLE EMPIRE

Seriously.

Work once. Earn money many times over.

No fulfillment issues. No payment processing drama.

Find a niche. Outsource it to ME and you're GOOD TO GO.

If anyone's interested in CHEAP but HIGH QUALITY Kindle books, shoot an email to info AT webmasterlabor DOT com I'll hook you up RIGHT!

This was one of the areas I was looking into.. I've been reading up on writing books for Amazon, but I just saw they drastically cut their book borrow program. It seems a lot of guys were depending on that for the bulk of their income on Amazon.

[The Porn Nerd]

The only real struggle for me is getting to that next level of sales where I can hire a full-time manager. There are many, many projects I want to focus on but need the cash flow to do so. Fortunately I have a proven business model so it's rather easy to calculate what that magic # of daily sales needs to be. Soin the end all I need is....more traffic.

This is what keeps me motivated working like a dog seven days a week (and on a Holiday too, editing anal interracial videos LOL). But I am extremely close to that magic sales volume number so I see nothing but major changes and more revenue ahead. I'm a fairly happy fellow.

[NaughtyEmails]

Honestly...painful boners.

I'm not used to watching porn in a professional context. But alas, I've just got to champ through it. :D

[Paul&John]

Right now my biggest business struggle is trusting others in business.

Over the last 15 years I've given ideas to people I've personally worked with in the industry (not so much online) and things worked out great for them. A good few years of income, both of the really successful ones kind of puddled out slowly over time, as a lot of things do. I have a few close people I've known for years that I trust.

But what I've been focussed in on like a laser the last last month now, none of them can help with as it's a small programming glitch in a software solution for adult. I've put 2 things together that nobody has thought of, and a little bit of code is getting in the way of them working perfectly together, creating the final solution. Fully open source license, all clear. The bit of code I need made, or will create myself, will not be open source.

I'm afraid that if I get a freelancer they will put 2 & 2 together and run with it. My biggest struggle right now is trusting others.

The second struggle I'm seeing ahead, is implementing it in such a way that it gains traction before being copied by others that clearly don't have the best interest of our industry / community at heart. I'm not that guy that has those connections. While it will make a ton of money and turn things around for many people, and I have the enthusiastic support of my biller (NDA), I want it to go right and fly into what it's meant to be, not being stifled by my lack of connections.

Aside from that life is great and Happy 4th of July everybody !! :-D

Lmk if you can't find anyone and need some help with this

[dyna mo]

luck



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[Adraco]

For me, it's cash.
I have built my business on buying out other's established sites, mostly.
I have made many deals and many who chose to quit have sold to me. This year I have seen an increase of people wanting/needing to get out and have bought a few profitable sites and similar, but now I am short on cash to move on at the same speed. I will now have to wait and slow down a bit, so earnings catch up for the next, upcoming, yet unknown investment.

[CPA-Rush]

i need more traffic mr santa

[femdomdestiny]

After almost three years of developing mainstream product and after finally launching it few months ago, struggle is to inform enough people about it, because partners are not doing it, even if we had a deal. There is no way to force them to do what it takes what resulted in 10x less sales. So if a plan was to do something in one year, now it takes 10 years with this rate (disaster).

[TheSquealer]

Thanks! That's kind. The guy who posted just before you said it well. I think the key with me is i'm an all in or all out type of guy. Until I'm all in again I'll be searching for that thing that could do it. I think the key for me is momentum and speed. I love free flowing ideas and making them happen. I hate the paperwork, procedures and planning required to really do it right.

My advice would be to not "look for that thing" but to rather spend your time really understanding what it is that you really enjoy doing, what makes you happy, what you could do 18 hrs a day and wish you had more time in the day.

Without really understanding and defining what what you truly love and what makes you truly happy, everything seems kinda interesting in the moment and you have no real framework to guide your decisions, your thoughts and to really help you effectively determine if that's the thing you could do 18 hrs a day, loving every second of it... or not.

[sonofsam]

My advice would be to not "look for that thing" but to rather spend your time really understanding what it is that you really enjoy doing, what makes you happy, what you could do 18 hrs a day and wish you had more time in the day.

Without really understanding and defining what what you truly love and what makes you truly happy, everything seems kinda interesting in the moment and you have no real framework to guide your decisions, your thoughts and to really help you effectively determine if that's the thing you could do 18 hrs a day, loving every second of it... or not.

Start a business doing something you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life... or something along those lines.



Shap: Do you still have your lambo?

[American Psycho]

My advice would be to not "look for that thing" but to rather spend your time really understanding what it is that you really enjoy doing, what makes you happy, what you could do 18 hrs a day and wish you had more time in the day.

Without really understanding and defining what what you truly love and what makes you truly happy, everything seems kinda interesting in the moment and you have no real framework to guide your decisions, your thoughts and to really help you effectively determine if that's the thing you could do 18 hrs a day, loving every second of it... or not.

Welp. That does it for me
.. Im Going to be a porn star as the only thing for me that fits your rational is sex.

[Vendzilla]

Waiting for money to advertise for mainstream affiliates, then launching full out. After launch, getting geared up for next project to run at the same time.

Other than that, stressing about getting everything ready for the wedding!

[arock10]

Giving a fuck

Hate the repetitive grind of Internet work. Especially cause I know the game will change somewhere between six months and a few years

[Alice22]

Look into building your KINDLE EMPIRE

Seriously.

Work once. Earn money many times over.

No fulfillment issues. No payment processing drama.

Find a niche. Outsource it to ME and you're GOOD TO GO.

If anyone's interested in CHEAP but HIGH QUALITY Kindle books, shoot an email to info AT webmasterlabor DOT com I'll hook you up RIGHT!

Ehhh
Most writers of short stories lost 75-90% of there income from this month.
(after amazon decided to cut the borrows and pay per page read).
So, it's not going to be this way anymore.

[Alice22]

Giving a fuck

Hate the repetitive grind of Internet work. Especially cause I know the game will change somewhere between six months and a few years

What do you mean by "game will change" ? what direction?

[lock]

finding time seems i need much more of it.