How Long Did It Take You To Make A Profit? - GoFuckYourself.com

Stud Money · 09-12-2003, 05:27 AM

When you first started in adult how long did it take for you to make a profit?

Also, do you think given todays market climate in the industry it takes longer to see a good R.O.I than it dd when you started out?

I think i made a profit somewhere around 3 months of starting in the biz and, i would say that it does take a lot longer time to see good returns for investment today.

What do the rest of you guys think?

Amputate Your Head · 09-12-2003, 05:28 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Stud Money
When you first started in adult how long did it take for you to make a profit?

roughly 20 minutes.

rooster · 09-12-2003, 05:28 AM

one month back in 97. started a free site, threw up some ce high rollers ads, checked the stats a week later, and realized theres money to be made on this shit.

quiet · 09-12-2003, 05:29 AM

first day

ControlThy · 09-12-2003, 05:30 AM

Like instantly.

Xpics Xpics

MCR · 09-12-2003, 05:31 AM

only about 30 days.

spooky181 · 09-12-2003, 05:31 AM

I had to invest quite some $$ to start my site a few months ago and started making a profit after around 3 months.

Spooky

NBDesign · 09-12-2003, 06:05 AM

just started Monday... not the site that was planned.... but a back up site till Oct when I get my original site running ...

will let you know...

For galleries... 31/2 weeks for my 1st sale... using sponsor content.

Fabien · 09-12-2003, 06:31 AM

Same as Rooster but was using XPICS

and went
WTF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!
Guess what i've been doing since

Jizar II · 09-12-2003, 06:47 AM

Day 1 ofcourse

NBDesign · 09-12-2003, 06:51 AM

20 min, instantly, a day... yea right.... then you woke up and realized you had to get ready for your job at McDonalds

Can anyone here ever be serious? What am I saying... where is the fun in that?

Nevermind.

Libertine · 09-12-2003, 06:54 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by NBDesign
20 min, instantly, a day... yea right.... then you woke up and realized you had to get ready for your job at McDonalds

Can anyone here ever be serious? What am I saying... where is the fun in that?

Nevermind.

5 years ago, it was pretty easy to make a profit on day 1. Happened to me as well, without even trying or anything.
I just put up a page with what I considered some good porn, and a banner just for the hell of it. Worked out magnificently

NBDesign · 09-12-2003, 06:54 AM

Ok, let me ask you this...
your 1 day profit... 20 min profit or instant profit

how much did you invest?

and

how much was the profit?

NBDesign · 09-12-2003, 06:57 AM

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Originally posted by punkworld

5 years ago, it was pretty easy to make a profit on day 1. Happened to me as well, without even trying or anything.
I just put up a page with what I considered some good porn, and a banner just for the hell of it. Worked out magnificently

things were a lot different then... and the market was not as saturated... ok, maybe I can see that...

Today... too many porn sites, too much free porn on tgps are making it harder for the new guys like me.

Carrie · 09-12-2003, 07:12 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by NBDesign
Ok, let me ask you this...
your 1 day profit... 20 min profit or instant profit

how much did you invest?

and

how much was the profit?

You do *not* need to invest money to make money in this biz. Sure, it helps (buying your own content, etc) but it is *not* necessary.

And not everyone is out to start their own paysite right out of the gate. As a matter of fact, if that's the first thing you do, we'll be watching for your "site for sale" thread in a few months.

TheSaint · 09-12-2003, 07:14 AM

Depends on how you count it.

I invested around $35,000 (mostly shooting content) for my first pay site. I was 3 months shooting before I opened the site. I would say it took about 2 months to really take off so all told about 5 months before I started making a nice profit. This was recently, after the so called "hard times" were already here.

IMO its like any business. If you have a good idea and execute it well, you'll make money quickly, especially with a pay site. If you use a lot of tired ideas and old sponsers it might take forever.

The Heron · 09-12-2003, 07:16 AM

Back when I started 4 years ago I broke some "rules" but I invested nothing, and made sales very quickly. Had I known then what I know now I would be rich, but learning has been half the fun.

DutchTeenCash · 09-12-2003, 07:32 AM

1 month then again 12 yrs ago you could start a dailer site here in holland put $50 worth of content on it and get $5k a month cause there were only like 10 sites in holland then...

Jakke PNG · 09-12-2003, 07:39 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by NBDesign
20 min, instantly, a day... yea right.... then you woke up and realized you had to get ready for your job at McDonalds

Can anyone here ever be serious? What am I saying... where is the fun in that?

Nevermind.

Why isn't it possible?

Umm.. It took me like 2 days. (Persiankitty dared to spend 2 days before approving my first site). 0 investment.

B_Maverick · 09-12-2003, 07:50 AM

About 3 years ago I did fairly well with an adult dating site...but since then, AOL and MSN have cracked down hard on profiles, so I stopped doing that.

Since getting into mainstream porn it's been a lot more difficult to make a profit. I've been promoting porn for about a year and learning a lot...someday it should pay off.

gothweb · 09-12-2003, 07:52 AM

Instant profit is easy if you start small, with virtually no expenses. Since I started in this as a hobby, I thought of the first dollar I got as profit. The investment was tiny (domain, hosting) and I looked as it as the expense for a hobby I enjoyed, not a business investment.

Bishop · 09-12-2003, 07:55 AM

Zero $$ investment.. made money in probably the first 3 days. Got a signup and got hooked.

KRL · 09-12-2003, 07:56 AM

Do you want that calculated in minutes or seconds?

Gunni · 09-12-2003, 08:00 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by rooster
one month back in 97. started a free site, threw up some ce high rollers ads, checked the stats a week later, and realized theres money to be made on this shit.

Rooster, do your KKK friends know you do porn?

ControlThy · 09-12-2003, 08:06 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by NBDesign
20 min, instantly, a day... yea right.... then you woke up and realized you had to get ready for your job at McDonalds

Can anyone here ever be serious? What am I saying... where is the fun in that?

Nevermind.

I am serious.
I guess you weren't working in the adult industry in 1997/1998.

FreeOnes · 09-12-2003, 08:09 AM

I'm still trying to make a profit. Anybody has a suggestion how I can make money in this industry?

krazyone · 09-12-2003, 08:10 AM

1 week .... knock on wood

JamesK · 09-12-2003, 08:12 AM

liars

took me 3 years to make 1$

1407 · 09-12-2003, 08:30 AM

@ Studmoney
you got mail !

voodooman · 09-12-2003, 08:32 AM

2 weeks, but that was back in 98, it was easy then.

beemk · 09-12-2003, 08:44 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Amputate Your Head

roughly 20 minutes.

conan · 09-12-2003, 09:19 AM

never surfed the net for porn before I started, invested quite a bit, hired an idiot, fired an idiot, for the next 6 months worked my ass off 18hrs/day and after about 6 month started to see it's turning around

ldinternet · 09-12-2003, 09:21 AM

These days, a newbie should expect the 0 to disappear from their stats within 2-4 days. Reasonable, I think.

NBDesign · 09-12-2003, 09:26 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Carrie

You do *not* need to invest money to make money in this biz. Sure, it helps (buying your own content, etc) but it is *not* necessary.

And not everyone is out to start their own paysite right out of the gate. As a matter of fact, if that's the first thing you do, we'll be watching for your "site for sale" thread in a few months.

Ok... unless you use hosted galleries.. you still have to invest in a domain name and hosting... so say 8.95 for the domain.. 10 for the hosting... 20.00... in 20 min?.. an hour? maybe a day... but still...

I mean some tgp's don't even list you for a day.....

and no.. I started with TGP's... but who knows''' I may make it, I may fail... never knowtill I try... if I don't try.. I have already failed... right?

quiet · 09-12-2003, 03:19 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ControlThy

I am serious.
I guess you weren't working in the adult industry in 1997/1998.

so was i. late '96 was a good time.

JohnV · 09-12-2003, 03:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by quiet
first day

yup, same here

connectionnouser · 09-12-2003, 03:26 PM

started with 0 overheads so made profit from the start

Raven · 09-12-2003, 03:29 PM

My first check was for 8 dollars....it got better after that.

Took two weeks to make a profit.

1998 was a good year.

Jakke PNG · 09-12-2003, 03:29 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by NBDesign

Ok... unless you use hosted galleries.. you still have to invest in a domain name and hosting... so say 8.95 for the domain.. 10 for the hosting... 20.00... in 20 min?.. an hour? maybe a day... but still...

What do you need a domainname and hosting for? I started on ISP's space.

tootie · 09-12-2003, 03:31 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ControlThy
Like instantly.

Xpics Xpics

Yeah, me too!

DemonWolfe · 09-12-2003, 04:50 PM

Yep, I made money the very first day in business....

I had a site with only 8 pictures on it. 4 new ones and yesterdays 4 old ones.

Was paying $5 a gig back then too!

heh heh heh

Traffic was mad. Money was mad.

nwbsd · 09-12-2003, 05:29 PM

I think it took about 2 1/2 days. About 6 or 7 years ago we licensed some live naked guy software from a studio in las vegas. They did women too.

I think the studio was virtual dreams? If anybody remembers. Fuck I wish I could find that contract. As soon as we hit the search engines the money was flowing in. They had to download the software, set it up, it would dial in and charge them like 5.99 a minute.

Loch · 09-12-2003, 05:32 PM

Made 190 bucks the first day in the internet biz

And yes it have grown a bit since LMAO

huey · 09-12-2003, 06:02 PM

2 years, but worth the wait.

Pete · 09-12-2003, 06:18 PM

started making a profit the second month of being in the business, now I wipe my ass with 100 dollar bills.

DemonWolfe · 09-12-2003, 08:11 PM

You know, now that I think about it I was paying $10 a gig for the first 3 months and then I moved to a place for $7 a gig...

Funny how things change eh?

Of course I also lost a bunch of money to CyberThrill casino back then... Most everyone I knew promoted them for a month or so....

Damn Scumbags....
(No one ever got paid by CyberThrill that I know of)

SleazyDream · 09-12-2003, 08:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by quiet
first day

same here..... well sort of, took a month for the check to come.

John3 · 09-13-2003, 01:19 AM

PersonalPorn?

smack · 09-13-2003, 02:15 AM

it only took a week. and the only thing i needed to invest in was my computer.

strobi · 09-13-2003, 02:19 AM

Slapped up a smalll site on a freehost using adultcheck in 1996. Got like 800 uniques from the searchengines after a few weeks of no work and suddenly I was seeing 2-3 signups/day, since then I was hooked

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rooster Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,384	one month back in 97. started a free site, threw up some ce high rollers ads, checked the stats a week later, and realized theres money to be made on this shit.

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NBDesign Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: The other side of Hell Posts: 5,814	Ok, let me ask you this... your 1 day profit... 20 min profit or instant profit how much did you invest? and how much was the profit? __________________ Use Lensman's program and get the most for your hard earned traffic. Get Heidi for your site Here. Lots of sets to choose from. She makes a great Addition to any site. Grab one Grab All.

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TheSaint Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Everywhere at once Posts: 991	Depends on how you count it. I invested around $35,000 (mostly shooting content) for my first pay site. I was 3 months shooting before I opened the site. I would say it took about 2 months to really take off so all told about 5 months before I started making a nice profit. This was recently, after the so called "hard times" were already here. IMO its like any business. If you have a good idea and execute it well, you'll make money quickly, especially with a pay site. If you use a lot of tired ideas and old sponsers it might take forever.

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