lol, you're a funny one :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

best luck Halo :thumbsup

hey champion, what kind of mainstream sites ? :Graucho

jesus.com

Well said.

I started out with $0 invested and slowly steadily built up from grass roots types efforts- so it can be done. :2 cents:

Well... damn, I havta say I've gotten a far better response than I imagined. Part of me was expecting to get flamed non-stop for a good three pages with something like "50 retarded newbies" and "100 soon to be 2K in debt" to top off pages 2 and 3.

boneprone: Thanks a lot for the advice and encouragement, you're actually on my list of "people you should get to know".

polish_aristocrat: I do try. :thumbsup

infectd: will do, watch for the bump when things get started.

You don't need that much money unless you want to start a pay site, which is NOT recommended for a newbie. Read the boards, learn the business, get some good hosting, and work your ass off. The money will come.

I'm not doing a paysite. Do I NEED that much to start what I wanna do? No. But, I've stated that before. I could do all the design myself, but it won't be as good as what I pay to have done, and it would take me a lot longer to do it. Thanks for lookin out though.

Patience
Persistence
Willing to learn
Willing to listen to others
Bargaining skill
Making enough to cover your costs until the next month

good luck man, hope you use the money wisely and it pays out for you.

Halo18,

Hit me up on icq I wanna drop you some help via paypal.

This guy has the right attitude and will go far.

Spankstrocko

ICQ: 283948045

u can drop me some help too lol ;)

I need money to buy traffic!


damn, wish i started a thread like this month ago when i started ah well...too late...all my money is gone. went crazy wit domain buying

running up a huge list of domains that are good and no ones has them yet ;)

because i didnt read what he posted.

i have nothing to prove, i'm not oracleporn who's pimpin' with 2000 bucks or bdjuf who posts his ebay shopping cart

:2 cents:

Good Luck Halo, I'm basically in your same situation.. I frequently search and gather information from this site. I hope everything works out for you.

good luck :thumbsup

Now that's suprising. Thanks a lot spankstroko. :thumbsup

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

That's comedy :thumbsup

...Did my thread pull you out of lurking? That's good shit right there.

Yeah I've been lurking way to long lol...

<IMX>, can you hit me up on ICQ please? I would like to talk to you about hub pages.

178183394

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

good luck my friend.

This sounds like good atempt at making it in this industry......I have 1 advice for you, if you plan on submitting tgp gallerys, GET PARTNER ACCOUNTS, I cant stress that enough :)

Good Luck dude!:thumbsup

I moved away from home to go to university when I was 18. It was a free ride cause my parents were paying for my school, books and rent, food, etc. I didnt have to get a job, I didnt have to do shit. I just sat around watching porn and making sure my grades were good so my parents were happy. Then summer time was about to roll around and my parents told me they expected me to come home for the summer... could I really go back home after being a free man for close to 8 months? The city I am from is small and boring now I live in Toronto which I think is a huge metorpolitan and amazing city, could I go back to the small town?

Anyway, long storey made short, I had 30days to come up with rent or be on a plane back home. You guessed it, I had about $0 to my name and my $500 credit cards (two of them) were maxed out from going to the bar every other day. I borrowed a friends camera and went out and started snapping pictures left and right of chicks who were walking down the street in tight clothes. Got a friend to get me a domain name through godaddy.com and lucked out because www.1and1.com was offering free hosting at the time for 3 years as some promotional thing (they just started hosting for end users, before it was B2B). I signed up with verotel to avoid the Visa charges. Exchanged links with anybody and everybody who would put my link up.

Once I had the site up and traffic coming in I started signing up for sponsors and submitting galleries. I was the idiot submitting Nasty Dollars FHG's to the hun non-stop every 3-4 days wondering why he wouldnt list me. I finally ended up figuring out what I was doing wrong, made some adjustments and kept on going. After a while (3-4months) I was making about 3-4k a month from the voyeur site and submitted galleries.

Shit, this was suppose to be the short version! lol. Anyway, to wrap things up, I just turned 21, living downtown with a beautiful view of the skyline, in a fairly nice condo, I own a decent car (98 infiniti QX4) and make enough bank to put myself through school and take care of the mortgage, condo fees, tuition, etc.

I know you know its possible to make money in this industry, but now you know its possible to do so in the same situation you're in. Two people offered advice in this thread that I would definitely personally vouch for. 1) Patience and Persistance. When you're first starting out, don't measure your success with how much money is in the bank. If after the first two or even three months you're breaking even, consider yourself ahead of the game. Keep at it. 2) Grow slow and strong and reinvest. Similar to the first one, dont be discouraged if after a couple weeks of promoting you're not getting any hits. Don't be discouraged if you email 1000's of people for link exchanges and only 2 give you the time of day. No matter what, if you keep at what you're doing, sooner or later you will become the person in the position of being able to help others, not vice versa.

Okay, I definitely rambled on waaay too long. Good luck bro. :thumbsup

I myself started in this industry with nothing..... got free hosting... free sponsor content... and started from there.

I do fear that that 2k might get washed away and you are making a bit of a gamble....
Reading and researching is no subsitute for practical experience so go slow with your plans until you are sure what you are doing.

I do wish you luck though and look forward to following your progress in the coming weeks

Best of luck too ya.... :thumbsup

I started out selling nothing but sextoys, I have since made a few galleries but havent made much with them... the sextoys however average me a profit of 90 dollars a day (lately, I just came up with some new promotion ideas and they are paying off). I also regestered SteamyToys.com (NICE NAME!!! I got lucky it was available) and now am redirecting from that domain to my sextoy sponcer. Hopefully this will help me build a customer base so I can get return customers now. Anyhow, Hit me up on ICQ if youd like to know more.

Also, im very interested in seeing where this thread goes, I wish you the best of luck and hope to learn something from this

Hey Halo, where are you comming from? Contact me on ICQ :D

Good luck mate. Im in the same boat as you. Luckily i own my own servers and have a close friend who shoots content. So i started in the biz with like $50 lol

good story! :thumbsup

Good Luck to you...stay with it.

Great thread and good luck.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Thanks again to everyone who's being encouraging. You guys rock.

blazin: even if after the first 30 days I make absolutely NO money back, I'll still have $1,150 WORTH of scripts and desgined pages to make money with. So the way I'm looking at it, I can't really lose more than $850.

Halo18.

Do not try to put all your money in 1 site. With $2000 you can try to build a small network of sites. Keep it easy for yourself and dont think a good looking tgp page will make your more money. Try different sponsors use like 4-5 sponsors for the start.

The biggest mistake you can make is 1 goodlooking tgp site and buy $1000 traffic for it.

Make them small they grow themself.

If you see your hits growing daily but no sales (yet) then dont change sponsor, just keep on sending aslong the hits grow daily there is nothing to worry about.

Try to keep your gallery traffic for yourself ( adding free hosted galleries ) saves you a lot of time too.

Goodluck with your project Halo.

I hope these tips will help you a bit.

The very best of luck to you buddy, I hope you make a lot more than your $2000 back :)

good luck man:)

Only 3 more days till you can get your loan. You still up for it?

Solid words, i am sure if you follow the things he stated here, you will not go wrong.

Big GOOD LUCK mate. :thumbsup



-Greg

LOL i know what u mean :)

Good luck :thumbsup