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I started with less than zero :) but I had a big knowledge in the big tits niche, star names and who is who...

But if your here to succeed in this business get ready for long nights and practically putting 110% of what you have into this. no one will tell you this but at 1 point of your growth you will not have enuogh free time to scratch your balls.

There's always time to scratch your balls, as long as you can do it left-handed.
But just barely.

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Absolutely true, my girlfriend is always pissed at me because I am home working on my sites instead of spending time and money on her, goddamn bitch.

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Started with 2,000 with in 5 months had 8,000 this was in 1998 all we had to do is post picture sets up and have a good graphic site. Those were the "Wild West" Days. We could spam all we wanted too. I admit we did for about 2 months and got great results all back in 1998 (Young And Dumb).

Then I started selling content. Individual picture sets. Then My partner now and I had a great idea. Lets start a Internet TV station. SOunded funny since cable/dsl service was just coming out and it was spendy. We new it couldn't last long and the prices would drop like everything else so we put 3 hard, LOOOOONNNNNGGGG Years in non stop into research and programming.

Now AdultInternet.TV is a reality and No I am not a millionaire Yet. But Will be soon enough. Especiall with the P2P Software we have developed.

No body is doing it like we are and this is why we are successful with only being 1.5 years since launch.

I went from A Drywall Contractor to a Pornographer in 1.6 seconds.

These are really inspiring stories. Interesting to see how people began.

Nice to read this thread again :)

I know everyone starting out wants to believe the fairy tales, but Paul's post is the one to which you should pay most attention. Even in this business, which still enjoys a very favorable supply/demand ratio (and as someone has said, 5+ years ago, "money grew on trees"), failures still dramatically outnumber successes.

You may work hard for long hours if you are successful, but that is not enough to make you successful. And now that easy money is the exception and not the rule, taking the advice about copying someone else's business model will guarantee that any success you enjoy will be modest at best.

Anything is possible, but being possible doesn't mean it is likely. And what you do, not statistics, is what will determine your future.

Wanting to be successful is part of it, but not enough. Choosing porn (or anything else) solely because other people have been successful with it, is lousy reasoning. Hey, "I can do that", is not enough: you need to see something unique which you can bring to whatever market you tackle. It doesn't have to be unique in a big way, a small twist can be enough. It can be something visible to which your customers will respond, or it can be behind the scenes, something which allows you to work quicker or cheaper.

Sometimes the market and your skills or talents are such that you don't need to be different, you can be better than the majority. The point is that without something to separate you from the crowd, you face lots of established, experienced competition, head on, with nothing more to offer than your labor. Labor is the cheapest, most available commodity around, so if that is all you have, you have almost nothing.

By all means grab an existing business model to use as a vehicle for your ideas, but once you know it well enough to use as a foundation, stop focusing on what other people do and apply your own ideas. Almost all the advice you get from others will be misguided, out-of-date, self-serving, even deliberately misleading. You have to learn to trust your own judgement and work to your own standards. Those standards need to be ones to which your customers will react favorably and unless you are selling products or services to other webmasters, webmasters are not your customers.

Hero-worship is a major factor in this business: avoid it like the plague. Either someone has something you can sell or they don't. You will not make one cent from their board reputations nor the parties they throw and if anything, you should be extra critical of the people who work hardest at keeping a high profile, programs which offer outrageous prizes and the like. If you are going to be an affiliate, check out every tour with a very critical eye, first as a surfer (would it make you buy?) and if that looks okay, go back and look again as an affiliate (are there traffic leaks? do all the links carry your referral code?). Recurring income can be excellent, but very few sites are good enough to keep their members for long and these days it is common for poor programs on limited budgets to go this route. So if a program offers recurring income, buy a membership and check out the member area. If you cannot afford to do that, at least refer to a couple of the more reputable review sites. Otherwise stick with pay-per-sale (and learn the difference between pay-per-sale and pay-per-full-membership).

The same rule applies to designers, scripts and content providers. Use your own judgement before parting with your money. And yes, traffic is gold, but most people trying to sell you traffic are offering you the grit left after the gold has been washed out.

Whoever you work with, don't tolerate poor service. If you have to chase a sponsor to reply to a question, or run after a designer to get a site finished, that is eating into your time. If you are a solo operator, time is a precious and limited commodity and there are plenty of alternatives to those who do not work professionally. Don't flog dead horses and learn to recognize whether bandwagons are headed towards or away from you. This is still a young business and it is constantly changing. If you do not make change a part of what you do, you will be left behind. Put your eggs in a few baskets to spread your risk, but not too many: once you have found a few sites you can sell, learn how to sell them better.

Etc. Etc. And good luck :)

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theres on $$$$ in porn anymore unless you have a good maount to invest in it first

i started with a webtv.

i started free sites in 1997 on free servers like angelfire.com.
i learned alot about the internet and text links.

got into a fight with some co-workers (lazy fucks) then quit and went from there. i ate and slept internet since.

6 figures a year to date.

I started making nude celeb sites in about 1998 but it was easier to make money back then. I don't think I'd bother starting in adult if I had to start again now in 2006 I'd probly try something non-adult.

If there's one thing that's never changing if you look at successful people then it's drive and determination and a "never give up" attitude.

Most people do not have the genetics to go through dozens of failures and still keep on going. It's against human nature. Little voices in our mind sometimes loves to whisper to us "Forget it, it will never work. You can't do it".

Endless hours of work, no sleep etc. isn't appealing to John Doe when it's so much more convenient to open up the fridge, fire up the BBQ and watch some football.

started with $0 money ,a 100mghz computer and dial up in 2001...Not a millionaire but a shitload closer than i was in 2000 :thumbsup

I started with a big fat ZERO, even started owing money I got to buy my first machine, and the first bucks I made were invested in broadband internet connection.

One night, back in 2002, I sit down in my chair and started browsing the internet to search a way to do money. The first sponsors were non-adult related, till I found some who payed for email subscriptions. After that I found the per signup sponsors.

And after that, all was profit. :pimp

I love this biz. :pimp

Also, I miss the old days, when you had to work 2 hours a day to do 20k month..

Nowadays you need to work 15 hours a day if you want to do 10k per month.

I hate competition. :mad:

It is not so easy to make a buck in porn nowadays.