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alby_persignup · 10-06-2007, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Trixie Racer

Trusting someone untrustworthy

i feel yah! same here

$tandaman · 10-07-2007, 04:07 PM

1) Trusting your partner even though all signs are pointing in the other direction, just because i made a commitment.

2) Marketing a product that is not ready to actually be used - will never do this again

the two mistakes, which cost me the most, i am sure i can go on.. but this is into 7 figures already...

tical · 10-07-2007, 04:19 PM

trusting people & getting fucked over.

i think everyone will go through this at some point

after you get fucked, THEN you'll make sure it doesn't happen again

jakethedog · 10-07-2007, 04:20 PM

clicking on this thread .................

will76 · 10-07-2007, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by jakethedog

clicking on this thread .................

wow you must be doing pretty good if your biggest mistake was to click on this thread.

Diligent · 10-07-2007, 07:39 PM

Not making my money work for me more than I have.

The more it takes, the more it makes...
has held true with MOST different ways to invest in adult
(as long as You've done Your research and made sure You
know what You're about to do of course).

Time to be & stay more aggressive in that regard, that's for sure! ;)

ultimatebbwdotcom · 10-07-2007, 08:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diligent

Not making my money work for me more than I have.

The more it takes, the more it makes...
has held true with MOST different ways to invest in adult
(as long as You've done Your research and made sure You
know what You're about to do of course).

Time to be & stay more aggressive in that regard, that's for sure! ;)

Same here, not investing enough,

I also wish,

I started in the biz earlier,
Bought more domain names,

plus many others Im sure.

Barefootsies · 10-07-2007, 08:28 PM

Investing less in partying and my beer belly than in my business early on after college.

I could have been a lot further down the line if I wasn't always trying to get my tip wet. In hindsight, those experiences make me who I am today. But I could have been dropping $30-40k of my telco check into online business for those 8 years if I wasn't always trying to get my jimmy waxed.

Yngwie · 10-07-2007, 09:26 PM

my BIGGEST mistake was when I was making good money I NEVER put any of the money back in the business. That was my biggest mistake.

TheJimmy · 10-07-2007, 10:49 PM

My biggest mistake was not thinking I need a product of my own, that affiliate marketing was an 'ok' model for long term success...the second related mistake was realizing that your business MUST be scalable...eg. can grow with or without you directly involved...

BAKO · 10-07-2007, 11:43 PM

off topic, getting married

dissipate · 10-07-2007, 11:45 PM

I wish i would have started working as much as i do now quite a while ago.

polish_aristocrat · 10-07-2007, 11:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheJimmy

My biggest mistake was not thinking I need a product of my own, that affiliate marketing was an 'ok' model for long term success...

isn't it?

dissipate · 10-07-2007, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by WWC-Bako

off topic, getting married

Owned.

BAKO · 10-07-2007, 11:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dissipate

Owned.

Drake · 10-07-2007, 11:58 PM

Not buying software soon enough. The proper software can make a job so much easier.

Oops, this isn't the biggest mistake, but it's a mistake.

snaker · 10-08-2007, 04:36 AM

Not getting into the game earlier

Marshal · 10-08-2007, 05:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trixie Racer

Trusting someone untrustworthy

i second that! you are completely right! in my case trusting a content thief and a scammer...

will76 · 10-08-2007, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by WWC-Bako

off topic, getting married

haha .. it's kind of on topic. If you marry the wrong person who gives you shit about working too much, spends all your money, and then divorces you in a state with community property laws and she takes 1/2 your shit. That could be a bad mistake that affected your business.

will76 · 10-08-2007, 09:21 PM

more mistakes ?

stev0 · 10-08-2007, 10:28 PM

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Originally Posted by webgurl

My most regretfull mistake for 2007 was not cashing
out all my damn USD-CND currency at 1.17 in the Month of March
(sorry i guess your topic is business since starting in the online bizz)

I hear ya there... I had a bunch in a US term deposit account making 4.2% a year, took less than 3 weeks for it to loose around 15%.

2012 · 10-08-2007, 10:32 PM

believing in my fellow man ...

trusting people I knew I had no business trusting ...

not listening to the "inner voice" that says ...

fuck these people

2012 · 10-08-2007, 10:39 PM

believing history books

and all that shit they tell you in Disney Movies

babydred · 10-08-2007, 11:12 PM

My biggest mistakes in this biz?
First, not better promoting my first site ever (it was born in the year 2000 i think), named Fresh XXX, it can still be found here at http://www.worldxxxhost.com/users/nahteedred ...my first payout from this site was a 750 dollar check from Topbucks. I'm surprised the url still resolves (geez i've come a long way, that was my first hand at html...i learned from a Dummies Guide the week before i put it on the web). LOL

My second biggest mistake is more recent, not learning how to trade traffic sooner than i did. I've come to realize that it's true, the higher you get in their toplist, the better the traffic is as well as more of it. ;)

Paul Markham · 10-08-2007, 11:22 PM

Back in 1995 I was selling pictures to a few people with websites, getting $3 to $10 a picture. So I thought it would be a good time to start a website and got a programmer. It was a disaster because I had no knowledge of how to get traffic.

So my biggest mistake was not sticking with it and learning more. At the time I was earning a lot of money in other porn fields and never dreamed the Adult Net would become what it has.

I suppose the second mistake was not coming back sooner with a content store. Third would be not opening a paysite sooner as well.

mb · 10-19-2007, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by will76

The most important thing I have learned from 8 years of doing this shit.... The sad thing was that it took me 6 years to figure this out.

This applies mainly to affiliates, but in some ways could be applied to everyone.

I started off (1999) as a membership site owner, spent countless hours updating the sites, adding more content, paying for plugins, dealing with members, etc.. After realizing all the time I put in just to provide a product to sell vs the amount of money I was making from advertising other people's sites, it seemed like a no brainer to switch over to being an 100% affiliate. Now instead of spending 20 - 30 hours a week on maintaining my membership sites I had that much more time to spend on advertising and getting more traffic. This made me a lot more money. Thankfully I was 100% away from my membership sites a couple years before ibill went under, so I only lost about 50K from old rebills. If I would have been going 100% strong with my sites right up until they went under I would have lost well over a million dollars, so I lucked out there.

Where I went wrong and got off course....

When I was promoting my own membership sites I was building something of value. As I made money from them they built a membership base. The more popular they became the more my membership base grew and the more my site was recognized on the net. So not only did I directly make money from my advertising (10 sales a day, say I made = $300 etc...) but I built "x" amount of value into my site as my membership base got bigger, site got more popular, etc. For example, if I would have grown my site to have 1000 active members not only would I have been making 35K a month, but I would have a site worth a lot more then that if I chose to sell it.

When I switched over to being 100% an affiliate, for the most part I used single pages or small sites built around that sponsor... I didn't put any effort into trying to retain people or build up the page/site I was using, I was happy getting sign ups from the traffic i sent to it. Fatal Flaw. Here I am busting my ass, making really good money, but at the end of the day, what did I have? A nice check and that was about it. I had nothing of value. I had grossed over a million in sales the year before just to clickcash but i had nothing of value. nothing. No site like hoes.com or a tgp that had 500K hits a day etc.. i had zero to show for it except for the checks I was being sent.

I always prided myself on the ability to make money off of everything I did and I totally missed the boat on that one. It finally hit me one day, why not make the same amount of money but build value in your sites at the same time. Some simple things to do this would be to add a forum, add blogs that update everyday, give people a reason to use your site and to want to come back and use your site over and over again. Get creative, there are many ways to do this but the point being is don't just make a site to make money, but build a site you are making money from. For the most part I had promoted 1 sponsor, so once the person signed up, if they came back i made no money off of them so I wasnt thinking this way. I missed the fact, popular site, retain traffic = build value in the site not just make money off of it.

That's my advice, if you are an affiliate build value in something while you making money from it. As simple as it sounds, I can't be the only person that didn't realize this. I think back now, if I would have been sending all my traffic to a site like hoes.com it would not only be as popular if not bigger then his, I would have something of value worth a good bit of money. It would have been nice all this time to make really good money and ALSO own something worth milions. It woud be like the icing on the cake ( the cakes being all those nice checks).

I appreciate that you used hoes.com as an example of a quality site. Very flattered, thank you.

marc

will76 · 10-19-2007, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by mb

I appreciate that you used hoes.com as an example of a quality site. Very flattered, thank you.

marc

np, no doubt you do very well with your site. I've seen a few of your monthly stats reports post on here.

Fap · 10-19-2007, 04:06 PM

waited so long to invest in google

buzzy · 10-19-2007, 04:13 PM

Lent $2k to a friend, or so i thought he was a friend.

hentaibee · 10-20-2007, 09:25 AM

not starting earlier while being around surfing.

10-07-2007, 04:07 PM	#52
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10-07-2007, 04:19 PM	#53
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10-07-2007, 04:20 PM	#54
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10-07-2007, 07:39 PM	#56
Diligent Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Hoy Suecia, mañana Nirvana Posts: 1,594	Not making my money work for me more than I have. The more it takes, the more it makes... has held true with MOST different ways to invest in adult (as long as You've done Your research and made sure You know what You're about to do of course). Time to be & stay more aggressive in that regard, that's for sure! ;) __________________ ~¤~ MORE MONEY ~¤~ VOD? XoD! ~¤~ ~¤~ ICQ# 9828 2461 ~¤~

10-07-2007, 08:28 PM	#58
Barefootsies Choice is an Illusion Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Land of Obama Posts: 42,635	Investing less in partying and my beer belly than in my business early on after college. I could have been a lot further down the line if I wasn't always trying to get my tip wet. In hindsight, those experiences make me who I am today. But I could have been dropping $30-40k of my telco check into online business for those 8 years if I wasn't always trying to get my jimmy waxed. __________________ Should You Email Your Members? Link1 \| Link2 \| Link3 Enough Said. "Would you rather live like a king for a year or like a prince forever?" Last edited by Barefootsies; 10-07-2007 at 08:30 PM..

10-07-2007, 09:26 PM	#59
Yngwie I am an Alien from space Industry Role: Join Date: May 2003 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 11,118	my BIGGEST mistake was when I was making good money I NEVER put any of the money back in the business. That was my biggest mistake. __________________ ICQ: 16544251 - Skype: gator37 @ eastlink.ca - email: yngwie @ isys.ca

10-07-2007, 10:49 PM	#60
TheJimmy ICQ- five seven 0 2 5 5 0 Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 10,747	My biggest mistake was not thinking I need a product of my own, that affiliate marketing was an 'ok' model for long term success...the second related mistake was realizing that your business MUST be scalable...eg. can grow with or without you directly involved... __________________ Investor with 5m - 15m USD to invest. Do you have a site or network of sites earning 50k - 200k a month income? Email your contact and preliminary data to: domain.cashventures (at) gmail.com....Please...no tire kickers...serious offers and inquiries only.

10-07-2007, 11:43 PM	#61
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10-07-2007, 11:45 PM	#62
dissipate The Dirty Frenchman Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Lost Angeles Posts: 8,904	I wish i would have started working as much as i do now quite a while ago.

10-07-2007, 11:58 PM	#66
Drake Hello world! Industry Role: Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 12,508	Not buying software soon enough. The proper software can make a job so much easier. Oops, this isn't the biggest mistake, but it's a mistake.

10-08-2007, 04:36 AM	#67
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10-08-2007, 09:21 PM	#70
will76 Making $$$$ w/ ClickCash Industry Role: Join Date: May 2003 Location: USA Posts: 18,037	more mistakes ? __________________ ICQ: 86364801 Email: will [at] innovativeassets [dot] com PROGRAM SHIT LIST - DO NOT PROMOTE (click link for gfy thread) FNCash \| Media Revenue

10-08-2007, 10:32 PM	#72
2012 So Fucking What Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 17,189	believing in my fellow man ... trusting people I knew I had no business trusting ... not listening to the "inner voice" that says ... fuck these people __________________ best host: Webair \| best sponsor: Kink \| best coder: 688218966 \| Go Fuck Yourself

10-08-2007, 10:39 PM	#73
2012 So Fucking What Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 17,189	believing history books and all that shit they tell you in Disney Movies __________________ best host: Webair \| best sponsor: Kink \| best coder: 688218966 \| Go Fuck Yourself

10-08-2007, 11:12 PM	#74
babydred Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: May 2004 Location: I'm EVERYWHERE! Posts: 497	My biggest mistakes in this biz? First, not better promoting my first site ever (it was born in the year 2000 i think), named Fresh XXX, it can still be found here at http://www.worldxxxhost.com/users/nahteedred ...my first payout from this site was a 750 dollar check from Topbucks. I'm surprised the url still resolves (geez i've come a long way, that was my first hand at html...i learned from a Dummies Guide the week before i put it on the web). LOL My second biggest mistake is more recent, not learning how to trade traffic sooner than i did. I've come to realize that it's true, the higher you get in their toplist, the better the traffic is as well as more of it. ;) __________________ New niche? Last edited by babydred; 10-08-2007 at 11:14 PM..

10-08-2007, 11:22 PM	#75
Paul Markham Too old to care Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: On the sofa, watching TV or doing my jigsaws. Posts: 52,943	Back in 1995 I was selling pictures to a few people with websites, getting $3 to $10 a picture. So I thought it would be a good time to start a website and got a programmer. It was a disaster because I had no knowledge of how to get traffic. So my biggest mistake was not sticking with it and learning more. At the time I was earning a lot of money in other porn fields and never dreamed the Adult Net would become what it has. I suppose the second mistake was not coming back sooner with a content store. Third would be not opening a paysite sooner as well. __________________ Blowout deal. 880 videos, 2,400 image sets, plus many RAW videos. $500. PM me for a deal. Skype Paulmarkham70

10-19-2007, 04:06 PM	#78
Fap Just Du It Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 12,094	waited so long to invest in google

10-19-2007, 04:13 PM	#79
buzzy Confirmed User Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 2,606	Lent $2k to a friend, or so i thought he was a friend.

10-20-2007, 09:25 AM	#80
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