The $2K Project - GoFuckYourself.com

Halo18 · 07-12-2004, 09:11 PM

In about 2 weeks I will be borrowing $2,000 dollars. (Why am I waiting roughly 2 weeks? Simple - my bank is offering a lower APR as a special starting on July 25th.)

Now, I'm new but not... moronic 'I wanna make teh millions sellin pron!~!" new. I've been researching this business venture for a long time now, and now it's time to put that research into action.

I figure whatever your opinion of newbies is, this should be an entertaining thread. If you're a newbie as well, you'll see what's possible when you take a little risk and research what you're doing and who you're working with. If you've been in the game for a while and like seeing newbies come up, this can give you a possible business partner for the future. And, lastly - if you've been in the game and generally hate newbies... well, you just might get to see one put themself 2K in debt.

Now, 2K may not seem like a lot to most of you... well, correction: some of you. I'm talking dollars, not post count... after lurking for a year or so I get the feeling a lot of people here talk a lot of shit without the bank accounts or business skills to back it up. Anyway, 2K is a good bit of money to me, considering I'm a college student currently working a dead-end job for $7 an hour... which ends up being something like $5.50 after taxes. So, making this 2K will take me... around 363 of work if I put every dime I make towards paying it back. So, is it a huge risk? No... If there's ever a time to put yourself in debt, it's when you're 20. But it's a risk none the less.

I'll bookmark this thread and bump it when things get under way. I'll be posting my initial costs, the traffic I generate and purchase, the productivity of said traffic, the sponsors I use, the conversion ratios I get, the designer(s) I use, the amount of money I make, and the profit or loss at 30 and 60 days.

Succeed or fail, everything will be here to see.

Comments are welcome... however I already know which sites I'll be promoting and where I'll be buying traffic and who I'll be contacting for design. So, no sex.com affiliates need bother, nobody needs to whore themselves and their refferal ID, and I don't need to see any design portfolios. Chances are, I've read about your traffic, looked at your portfolio, and know what sites your current sponsor has. Wait....what am I thinking? Whore away and bump my thread for me. Hate away if you'd like - but everyone here was in my position (maybe not borrowing cash, but being new) at one point or another.. unless you had someone take you by the hand.

sid375 · 07-12-2004, 09:14 PM

good luck

KDizzla · 07-12-2004, 09:17 PM

You're going to need it.

Reak · 07-12-2004, 09:17 PM

$2000 isnt a lot of money.

But goodluck with your project sir.

brizzad · 07-12-2004, 09:23 PM

good luck

hopefully you're buying traffic from PPC search engines

Lykos · 07-12-2004, 09:25 PM

Hello!
If u r looking for content...
Just hit me up on ICQ!
I have great,awesome deals on mature hardcore and teens softcore and teens hardcore content at the momment

Good luck

zdwebber · 07-12-2004, 09:28 PM

Best of luck to you

If you get a chance, ICQ me: 97400700.

Jace · 07-12-2004, 09:30 PM

good luck, i think

so your borrowing money to do something?

can't wait to see the results

emthree · 07-12-2004, 09:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Reak
$2000 isnt a lot of money.

But goodluck with your project sir.

Why did you have to point that out, after he allready stated 2k is not a whole lot?

me thinks you have something to prove

Fizzgig · 07-12-2004, 09:31 PM

Good luck to ya.

Halo18 · 07-12-2004, 09:33 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by emthree
Why did you have to point that out, after he allready stated 2k is not a whole lot?

me thinks you have something to prove

Thanks.

Spunky · 07-12-2004, 09:33 PM

Patience ,persistance

The Heron · 07-12-2004, 09:34 PM

$2,000

Halo18 · 07-12-2004, 09:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by The Heron
$2,000

You wanna lend me more money? You're more than welcome. How large of a loan could you get at 20? Ass.

Big Cheese · 07-12-2004, 09:40 PM

You should have title this "The Halo18 Show". I feel like I should be watching this on fox

Halo18 · 07-12-2004, 09:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Big Cheese
You should have title this "The Halo18 Show". I feel like I should be watching this on fox

I guess I'm bringing reality tv to GFY...

damn it, now I feel like I should shoot myself

vidvicious · 07-12-2004, 09:48 PM

interesting concept

stocktrader23 · 07-12-2004, 10:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by The Heron
$2,000

I started with $0.00. Suck on that while you cash your TGP check.

Edit: Nice site by the way. What'd that set you back, $10,000 or so?

http://www.theheron.net/

Downtime · 07-12-2004, 10:08 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by spunky1
Patience ,persistance

What he said!

Halo18 · 07-12-2004, 10:08 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by stocktrader23
I started with $0.00. Suck on that while you cash your TGP check.

Edit: Nice site by the way. What'd that set you back, $10,000 or so?

http://www.theheron.net/

Thanks for pointing that out stocktrader. I tihnk I'd take the single logo I made for halo18.com over that entire site design.

Big Cheese · 07-12-2004, 10:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Halo18

I guess I'm bringing reality tv to GFY...

damn it, now I feel like I should shoot myself

All those shows get great ratings though. Best of luck

JulianSosa · 07-12-2004, 10:10 PM

What are your skills and what are you going to do in the adult internet to make money ?

Halo18 · 07-12-2004, 10:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Big Cheese
All those shows get great ratings though. Best of luck

True, wonder if this thread will get a good amount of views when I actually put the info up... too bad I don't really believe in selling my sig.

Sylver7 · 07-12-2004, 10:15 PM

good luck to you. most things dont work out as planned but if you stay persistant and refuse to lose you'll make it one way or another

Chris · 07-12-2004, 10:16 PM

Good luck , you seem to have the correct attitude towards the biz but 2k seems kinda low for everything you are trying to get done ?

but none the less Good luck

Chris
www.pillsbucks.com

Halo18 · 07-12-2004, 10:16 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by JulianSosa
What are your skills and what are you going to do in the adult internet to make money ?

All in good time.

fuzzylogic · 07-12-2004, 10:23 PM

whats this about?

Halo18 · 07-12-2004, 10:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by JupZChris
Good luck , you seem to have the correct attitude towards the biz but 2k seems kinda low for everything you are trying to get done ?

but none the less Good luck

Chris
www.pillsbucks.com

I didn't say what I'll be doing yet. All i basically said was that I'll be promoting sites, buying traffic, and using a designer. I honestly don't mind starting small, I'm in this for the long haul, not some quick buck.

Thanks for wishin me luck

Shaze · 07-12-2004, 10:28 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Halo18
You wanna lend me more money? You're more than welcome. How large of a loan could you get at 20? Ass.

good luck with your venture. $2,000 on traffic bought from TGP's will burn away quickly...that won't sustain much.

at 20 i was able to get a $20,000 dollar loan.

Halo18 · 07-12-2004, 10:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Shaze
at 20 i was able to get a $20,000 dollar loan.

Well, if that's true - I wish I was in the same position you were at 20. Unless of course you're talking about a student loan... I deffinitely have more than 2K in those.

AVM · 07-12-2004, 10:39 PM

Good luck, I anticipate your results.

Halo18 · 07-12-2004, 10:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by AVM
Good luck, I anticipate your results.

Thanks, I'm hoping to have good news.

BradM · 07-12-2004, 10:42 PM

Good luck buddy. You sound damn motivated.

Hit me up if I can do anything for you.

Shaze · 07-12-2004, 10:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Halo18
Well, if that's true - I wish I was in the same position you were at 20. Unless of course you're talking about a student loan... I deffinitely have more than 2K in those.

never took out a student loan for college

you should just get a nice design for your site and learn to increase traffic without paying cash...it's possible to gain traffic for free without paying anyone.

darnit · 07-12-2004, 10:44 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Halo18
I'm in this for the long haul, not some quick buck.

a very healty approach, dont forget it.

pxxx · 07-12-2004, 10:45 PM

Best of lucks bro.

Fizzgig · 07-12-2004, 10:48 PM

2k isn't a lot, nope. But many people make it on zero investment so 2k is going to put you that much further.

I just hope you have done or will do a lot of research and not throw that 2k in the garbage...there are a lot of things new website owners pay for that are totally unnecessary.

Again, good luck and please don't hesitate to seek much advice and ask loads of questions you will thank yourself and everyone for it later!!

Halo18 · 07-12-2004, 10:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Shaze
never took out a student loan for college

Damn, whish I could say the same. I did pretty well on the SAT's so a local school kind of threw money at me as far as scholarships go, but... when the total starts at 14 grand a semester, I still havta borrow some to get through. Thankfully not as much as a few of my friends.

AVM · 07-12-2004, 10:49 PM

FYI - I started with $0.00, and had to sell my one and only mainstream site for $3k to become "not homeless". Put three months down for rent (first, last, security) on a house & bought car insurance. I was left with nothing but 30-days to find some revenue stream. So in the meantime I worked my ass off, finally brokered a great domain, took that little bit of cash, and now with 30+ biz deals, and 10 sites under my belt - I have six figures in capital and three figures daily in residual income.

Mind you this is all within a 16-month period, and that I am younger than you Halo. So definitely - Anything is possible, regardless of budget. Ambition, determination, and a business mentality will always outweigh inherited "mommas boy, daddys trust fund" finances.

G/L

<IMX> · 07-12-2004, 10:54 PM

I wouldn't start off buying traffic....
Milk everything you can for free....

Get a designer who is decent and get them to do a basic archive design for a movie archive and mgp galleries... http://www.buildporn.com ($300 or so)

use variations of it on
adult bouncer
deluxepass
janswebring
pornaccess
ars champs and any other archive type aens
do half str8t niche, half gay niche

Get webmasterlabor to do daily MGP submits for you. ($360) rotate between your archives... so you always have fresh content to submit to mgps....

You do daily TGP submits, AVS and Link List submits. (chameleon $20/mo) (AVS Wizard ($100 one time)

For AVS use proadult, freenetpass, freeagecard and sexkey, mansites, ugas, and globalmalepass.

Have two hubs a tgp hub for all your mgp/tgp galleries and a link list hub. Use TTT php (free) and AGSQL ($65) for the mgp and Gossamer Threads (free) and TTT PHP for the link list.

That rat there is a good ass plan

Shaze · 07-12-2004, 10:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by AVM
FYI - I started with $0.00, and had to sell my one and only mainstream site for $3k to become "not homeless". Put three months down for rent (first, last, security) on a house & bought car insurance. I was left with nothing but 30-days to find some revenue stream. So in the meantime I worked my ass off, finally brokered a great domain, took that little bit of cash, and now with 30+ biz deals, and 10 sites under my belt - I have six figures in capital and three figures daily in residual income.

Mind you this is all within a 16-month period, and that I am younger than you Halo. So definitely - Anything is possible, regardless of budget. Ambition, determination, and a business mentality will always outweigh inherited "mommas boy, daddys trust fund" finances.

G/L

hope that "mommas boy, daddys trust fund" finances was directed towards me...

Halo18 · 07-12-2004, 10:55 PM

I just wanna take a sec to thank everyone who's had something encouraging to say. Stuff like that is part of what's going to keep me motivated. To the few who were laughing at 2K... well, congrats... in the event that I do go somewhere, you just lost a possible future partner.

KRL · 07-12-2004, 10:56 PM

You'll make more money buying my sig for the month.

Rictor · 07-12-2004, 10:58 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Halo18
You wanna lend me more money? You're more than welcome. How large of a loan could you get at 20? Ass.

When I was 20, my dad has to co-sign on my loans still. When I was 23, my credit was good enough to get a house loan and new car loans on my own. Good luck.

Halo18 · 07-12-2004, 11:00 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by KRL
You'll make more money buying my sig for the month.

You know, I actually didn't think you were a bad guy.

Shaze · 07-12-2004, 11:03 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Shaze
hope that "mommas boy, daddys trust fund" finances was directed towards me...

i mean't "wasn't directed..."

Napolean · 07-12-2004, 11:04 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Reak
$2000 isnt a lot of money.

But goodluck with your project sir.

calling people "sir" is my tagline

AVM · 07-12-2004, 11:05 PM

Quote:

hope that "mommas boy, daddys trust fund" finances was directed towards me...

No, not at all man. I am not the typical GFY user, looking to bash others intentionally, in efforts of overcompensating for my own lack of self worth. That statement was a generalization targeted at kids of privelaged families, who never risk a dollar. And when they do, and fail - Daddy lifts them back up, washes away the failure, and allow this cycle to continue. So long post short, not directed at anyone in this thread. Directed at a social class, encompassing our fine society.

pood · 07-12-2004, 11:05 PM

good luck bud

wish i had the money, afraid to take a loan, same situation, crappy job, 20, and a poor assed college student

I'm just using up my paychecks right now

Halo18 · 07-12-2004, 11:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by pood
good luck bud

wish i had the money, afraid to take a loan, same situation, crappy job, 20, and a poor assed college student

I'm just using up my paychecks right now

Yup, thats the boat I've been in and I'm so, so sick of it. The one thing I truely love doing is art... but what are the chances of making good money painting? The term "starving artist" didn't come without a base in reality. So what could I do? Keep cutting meat for shitty money for the rest of my life? Fuck that. I need a way out, and I decided over a year ago this is what I want to do. Countless amounts of reading later - I'm ready to make a serious start.

07-12-2004, 09:11 PM	#1
Halo18 Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 312	The $2K Project In about 2 weeks I will be borrowing $2,000 dollars. (Why am I waiting roughly 2 weeks? Simple - my bank is offering a lower APR as a special starting on July 25th.) Now, I'm new but not... moronic 'I wanna make teh millions sellin pron!~!" new. I've been researching this business venture for a long time now, and now it's time to put that research into action. I figure whatever your opinion of newbies is, this should be an entertaining thread. If you're a newbie as well, you'll see what's possible when you take a little risk and research what you're doing and who you're working with. If you've been in the game for a while and like seeing newbies come up, this can give you a possible business partner for the future. And, lastly - if you've been in the game and generally hate newbies... well, you just might get to see one put themself 2K in debt. Now, 2K may not seem like a lot to most of you... well, correction: some of you. I'm talking dollars, not post count... after lurking for a year or so I get the feeling a lot of people here talk a lot of shit without the bank accounts or business skills to back it up. Anyway, 2K is a good bit of money to me, considering I'm a college student currently working a dead-end job for $7 an hour... which ends up being something like $5.50 after taxes. So, making this 2K will take me... around 363 of work if I put every dime I make towards paying it back. So, is it a huge risk? No... If there's ever a time to put yourself in debt, it's when you're 20. But it's a risk none the less. I'll bookmark this thread and bump it when things get under way. I'll be posting my initial costs, the traffic I generate and purchase, the productivity of said traffic, the sponsors I use, the conversion ratios I get, the designer(s) I use, the amount of money I make, and the profit or loss at 30 and 60 days. Succeed or fail, everything will be here to see. Comments are welcome... however I already know which sites I'll be promoting and where I'll be buying traffic and who I'll be contacting for design. So, no sex.com affiliates need bother, nobody needs to whore themselves and their refferal ID, and I don't need to see any design portfolios. Chances are, I've read about your traffic, looked at your portfolio, and know what sites your current sponsor has. Wait....what am I thinking? Whore away and bump my thread for me. Hate away if you'd like - but everyone here was in my position (maybe not borrowing cash, but being new) at one point or another.. unless you had someone take you by the hand. Last edited by Halo18; 07-12-2004 at 09:16 PM..

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07-12-2004, 09:14 PM	#2
sid375 So Fucking Banned Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 1,068	good luck

07-12-2004, 09:17 PM	#4
Reak So Fucking Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: 420Calendar.com Posts: 17,920	$2000 isnt a lot of money. But goodluck with your project sir.

07-12-2004, 09:23 PM	#5
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07-12-2004, 09:28 PM	#7
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07-12-2004, 09:30 PM	#8
Jace FBOP Class Of 2013 Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: bumfuck, ky Posts: 35,562	good luck, i think so your borrowing money to do something? can't wait to see the results

07-12-2004, 09:34 PM	#13
The Heron Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Michigan Posts: 4,488	$2,000

07-12-2004, 09:40 PM	#15
Big Cheese Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 473	You should have title this "The Halo18 Show". I feel like I should be watching this on fox

07-12-2004, 09:48 PM	#17
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07-12-2004, 10:10 PM	#22
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07-12-2004, 10:15 PM	#24
Sylver7 Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: [206] Posts: 489	good luck to you. most things dont work out as planned but if you stay persistant and refuse to lose you'll make it one way or another

07-12-2004, 10:16 PM	#25
Chris Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: May 2003 Location: icq: 71462500 Skype: Jupzchris Posts: 27,880	Good luck , you seem to have the correct attitude towards the biz but 2k seems kinda low for everything you are trying to get done ? but none the less Good luck Chris www.pillsbucks.com __________________ [email protected]

07-12-2004, 10:23 PM	#27
fuzzylogic Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: buffalo, las vegas. icq: 285808879 Posts: 4,796	whats this about?

07-12-2004, 10:39 PM	#31
AVM Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: South Florida. Posts: 1,890	Good luck, I anticipate your results.

07-12-2004, 10:42 PM	#33
BradM Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: 1123,6536,5231 Posts: 3,397	Good luck buddy. You sound damn motivated. Hit me up if I can do anything for you.

07-12-2004, 10:45 PM	#36
pxxx First African GFY Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 12,114	Best of lucks bro.

07-12-2004, 10:48 PM	#37
Fizzgig Registered User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: In Your Dreams Posts: 9,649	2k isn't a lot, nope. But many people make it on zero investment so 2k is going to put you that much further. I just hope you have done or will do a lot of research and not throw that 2k in the garbage...there are a lot of things new website owners pay for that are totally unnecessary. Again, good luck and please don't hesitate to seek much advice and ask loads of questions you will thank yourself and everyone for it later!! __________________ ---'-,-{@ Sassy Grrrl @}-'-,---

07-12-2004, 10:49 PM	#39
AVM Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: South Florida. Posts: 1,890	FYI - I started with $0.00, and had to sell my one and only mainstream site for $3k to become "not homeless". Put three months down for rent (first, last, security) on a house & bought car insurance. I was left with nothing but 30-days to find some revenue stream. So in the meantime I worked my ass off, finally brokered a great domain, took that little bit of cash, and now with 30+ biz deals, and 10 sites under my belt - I have six figures in capital and three figures daily in residual income. Mind you this is all within a 16-month period, and that I am younger than you Halo. So definitely - Anything is possible, regardless of budget. Ambition, determination, and a business mentality will always outweigh inherited "mommas boy, daddys trust fund" finances. G/L Last edited by AVM; 07-12-2004 at 10:51 PM..

07-12-2004, 10:54 PM	#40
<IMX> Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 2,728	I wouldn't start off buying traffic.... Milk everything you can for free.... Get a designer who is decent and get them to do a basic archive design for a movie archive and mgp galleries... http://www.buildporn.com ($300 or so) use variations of it on adult bouncer deluxepass janswebring pornaccess ars champs and any other archive type aens do half str8t niche, half gay niche Get webmasterlabor to do daily MGP submits for you. ($360) rotate between your archives... so you always have fresh content to submit to mgps.... You do daily TGP submits, AVS and Link List submits. (chameleon $20/mo) (AVS Wizard ($100 one time) For AVS use proadult, freenetpass, freeagecard and sexkey, mansites, ugas, and globalmalepass. Have two hubs a tgp hub for all your mgp/tgp galleries and a link list hub. Use TTT php (free) and AGSQL ($65) for the mgp and Gossamer Threads (free) and TTT PHP for the link list. That rat there is a good ass plan __________________ $$$ Check out NICHE PAY the leader of Micro Niche Sites! They offer $1 Trials! $$$ $$$ Check out 10 FREE TRIAL SALES equals 1 FREE LAP TOP ! $$$

07-12-2004, 10:55 PM	#42
Halo18 Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 312	I just wanna take a sec to thank everyone who's had something encouraging to say. Stuff like that is part of what's going to keep me motivated. To the few who were laughing at 2K... well, congrats... in the event that I do go somewhere, you just lost a possible future partner.

07-12-2004, 10:56 PM	#43
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07-12-2004, 11:05 PM	#49
pood Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 1,609	good luck bud wish i had the money, afraid to take a loan, same situation, crappy job, 20, and a poor assed college student I'm just using up my paychecks right now