This is the next Lightspeedgirl superstar

I know what sales he was making in his heyday and I know he doesn't live ostentatiously. I'm also sure that he's still making a few hundred grand a year off new sales/rebills so he doesn't have to tap into his savings to support his current lifestyle.

so it sounds like lightspeed is making about 10% of what it use to. You think if that is the case Steve would be more inclined to make changes instead of keep on doing the same thing over and over and over.

Will, I like you, but you obviously don't know much about me. I was ready to retire before I started Lightspeed. This isn't my first successful career. I started Lightspeed FOR FUN, it's never been about the money for me. I'm sorry if I haven't lived up to YOUR expectations, but that was never my goal.

I could have made a lot more money over the last 11 years. But I chose not to cheat my affiliates, my employees, my models, or my members. I turned down $100k/week to install spyware. I never shaved, I never spammed, I never did hidden prechecked xsales, and I never stole content. Fuck yes, I could have made more money!

I've supported ASACP, FSC, the fight against Acacia, and now the war on piracy. I sponsored dozens of conventions just for the fun of it. I donated to many people here who needed help. But that doesn't matter now, because I'm not running my websites the way YOU think they should be run!

Lightspeed's peak year was in 2005. We were rolling in money. Millions. But I was miserable that year. I turned 40. I almost lost my family. I had a terrible drug addiction. And I was chasing away my closest friends. So I put the brakes on Lightspeed, and started working to fix my personal life. Since then, I've cleaned up, saved my marriage, and spent several wonderful years at home with my children. All worth more to me that money or fame ever will.

So now, I am a "dinosaur" and I'm "out of touch", and I must be only making a fraction of my prior years. No, I'M HAPPY. I hope someday you'll all do something that makes you happy too.

Steve Lightspeed

Steve, don't be so sensitive. I was replying to Mutts comment that if Lightspeed is only making a couple hundred thousand a year in rebills now then it must have been on a big decline from where it was.

You don't have to live up to anyone's expectations but your own. I applaud you for not cheating affiliates, shaving, using spy ware etc.

If you are just doing this as a hobby and you don't care and don't need the money because you are retired a couple times over than fine. But it just didn't seem like that from your posts here looking for the next superstar and your comments about having several new sites to roll out. It seems like you do care and you want to make your business a success again in the future. The replies here made by me and many others where about your reluctance to make changes when needed to keep your sites going as a success in the future. If you don't need the money and prefer to keep doing things the same way and making less then pardon me and ignore my comments.

While I am sure this thread has bothered you from the people taking pop shots at you, that wasn't the case from my posts. I was trying to help.

Seriously, if you care about lightspeed and want to turn it around consult with someone else to get help. But if you don't care about future success or making more money then more power to you, keep doing what you doing.

Someone left me Negative Rep for my POSITIVE comment on this thread, saying, "I disapprove"

Bunch of shit at work, eh, what?

Of course, because of my post count I can't see who the PRICK was but it is there anyway.

(RED) "This is the next... 10-27-2010 10:56 PM "I disapprove."

This is my post that got me NEGATIVE REP FROM SOME ASSHOLE!

WTF?

What a DICK!

I can't believe it's not butter.

you pissed all your money away on drugs and hookers and ran your company itno the ground than begged your wife not to divorce you? and now you are clueless? did I miss anything?

The teen niche isn't what it once was. Teen shit just doesn't sell like it was in the late 1990's into 2000. Back then I would put up a 150 x 150 banner of Tawnee Stone at the top of my tgps and make 50 sales a day.

Solo girl sites and "superstars" are still going on. Just not in the niche that you enjoy (teen). There are still girls making fortunes. But for the last 7 years MILF has ruled where teen once did.

If Steve has been chilling since 2005 then no wonder he's out of touch with the market. The last couple of years have been ridiculous everywhere I look. It even creeped into some recession resistant stuff I do offline.

As for modern day superstars, it is oh so very possible to make it so but not with the way it was done a half decade ago. It takes some real crazy thinking and a 180 from what most people want to do with a new site.

neg repped you too for this post

um........that's why I carefully wrote 'teen solo model' sites

solo amateur sites with swinging,cuckholds, interracial,hardcore is a whole other world

the term 'solo girl site' became associated with teens and it's stuck.

maaan, You are my last sponsor who still don't change the payment info! few mails sent, no reply, no action.

Mutt, can you email me please? I would email you but don't know how to contact you. Thanks: rob @ robspics DOT com