This thought crossed my mind this morning. Should we stop helping newbies get started? Should we discourage them?
One reason: competition.
The more people there are in this biz, the less money we all make. Just like back in 1996, I'd imagine that it was a lot easier to make money back then than now, due to lack competition.
The story of me getting started in this biz... hmmmmm. About 2 years ago, there was an "Internet Night" on Channel 5 television, about hackers, ebusiness and all that shit. There was also a program that took an even handed and fair view of the adult industry. I don't really remember it - but the one thing I do remember is a guy sut it front of a hotel on the most beautiful beach I'd ever seen. His words are crystal clear to me even now - "there are webmasters right now, behind me in that hotel, that are earning up to $135,000,000 per year".
That was it - it set alarm bells ringing. From that moment, I decided that I HAD to make money from the Internet - it was my cause in life.
The next day, I'm soaking in the tub and racking my brains on ways to make money. I didn't really want to do adult at first. I'm thinking, sports... nah. Internet resource sites... nah. Every idea I came across was negative, "nah" to it all. Then it hit me - celebrity! Some people go wild for celebrities. I remembered a site where I could find 20,000 celebrity addresses from all over the world and 30,000 celeb pictures, and reckoned that with it all, I could set up a membership based site.
I set about it, the first thing designing the site. I didn't have a clue what I was doing - I didn't even recognise that these pictures were unlicensed, that I could be sued... etc. So anyway, I'm half way through setting up this site and I'm looking for a billing solution.
I'd contacted iBill, and got a response. Though it looked a little difficult to me - bare in mind that I didn't even have a host back then, and was clueless about cgi. I decided that adult was the only way to go - I could get started with softcore bikini and babes stuff, and as I made my fortune, move to the Netherlands and really start the hardcore stuff. (yeah right... lol)
I set about searching for an easier solution. I found "tomsnewbiebooster.com" on a search engine. The site proclaimed "most people find us when halfway through setting up a paysite". I thought shit... these guys know what they are talking about. So I posted my first message and was welcomed with open arms. A big "hi" and "welcome" from everyone on the board. Tom is a great guy, and really did help.
If there is one thing I could remember from surfing for porn, it was "porn city" and "maximum cash". Must be the webmaster standard I thought... and got set up. I was shit scared on the MaxCash signup procedure - what the fuck are they going to do with my addess? I thought. No pain, no gain! Built a site, no traffic. Bullshit to this I thought - and got out of the business for about 6 months before I had even started.
I came back a little later after discovering Adult Check. I built the shittest AVS site in the world, using MaxCash Teen Steam as my sponsor inside. Like a dumb piece of meat, I actually had the nerve to spam the newsgroups to get traffic. It did work - 1 Adult Check signup and 1 Teen Steam signup. Great, I thoght. However, this was on my ISPs webspace at sexcandy.co.uk - they cut me off. So I moved on, building a bikini babes site at hollywood.i12.com. It's gone now - and didn't get me a signup.
Fuck! I thought - I made 2 signups and I haven't got a clue what I'm doing! I must do some research - and it started from there.
Anyway, seeing as I'm not a newbie anymore, I'm taking a chunk of what other webmasters should have had for their own income. Whenever I post to tgps, I push another webmaster off - whenever I post on a link list - I get signups that could have been had by another webmaster.
This is happening hundreds of times per day - the newbies that we all helped are getting good, and turning round and giving us a great huge bite on the ass.
The less people in this biz - the less competition - the more money for us. And that is what we are here to do... make money.
So I put forth - should we quit helping newbies, stop giving advice, and discourage them from getting into the biz?
One reason: competition.
The more people there are in this biz, the less money we all make. Just like back in 1996, I'd imagine that it was a lot easier to make money back then than now, due to lack competition.
The story of me getting started in this biz... hmmmmm. About 2 years ago, there was an "Internet Night" on Channel 5 television, about hackers, ebusiness and all that shit. There was also a program that took an even handed and fair view of the adult industry. I don't really remember it - but the one thing I do remember is a guy sut it front of a hotel on the most beautiful beach I'd ever seen. His words are crystal clear to me even now - "there are webmasters right now, behind me in that hotel, that are earning up to $135,000,000 per year".
That was it - it set alarm bells ringing. From that moment, I decided that I HAD to make money from the Internet - it was my cause in life.
The next day, I'm soaking in the tub and racking my brains on ways to make money. I didn't really want to do adult at first. I'm thinking, sports... nah. Internet resource sites... nah. Every idea I came across was negative, "nah" to it all. Then it hit me - celebrity! Some people go wild for celebrities. I remembered a site where I could find 20,000 celebrity addresses from all over the world and 30,000 celeb pictures, and reckoned that with it all, I could set up a membership based site.
I set about it, the first thing designing the site. I didn't have a clue what I was doing - I didn't even recognise that these pictures were unlicensed, that I could be sued... etc. So anyway, I'm half way through setting up this site and I'm looking for a billing solution.
I'd contacted iBill, and got a response. Though it looked a little difficult to me - bare in mind that I didn't even have a host back then, and was clueless about cgi. I decided that adult was the only way to go - I could get started with softcore bikini and babes stuff, and as I made my fortune, move to the Netherlands and really start the hardcore stuff. (yeah right... lol)
I set about searching for an easier solution. I found "tomsnewbiebooster.com" on a search engine. The site proclaimed "most people find us when halfway through setting up a paysite". I thought shit... these guys know what they are talking about. So I posted my first message and was welcomed with open arms. A big "hi" and "welcome" from everyone on the board. Tom is a great guy, and really did help.
If there is one thing I could remember from surfing for porn, it was "porn city" and "maximum cash". Must be the webmaster standard I thought... and got set up. I was shit scared on the MaxCash signup procedure - what the fuck are they going to do with my addess? I thought. No pain, no gain! Built a site, no traffic. Bullshit to this I thought - and got out of the business for about 6 months before I had even started.
I came back a little later after discovering Adult Check. I built the shittest AVS site in the world, using MaxCash Teen Steam as my sponsor inside. Like a dumb piece of meat, I actually had the nerve to spam the newsgroups to get traffic. It did work - 1 Adult Check signup and 1 Teen Steam signup. Great, I thoght. However, this was on my ISPs webspace at sexcandy.co.uk - they cut me off. So I moved on, building a bikini babes site at hollywood.i12.com. It's gone now - and didn't get me a signup.
Fuck! I thought - I made 2 signups and I haven't got a clue what I'm doing! I must do some research - and it started from there.
Anyway, seeing as I'm not a newbie anymore, I'm taking a chunk of what other webmasters should have had for their own income. Whenever I post to tgps, I push another webmaster off - whenever I post on a link list - I get signups that could have been had by another webmaster.
This is happening hundreds of times per day - the newbies that we all helped are getting good, and turning round and giving us a great huge bite on the ass.
The less people in this biz - the less competition - the more money for us. And that is what we are here to do... make money.
So I put forth - should we quit helping newbies, stop giving advice, and discourage them from getting into the biz?
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