How Long Did It Take You To Make A Profit?
 

When you first started in adult how long did it take for you to make a profit?

Also, do you think given todays market climate in the industry it takes longer to see a good R.O.I than it dd when you started out?

I think i made a profit somewhere around 3 months of starting in the biz and, i would say that it does take a lot longer time to see good returns for investment today.

What do the rest of you guys think?

roughly 20 minutes.

one month back in 97. started a free site, threw up some ce high rollers ads, checked the stats a week later, and realized theres money to be made on this shit.

first day

Like instantly.

Xpics Xpics :)

only about 30 days. :)

I had to invest quite some $$ to start my site a few months ago and started making a profit after around 3 months.

Spooky

just started Monday... not the site that was planned.... but a back up site till Oct when I get my original site running ...


will let you know...


For galleries... 31/2 weeks for my 1st sale... using sponsor content.

Same as Rooster but was using XPICS

and went
WTF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!
Guess what i've been doing since :)

Day 1 ofcourse

20 min, instantly, a day... yea right.... then you woke up and realized you had to get ready for your job at McDonalds :1orglaugh

Can anyone here ever be serious? What am I saying... where is the fun in that?

Nevermind.

5 years ago, it was pretty easy to make a profit on day 1. Happened to me as well, without even trying or anything.
I just put up a page with what I considered some good porn, and a banner just for the hell of it. Worked out magnificently :glugglug

Ok, let me ask you this...
your 1 day profit... 20 min profit or instant profit

how much did you invest?

and

how much was the profit?

things were a lot different then... and the market was not as saturated... ok, maybe I can see that...

Today... too many porn sites, too much free porn on tgps are making it harder for the new guys like me.

You do *not* need to invest money to make money in this biz. Sure, it helps (buying your own content, etc) but it is *not* necessary.

And not everyone is out to start their own paysite right out of the gate. As a matter of fact, if that's the first thing you do, we'll be watching for your "site for sale" thread in a few months.

Depends on how you count it.

I invested around $35,000 (mostly shooting content) for my first pay site. I was 3 months shooting before I opened the site. I would say it took about 2 months to really take off so all told about 5 months before I started making a nice profit. This was recently, after the so called "hard times" were already here.

IMO its like any business. If you have a good idea and execute it well, you'll make money quickly, especially with a pay site. If you use a lot of tired ideas and old sponsers it might take forever.

Back when I started 4 years ago I broke some "rules" but I invested nothing, and made sales very quickly. Had I known then what I know now I would be rich, but learning has been half the fun.

1 month then again 12 yrs ago you could start a dailer site here in holland put $50 worth of content on it and get $5k a month cause there were only like 10 sites in holland then...

Why isn't it possible?


Umm.. It took me like 2 days. (Persiankitty dared to spend 2 days before approving my first site). 0 investment.

About 3 years ago I did fairly well with an adult dating site...but since then, AOL and MSN have cracked down hard on profiles, so I stopped doing that.

Since getting into mainstream porn it's been a lot more difficult to make a profit. I've been promoting porn for about a year and learning a lot...someday it should pay off.

Instant profit is easy if you start small, with virtually no expenses. Since I started in this as a hobby, I thought of the first dollar I got as profit. The investment was tiny (domain, hosting) and I looked as it as the expense for a hobby I enjoyed, not a business investment.

Zero $$ investment.. made money in probably the first 3 days. Got a signup and got hooked.

Do you want that calculated in minutes or seconds?

:Graucho

Rooster, do your KKK friends know you do porn?

I am serious.
I guess you weren't working in the adult industry in 1997/1998.

I'm still trying to make a profit. Anybody has a suggestion how I can make money in this industry?

1 week .... knock on wood:)

liars

took me 3 years to make 1$

@ Studmoney
you got mail !

2 weeks, but that was back in 98, it was easy then.

never surfed the net for porn before I started, invested quite a bit, hired an idiot, fired an idiot, for the next 6 months worked my ass off 18hrs/day and after about 6 month started to see it's turning around :smokin

These days, a newbie should expect the 0 to disappear from their stats within 2-4 days. Reasonable, I think.

Ok... unless you use hosted galleries.. you still have to invest in a domain name and hosting... so say 8.95 for the domain.. 10 for the hosting... 20.00... in 20 min?.. an hour? maybe a day... but still...

I mean some tgp's don't even list you for a day.....


and no.. I started with TGP's... but who knows''' I may make it, I may fail... never knowtill I try... if I don't try.. I have already failed... right?

so was i. late '96 was a good time.

yup, same here:thumbsup

started with 0 overheads so made profit from the start

My first check was for 8 dollars....it got better after that.

Took two weeks to make a profit.

1998 was a good year.

What do you need a domainname and hosting for? I started on ISP's space.

Yeah, me too!