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Without a board presence for them I hardly ever think about them much anymore since I don't frequent other boards too much when I'm not banned from here, what about you people? I used to do pretty well with lightspeed but simply forget about them from time to time :disgust:disgust

I thought he left a while back. Kinda miss the guy around here.

It can't be helping their business

I'm sure Steve and those guys are doing just fine without GFY.

really? didn't sweetums and another employee get let go?

Steve's on his way to Hawaii. If you were at the webmaster access there, I'm sure you could ask him.

lightspeed is still going strong.

Speaking personally, I know Steve and Lightspeed are doing great!

From a business relationship standpoint, I have a ton of RevShare Hosting guys promoting Lightspeed and making good money.

Long live Lightspeed!!

Matt

he is in hawaii right now, im sure having a blast and doing a ton of business.

I know GFY doesn't represent the whole adult industry but there are a lot of potential affiliates on here, just don't see how it's beneficial at all, I'm not flaming them or anyone for their decision just a personal observation

I think he drops in from time to time, but like so many others, he got tired of all the Bullshit around here.

I'm sure Lightspeed Cash is doing fine. Just yesterday I put this up on my blog:

http://www.rochardsbunnyranch.com/bl...n-panties.html

Still make a few hundred dollars with them every month, have been for years!

Rest assure that LightSpeed is still going strong jdavis. :)
They have always converted well and continue to do so. And I am sure that Steve's lack of board whoring hasn't affected his affiliate sales. hehehe
Long live LightSpeed! :thumbsup

Silly thread.

I agree with Justin, it's been ages since anything happened with Lightspeed, conversions went down the drain mid 2008.

Seems I'm not the only one, others have said the same, their TOP100 affiliates list says that their number one affiliate made $494 in the last 31 days, didn't that use to be $3500 in 2007?

i was shocked to see sweetums leave

Well, at least Tawnee is still 19, almost 10 years later.

You can always count on that! :winkwink:

Bah double post.

They were my first sponsor, and funny enough I only thought of them yesterday so going to push some more traffic to them....

ya I think so:321GFY

Wow i never noticed that. Their top affiliate used to be 10K+. I have to say for lightspeed to list the top affiliate doing $494 is pretty embarrassing. I'm surprised he still lists that. I would have removed that a long time ago.

you know i was wondering the same thing man.

I agree, that top affiliate page can work against you if sales aren't doing well.
WG

Your right. It use to be in the Thousands not hundreds. So yeah I see their affiliate sales have dropped.

Not that it means they have, but atleast affiliate sales have dropped for them.

You would hide the truth from your affiliates? Nice. :321GFY

Coming from a tool that hides his identity :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

That info is not usually shown to affiliates. I've seen that info on only a handful of programs. I find it hard to believe the #1 Lightspeed affiliate only made $500 in 31 days. If that is true, that is not good.

It wouldn't exactly be "hiding the truth." It would be "being less transparent." No program is required to be transparent.

Is it really that surprising? I don't think they updated any sites in over a year. Good peeps over there, but it seems like it's a dead program now.

what a dick, from the guy that registered lightspeeds trademarked names to begin with

How is it embarrasing? If he was launching sites it would be a different story but he's not - i haven't spoken to Steve in a few months but i know he wasn't planning to launch anything in this shaky time in the industry. Solo girl sites are boom or bust, he hit the jackpot on two of them. He's milking things for now, my guess is he's still making half a mil a year without working at all, no expenses, no employees, everything automated.

hope you will got all this answers soon

Yikes, are their big affiliates leaving or are they just not converting anymore?

I like light-poo

some points..

* the fact that a program owner isn't posting on a board, shouldn't mean shit to current affiliates. The OP says he's not thinking about LightSpeedcash anymore because Steve isn't posting... well, if you're an current affiliate, then it shouldn't matter to you if he's posting or not.

* $500 per month earned by the #1 affiliate, IS in fact very little, and "embarassing" isn't really a wrong word for it.
But he's already made his millions so maybe he just stopped caring about that program, no matter what some peeps say.
Phil Flash Cash is also showing much smaller numbers than a few years ago.

* I doubt Steve still makes $500k per year from LightSpeedCash like Mutt said... . IMO ulikely that rebills and type-ins earn him that much, but then again, he's already made the $$$.

* some trend I noticed, solo girl sites have faded away a little, seems that ex-gf's sites replaced them to some degree.

* no matter what some people say, this industry IS down. Half of the once popular programs are probably seeing daily sales a good few times smaller than they once had. But they are still alive and still having their solid reputation and they might be perceived as bigger than they actually are. On the other hand some programs with next to none affiliate traffic, are showing much bigger numbers just from buying/selling cross-sales. Hint - TG screenshot posted by an ex-employee a few months ago. Welcome to mid-2009.

First... I'm not speaking about Steve - it's targeted towards everyone. And I have to get that out of the way or the ICQ's from douches follow...

Listen, if you build in house traffic, you can tell the forums to fuck off. But for the other 99% of the Adult Programs, they can't. And PROOF of that is in the #'s you see ALL over the Internet.

At the same time, PLENTY of programs are posting record sales, rebills, conversions, and the list goes on. As if NOTHING is wrong.... Why?

Because the "ONLY" problem if you will.. is the lack of skills in business/marketing. Period. The people hurting today, got lucky yesterday.. The people making it today, always had the skills.

Just because you shoot some pretty girls or come up with a nifty idea, doesn't mean it's going to last for ever. Nothing on the Internet has stayed the same, not a single thing...

Other than the niches people shoot.... think about it.


More money is being made by more "business people" in porn today, than EVER before.

If that's true, it's not good. I'm sure he's still doing well on 10s of thousands of rebills. He's made millions, and likely enough to retire as is. From what I understand, that program generated lots of it's own traffic so it was never completely affiliate driven.

Besides, who's to say that he hasn't already been investing in other businesses ventures in or outside of the adult industry for a long time now.

i'm right - give or take 50K

once you have a hit solo girl site the money keeps coming for a long ass time - the promo content is out there forever, thousands and thousands of galleries, forums, rapidshare, members who forget to cancel or just keep rebilling to see rotated updates they've never seen before - Lightspeed has above average rebills.

he had two monster solo teen model sites - Tawnee Stone and Jordan Capri - those two alone would make in my estimation 400K net

my solo site model Dawson Miller didn't stick around and couldnt become as big as Tawnee and Jordan - and in year three of Dawson, with rotated content, it will net $120-150K.

That's how I figure with two solo sites that were bigger PLUS about 20 other solo and multi model sites he's still making 500K floating on a raft in his pool with the only expense being hosting.

This thread is about Lightspeed Cash in general, not just Steve. It's mostly referring to a board presence that LSC no longer has is all, what Steve does business wise is his own deal and completely different from the point of this thread.