Do you tell your business secrets openly?
 

I've been seeing companies giving people advice on how to make tumblr blogs and other blogs to gain traffic then everyone does it and it ruins it for all of them it's quite funny though.

Why would you want to tell someone your strategies when it's hard enough making money (claims everyone) in porn?

What is the point?

Sharing is caring.

Because even if you tell others what to do 99% will not do it.

Correct.

Plus there is a lot more involved to most money making enterprises than is being revealed most of the time. You can have the whole blueprint, but there will be pieces left out intentionally you would have to figure out. No one is going to give you the secret sauce. You also have to actually WORK, which in it's self eliminates something in the high 90's of most people on this forum.

You can easily scale pay sites and clip stores into a $3000-5000.00 with minimal effort and understanding of this industry within 3-6 months, but few do it. Can you make more? Sure. Can you make less? Easily.

I have found most people do not treat their online job like a real job so they do not make real money. It's not mystery science theatre as to what separates success from failure. Those who typically are making money, and are some level of resilient are hard workers who learn to work smarter and create their own luck.

The only constant is change.

:2 cents:

Of course, and if you had read my posts you'd be too busy counting money to read this:winkwink:

all 14K of them? ;)

As I have received a lot of help/advice over the yrs from many people while on this journey, I usually have no problems sharing info with others. Kinda like a pay it forward thing. Will I share all of my secrets? No, but enough to get a person going in the right direction.

In order:1orglaugh

Well said.

LOL, a chef friend of mine says that he always leaves out at least one ingredient when cornered for the recipe of one of his popular dishes:upsidedow

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Sharing secrets is one thing. Learning from the best is another.

Think like Zuck.

Scan people's email address books without their knowledge or permission so you can scrape their friends/families/coworkers/1-night-stands names and steal their info. Then write them a lying message telling them the first person wants them to join.

Keep doing it until you get a massive amount of people.
By the time the dumb people of the world catch on that their personal private information was stolen, its too late, you've owned the world.

When you are questioned on it Say "oops, our bad" .

This remembers me some early dating sites in 1990's :)

Buy low, sell high, go to the pool.


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I think it gives some people a good feeling to show their skillz...

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I get emails from big players asking for me to stop helping people, but this quote explains it.. :upsidedow

Nicely put.

All of us have had help from mentors and friends in the industry.

I don't think anyone is going to reveal their secrets but in this industry you do see a lot of competitors working together. Link exchange, Traffic Trades.

Well that's a very interesting thread!

True!

Also true. Sadly, it reminds me that we're publishing guides and advice that, in the end, will only be used by a small bunch of people.

Yep, and it's these folks that you wish to help out and work with. :thumbsup

That's a waste of time on their end. If you don't, someone else will. Anyway, I think it can prove more useful to spend your precious time growing your business instead of slowing down others.

Healthy competition can indeed yield great partnerships.:thumbsup

Sharing what you know and making it useful to other who cares is a great way of inspiring trust and respect. This results in other coming to you, bringing you what they know and boom, you suddently find yourself making more good business and so on. :)

+1 for sharing knowledge and a positive, collaborative take on business.:thumbsup

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OK guys, I bookmarked all of you how like to share.

Well said. :thumbsup

Bingo! They think they know better after a week, or a month, or a year. LOL

this. unquestionably, this :2 cents:

There's also more than enough to go around, contrary to most people's mindsets :thumbsup

Said it before, and I'll say it again: I, along with a couple others, set up a place where we laid every single piece of the blueprint out in step-by-step format, to earn 6 figures per year (method no longer works, unfortunately).

out of 1k people who signed up, literally about 10 people followed through exactly (maybe even less). They got to 6 figures per year though.

This is why I have zero problem sharing everything I know, where appropriate - I know for a cold hard fact, from experience, it makes not even a tiny dent to my income, and in fact raises it via contacts/ideas/motivation

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There is so much bullshit out there that the real challenge has always been separating fact from fiction. For every one person posting real knowledge 50 others are bullshitting or are deluding themselves.

I know one person on here who used to talk about making mid-$X,XXX per month in adult. But there was another forum they posted at just a couple months before where they admitted to making only $600 a month in adult. They are pretty big around here now and most people trust them. They are mostly nice otherwise so that's why I don't out them but I'm careful about believing everything they say.

It's just like with sponsors proclaiming 1:400 ratios and wondering why no one promotes them. Well because it's been done before by ten other guys before you who said the same thing. Then when the affiliate switched they saw 1:4000. So now when you come around saying the same thing that affiliate is skeptical and sees switching as a waste of time.

well said, time to go to the pool

or spreading disinformation

there are no secrets. turn the camera on and stick it in her butt

Ideal life.