Is The Porn Nerd a genius?
 

He's got a ~100 paysite network.

Diminishing returns?

he's a really nice guy.

Possibly.

There's also a gestalt from a complex system, the sum is greater than the whole of its parts.

That's a huge network he's building.

Really nice guy, tries to help a lot where he can.

Power to the peabody. Now if he lumps all his threads into one regarding billing he could squeeze another 40% profit or so... unfortunately (for him) ... he won't. Ccbill 4life

Genius does what it must.

(read that on a t-shirt...or was it a bumper snicker...)

Heh hardly a genius. Just an insanely hard working maniac with a magic number in his mind he's trying to one day reach. :D Look, it's Saturday night at 1:10 am and I'm uploading videos to my new custom CMS while surfing GFY. Insanity! LOL

Thanks for all the kind words. :)

How many of them making real money? Thats 1 million dollar question.
Like squealer once said, he is genius for buying cheap old content and making great network. But I guarantee only 10% or less sites make real money. Its a trial and error thing and he is one of those people who gets it! More power to him! :thumbsup
I know one guy who makes lots of money in one niche where he has no competition. Old guy, into kink himself. I was shocked when he told me. Never ever in my life I would imagine there are people getting off on that. :thumbsup

Cool. What did you build your CMS with? PHP?

don't know the dude all that well but based on objective evidence: smart as fuck

1) runs a thriving network of sites that survived a rebranding and thrived thereafter (ability to plan/execute and adapt to changing conditions)

2) never goes low in a disagreement, here of all places :upsidedow (for real though, demonstrates EQ)

3) works really fucking hard at a job he created and enjoys

ticks some major boxes for me

agreed but tbh I get it. for a porn site (or network) with an aff program ccbill takes a load off re: payments without having to arrange all that oneself.

but yeah, agree

Its a lot easier than you think. You can use existing free scripts and as long as you have PHP knowledge you can make it to where you upload videos or pix in one directory and update $count . One day I am going to start FREE Porn University for all Bernie supporters who graduated with Sociology and Jewelry design degrees. This will be my Philanthropy achievement speech when I run for congress.

Woj is the man doing the hard work. But yeah much is PHP. I'm doing everything except a search function. The idea of tagging thousands of videos right now makes me dizzy. LOL But it will auto-update, rotate content, stream videos, add new sites, basically make the user experience better for Members (especially on mobile) which should help with rebills. It's also great for upsells and displaying special offers, etc. Lot of work tho so doing it one site at a time. Should be done sometime in 2038. :)

As compared to a head of lettuce... Yes
As compared to Einstein.... No

Genius is a very relative descriptor.

Seems like he's got his shit together and knows his stuff

He has the right combination of brains and strong work ethic

Yes he is not only smart about the way he's doing things, he's also super friendly and helpful. I wish there were more like that. I wish nothing but the best for him.

It will be a sad day for the industry the day he retires, if only there were more like him

I don't think reusing old DVD screen caps and adding HD tag is a good idea or "smart". But thats just me.
Don't take me wrong, you do get paid here and there from your tube submission traffic but is it worth the effort? Just looking at "Join" and "See More" button design I can tell Its a one men shop. Half of those sites will get "inactivity" email from CCBill sooner or later. Ask me how I know that :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

A genius would have left online porn years ago.

>Is The Porn Nerd a genius?

he is smart guy :thumbsup

If he's buying the content right and he's not laboring intensively over each individual site, would you not imagine each successful site probably far far more than paying for carrying the rest ... would you not imagine a very successful site (one) repaying what ever he spent on the whole mess? Maybe including all of the hours, even, hell if I know
But it seems likely if you ask me

I mean to say it just doesn't sound as awful as you made it sound ... if 10% of his sites are making money .... fuck . . sounds good to ME . . It's not as if he has a lot full of automobiles and only 10% of them ever sold

God knows I'm no SEO expert but sometimes guys like this use sites which don't look like much for interesting help in the SERPS (at my age I am probably talking about some shit from the forties though, I don't know)

Seems like you only pay for the content you buy once and if you aren't spending much then the content which starts some fires should make it worth it extremely . Like bait when you're fishing . I think .

I don't know him or his sites though so I'm just guessing at this

Porn_Nerd: I don't know you, but, don't destroy yourself with the hours. . it takes its toll and pretty soon if you're anything like me you find out that it took its toll ALL AT ONCE SUDDENLY BAM . . I recently found that out in a BIG way . . . again . . ;)
Congratulations on whatever has you on here being complimented and or insulted.
Must be doing SOMETHING right.

A hard-working guy. That's all.

I am in a rush, just noticed the title and making a quick note.
If I need to answer very briefly, than Yes, he Is a genius.

We met and spent time together in Amsterdam 2015 @ the Webmaster Access and I strongly believe that he is a fucking smart man who has Huge knowledge about our industry and besides this he is a very very nice person. I told him this later too, and still think the same: he was the smartest and nicest guy I met this show.

I wish nothing but good to him, he is full of good ideas and does hard work for real, makes very nice money without doing harm to anyone else. I am happy I know him and think of him as closest friends in the industry however we really just met in person on this show [every day though] and do minor business together and had lots of discussion in email/ICQ. I think this even if nowadays we talk occasionally - but I believe this is the sign of really good friendships.

As I built more paysites I realized getting more traffic was far more important then just cranking out more sites

That's right, he works hard. And smart. He listens to new ideas, seeks input, offers help and, in general, an asset to this board. He earns his success because he works for it. But most important, although there is no money to be made in porn, he makes money. That's the holy grail correct?

Thanks Mr. Maxwell! You pretty much nailed it with your analysis. :) About half my paysites (really the ones I acquired about two years ago from Ruff Davidson) act as Bonus sites. They do not make sales and are there for added benefit. But half my sites DO make sales and they fall into 3 categories: daily sales, weekly sales and monthly sales. So, taken together, I am doing ok. :) And yes, the burnout bug has bit me too at times. I am planning on a Holiday soon as a matter of fact. Best of luck to you Sir!

I kive matyko! A nicer more decent (and smart) fellow you will not find. :) I enjoyed our time in Amsterdam my friend! (AND I need to get in touch with you these next few weeks so we can do business together again.)

You have to do both but you are correct. Once you have something to sell the idea is to get more people to your product so that is what I am focusing on later this year moving forward. The only thing my little Porn Kingdom needs is its own in-house traffic sources.

(Thanks for all the other kind words too everyone! Just woke up so it's coffee time. LOL)

Thank you Ruff! Kind words from a truly good and wise man. :)

That's a huge if.

Is he buying it or doing what so many have offered us. A revshare deal that costs less.

100 landing pages with same members area =/= 100 paysites

then

than

As compared to the average man.

:1orglaugh you can find more THAN that

Subway has 40,000 stores which sell Subway sandwiches

No. end of thread.

You eat a sandwich every day. Do you buy a subscription to the same shit everyday?


what a dumb fucking post.

There are a lot of brilliant and successful people reading this forum. They just never post about their business.

Not many will visit Subway every day, some will every week, others every month, then there are those who go for occasional visit. Their average customer will go there a lot less than once a day

I guess thats exactly what I wanted to say.
You can make money with old content but it has to be sorted correctly. You'd be surprise how many people get off on weird ass shit. Lets say you have 2 terabytes content from Paul, Gregg and some other defunct content producer. Do you just throw it all out and call your paysite "general porn - come see girls naked"? Nope. You do little bit of research and sort out content for hairy cunts, crackheads .. girls with ingrown toenails. You name it - there's freak out there who gets off on it.

Nice guy except he randomly hates Australians! What's that about??

Great Guy
 

We met for Lunch

A Great Guy and very smart

One pay site is plenty of work, 100 is on another level

Doing something right !!!!!!!!!

This is proof...yes The Porn Nerd is a genius!

What did you and he order for lunch? Did you discuss justpicsplease.Com ?

Why didn't you just go with a proven CMS, like ElevatedX ?
Avoiding monthly fees?

Because it suscks and is not customizeable (for any meaningful price).

We too have spent a year but developed our own kickass CMS that far surpasses anything available out there. And changes / new modules can be added on the fly.

And we dont have to pay monthly fees for every new site or get raped on design charges from you.

I'm sure he had specific features he needed, and paying monthly for software like a CMS sucks :(

been telling woj for 10 years to do a CMS - i'll ask him to see yours :winkwink:

I am interested in a CMS for a paysite that doesn't have monthly fees. Something to get me going.

Lets get back on topic