Where is the money now?
 

15 years ago I ran a very successful membership site that made millions a year. I sold out at the right time. A lot has changed. So much content is free now. So, where is the money? Toys, dating, cams... What else?

I am looking to get back in.

Giving away all that free content seems to work...

i´m making money on tubes, but nothing like my clips sites :thumbsup

There is money in porn?!
MOTHER FUCKERS YOU FUCKING FUCKS
No one even told me :(

cams, dating and pills

Ray
Hardlinks.org

Wow there's still money in dating and pills?
I am so old I didn't even know that internet dating was still a thing

There is no money. Charities everywhere.

See what the biggest adult companies are doing, promoting and you will find the answer.

:thumbsup

Starting again from scratch, what do you bring to the table?

What are your main skills, programming, design, etc? If it's "Running a paysite 15 years ago".

Huh? What does services have with running bussiness ? Even tho situation in adult industry is hard now, it can be still some money to be made either by running paysite or freesite.

with the porn dude

The money is in not coming back ...

money is in theft bro.. just steal and make tube

It never left, unless your haven't evolved

Is this Shap?

If I knew -- why would I tell you?

I did read an astute statement yesterday: "Data is the oil of the future."

I would invest in disruptive Fintech for the adult processing industry.

Just like you Paul :winkwink:

That reply sums up everything anyone needs to know about you, and about how you have absolutely fuck all knowledge of running a business, and why you needed to move to your shithole of a country to find a place where your minimum income could get you a young wife.....

you need to work more than before, no doubt...

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Well hilltop ads apparently needs inane mindless sigwhore fucktards
Fuck you

Some day when you are not so busy and I am better able to travel, I MUST be meeting you.

Jesus walking on the moon you fuck MUST WE BE so hard on paul?
He was making content when most of us were not born / still playing in our own excrement at age 1

FFS
Have some respect shouldn't anyone these days

It all started going away (the money) with insane affiliate programs. The free content was growing exponentially as every webmaster was zipping up tons of promo content and sending it to affiliates. This, along with torrent that had full site rips. The final nail in the coffin was tube sites. I'm still amazed to even see membership sites. The money now is in interactive sites, tangible products, or services (SEO, Web Development, etc.).

I wish I could go back to those glorious days of passive recurring membership money...

Man I remember having residuals coming in from casinos, from several programs, etc |
Them was the days back then in those days back when that was at that time back in the day then that's for sure
I cannot WAIT to have passive income again

You can never be fucked into hell financially with streams of income pooling up everywhere

Money will always be where your talents are. If someone has a talent for rim jobs, then they should be filmed rimming ever hairy ass they can find.

True
Then what if your talents are illegal
What then
Just be illegal acting
That is the problem I run into

JoshuaG thanks you for your service

You mean exploiting young girls in poor east europe before anyone else? Lets give him a medal....

Bend over and smile for the man

The capital needed to build a site from scratch, exceeds the sales in most cases.

He did? I thought he mostly did softcore or basic BG type of content and I never thought he used underage models ever
Say what?

No, it doesn't. Online porn is a very different world to what it was 20 years ago. He's sold 15 years ago, so added the extra 5 to when he began could be less.

How much would it cost to start a site today?

What are the odds of it getting enough traffic to ever break even?

I asked what his real skills were in order to help him. Why do you think otherwise?

My reply was the most helpful. It stops the OP from wasting his money.

Ferus has nothing to offer.

I was shooting young girls in the UK as well. Don't forget that. :1orglaugh

You can register domain for 2$ and pay hosting 1$ monthly. For that you really dont need to raise capital.

So that's all you need for a paysite!

Well then let's go for it, can I use your content?

see sig......

You said "underage models".. not me. I always thought they were of legal age, but maybe you know something we dont.

Cams have been doing well, same with dating. I never sold pills before but maybe I should start.

give all for free
serve ads

He talks about running a business - not a site. You fail to understand the difference.

OP, did you run an affiliate program with your content network?

Who did you sell out to?

Cams convert very well but you need some way of getting good quality traffic to your program.

Shap (true story)

There are plenty of people who have been in this biz for more than a decade, all have the capital, skills, connections, etc and very few if any are launching new adult projects. That should tell you something.

So like Paul said, unless you have some unique skill, know some way to get ton of traffic, or have some other breakthrough idea, adult is not where the money is. :2 cents:

you mean sig whoring? :pimp

He talks about running a business, I understand that. We need to know what skills he has, how much money and what resources he has. Otherwise, no one here has a clue what to say.

2003 memberships made me lots of $, mainly reality porn. I invested some of that previous adult income into mainstream stuff. So today combo of mainstream income and on the adult end mainly cam income driven by backlinks from my other 40ish adult sites. So I basically just built a network of adult sites just to have properties to link my cam white labels from. So I buy less traffic than the old days as I have 40+ sites to link adult from and 400+ mainstream domains to link mainstream things from. So if were just talking adult I make income from Cams, Toys, PayPerView, Tubes etc... but majority of the adult income is from Cams. :2 cents: