Worst mistake in the adult webmaster biz?
 

What is the worst mistake you've made in business? Or what could be the biggest mistake to make?

biggest mistake to make...

not sleeping with Juicy in Vegas :Graucho

Getting in too early on certain niche trends, and not waiting for the dust to settle to see if they really have staying power first. And vice versa waiting too long sometimes.

Its a lot like surfing and trying to time the wave.

same, not sleeping with juicy in vegas :(

selling a domain on ebay for about $50 i then later heard how that domain got purchased from a huge internet company for a few grand

selling sex.com :)

:(

weak

The worst mistake I made was not keeping my paysite up.

But due to personal reasons my model/girlfriend decided she was not comfortable doing adult.

Why was this is a mistake?? Here is why :winkwink:

http://adultgrafx.com/gfy/keli_01.jpg

On another note. How profitable are non nude sites?

sending all my hun traffic to my TGP waiting for a grow that didn't come..ahh the layout.

:)

simply gallery redirecting would be easier

:thumbsup Nice!

runing a tgp - biggest mistake

Work with unprofessional companies.

oh yeah for sure we bought a shitload of dutch .nl domains for niches that never got to be famous gothicteens i know for one... guess holland skipped that niche

not investing in paysites when i had the start up money in 99.

Not get UCJ script till later! :waaaaahh :waaaaahh

Helping people that only wanted to steal from me - And they succeeded

that's not fair play.

:glugglug

dont cry - look in my signature. cool script for free - it what you need !!!

I should of made a TGP, never did.

Started a TGP... Too much time and effort if you're doing it solo.

Biggest mistake I see people make...is trying to open a paysite as a newbie. You need to learn the business first. Just because you can afford to open a paysite, doesn't mean you should or that you will even come close to turning a profit.

nice post

this is easy.

i did not capitalize on my successes. i didnt reinvest when i was doing well, instead just spent it. nor when i had good traffic flowing did i ever capitialize on it and turn it into great traffic.

basically i was happy with too little.

however the lesson is learned and this is changing.

Definitely a great post, but what would you suggest someone do other than a paysite? TGP?

:thumbsup

i disagree, unless you mean a big overblown paysite with affiliate program, etc.

IMHO, small niche websites are some of the easiest to get up and running and make a little bit of profit.

helping people.

I don't know if this is true though now with companies doing most of the work for you, it's possible to outsource everything and learn while still making a slim profit and then converting that knowledge into another site or perhaps a redesign of the existing site.

Having a conscience, morals, and ethics......

I cheated a good webmaster who gave me free hosting one year, I didn't realize what I was doing and almost made him lose his job, some of you might remember it, I know he does.

I'm actually glad it happened, learned a good lesson, still sorry it happened to him though. :(


Either way, I'm a solid, good, honest webmaster, and glad I fell that way instead of turning into a dirt bag.

biggest mistake was buying traffic in bulk instead of paying the extra money for better quality traffic.

Biggest Mistake: Joining GFY :) :1orglaugh

Thinking that LikeWhoa would actually pay the money owed to me.

Clicking on to this thread:Graucho

Letting Daymare talk me into giving Nysus a ride to Montreal! LMAO! :1orglaugh

DH

Spending $200,000 on affiliate software programming, then scrapping the software. Buying a domain we never used for $10,000. Not starting a cam site over a year before VoyeurDorm came out. And most importantly... Not starting an affiliate program in 96 when we started.

-Tony

Hiring the wrong programmers. Goddamn waste of time.

Picking Globill.:ak47:

Put all my eggs in one basket a few times. Learned to diversify since then.

Wow this turned into a pretty good thread, learned allot about some of you, keep em commin...

2nd that

hesitating to be agressive.

Not reading more on the business when I first started out. I never even know webmaster forums existed. :1orglaugh

I was making great money the first year but didn't know how to expand it because of 0 knowledge to do with anything. Some custom programs etc would have made me millions in 2k1.

Spam!

learn how to get and convert traffic. Actually not just learn, but become as good as possible.

being a fucking idiot and telling everyone my great ideas.. and the next week seeing my idea. So from now on Im just going to post all my great ideas on GFY so at least that way Ill get some fucking credit for having had them. ROFC= rolling on the floor crying until some big company realizes I am a creative genious and hires me

I would love to hear your ideas. If it makes $5 million and I'm in the Caribbean sipping miller lite. I'll come on the board and give you credit.:winkwink:

Great post - Everything anybody needs to do well in this biz is laid out neatly in pages at most webmaster portals -