How many of you felt success when..
 

you were finally making money online with porn..building the site from your room.

Did you feel success?

Did you get lazy and felt "yeah, i can just go fuck around a bit, i got this passive income and i know how to do it again"

OR

oh fuck, better work hard now, hit it while its still hot

OR...

what other feeling/experience u felt?

It was more like "oh shit I'm working more hours than a regular job"

I was like this when money started rolling in:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7_qfm9U1jO4/hqdefault.jpg

ya, but did u feel comfortable after that or what?

I felt relief, but I was also working a full time job for security sake. Was always worried that things were too good to stay that way. So financial relief yes.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh . . .

Building porn sites from my room..... That was like twenty-five years ago. It helped to pay the bills while I went to college.

I still do that

Exactly..

hey buddy, long time

u had a zilla site too..im on icq now

Its surreal and while my main moment was making just $250 in a week doing freelance in 2008, the next biggest moment was doing $4000 in two weeks near xmas time this past year. And apparently that's just small potatoes so there's a ton of sales to still be made. :pimp

And now: How do I triple my best 2 weeks?

4000 in porn?

Yep, 3xxx awempire, some chaturbate and some dating. Oh and I can prove all my stats :thumbsup

Glad I didn't give up on it and that includes almost selling it for pennies 1.5 years ago.

I wouldn't solely promo pay sites, that's what I've been doing wrong in the last 8-10 years (IN MY EXPERIENCE).

I started full time in November of 1998. By the end of 1999 I had made about twice what I had made the previous year at my normal job so I knew I was on the right track. Over the next four years I worked my ass off and had some great days. I started feeling successful and started slacking. I then took most of a couple of years off. During that time I made a major mistake and lost control of one of my domains. That domain had every TGP gallery I had ever submitted from 1998-2006 on it. Those galleries still got nice traffic from archive listings and search engines. They disappeared overnight and took about 70% of my income with them.

So, basically I had to start over and have been trying a few different things with varying degrees of success and I have been doing some freelancing. I have a couple of big things I am working on right now, hopefully they will pan out for me and I can feel that sweet success again, only this time I won't be stupid.

Good luck Kane!

what was this "stupid" google related penalty? i've been there way too many times..

It wasn't Google. It was me not reading something correctly and Netsol not working with me.

To make a long story short, I had registered a bunch of domains with NetSol. Back in the day, they were really the only option. I was trying to update my email info on my account and needed to send them some info. I decided I would do it when I got back from vacation. Well, my misreading things led to a few of my domains expiring while I was on vacation. NetSol didn't give me any kind of grace period so as soon as they expired someone else bought them. There were 5 domains in all. Four of them had little or nothing on them and were no big deal. One of them had a ton of stuff. I contacted the person that bought the domain hoping they would sell it back to me. They wouldn't. I told them the traffic was going to die quick as sites blacklisted it (all he had was a redirect on it pointing to a page of banners). He still refused. He ended up letting it expire after a year, but by then the domain was blacklisted on most TGP's and link sites so it wasn't worth trying to rebuild on it.

So, basically, about 6 or 7 years worth of work just vanished overnight. I started rebuilding it all from scratch.

I felt it when I began making more from it than from my 9-5 job. It never ceases to amaze me how I can go to bed and wake up having earned $100+ out of thin air. And the next day, and the next day, etc. That's a feeling most average people never get to experience.

As I always say, there's peaks and valleys in this business. There's times I don't earn shit. And other times shouting "Thank you Australia! Thank you Canada!" So I've never left the security of my 9-5.

Sometimes I overhear coworkers speaking to each other, lamenting over financial situations. Such as how they're going to buy gasoline to get to and from work until payday. (The pay is good, some people just can't manage their money.) And I'm thinking to myself, "I've got thousands of dollars in the bank. Payday doesn't mean shit to me. I'm so lucky."

I'm about as small-time as it gets. So what I earn at the moment isn't enough to quit my 9-5 and live on exclusively (yet). But its a considerable addition to my normal income, and I don't want for anything.

For those out there struggling to earn something substantial, don't give up. It takes time.

How much $$ did you offer to buy it back?

When I first contacted him I asked if he would be interested in selling it. He said no. I offered $1000. He replied that he wouldn't let it go for anything less than $50,000. I tried offering him as much as $5000 and he told me it was $50K or nothing and refused to hear any offer less than that.

About 6 months later he offered to sell it to me for $10K but by then it was blacklisted everywhere and useless so I passed.

That's some fuckd up shit man all i can say is that motherfucker was stupid af and should have taken your deal for a buy back at 5k and cut HIS loss..

It's funny you say that because that is what I said to him. I knew he was already seeing a dip in traffic because I was getting emails from people telling me they were removing my galleries/sites out of their lists. I told him in a few weeks the traffic will be next to gone, he should just take my money and whatever he earned in the few days he owned it and be happy with it.

I started in 2001 while I had a full-time factory job. I was amazed that I could throw up a gallery and some links and make money from it. I worked the factory job for 10 more mos then thought if I could put in the 40-60 hours I do at work I could make a living wage.

haha, man was I wrong! The first few years I struggled and a lot of it was my cheap or free hosts were garbage. In 2003 I started hosting at phatservers (back when they were a good host) and things started taking off. I didn't actually make enough to support myself till early 2004. I remember lightspeed and ccbill made me the most money back then.

Let me guess the hun and a few others for gal traffic back in those days :winkwink:

yea traffic can drop off quick if your not on the rinse and repeat/

Yeah. I used to submit to all the big sites back then. The Hun, AL4A, Adult Buffet, Thumbzilla etc. It was fun watching the bandwidth meter spike when you would get a good listing on them. Of course, like you say, it vanishes pretty quickly.