Mastermind Group for Adult Webmasters
 

Hi guys,

I'm normally surrounded by business people, both in my daily work and by being part of other business groups. However, lately I've felt the need discuss and test some ideas about my adult business and I've realized how narrow and specific our industry is, where most of the marketing and sales ideas need to have a twist, because they simply don't work out of the box the way they do in other industries.

This is where the idea of creating a mastermind group came from.

I would like to invite you to join me, exchange ideas and make quality business connections within a private group of industry professionals. In order for us to work effectively and be able to actually get to know each other, I would limit the number of members to a maximum of 15 at a time. Also, this is not a place to pitch your business, although business opportunities may naturally arise out of it.

To break the ice and start shaping this group, I invite you to answer the following 3 questions:

1. What do you do? (What's your role in the industry?)
2. What is your current goal?
3. What do you hope to get out of this membership? (Short and long term)

Thanks!

1. Affiliate - Runs Tubes / Blog through a primary niche. On my way to clinching that niche (authority in google) and strive to be where people choose to go to enjoy that niche.

2. Just achieved my goal of quitting my 100k /yr (CAD) job. Next goal is to triple my income by optimizing current projects before moving onto the next one.

3. I want a group of people to offer support, ideas for one another as they are needed. Would be nice to have a group of people who know a little bit about everything, but have each person be strong in what they do personally.

I would like to add, it would be nice to have some sort of proof of what they claim to be. So if you claim to have capital, claim to have traffic, claim to run a certain site - would be nice to offer at least a little supporting evidence to show it as such.

Really good idea. How about you post yours too!

If I can talk to others about the industry or even just business in general, I might be more inclined to put in more hours. I do have my set routine, but it might be fun to get excited another way about all of this.

Let me know what you think about what I wrote :).

1. Affiliate (specialized in converting.. specifically, building campaigns around pitch points and continuity of pitch, rather than traffic streams).

2. Volume.

3. Relationships


To expand on number two.. Over the years I have seen just about every campaign and creative that ever existed.. Companies spending/wasting huge money.. and I have yet to witness a single campaign/pitch that has been properly optimized.

The only program I've ever seen with any type of sensibility in this regard, is crak revenue (and they built an entire business on bridging that one simple gap).

I've never understood why more programs don't pay attention to this.. and I've never understood why programs don't focus more on user retention in the members area.

Two areas where programs are leaving HUGE margins on the table.

Bump for personal interest. I've sent this to a few people.

Nice to see!

1) Develop, finance, produce and sell my own content.
2) Keep growing.
3) Do not know, but guessing would be to gain some web knowledge which I am sadly lacking.

You gave me an idea to strat a group ONLY for content makers who sell from their own site.

I love this idea!

1. Paysite/VOD Business Manager @ CrakRevenu
2. Increase Revenues on our Exclusive offers and create more solid deals with other Advertisers
3. More strategic partners, business relationships and grow with others knowledge

Very Cool post BTW :pimp:pimp:pimp

CaptainHank where would discussion take place.

Hey guys,

I'm keen for any serious business discussions. A couple of years ago I was put in touch with a webmaster who ran a very successful site and it was awesome being able to talk business with him in person over a beer, 4WD'ing or snowmobiling.

1. I run a handful of gay sites with a bit of a 'speedo' fetish theme. Paysites, blogs, tube site.

2. Right now working on monetizing a blog and the tube (doubt the tube will work but it getting more traffic so want it all setup nicely). Then working on a new niche so will setup a blog, all the social media stuff and then a paysite.

3. Talk to people about real business. If I'm going to spend hours working on something that someone else has tried and it didn't work that is great to know.

Hope something like this works.

Dave

:2 cents: . . .

Great to see you, guys, are interested in this.

@incredibleworkethic: First of all, congrats on your recent achievement! Regarding discussions, I suggest we use a Slack group in the next phase, so people are more inclined to share their ideas freely. I will also share my answers to the 3 questions:

1. I am the owner of a traffic exchange called TRAFFDAQ and I am managing the technical side of an affiliate platform.

2. Current goal is to increase the value we provide to our customers. However vague that might seem, there are specific success criteria and also a specific monetary amount, which I'm happy to disclose in the actual group.

3. I wish to develop high quality relationships (business and friendships) with like-minded people who can provide a fresh perspective on what I do.

Thank you very much! :)

I've sent some private messages to the people that constructively participated and introduced themselves. Not sure, though, if the other ones are just happy to see this post or actually want to be part of the group :) But we're still open!

So to "break the ice" you want everyone to give information about themselves by answering 3 questions you asked in your OP... that you yourself didn't answer in your OP.

So you are a one way street to gather intel on us, demanding of us, without you giving to us.

How stupid do you think we are?

A limited "master mind" group where we give you all our knowledge & creative ideas and you're the receiving, non giving, recipient of what we have to offer.... for free 👁️👁️

*EVERYTHING* is a conspiracy nowadays, I guess...

Newbies are welcome as well! Just let me know...

Not a bad setup guys. Post here, Captain will PM you guys a link to join the chat.

As long as it's reasonably on equal terms for everyone involved. Good initiative hope it works out for you.

That was my reaction at first glance but I dont want to start putting everyone down like most oldtimers . . .

Hello guys, I am interested, my Skype is pisanje.tekstova

Signed up and tried to log in....not succesful....log in expired..only use once bla bla...wanted me to download some app... NOT me, I am out :2 cents:

I am not a mastermind...:1orglaugh

Tellingly, his response was not to answer the question but rather to insult the person who pointed out his hypocrisy..

"*EVERYTHING* is a conspiracy nowadays, I guess..."

Says everything about where he's coming from.

He's a taker.

I believe you're already in, as we see you there in the members list. There is nothing to download if you don't want to, you can use Slack directly from your browser. Don't give up, you're almost there! :)

I don't know much about you, Bladewire, but I know you and I started off on the wrong foot and I can tell you're an intelligent guy. I hate to disagree with intelligent people... makes me question everything about myself.

And you might be right about me. The only way to tell for sure, however, is to join us. Let me send you an invitation ;)

There are a few Slack groups like this already. They almost always get penetrated by whiney, woe is me nobodies unless admins are obscenely strict about it. Just FYI.

:errorOk tried again and got this:

___________
We couldn’t find your workspace. If you can’t remember your workspace’s address, we can send you a reminder.

Sign in to your workspace

Enter your workspace’s Slack URL.

.slack.com
Continue

__________

Wtf is my workspace ? I cannot even explore what is "behind the curtain". This is all to complicated, so I am out. Get some geeks who can get thru your barriers. I have said above, I develop, finance and produce content, and know shit about apps,schnapps and workspasces ...Either make it easy for idiots like me, or :321GFY:1orglaugh


And NOoooooooo!!!! I do not want the fucking app so why it keeps asking me again and again?

This. or people that end up steering conversations off track.

Bump for a fellow captain . . .

Slack's great for many reasons. The flow of joining a new workspace is not one of those reasons. It's an absolute disaster (especially if you're trying to join with an existing slack account), how that ever got greenlighted and continues to function the way it does now is beyond me.

On another note, great initiative, OP!

I have no idea why you're having a hard time, I clicked and signed up - logged in. Hmm. :error Screenshot?

Can I suggest a Telegram group would be much better. Slack blows.. (and we use Slack internally so I know)

We've managed to get a very small, but interesting group of people started so I won't be following this thread very closely. If you feel like joining us, please send a PM and I'll send you an invitation.

There is already a skype group and a secret Facebook group for industry professionals.

I'm sure there are and, as a matter of fact, GFY is, more or less, such a group. But this idea was to build a smaller group where people would be more inclined towards collaboration, goal sharing and accountability for following up on their goal. I believe we've accomplished that with our small group.

Email sent from alex AT nalem DOT com

You are a geek, I am not ( see my description above). I cannot even make a screen shot....but I managed cut and paste so its the same as a screen shot ( see a bit above).:2 cents:

No hate intended. Sorry about the saucy comment man. I hope you can figure it out.

Would love to join

No problem :thumbsup Saucy comments are fine. I am here to learn ( and sometime find folks to help me)....

This semed as a good idea. I am also a businessman first and foremost and thus i wanted to connect, but anyone who presumes that every person is a geek got it wrong. I deal with money and production of content,I thought maybe I could learn something, then it asked: " sign into your workspace", then "we cannot find your workspace but download this app"....bal bla so I went AWOL.

DOn't let that fruitcake into any mastermind group.