Who do you consider a succesfull adult webmaster?
 

How much should an adult webmaster make per month, so that you could consider him a succesfull webmaster.
$5k? $10k? $100k?

5k-10k a month is successful . anything is over that is plain pimpin' :thumbsup

I know everyone will scream 100k is too small etc but at 10k a guy/gal is doing pretty well in most countries and is fine in the US. So it is probably 20-30k per month to be a success.

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thats what came to mind

ahh, so If a webmater makes 100K a month and it costs him 100K to make that 100K he is successful?

did you read the question?

That depends. He could be an employee of his company getting paid $10K per month but the company runs at no profit.

Too many factors involved.

ahh i thought u were asking WHO, not how much
im not awake yet man, just rolled outta the bed, kinda hung over

um, i dont think how much you make really matters as long as you live happy in your means. if you are happy, then why compare yourself or your income to anyone else? then there is always the factor that there is someone out there who is making more then you. that shouldnt be the drive in life, or atleast i dont think it should be. id reather enjoy spending a day with my girl and daughter from time to time, then tryin to figure out how i can make the money fantasy man makes.

btw g morn.

you need to have over 50,000 hits a day to be successfull

True.

But what im saying is you cant messure succes by how much money a webmaster makes.

I know one webmaster (from the board) that makes 10-12K a month from his basment and yet does not have a penny to his name.

Just curious... what in your mind makes all of these people successful? Do you know them personally? Or are you basing your thoughts on something else?

No offense intended to the people in your list, but I know that some of them are not as "successful" as one might think.

No, I don't mean someone who works for someone else in a regular job.
Rather someone who started as an affiliate and then eventually created some paysites and small-medium affiliate program.

Or a tgp owner, gallery submitter, seo specialist or whatever...

you dont have to know any of these people to know they live a happy life. and wouldnt you consider living a happy life a key element in succes?

Absolutely. However, that level of success has nothing to do with this thread. I'll let you wake up. :winkwink:

High GFY post count i think... :2 cents:

Oh no sorry. I'm not saying that. I mean someone who has their own company but for tax reasons is "on paper" as an employee of that company. Then they get paid a salary.

I know someone who does this. His accountant told him its the best way to do so. Dunno why!

Money isn't a true measure of success. Well not to everyone anyway. Sure its an important factor but not the sole factor. :)

:thumbsup :1orglaugh

People do this because you can then expense a great many things to the company and those expenses are counted as pre tax, thus saving you money when it's time to pay uncle sam.

Yeah I knew that. But then doing so this way you pay personal tax. So wouldn't it just work out the same?

Nope. Your business can buy and write off stuff. You pay yourself a small amount (little taxes) and you still get all the cool toys, actually more.

Success is dependent upon what goal the webmaster is going for.

Make a car payment ?
Not need an outside job ?
Pay your mortguage ?
Have a million in the bank ?
More ?

All of these can be considered successful, it all depends on what the person is trying to do.

Someone looking to make a car payment netting a thousand a month is very successful, while someone looking to make a million a year making 30 gand a month is not successful.

lol. Exactly what I was thinking. But hey if you are so busy posting on gfy you couldn't be too busy counting your money huh? :Graucho Just kidding..

Anyways, you guys better be talking about "NET" income "NOT GROSS" otherwise, I'm so fucking successful that it's not even funny :winkwink: Reminds me to hate my content providers, PPCs I buy traffic from, traffic brokers, TGPs I pay for slots, paying employee, my host etc. etc. :mad:

Then it indeed does sound like a very good idea.

Topic: Who do you consider a succesfull adult webmaster?

polish_aristocrat,

I would consider you a pretty damn successful publisher:thumbsup

At least 1/3 of the people in this list are lucky to pay their bills each month. What makes them succesful?

sucess is dependant on the individuals definition.
i am a student most of the year so when im making $1K a month, i will consider my enterprise to be a sucess.

If lensman or steve lightspeed or someone made $1k a month, i dont think they would concider themselves sucessful though

Some people will conder they have made it when they have their own home, a reasonable standard of living, and a decent holiday or two a year and still able to save -
The amount this takes is different from country to country - Cheap countries Like America and Russia, success can be 4K a month. (but success only to yourself).
Ultimately, success is achieving your targets -
To me, there is one stage higher - Mega-success. These people say nothing - Don't brag, don't get flashy, don't give shit.

Their is only one person like that in this business that I know of - Those that have made big cash in this industry tend to show their lack of class very easily.

To be a succesfull webmaster will not be messured by your gross sales, it will be messured by your post on GFY. Below 100 (approx 1 Post per week) is pretty succesfully, becaus eyou are working and not hanging around at the board and getting boring :)

well....$4k per month is $48k per year.
That's enough also for living in the US.
If someone started 2 years ago with an attitude "ok, let's build some porn galleries and see if you can really make money with this", then $4k is porobably also an success for him.

Well I think if you read the question on make the simple assumption that it is net. This would be a the net income it takes to think of that person as a succes. So think of a sort of random person says yeah this is great i make X. And you go damn that is sweet. What is X?

true, I think you are pretty succesfull if you are able to pay your bills and don't have to watch every penny. :2 cents:

financial success in my opinion is efficiency. It doesn't matter what principle you start with but rather if you can compound it at a high rate for an extended period of time. Even someone who compounds 10,000 at 30% per year for 30 years is going to be filthy rich.

A webmaster whose earnings exceed the opportunity cost of doing something else with the time... is a success

I think some one is successful if they can live off what they make.. not meaning living off cheetos either have to live good

Is that why you do so little:winkwink:

10k a month would only cover the costs for my site.

I feel success is a feeling of personal accomplishment.
I may make less then some but more then others, but do I feel successful.
There are probably people who would feel poor on what I make. its a personal thing that many people interpret differently.