why did you join this biz?

adamneve · 2003-09-09, 09:14 AM

i'm not asking how you joined but why
let's here your reason....

Greenguy · 2003-09-09, 09:19 AM

Shits & Giggles - back in 96, it was just a hobby for me

Cleo · 2003-09-09, 09:24 AM

I was publishing swinger and escorts magazines and the internet was killing the magazine business. I already know how to write html, but not much else, then I was injured pretty badly. During my recovery I started reading the webmaster boards and thought this looks like a good way to make some money.

I was lucky and had some great guidance from people like the GreenGuy.

Once the checks started coming in I sold off my publishing business and went full time doing this.

I'm still involved with a few other businesses, but this is my full time occupation.

Ramster · 2003-09-09, 10:02 AM

I haven't a clue really. Curiosity I guess.

I thought this was cool and that maybe I could make some money. I had a guy working for me who had a gaming site online and he showed me free hosts and that I get free content so I built some sites (I knew nothing even about html really then). After a few months and maybe 3 free sites out there I did nothing else untill I got a $29 check from BA so then I started doing more.

That said it's been about 1 year since I went fulltime in this biz and I love it.

iSC_Paul · 2003-09-09, 10:40 AM

For me it started off as a curiosity thing until I got my first check from Moneytree (1999 i think) and it became a source of extra money. It quickly developed into a full time job |rasta| . Boy, those years sure fly in this biz |juggle|

kristian · 2003-09-09, 10:41 AM

I've always wanted to write, direct, produce my own brand of adult movies.

I was running a family glazing business and hated every minute. What I wanted to do was manage one of 4 strip bars but we already had managers. For several years I wrote screenplays in my spare time and saw some shorts produced on channel 4 here in the UK. I wanted out of the glazing biz, so I pissed everyone off and sold it for a lot less than it was worth to a well-known UK glazing firm that was expanding into my area. Gave a feature screenplay to a friend who owns a film production firm and he's actually shooting that between now and oct/nov. A year ago, he promised I'd make about 20 grand from it at best. He only makes horror movies and I needed more money, so I thought I'd setup a paysite for the bars.

Cut a long story short . . . I didn't get the go-ahead to promote the bars, so set on a plan to learn the online adult industry. It seemed - and still is - an expanding market.It was also a way for me to learn the adult biz - all aspects. I'd learned html to make a mainstream site for my glazing firm. I thought I could develop an online adult enterprise, meet adult movie producers in the future, and eventually put some cash into a low-budet production company of my own.

That's me

urb · 2003-09-09, 10:57 AM

I needed to earn money without leaving the house. The Internet was the only way I could do this. And online porn had more traffic than anything else.

Jim · 2003-09-09, 11:12 AM

I was on my last unemployment check

Sarah_Jayne · 2003-09-09, 11:21 AM

it allows me to stay at home and look after my diabled husband

Torn Rose · 2003-09-09, 11:29 AM

My Wife and I was already "Swingers" for a few years and had been taking pics and videos of each other for a few years, than we saw Beckalynn on Oprah about 4 years ago and that's when we realized that the "amateur" sites were really "Amateurs" and not something some marketing guru made up.

We had a pc already but we wasn’t ever really big into surfing porn, so we wrote another webmaster and asked questions, and decided "why not"

Been online for almost 4 years and "full time" well over a year.

Would never go back.

|rasta|

iSC_Luke · 2003-09-09, 11:37 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by sarah_webinc
it allows me to stay at home and look after my diabled husband

Wow... That's a great and compassionate reason Sarah - Your husband must be greatful!

For me, I got introduced to the whole thing about 5 years ago by a friend, who at that time had a movie list site and was cranking out TGP galleries.

That got me interested, as it was something that I could do out of the house, and at the time I didn't have a job (Fresh out of college)

After a while though, it got pretty lonely working at home, so I moved on and got an office with my business partner and started working on our own program. And now, here we are

RawAlex · 2003-09-09, 12:50 PM

Quote:

Spud: In a word, Pleasure. My pleasure at other people's leisure.

Okay, no, nevermind, the trainspotting quotes won't do it.

In a word, money. Actually being able to turn a collection of things I have enjoyed in the past (computers, porn, marketting, networking, etc) into cubic dollars. Being able to work from home, and not have to do the office thing...

To be paided to type "soaking wet pussies"....

Alex

SirMoby · 2003-09-09, 01:17 PM

I'd been involved with the Internet when people didn't know there was email. I had some close friends that always wanted to get into this biz and they were always on my ass about it.

Under total peer pressure I started working with them. They realised it was work and not all fun. I started making daily sales from my first AVS site.

I stuck with it and they quit.

I have a better job then they do.

Surfn · 2003-09-09, 01:38 PM

I was working and making good money on the non-adult side. Then in 95 I went through a nasty bitter divorce that took most of my money so I came over to the adult side to try and recoup some of my losses. I did in the first few months and stayed mainly on the adult side ever since.

I still do systems analysis for a select few clients that I have been consulting to since the early 80’s.

Freeway · 2003-09-09, 01:53 PM

Naked girls and easy money

JanTM · 2003-09-09, 02:39 PM

A friend of mine started out about a year before me doing gay sites. I laughed a lot at him because the general oppinion in Demark is "why pay for something you can get for free?". But after he had been doing it for a year he showed me the 6 grand he had just casually thrown into a drawer I say... "ME TOO"

And here I am 3 years later looking a big tits every day...

Rinaldo · 2003-09-09, 03:43 PM

I started becasue I thought Id get to fuck a porn star... nope didnt happen...w ell yet,... stil hoping

amadman · 2003-09-09, 03:54 PM

For those of you that have not noticed I have a few 'quirks' (yes it is more than just a nick) that seem to keep me from holding a steady job(or maybe I am just a lazy S.O.B.). So after working more jobs than years I had been alive I came to the conclusion that I would have to make money some other way. So here I am. |rasta|

SomeCreep · 2003-09-09, 04:16 PM

Porn addict. Even if I wasnt a webmaster, I'd still be looking at porn everyday.

Linkster · 2003-09-09, 05:27 PM

Started out with adult BBS's in the 80s...when Holo and a few other systems came along and graphic interfaces started appearing I missed the reality of how fast it would explode so I was content selling little memberships to my BBS's. Once the BBS software had been ported over to the internet, I lost total interest in the biz....did some contracting...but kept a finger on the biz...bought and sold some domains, played the web sorta like a stock market...then in 99 decided that the easy ride was over....and started building really bad avs sites. Couldnt get them listed half the time so decided I would build a LL. That seemed to have been halfway successful so expanded to TGPs and a few other traffic sources (trying to learn as much as I could about SEs) and now still expanding the little empire. Oh yeah...talking with and meeting really successful people in the biz (and listening sometimes LOL) got through the thick-headed pre-conceptions I had and helped me expand by leaps and bounds.

DangerDave · 2003-09-09, 06:05 PM

There weren't many sites sites in my niche, so I put up a site for fun... made 25$ the first week.. and the rest is history..

DD

shelmal · 2003-09-09, 06:06 PM

I had waited tables for ten years and was miserable. I hated every single person I was depressed and it was starting to effect the rest of my life. Then one night I was talking to someone in an aol chat room about movies and he mentioned he was doing free istes and making really good money. He pointed me towrds the newbie boards and its been 4 years this month

Ive never made as much money and i love having a flexble schedule. Funny though my pal who got me started in this has dropped out and I keep on going

Dr Bizzaro · 2003-09-09, 07:09 PM

Porn addict and hobby gone crazy.

Bill · 2003-09-09, 07:15 PM

I was sysop of a bbs in the early nineties. Then the internet ended bbs's. I've been totally selfemployed for a while, after the bbs ended I was doing a small business mangement consulting company that included doing the early style "advertise your business" websites.

Then a friend of mine who owned a strip club asked me to look at doing ultravid video streaming from his club. This was fall of 1997. I spent 98 trying various net ventures, ending with a small paysite, losing money all the way (because of my total ignorance of how net business worked) and bickering with my strip club friend. Got disgusted and gave up on that.

Then in 99 I decided I could do the affiliate thing all by myself, a one man operation. I was sick of my other businesses, actually sick to death of dealing with clients in any form. And I had a little money to live on so I threw myself into it working and studying this business full time.

It was slow going at first, but by the end of 99 I was making enough money to live off of, which I thought was damn cool. Now I do fairly well. I like this business, and I could happily do it untill I'm too old to do anything.

So, the reason "Why" I got into this business is I really, REALLY wanted to make money without ever having to listen to another sniveling, chiseling client ever again in my life.

My biggest regret is that I didn't start right into this after I closed down my bbs. But, the affiliate model of this biz didn't exist then...

Ramster · 2003-09-09, 07:18 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Rinaldo
I started becasue I thought Id get to fuck a porn star... nope didnt happen...w ell yet,... stil hoping

Keep building and once you make enough you can go to the Bunny Ranch or one of those escort services out of Texas I think it is. Or I think Pornkings is giving away trips to the Bunny Ranch.

2003-09-09, 09:14 AM	#1
adamneve Let me have it! Traffic is what I mean...ImLive.com $$$ Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: All over the net Posts: 1,116	why did you join this biz? i'm not asking how you joined but why let's here your reason.... __________________ LabelSex.com - Next Level Dating skype: adamneve8 ICQ# 174167541

2003-09-09, 09:19 AM	#2
Greenguy The Original Greenguy (Est'd 1996) & AVN HOF Member - I Crop Pics For Thumbs In My Sleep Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Blasdell, NY (shithole suburb south of Buffalo) Posts: 41,788	Shits & Giggles - back in 96, it was just a hobby for me __________________ Promote POV Porn Cash By Building & Submitting Galleries to the Porn Luv Network

2003-09-09, 09:24 AM	#3
Cleo Subversive filth of the hedonistic decadent West Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Southeast Florida Posts: 27,936	I was publishing swinger and escorts magazines and the internet was killing the magazine business. I already know how to write html, but not much else, then I was injured pretty badly. During my recovery I started reading the webmaster boards and thought this looks like a good way to make some money. I was lucky and had some great guidance from people like the GreenGuy. Once the checks started coming in I sold off my publishing business and went full time doing this. I'm still involved with a few other businesses, but this is my full time occupation. __________________ Free Rides on Uber and Lyft Uber Car: uberTzTerri Lyft Car: TZ896289

2003-09-09, 10:02 AM	#4
Ramster Life is good Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Ottawa, Canada Posts: 11,696	I haven't a clue really. Curiosity I guess. I thought this was cool and that maybe I could make some money. I had a guy working for me who had a gaming site online and he showed me free hosts and that I get free content so I built some sites (I knew nothing even about html really then). After a few months and maybe 3 free sites out there I did nothing else untill I got a $29 check from BA so then I started doing more. That said it's been about 1 year since I went fulltime in this biz and I love it. __________________ Pornstar Legends \| Live Cam Model Shows \| Hungarian Girls Skype: robmurray999

2003-09-09, 10:40 AM	#5
iSC_Paul Internet! Is that thing still around? Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 6	For me it started off as a curiosity thing until I got my first check from Moneytree (1999 i think) and it became a source of extra money. It quickly developed into a full time job \|rasta\| . Boy, those years sure fly in this biz \|juggle\| __________________ Please Re-Read The Rules For Sig Files

2003-09-09, 10:41 AM	#6
kristian Porn Movie Peddler Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Malta (France In Nov) Posts: 1,631	I've always wanted to write, direct, produce my own brand of adult movies. I was running a family glazing business and hated every minute. What I wanted to do was manage one of 4 strip bars but we already had managers. For several years I wrote screenplays in my spare time and saw some shorts produced on channel 4 here in the UK. I wanted out of the glazing biz, so I pissed everyone off and sold it for a lot less than it was worth to a well-known UK glazing firm that was expanding into my area. Gave a feature screenplay to a friend who owns a film production firm and he's actually shooting that between now and oct/nov. A year ago, he promised I'd make about 20 grand from it at best. He only makes horror movies and I needed more money, so I thought I'd setup a paysite for the bars. Cut a long story short . . . I didn't get the go-ahead to promote the bars, so set on a plan to learn the online adult industry. It seemed - and still is - an expanding market.It was also a way for me to learn the adult biz - all aspects. I'd learned html to make a mainstream site for my glazing firm. I thought I could develop an online adult enterprise, meet adult movie producers in the future, and eventually put some cash into a low-budet production company of my own. That's me

2003-09-09, 10:57 AM	#7
urb All the way from Room 101 Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 3,557	I needed to earn money without leaving the house. The Internet was the only way I could do this. And online porn had more traffic than anything else.

2003-09-09, 11:12 AM	#8
Jim Banned Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Mohawk, New York Posts: 19,477	I was on my last unemployment check

2003-09-09, 11:21 AM	#9
Sarah_Jayne I hustle for Hustler Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Los Angeles, California Posts: 526	it allows me to stay at home and look after my diabled husband __________________ HustlerCash.com Affiliate Manager ICQ: 232834291 \| Skype: sjayne76

2003-09-09, 11:29 AM	#10
Torn Rose "Faith is believing what you know ain't so." ~ Mark Twain Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 4,806	My Wife and I was already "Swingers" for a few years and had been taking pics and videos of each other for a few years, than we saw Beckalynn on Oprah about 4 years ago and that's when we realized that the "amateur" sites were really "Amateurs" and not something some marketing guru made up. We had a pc already but we wasn’t ever really big into surfing porn, so we wrote another webmaster and asked questions, and decided "why not" Been online for almost 4 years and "full time" well over a year. Would never go back. \|rasta\|

2003-09-09, 01:17 PM	#13
SirMoby Jim? I heard he's a dirty pornographer. Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 2,706	I'd been involved with the Internet when people didn't know there was email. I had some close friends that always wanted to get into this biz and they were always on my ass about it. Under total peer pressure I started working with them. They realised it was work and not all fun. I started making daily sales from my first AVS site. I stuck with it and they quit. I have a better job then they do.

2003-09-09, 01:38 PM	#14
Surfn If you don’t take a chance the Angels won’t dance Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Earth on occasion Posts: 8,812	I was working and making good money on the non-adult side. Then in 95 I went through a nasty bitter divorce that took most of my money so I came over to the adult side to try and recoup some of my losses. I did in the first few months and stayed mainly on the adult side ever since. I still do systems analysis for a select few clients that I have been consulting to since the early 80’s. __________________ Surfn's Links Are you a partner?

2003-09-09, 01:53 PM	#15
Freeway Lord help me, I'm just not that bright Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 107	Naked girls and easy money

2003-09-09, 02:39 PM	#16
JanTM Hello, is this President Clinton? Good! I figured if anyone knew where to get some tang it would be you Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Denmark Posts: 446	A friend of mine started out about a year before me doing gay sites. I laughed a lot at him because the general oppinion in Demark is "why pay for something you can get for free?". But after he had been doing it for a year he showed me the 6 grand he had just casually thrown into a drawer I say... "ME TOO" And here I am 3 years later looking a big tits every day... __________________ Tittius Maximus - Retired

2003-09-09, 03:43 PM	#17
Rinaldo Internet! Is that thing still around? Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: TO Posts: 9	I started becasue I thought Id get to fuck a porn star... nope didnt happen...w ell yet,... stil hoping __________________ Rinaldo@cupidbucks.com Rinaldo@slickcash.com

2003-09-09, 03:54 PM	#18
amadman I've been mad for fucking years, absolutely years, been over the edge for yonks.... Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: padded room Posts: 861	For those of you that have not noticed I have a few 'quirks' (yes it is more than just a nick) that seem to keep me from holding a steady job(or maybe I am just a lazy S.O.B.). So after working more jobs than years I had been alive I came to the conclusion that I would have to make money some other way. So here I am. \|rasta\|

2003-09-09, 04:16 PM	#19
SomeCreep Operator! Give me the number for 911! Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 139	Porn addict. Even if I wasnt a webmaster, I'd still be looking at porn everyday. __________________ Are you promoting <a href="http://www.realitycash.com/track/MjM1MDoxNDo4/"> Reality Cash</a> yet? They convert very well.

2003-09-09, 05:27 PM	#20
Linkster NO! Im not a female - but being a dragon, I do eat them. Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Sex Delta Posts: 5,084	Started out with adult BBS's in the 80s...when Holo and a few other systems came along and graphic interfaces started appearing I missed the reality of how fast it would explode so I was content selling little memberships to my BBS's. Once the BBS software had been ported over to the internet, I lost total interest in the biz....did some contracting...but kept a finger on the biz...bought and sold some domains, played the web sorta like a stock market...then in 99 decided that the easy ride was over....and started building really bad avs sites. Couldnt get them listed half the time so decided I would build a LL. That seemed to have been halfway successful so expanded to TGPs and a few other traffic sources (trying to learn as much as I could about SEs) and now still expanding the little empire. Oh yeah...talking with and meeting really successful people in the biz (and listening sometimes LOL) got through the thick-headed pre-conceptions I had and helped me expand by leaps and bounds. __________________ Pussy Chompers Porn Links NSCash

2003-09-09, 06:05 PM	#21
DangerDave Bonged Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: BrisVegas, AUSTRALIA Posts: 4,882	There weren't many sites sites in my niche, so I put up a site for fun... made 25$ the first week.. and the rest is history.. DD __________________ Old Dollars >>>> Now with over 90 Hosted Free Sites <<<< DangerDave.com.au - Adult Links to Free Porn

2003-09-09, 06:06 PM	#22
shelmal WHO IS FONZY!?! Don't they teach you anything at school? Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 48	I had waited tables for ten years and was miserable. I hated every single person I was depressed and it was starting to effect the rest of my life. Then one night I was talking to someone in an aol chat room about movies and he mentioned he was doing free istes and making really good money. He pointed me towrds the newbie boards and its been 4 years this month Ive never made as much money and i love having a flexble schedule. Funny though my pal who got me started in this has dropped out and I keep on going

2003-09-09, 07:09 PM	#23
Dr Bizzaro I'm not interested in the facts, I'm interested in my opinion. Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 1,620	Porn addict and hobby gone crazy. __________________ -DrBizzaro Make BIG $ selling text links! Sell Links and get $$

2003-09-09, 07:15 PM	#24
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	I was sysop of a bbs in the early nineties. Then the internet ended bbs's. I've been totally selfemployed for a while, after the bbs ended I was doing a small business mangement consulting company that included doing the early style "advertise your business" websites. Then a friend of mine who owned a strip club asked me to look at doing ultravid video streaming from his club. This was fall of 1997. I spent 98 trying various net ventures, ending with a small paysite, losing money all the way (because of my total ignorance of how net business worked) and bickering with my strip club friend. Got disgusted and gave up on that. Then in 99 I decided I could do the affiliate thing all by myself, a one man operation. I was sick of my other businesses, actually sick to death of dealing with clients in any form. And I had a little money to live on so I threw myself into it working and studying this business full time. It was slow going at first, but by the end of 99 I was making enough money to live off of, which I thought was damn cool. Now I do fairly well. I like this business, and I could happily do it untill I'm too old to do anything. So, the reason "Why" I got into this business is I really, REALLY wanted to make money without ever having to listen to another sniveling, chiseling client ever again in my life. My biggest regret is that I didn't start right into this after I closed down my bbs. But, the affiliate model of this biz didn't exist then...