Ah, 2004. I remember like it was yesterday. What a joyous year.

This year has been good to me. I'm not certain what it is, but I feel more of a part of this whole porn thing now. Though I am not where I want to be yet, I feel like I'm finally on the right track. Until recently, I've felt like I'm swimming agaisnt the current in a toilet where someone desperately needs to shake the handle.

As far as my personal life goes, it has been fairly smooth, though friend and neighbor lost his nephew, Nathan Brown, to an RPG in the back of an open truck in Samarra on Easter day. Meeting his parents and attending his funeral absolutely destroyed me emotionally for a several days. I'm just glad that his mother is a straight-talking no-bullshit anti-Bush kind of mom. (She, by the way, put up a huge stink just recently about Rumsfeld not personally signing his letters to grieving soldiers' parents. Rumsfeld has now vowed to sign each one.)

'4 years have always been a little shaky for me, and this one was no exception. The upside is those '4 years always seem to lay the foundation for really good '5 years, so I'm counting on 2005 to be awesome.

Onward through the fog! ;)

2004: My paid submit thing was a huge success

I was really nervous about that when I started it

I would like to thank everyone here for their support

2004 sucked in so many ways that it's not even worth bitching about it all here on the board - lol

So I have FAITH that 2005 will rock - well, and insider info that I can't quite share yet here in public that confirms that faith. I am SO looking to the New Year - it's gonna be excellent!

Looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones in Vegas in a couple weeks. Here's to success and excellence for us all in the New Year!!!

|waves|

Tease!

2004 was a huge transitional year for me in terms of my business. I shifted my focus from the tried & true methods that had been working for 3 years to starting up a gazillion new projects, none of which are really "finished". I won't see the results & know if anything I did this year really paid off until 2005, but an interesting year nontheless with lots of analysis of what I truly want to do with my work day.

No major changes in my personal life, which falls under the "no news is good news!" category. :)

Gabbo

If nothing else I will remember 2004 as the year I found myself up to my ears in trannies and the men who worship them.

Had one in my office today, one in my driveway, one in my backyard, and a guy named Alex driving them all around who only dates trannies and told me that I was pretty sexy for a fish.
The vid I was doing for them

This has been a great year for me and Mrs. soggy. aside from the hurricane Ivan we prospered quite well in 04. Id like to take time to thank everyone on the board and wish everyone a happy holiday season and new year.

See ya in Vegas,

soggy

The 2257 panties is my fave.

haha - perfect response from the industry's biggest tease!

|smooch|

Get out of my head Kath! ;-) I made more money this year than last... but it did suck overall.... felt like a looooong year.

I will support your faith with some optimism about 2005 though!

After reading your post I have this nagging feeling that I really should get my ass to Vegas this time... to make sure the new starts on a high note iif nothing else.


Can-Spam happened this year... and was talked about a lot... and Acacia fizzled(?)... Between the patent schemes, VISA and Ashcroft we have actually ridden it out through a few industry boogie men that were "going to ruin us all".. and more than a few people seem to have had record years income wise too.

Still..... roll-on 05.. it cant start soon enough for me!

|shake| Hey good to see you posting here LAJ
If you don't know who LAJ is look here:
http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...threadid=14121

2004 Pat's full year of schoolin
I learned HTML well enough to go from spending 3 or 4 days building a free site to half a day
I had a 2257 panic attack and gave all my sites to a whore
Got over my 2257 phobia and spent weeks getting everything switched back
I wasted a bunch of time and money on a script and programmer
Wasted a bunch of time trying to learn php
Found Kaktus in the "I'm looking for" Section of GreenGuy and Jim
He's brilliant, his prices are great, and now I can add features to my sites without learning php
Opened up Tijauna-Escorts decided life's to short the money wasn't worth the stress
Went to my first two webmaster events
Chaperoned a group of webmasters at a Tijuana Whore House
Wife and I Spent 3 hours in the back of separate Tijuana cop cars, Me in one saying take me to jail her in the other saying how much money do you want
Had two Doctors look up my wives hooch and say it looks like Cancer (scared the Fuck out of us)
biopsy was negative so now their talking about removing some of her plumbing and she should be good to go.
I told a story that I thought I would take to my grave
2004 I made more than I lost, learned allot and made some friends, so I say iit was a good year
|waves|

Started out this time last year, so no previous years (in this biz) to compare with, but:
Done well enough to go full time about 6 months ago, after setting a goal to go full time in Jan 05
Moved from a complete shit hole and equally shit landlord to a nice new home with a garden
Met a lot of great people here & at ANS
Finally found a job I actually LIKED (webmstering of course)
Got blacklisted from some big LLs for something I still haven't got to the bottom of, and from time to time find myself still trying to work out how I had pages going 302
Got off the blacklist
Made some fantastic contacts with some paysite owners
Finally caught Santa last night!

It's been a hell of a year... and it ain't over yet!

I just about finished school (one more class, not a big deal). At my age, I am surprised I even GO to school, let alone get a certificate for anything. I have learned more and more of the craft of video making, editing, and got some good work as a Director of Photography for a producer who has some really kewl stuff going on (and a bunch of girls in latex... but that is another story!). Took my first few customers for video editing, some worked out, some, well, were less that perfect. I am still developing style and mad skillz, so we will see how that turns out, i guess.

2004 was also the year that I shed some domains and gained some pounds. The shedding domains was to get rid of a really big millstone around me neck left by an ex partner. I went from 2000 domains or so down to a much more svelt 750 or so. The are all managed in one place now, and I know where they are going. Seriously getting my muse back after getting fucked over in 2003, and turning it into something good. 2004 wasn't the greatest year, but damn, I like the way the road is going now.

Many personal ups and downs. Right now on "up", which is a good thing.

20lbs I didn't need.

Being able to be a (small) part of a great board here. It has been amazing to see this place grow, the quality of the people around is great, and the business attitude is wonderful. I much prefer to be here than in a room full of kids or a retirement home.

2005 is coming. Make some money everyone, and don't forget to take the time to enjoy it.

Alex

just entered as a newbie this year earned around 100$,learned the business.currently i am doing freesite submission and gallerey submission.planning to start my own tgp site next year|newbie|