Good luck Mr Yum!

/Thomas

Lucky bastard. I should have been gone a long time ago, but I'm far too dysfunctional to leave.

Good knowing you, Yum

-Mark

Hiya |waves|

Damn sorry to see you're not going to be around here as often. But also very glad to hear that you came through your stay in the ICU okay. And glad to hear that your 'fighting the cocksucking installers' business is growing for you. I do hope you'll be staying in touch, and make sure to let me know if you (with or without your sex monkey) decide to make a trip to the Keys sometime.

All the best my friend.

:)

Good Luck Mr Yum!

Holy hell man, this comes as quite a shock, but then again, the last I talked with you it sounded as if things weren't going so hot. I should have left this business for good over 3 years ago, and I thought I had at one point. But it sucked me right back in. Your geek thing sounded real promising from what you have told me and hope it more than makes up for your adult $$ going down. When I started my link list you helped me more than you'll ever know man, thanks for all your input and encouragement.

Good luck Carl! Sorry to hear about your trip to the ICU...that must've happened shortly after we spoke on the phone last time.? If you ever need anything don't hesitate to ask.

Good Luck MrYum :)

What a shock. Depressing for me and a lot of others. Hopefully a bright new start for you.
Best of luck with your new venture, Mr Yum and I hope you can stay in touch with all your friends here.

A heart felt thanks to you all :)

Somehow I think the Sex Monkey might frown on that Robert :D

No worries Virgo...I'll be around, and can pretty much always be reached |thumb

The tons o cash will take some time, but I have some local ads coming out in the next few weeks. It'll spin up...the infected systems are out there, it's just a matter of getting them to call.

I'm still determined to meet you face to face UW :D

That would be awesome Simon! Great excuse to take the Speed3 for a run to the keys too |thumb

Yea Mr E...it's easy to see how this biz could suck one back in. Don't think that'll happen here though...I'm pretty well fed up with it. It was my pleasure to help man...and again, I'm still out here if I can be of assistance :)

Thanks Jeff :) Actually, the ICU thing was just last week. GF brought home a flu bug...I got it a few days later...ended up collapsing in the shower last Tuesday morning...ugh.

Thanks Japamor...count on it!

Mr.Yum you hvae helped me out so much when i started out last year. Everytime i thought i had my FS looking good you manged to find a number of things that were wrong and instead of saying "You f&*&ing Idiot quit cos you haven't got a damn clue what you are doing", you gave great advise and words of encouragement. You will be missed by many and good luck in your new ventures.

Very surprising for sure! Sorry to hear your leaving the biz, also about your recent illness. Glad to hear your better!

Don't blame you for going elsewhere, been doing the same myself. Once it replaces my adult income, who knows..

Very best of luck, I'm sure you'll do great..:)

ronnie

You were the friendliest person to work with and thankyou for all the tips you've given me on FS.

Wish you the best of luck.

The more I keep bumping into this thread the more sad I seem to get :(

I wonder who will be the next to be forced out?

Google, of course, is one of the big forces causing this kind of thing.

I figure it's going to be an interesting year.

It's too bad FPP is going to another distant "seo" guy. We've all seen what happens to small-to-medium sized linklists that have suffered that fate in the past two years.

Sure makes you wonder about google, seems to be tougher everyday. Or the need to work on different linking ideas. For me, adult is so different than mainstream, hence part of the problem. Just my opinion.

I don't think it is always being forced out, for me, just more work and less profit nowdays, adult that is.

So long. We hardly knew ya...


On a side note, I love a good schwin-ding....|thumb

I'd say the way to give up in this biz or take a side line and start a real life job or another biz is to keep all your sites and risk a 2257 inspection, cause imo that's a million to 1 chance, unless your right on the edge of some questionable content and your loose about it...

that only works if you have a decent number of free sites and/or galls

say 300 to 400 sites galls with most getting targeted se traffic from yahoo or msn or even google.... is a decent side income

I know for a fact no matter how much your making from a LL or any kind of hub your se traffic can go away and along with it your income...

and if you do get lucky and hit some nice se traffic to a hub type site - dont stop building, building is your bread and butter

or unless you have a bunch of se domains, even then you should still have some opt - other peoples traffic - listings

I know I know building sucks from time to time, but I've seen it to many times before - example - you have a few years under your belt and your doing your thing and no sales are happening, so what do you do? stop? no!! you change tackle and recast and then still no sales, so now what? keep going some sometimes the last 2 - 3 - 4 days of the month or first period you can make 600 700 800 dollars in sales...

but if you gave up in that slow period then you didnt have that traffic built up to make those sales

so what I am saying is don't delete or turn off your hosting if things are not going good, and if you need cash just sell off your LL's and try and keep your free sites and galls

Wow, sorry to see you go. Good luck man.

Wow, sorry I missed this thread. Always sad to hear about someone leaving the business.. especially when its someone who gave back so much. I never had the pleasure of dealing with you but nonetheless wish you all the best in your future.

Is he still gone?

|couch|

you know something we dont? |huh

Cheers,
B

Word travels fast in this biz...lol

After several conversations over the past 24 hours, Captain Sparrow has made me an offer I can't refuse, so looks like I'll be joining his team :D

I'll be doing my geek thing as well, but it would appear that I'll still be bouncing around these parts too |thumb

Again, thanks very much for all the kind words folks...it's really greatly appreciated :)

I was just being silly, but if you're back, that's great news |thumb

Ok, now you owe me 2 drinks for toying with my emotions....


welcome back....



make that 3 drinks...

Does this mean that I can't have your parking space now?

Late as usual...

Well: first I was sad cause u were going... Now it looks like u'll still be around... I'm glad MrYum!!!

And lemme just take this opportunity to let u know that your advice has always been invaluable to me! Hell, it's the reason I am now able to get my FSs accepted! So I'll always be grateful for that!

Take care of your health cause that's the only thing that matters - along with family of course!

I wish u all the best!

Welcome still here, Mr Yum. |waves|

|shocking|

I leave for 2 weeks, and all this happens. Just had to read the whole thread to get caught up!

You better stay around! |angry|

|yourock

werd. welcome back. sort of.

He's back ... I'm happy now :D |bananna|

Glad to hear it, man. |virgohippy|

Hi Mr Yum,

whatever happened to you, I am too tired to read the whole thread, sorry but I am seeing the happy end, that's good. I'm just stuck here with myself and sister's bad luck, excuse me and keep your chin up :)

|thumb

Such an emotional roller coaster LOL
Welcome back :D

Yea...sorry for the bouncy ride everyone :(

I REALLY didn't think there was anything that could be said or done to keep me in this business. But, sometimes offers come to the table that couldn't be foreseen...this is just such an occassion.

I've got an opportunity to work with folks I've known and respected for a long time, while completely eliminating my own monthly outlay...and still work the geek business. It's all good |thumb

We'll have to make that happen Torn :)

I guess everything we divided up after Mr. Yum left has to be returned now...

Good to have you back!

i was thinking what to post here....(you all know my mind going nuts for some weeks already) Mr Yum...ones in biss...your always in biss someway:)))

Stu:D

I think this whole chain of events was just a cleverly disguised marketing scheme set up by the evil mastermind Captain J Sparrow.

Good to see you around too Stu |waves| I hope things got better for you !

Hi, Jack:) no things arent good yet but soon it wil, it takes a persons action to make things better and that i will do the next days, even i will hurt or get in a fight with others for it:).......Talk to ya soon again and thanks:)