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Originally Posted by AdultLoungeRaffi
ok, am i reading it right or is that a geo targeted subject? lol does everyone see their nick name on the subject? Cause i see " AdultLoungeRaffi " ???? LOL this is too funny....
Well, anyway... I started in Adult offline back in 1989 when the service bureau i was partners with started in AudioText. 976-Date was the first dating phone service. Then we expanding from local ( 976 ) to nationwide ( 900 ) numbers. At that time, personals ( you know those " SWF " ads in papers did not exist ) so i started this whole thing called " Personals " with 900 lines in print media. The very first print weekly in the US who had become my first affiliate was a paper out of Little Rock, Arkansas with a circulation of about 20,000 and made more money with its " Dating Personals " than their entire advertising department did. This was when Jonathan Silverstein, Marty ( AdultCheck ) , and others worked for me selling turnkey 900 phone lines :-). We generated $100,000 or more at times per month in setting up 900 lines for affiliates who wanted their own turnkey lines as a business. By 2003 we were generating around 2,000,000 minutes per month at an average of $1.98 per minute. You do the numbers :-) although i didnt own the entire service bureau and was a share holder of a percetange. I can safely say i invented the personals in print media since there was no other company doing this at that time and that was the first paper who printed these personals we transcribed singles onto paper and mailed to the news weekly camera ready.
Then i registered my first adult domain in 1994 and completely converted onto the adult internet industry from that day on...and the rest is history!
So to answer the question, i made my first $ in adult in 1989 and online in 1994 :-)
Raffi
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Wow that is a real old school resume. Seemed like lots of the names who were big in adult when I started talked about coming from audiotext/videotext backgrounds.
I dicked about for a year or so as a very part time hobby, but I started trying to make money in late 98 and have been sitting in my underwear at home full time since mid 99
