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Originally Posted by BOSS
I want a link list tooo....
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A good thread about a subject that renews itself every few months at all the boards. Here's a few of my perceptions from my experience:
Look lets face it, probably 40% of the people who get into the biz at any level probably shouldn't. They are neither business people nor technically proficient webmasters and this is no place to practice.
After lurking around watching the biz for about a year on the boards I bought some domains/3 page sites from ebay and moved into fray with three hubs and submitting freesites. I quickly figured out that by sheer mathematics alone a link list was the only way to establish a permanent presence on the net. That took up another year.
Then, build a list etc. get on the boards to get to know the people and learn shit, expand your sponsor list, improve the technical, adjust the focus, learn the secrets. Work, work, work. That's another year.
Realize to make any money to speak of (starting today) that you need to be able to reach at least the goal of 50k hits a day. Not only do you need to be able to count on developing this level of traffic but you also have to have a mechanism and knowledge to be able to point it. This means you have to do everything. Yep, you might not want to hear it but you need (fake or real) an LL, galleries, avs, freesites, TGP, review, blog, rss, and every other new fangled fucking thing that comes down the road like wireless, podcasting, dma timed content, and aggregation to corral your interested surfer and guide him into a paycheck. Not to mention the SEO/SE craziness.
Its a reality that you will have a ton of $15, $25, $1.98, credits sitting waiting for that magic payout number all over the world. This is becasue you must have and continually add all the sponsors you can becasue so many programs are over promoted that surfers have seen that and been there. Best hope is to tease them into something they haven't already seen.
Now you have your infrastructure and you sort of know the people and the biz. Now spend some more money and turn up the steam. Buy traffic, create alliances, hire some people to do things, learn shit, expand your sponsor list, improve the technical, adjust the focus, learn the secrets. Work, work, work. That's another year.
Three years in maybe you have hit the right notes and are near cruising speed. If you can't meet this basic then maybe you want to reconsider. Me personally, I love this and its worth every dime.
Why there's hope for the future or its worth it. This biz, like the internet is a dynamically moving target. It is impossible to predict what is coming down the road. When new changes occur there are always new doors to walk through that can take you through to the top. You'll never be able to walk through that door unless you're a player at the table.
Porn is brutally competitive. By observing what's going on in porn you can generally get an idea about what's going to be happening in the mainstream which is good for me becasue I'm in that business too. It might help you adjust your point of view if you see yourself not so much as in the porn business as in the internet delivery business. A surfer isn't a meat pounding jerfoff but a human being that is responding to a hynotic trance upon the screen and you are trying to manipulate (in most cases) his right hand.
Hey if you go into business, any business, you don't go into it (usually)expecting to make money right off. A few years or more is perfectly acceptable. If you didn't learn that in school I'm sure you've heard it somewhere. Why think you are going to be the exception?
Finally, I too agree that it is horrible the number of link lists that seem to disappear. I think it a shame and beneath the dignity of every effort. Why these don't get sold to someone is beyond me and I'd like to announce that I'll always take them. I won't return the monetary value of all the hours and sweat you put into them, but heck I'll give you something and keep the legacy alive.
Long Live The Link List
