When was yuor First SALE??

[Magix]

So, i'm in this bussiness for two weeks now, and don't have any sale yet. my traffic is not very bg, but it's growing constantly, today is about 200 unigues, Hey i now it's not much, but still it is just a begining.

SO I want, to ask all You Newbies, And Webmasters, who are here for few years and more.

How did You started,

AND WHEN WAS THAT FIRST SALE?

[virgohippy]

I don't think I fit into the "years" catagory, but I think I know what you're asking.

I've been doing this long enough to be too embarrased to admit that it took me about a year of playin with little projects here and there to finally get 1 sale.

Once I started paying for my own domains/hosting, and actually playing with the other kids, took me about... 3 months to start getting the rest.

edit: oh... and I wouldn't be surprised if that first sale was a friend giving me a nice push. |thumb

[MightyMidget]

Took me about a month and a half. I had this idea that simply getting an MGP up and running would get the sales running, somehow magically. After I saw 30-40 hits from the MGP to my sponsor I was like: wtf, NO SALE?! It wasn't until later I realized conversion rates aren't really that good. :)

[selena]

I got a sale of the 3rd gallery I made, and that is what hooked me. :)

It took roughly a month prior to that for me to figure out how to make one, do the recips, etc. I'd never seen online porn before trying to sell it.

[virgohippy]

I'd never seen online porn before trying to sell it.

I wonder how many people in here can say the same? :)

[KG Gary]

Been in the biz since March 18th this year - just over three months, making freesites.
My first sale was from my third freesite and only took a few days, however there wasn't another sale for a week or two after that. That first early sale gave me a false sense of what was to come.

Three months in and it's between 70 and 85 sales now with a mix of Pay Per Signup and RevShare. Not big bucks, but a monthly growth that makes a nice little graph.

The end of May gave me two weeks with zero sales which was extremely puzzling, but you have just keep building and submitting and those sales will come.
Absorb the advice and use it well.
Good luck!
:)

[Servhot]

First sale on the Internet????? Well sometimes in the early 94 :)

[Magix]

ok now i feel bit more optimistic :)

[Fonz]

I wonder how many people in here can say the same? :)
I would be one of them :)

In '97 I got an internet connection because I wanted to sell porn since I had seen a buddy of mine made $$$ with it. A week later my first AVS site was a fact. It was hosted on a free host ofcourse and made me exactly 1 sale of $10.5. So don't ask how good that site looked if you were only be able to get 1 sale from an AVS site back in the days :)

[Xallow]

Mine came about 1 month after I started building free sites, think it was my 6th freesite that finally made a sale, now, a month later, that sale is still my only sale, but I haven't been as active building since because some stupid stuff came up so I had to take care of that

[bluemoney]

My first sale was in April of 2005 about a month after I started, I was submitting to TGP's at the time. When I got my first check I slapped that sucker on a copy machine to keep for "old times sake".

[selena]

I wonder how many people in here can say the same? :)


I'm probably in the minority. :) I had no clue what a tgp was, had never seen the front page of a paysite...

nothing.

I just knew that I needed to work from home, and the net was going to give me a way to do it. Porn was the logical step from there.

I won't lie. The learning curve was pretty steep. I knew html and some photoshop, so that wasn't part of it. It was stuff like wtf a recip was, and all that kind of stuff that would take me hours to figure out.

But I keep truckin' on. ;)

[Toby]

My first "sale" was in '97

[juggernaut]

Honestly my first sale in porn was in 93 for print. on the web will be 2 years this july 17th 5:47 PM EST. 15 mins before that I had my paypal merchant account up on my site, then someone bought a camshow from one of the girls. then i lost my paypal account lolol

[SecretEden]

I made 7 sales in one month in 1997 with my first avs site. If only I could fckin remember what was on it, I would be quids in now! :D Seriously though, that was happy days. I have restarted my adult 'career' and been at it for about a month. Only done maybe 7 freesites, each one trying something new. So far nothing has worked and I have no sales. Im hopelessly optimistic that I will have a mortgage free house, Range Rover sport on the path and holidays to Florida every 3 months if I never quit believing I was born to be a success in business ;)

My next strategies are as follows:

1. Keep optimistic - if 9 out of every 10 people I speak to make a sale in their first month, then good luck to them and I hope they get many more. I know my time will come!

2. Diverisfy - try every niche that interests you

3. Keep on learning, but dont learn so much you never have time to put any of it into practice! :)

Let us know when you do make a sale, ill race you ;) :D

[Surfn]

Surfers were sending me checks in 1993.

[Useless]

Wow! That's right after Al Gore invented the internet.

[Greenguy]

You ran a surf board mail order company from your house?

[Cleo]

Like I even remember what I had for breakfast today.

[swedguy]

Like I even remember what I had for breakfast today.
I belong to the same Alzheimers group.

[Chop Smith]

Does nudes taken with an old Polaroid count. If so I made my first sell of porn in the late 50s.

These 1993 dates must be referring to the old BBS. As I recall porn on the internet began in the late ninties. I believe that the first available was gay content.

[Useless]

I believe that the first available was gay content.You mean MMF Bisexual?
|couch|

[docholly]

These 1993 dates must be referring to the old BBS.

that's when real amateur content was posted for free on the alt.binaries sites.. lmao.. i probably have a few pictures my now ex took out there when i was uh much thinner.. lmao..

|boobies|

[bluemoney]

.. i probably have a few pictures my now ex took out there when i was uh much thinner.. lmao..
Okay, I'll ask. Ya gonna post'em? :D

[Trev]

that's when real amateur content was posted for free on the alt.binaries sites.. lmao.. i probably have a few pictures my now ex took out there when i was uh much thinner.. lmao..

|boobies|
Oh yeah? I probably saw them, then. |waves|

[Surfn]

You ran a surf board mail order company from your house?
Actually I was doing this part time. I was getting the content from usenet and charging surfers by the month, 6 month, and 1 year. It was kind of a fore runner of the AVS systems developed by others later when the cc companies perfected their billing skills for adult. Which is when I started working adult full time.

[Chop Smith]

that's when real amateur content was posted for free on the alt.binaries sites.. lmao.. i probably have a few pictures my now ex took out there when i was uh much thinner.. lmao..

|boobies|

Were the nudes of you taken with a wide lens camera?

A member of this board invented the AVS? Damn, we be good.

[Surfn]

Were the nudes of you taken with a wide lens camera?

A member of this board invented the AVS? Damn, we be good.
If you are referring to me that is not what I said.

[docholly]

Were the nudes of you taken with a wide lens camera?



Nope!! I was a svelte 140lbs in the old bbs days.. now i have a thigh that weighs about that. :D



Note to Tart: can you find a 'fat ass' smilie like you found the catfight one??

[Chop Smith]

About the nudes? I was referring to Doc Holly's brick house ass.

About AVS, I was referring to your post that implies that you had "kind of a fore runner of the AVS systems developed by others later"

[Surfn]

About the nudes? I was referring to Doc Holly's brick house ass.

About AVS, I was referring to your post that implies that you had "kind of a fore runner of the AVS systems developed by others later"
Ok, my mistake for trying to inform. I will now exit quietly.

[Chop Smith]

Are you that senstive?

If I offended you, please accept a public apology.

Honestly, I thought you were uttering more bullshit like your T1 connection and the dedication of a Norte Dame building in your name. I was just playing along.

[Useless]

Are you that senstive?I guess it's a good thing that you didn't mention anything about his sig saying "Surfn's Links Surfn are you a partner?" for the last year and none of us bothered to tell him that the old ~username~ trick doesn't work correctly for non-mods.

[Greenguy]

Good evening.

From here on out, anyone posting sarcastic comments will be banned for 7 days.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have a jazz band waiting for me at my hog roast.

[Jim]

I guess my first sale was from a long defunct AVS since the only other way to make money was pay per Click. Nobody really started out counting signups.

Again, using the first and only AVS was nice. I started using it 2 months before Christmas back in 96 or 97 and the one site ended up paying for Christmas that year. :)

[Chop Smith]

From here on out, anyone posting sarcastic comments will be banned for 7 days.

|buddy|,does this mean that Useless has to find a new home?

[Magix]

damn, how old are you people, all i here is 93, 96,98. i was thnking that people in this bussines is about 20-35 years old, damn how wrong my first impression was ..:)

[Jim]

What would this world be like without sarcasm? :) No late night comedy. Hell, no comedy period. Sometimes sarcasm is the only way to get a point across.

And, sometimes, people tell us such big lies that sarcasm is the only answer. :) It a better way to keep people in check than to say, "stop fucking lying to us please". :)

And Magix, my youngest Daughter just turned 18. My oldest Son is 25. This is not a "would you hit it" type board. Most of us have seen everything and it would take something truly bizarre to even make us look twice at any picture. And even more, an awful lot of us have only been working in this business for many years. There are a couple of people on this board that have been in this business longer than me (10 and a half years). But most people that claim it deserve a little sarcasm :)

[Greenguy]

The 10 year anniversary of the Link O'Rama is right around now - I didn't buy the domain until late 97, but the site has been named that since 96 :)

[Chop Smith]

I am 18.

My first site went up in March of 2002.

My oldest son in 39, Bo is 37 and my daughter is 34

[Toby]

...Nobody really started out counting signups...Well at that time no, not as affiliates anyway.

My first 'sale' in late '97 was from a pay site.

<long boring story>
I had a friend with an amateur webcam site with his wife. She did live shows a few times a week. Still jpeg images captured from live video, uploaded at 10 to 15 second intervals. That's about how long it took to capture and upload each image. Streaming video was just becoming a viable option tech-wise, but video server providers were few, rather expensive, and were separate from site hosting.

He was getting frustrated finding affordable adult hosting, video hosting, payment processing, etc. that all worked together without major security leaks. Thats how we met actually, I hacked into his site, then told him how I did it.

He and I and another friend got to chatting one night and a "what if we could" turned into a small adult hosting company with in house video server, chat server and membership processing. In addition to hosting sites for a fee, we built cam sites for amateurs that didn't have the web skills and took a percentage of the sales.

So, my first 'sale' was a sign-up to one of those cam sites. I don't even recall the domain names now.
</long boring story>


Oops, almost forgot. Magix, I took my first programming course in 1977 as a senior in high school. My 46th birthday was last month.

[Magix]

:)) I feel so young now :))) well i'm 21 :)) in april was my first visit to casino :)) i was waiting for it about 4 years, and it's a catching thing :))) and i get some profit 10 times more of it :) we got there with about 20$ and get out with 200$ :)))

and my sale is in the future, though i predict it will be in two weeks ( i think ) |greenguy|

[Jim]

I can remember meeting a few people in New Jersey just after programs started switching from Clickthroughs to Signups. We were as outraged as much as recent times when programs started counting signups that stayed instead of just straight signups.

And, we had the same arguement..."it's not our problem what a surfer does once we send them to the program".

[JustRobert]

First sale was 2 weeks after I started about 4.5 years ago. Was doing tgp and I did not know a thing about html. Someone showed me basics about thumb crop, dreamweaver and who to submit to. After that all on my own. But it was a fun hobby at night/weekends after a mortorcycle crash left me not able to ride for awhile. Went full time couple years back. I think it was easier to get sales when I started. Not so many programs to choose from.

Like Jim, my daughter is the youngest at 18 with 2 sons being 21 & 22 both at college.

[Useless]

My oldest son in 39, Bo is 37 and my daughter is 34You never told me that you have a daughter my age. :D

[Chop Smith]

You never told me that you have a daughter my age. :D


Yep and she is so ugly that she will gag a maggot.

[Evil Chris]

Some of my first sales were to Jim's first paysite. :)

[Jim]

Some of my first sales were to Jim's first paysite. :)
Yep, there were a lot of people who's first time at making money was with Ultracash. But those were the days when it was ok to use a billing system that truly cascaded. It would try to bill through DMR, if it didn't go through, it went to Epoch, if that did go through, it went to ABM (thieves) and if that didn't work it offered checks online and then checks through the mail. All that and paying $50/free trial signup must have been sweet :)

[puck]

ive been in the bussines for about 3 weeks and I made my first sale last week, Im very optimistic, keep om working!

[Torn Rose]

We started Nov '99, went online Jan '00 first sale I hope will be in '06, just like I hoped it would be '00, '01, '02, '03, '04, '05.... sigh....|huh

This damn T1 isn’t free and at this rate I'll never have a building at a major university named after me... just one at Vassar..... ugh!|banghead|

[karomesis]

none yet|violin|

[sue-fl]

damn, how old are you people, all i here is 93, 96,98. i was thnking that people in this bussines is about 20-35 years old, damn how wrong my first impression was ..:)

I wish I had started in this business at 20-35...wait I don't think they had home pc's back then......|huh

I got my first sale on the very first free site I made. I thought damn this is going to be easy money! Just luck I guess is all that was! It takes time and a lot work but it will happen. |thumb

[Lemmy]

I got my first sale on the very first free site I made.Ditto, only I didn't know until a couple months later because I hadn't quite figured out the sponsor's stats pages. Hey, I was a newbie. |jester|

[ponygirl]

the first sale I made I still haven't gotten paid for because I never hit the sponsor's minimum payment |jester|
that was 2 yrs ago and it's gotten better than that thank goodness lol

[SirMoby]

It took me about a month to design my first Platinum AVS site. I also go a gallery listing at Tommy's the same day. That night I had a couple of sales and I was hooked.

[picXX]

I had my first sale in dec. last year.
That same sponsor is now my best converting sponsor. :)

[Preacher]

I got my first sale on the very first free site I made.Ditto...
Ditto Lemmy's ditto...
My first free-site made 5 sales. I thought to myself, |buddy| this is easy. My next four free-sites never produced anything. Anyone who says every free-site makes a sale is full of shit. Keep plugging away at it.

The 10 year anniversary of the Link O'Rama is right around now - I didn't buy the domain until late 97, but the site has been named that since 96...
I first found Greenie's site in 97/98 searching for what Bukkake meant. So it has a special place in my heart.

[virgohippy]

I first found Greenie's site in 97/98 searching for what Bukkake meant. So it has a special place in my heart.

Preacher, you preach the gospel, though I was given a "tip." For me it was those squirting goddesses. :)

[JustRobert]

I was given a "tip."
A tip? I believe you were "told" to visit greenguy and study!:D

[virgohippy]

A tip? I believe you were "told" to visit greenguy and study!:D

And what a hard study it was! |jester|

[amadman]

My first sale was from either a sponsor called streetbucks or sexkey avs. Street bucks was the first sponsor I made regular sales from though. It was probably late in 99 or early in 2000.

This thread got me remembering...

I registered xstash in 2000 but I had a little network on sexplanets freehost before that. They set you up on a second level domain name and you could control the footers of all the sites you or people who signed up on with yours. Made a nice easy on/off switch for focusing traffic.

I remember my first free site. It was nothing like the format we have today. In fact it probably broke 80% of todays rules. It was free hosted, and had every thing sponsors offered all in that one site. Free content,content plugins,pic of the days, video chat links,hosted games, money bars and alot of banners. On top of all of that it was ugly as hell. Yet GG listed it. Needless to say my first sale did not come from there. :)

[Magix]

i'm reading this thread, and i'm feeling like reading porn history, very interesting :) really how it started, and how people did it :)

i have a funny thought maybe Greenguyandjim could start something like a museum of porn, free sites and galleries :)) really it would be interesting to see how free sites and gallieries look 5 years or even 8 years ago .....

[Maj. Stress]

Magix,
You can look at the wayback machine and find some old sites ;)

[Useless]

...or you can look at some modern newbie free sites with 25 468x80 banners on the index to get a general idea of what it all looked like. ;)

[walrus]

none yet|violin|Probably cause you don't have a site yet....but thats just a guess!