Can money realy be made in this business?

[Plim-Don]

I just want to ask is there any real money being made in the adult interent porn business? Porn is basicly free on the internet. How can you make a profit with all these free password sites comming out? you got messageboard forums posting passwords, you got p2p programs where you can download full movies from the same site's that we try to promote. I mean it's just seems to me that we are just letting people know what porn to go search for on the p2p networks.or in the endless free source's for porn online.. Just my 2cent but i do wantto know what yall think about the subject.

[BOSS]

why is it all in bold? and no there is no money in porn..

[Cleo]

No money, nothing to see here, move along…

[Toby]

We're all just here for the Bud Lite

[Beaver Bob]

i just do it for the free porn

[oldbrad]

is the record industry making money even though there are mp3's?

[SheepGuy]

Can I borrow $20?

[babymaker]

not a cent in porn these days.............only 2.5 billion a year

i remember how all those record companies went broke when the radio played all the fucking songs free....poor fuckers

[IceWalker2k]

never though of this business as a money making one, arent we all just here to have fun

[Useless]

In porn, no. The real money is in bold print and asking EDIT[less-than well thought out] questions.

[Travs]

there is no spoon.

[spazlabz]

LOL lots of funny answers here - started my morning off right, with a chuckle.

can you make money in on line porn? - yes
is it easy? - not even a little

if you're serious, read the board, every section, study, eat a good breakfast and become one with the poonany profits


spaz

[SirMoby]

I made 2 cents once but that's just my 2 cents worth.

[Ramster]

With so many promoting what do you think? We do it for fun?

Well yeah we do it for fun too but...

[Plim-Don]

i was basicly asking to mabe get some new ideas on promoteing my affliates but i see everyone is clowning me.I know theres money in it but can you just say good bye to your day job and rely on webmastering adult sites? just asking cause i can't make the monthly payments for my site..but to stay in the game i use free host's ...and i already know what yall gonna say about free host's i heard it all before and have taken it into consideration. But im generateing no sales on the site i pay but when i went to the free host i started getting sales and se traffic so im like lost.

[Greenguy]

But I thought you were a wizard with Search Engines?

[carol.prime]

Wow...i think there's so many things that you should know and for you to learn...there's credit cards? "registration" duh?!

[spazlabz]

i was basicly asking to mabe get some new ideas on promoteing my affliates but i see everyone is clowning me.

i think you mean promoting your sponsors... and your question was much more of a statement then a true search for knowledge. You assume money cannot be made on the internet and list as proof that there is a proliferation of free porn on the net.

you want to know how to promote sites in a way that will be profitable to you.... cool, that desire is the first thing you need, the next thing is learnin' then after that... hard work (this usually scares most people off)

I said read the board, every section and study it. While you view this as 'clownin' you I assure you it is rock solid advice. Find what you think will work for you, try it all, use combinations... whatever is going to help you generate traffic and then sales. You don't have anything to lose, you're not making any money.

few more tips;
1) grow thick skin and be prepared for tough love
2) talk no crap until you can back it up (not making enough money to pay hosting is not a way to back up claims... I can easily make no money without your advice or services)
3) when you ask for advice... listen to those who respond and see if you can use what is being said to you.
4) dont bold your posts on a board... its rude


spaz

[T Pat]

This thread made my day
If your making money from your free hosting use that money to pay for hosting.
problem solved|goodidea

[Ronzo]

I can understand this question being asked. Not too long ago, prior to the Net, about the only way the average person could view "porn"; especially the hardcore variety, was to visit the local adult bookstore or raincoat theater. I don't recall ever being able to sample, or get a free look at anything these businesses offered. You couldn't even "browse" the magazines because they were sealed in cellophane. If you wanted to watch a video for any length of time at all, you had to buy a token or drop a quarter in the slot. The point is, these businesses gave you absolutely nothing for free. Maybe that's why the average guy, at the time, didn't have much of a problem in spending $10 for a magazine that featured 50 hardcore images.

Contrast that to what we offer on the Net. I have one sponsor that boasts offering 35,000 FHGs. I don't know how many hours of porn viewing this translates to, but it's conceivable this one sponsor alone is giving away more product than the average bookstore or move theater of 10 to 15 years ago had in their entire inventory. Can you imagine owning a "brick and mortar" adult business that sees a couple of thousand visitors go through its turnstyles in a month, and not one of them drops even a dime in your cash register? Yet, as adult webmasters, we can see hundreds of "unique" visitors enter our online stores everyday, and the vast majority of them come and go without enriching us in the slightest way, despite the fact we spent our time, money and effort to facilitate their being entertained for free. As an industry, I think we've created, nurtured and are perpetuating a bad business model. Does anyone know how much product we give away compared to how much we sell? I'll bet we're one of the few industries, may be the only industry out there, that gives away more product than is purchased.

Spend some time cruising around the adult side of the Net. The case could be made fairly easily that adult webmasters are in a contest to see who can give away the most amount of porn. Somehow, we believe those who are winning this contest, are also those who are making the most money.

From the consumers' point-of-view, I can see why some, perhaps many, or even the majority of surfers place little or no value on online porn. I overheard a couple of college-age guys at an internet cafe recently remark that, "only a sucker pays for porn". Maybe they're right. They can go from TGP to TGP for hours every day, and take in 10, 15, or 20 seconds of video, sampling 2 to 6 videos per page... and have a great old time while never reaching for, or even thinking about what they have in their wallet. Yeah. I can see asking if it's really possible to make money in this business. It's not an unreasonable thought to have.

[Mr Exotic]

People give away free porn because thats what they use to get visitors that do believe it or not pay for porn. I make alot of sites myself that have 4 30 or even 8 20 second movie clips, and I do make sales off of them, in fact it is my livliehood. This aint the pre internet days where porn was such a rare thing that 50 pics were worth 10 bucks. Supply and demand dude, people give away more free porn because thats what makes them the most money. Would it be easier to make sales if there were no free porn? Of course it would but then again there wouldnt even be close to the amount of traffic that there is now. Whats done is done, and this is the business model that the internet goes by, if ya dont like it, dont do it. The way I market my free movie sites is pretty much like if you think these samples are hot then just wait until you see such and such with all these full length movies. Yes the vast majority of people are just looky loos who wouldnt pay for porn in their whole lives, but there are those people that want quality and those are the people that you hope to lure in and make a sale to.

[babymaker]

Originally Posted by Plim-Don

i was basicly asking to mabe get some new ideas on promoteing my affliates but i see everyone is clowning me.I know theres money in it but can you just say good bye to your day job and rely on webmastering adult sites? just asking cause i can't make the monthly payments for my site..but to stay in the game i use free host's ...and i already know what yall gonna say about free host's i heard it all before and have taken it into consideration. But im generateing no sales on the site i pay but when i went to the free host i started getting sales and se traffic so im like lost.

well, if you make money off of freehost with what you are doing then work that, there is no right answer following everyone elses tehniques, is like opening a mcdonalds next to a mcdonanalds lol...of course i see most in this biz do that lol submit the same site and sponsor to the the big LL that is using it at the top of that same category lol so not all in this biz are that bright

i wouldn't count on porn paying your bills for a bit tho, but at least paying a simple host 10 bux will get you good hosting....

[Linkster]

Well - I probably should make a separate thread for it - but Ive always believed that thehun and Tommy etc should lead an exodus away from allowing surfers in for free - charge for access to their lists - let it trikle down to all the WMs - and then if any idiot starts giving it away for free take him down

[virgohippy]

Originally Posted by Linkster

...and then if any idiot starts giving it away for free take him down

With a huge, non-converting traffic spike!

[Useless]

Originally Posted by virgohippy

With a huge, non-converting traffic spike!

Can you imagine what would happen if the Hun decided to redirect all of his no-cookie traffic to some ass' site instead of spreading it amongst all of his daily listings?