Originally Posted by Snake Doctor

It really depends on your definition of success.

If you mean can you make 3-5K a month with a 50/50 ccbill program, then yeah. That's very do-able.

If your definition of success is doing $1MM/year or 1000 joins a day or something like that then that's an entirely different discussion.

Alot of the tactics I see going on today I haven't seen since the babenet/xpics days....and I think alot of people are doing what they're doing in the name of self-preservation/self-defense.

In other words, they think that the big players doing the hidden x-sells and other shady tactics are going to bring down the wrath of Visa and MC on all of us, to the point where it will be near impossible to secure processing for an adult site....so since we're going to be put out of business anyways, we need to do whatever we can to increase revenue today, with no eye towards the long term because in their view there is no long term.

With the Visa hammer sure to come and the tubes giving away the members areas, they may as well milk every cent they can out of every click on their way out the door.


Things today are actually the total opposite of when I first started.
Standard practice back then was this:

1) Members are gold. Do whatever it takes to keep them, it costs alot more to replace a member than it does to keep one.

2) Free site surfers are freeloaders. They should be slapped around. Blind links and consoles should be the norm, the price they pay for using up our bandwidth. If they want a safe place to download porn, they should join a paysite.

Today that has been totally flipped on it's head...and we coddle free site surfers and give them every full length video we can get our hands on, with no blind links, no overly aggressive advertising, searchable databases of free content, etc.

Yet as soon as someone whips out a credit card to buy one of our products, we immediately try to fuck them over by cramming a bunch of hidden charges onto their card.

Pretty sad state of affairs really.