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I started a new program 6 months ago. It's in my sig.
I could write a book.....
It's 5 o'clock in the morning where I am and I don't feel like writing a book but yes, it's possible to be successful depending on what you're going for.
I didn't have a big budget so I stuck to "amatuers" and "hotel rooms" as a lot of people do when starting. I shot about 10 scenes and slapped em up on Clips4Sale. They did very well so I decided to try a paysite. I failed miserably. Not because the content sucked but because I had no freaking clue how to market a paysite.
So, I brought in an affiliate manager. We went with an entirely new domain name and began building traffic organically. We rolled out an affilliate program and our affiliates have helped quite a bit although we still send half of our sales on our own.
We don't fuck anyone over. In 6 months, we've never had one chargeback. We have members who signed up in month one and are still with us. I was chuckling the other day when I saw a rebill come thru and it was the guy's 5th rebill. I'm like, "Have we even been around that long?"
You build it up slowly over time. Eventually your rebills will be enough to keep you in business and your new sales are gravy.
I'm still not rich but I do support myself solely on porn. No part-time job or anything like that. And it's only been 6 months. So, hopefully 2 years from now I'll be driving around in a Ferrari and the Falcons will be playing in the BrokeAmateurs.com Dome. :-)
So, my response to your question is that you can be successful(successful is a relative term, depends on how much "successful" means to you) without being a fucking shady x-selling, sale shaving, industry-killing fuckstain. But, as in some other non-porn business, it takes time to build it up slowly with a solid foundation.
I'm still only 6 months into it and sure, I'd like to have made more than I have made. But, overall, considering the state of the worldwide economy and the shady x-selling, sale shaving, industry-killing fuckstains, I'm happy with where my program is at this moment.
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