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The Porn Nerd · 02-09-2010, 08:02 PM

I started in late 2006 and for a year 1/2 let my partners build shitty-ass websites. LOL When I finished filming like 30 girls I stopped, looked around, realized nothing was getting DONE and I wasn't making a fucking penny, I decided to do everything myself.

I built shitty-ass sites that converted well with amateur traffic for about a year, learning HTML myself and building everything in Notepad, by hand. LOL Amazing when I think back on it but I learned everything on my own so I only modeled what I knew made money. I started making around $1,000 a month almost right away, and stayed there, for months! No matter HOW hard I worked, no matter HOW much traffic I sent to my sites sales were steady. That's when I knew the company I was with - an unnamed network of amateur/reality websites - was ripping me (and many, many others) off big time. On the one hand, it was easy money (relatively) working with them and they took care of all the things I knew zero about, like hosting, updating, yada yada. But on the other I always wondered how many sales I was really getting, and dreamed of the money I could make as a program/paysite owner instead of being a glorified affiliate (which is what I was, no offense meant to actual, hard-working affiliates).

I had been a journalist in the music biz for years before this, and had done some investigative journalism along the way, too, so while I am no Woodward & Bernstein I smelled a rat. So in January of 2009 I launched Mister Peabody World and dived head-first into the deep end of the Paysite pool. I had six sites then, now I have 18 (with four more coming next month) and today have gross revenues (network-wide) exceeding 1/2 million. Not bad for 1 year doing this full-time, and for being a one-man operation.

Did the two+ years of fucking around, getting screwed (and not in a good way) etc help/prepare me for this new adventure for Mister Peabody? Yes and no. But it's taught me that with never-ending effort, focus, HARD hard work, learning curves, a vision for how/when things will 'get better', an adaptable plan to help get you there and support from friends & family (as corny as that sounds) can still lead to success beyond one's expectations. Now, I live in NYC - no cheap place, tho my apartment is extremely reasonable at $1400 a month (1 BR) - and if I lived in Indiana or Arizona or Florida I would be living like a King. Here, I now merely have 'cash flow' (what a concept) and can pay my bills and order Japanese food every other Tuesday if I so wish. LOL But it will take success five-eight times my current level to 'free me' to where I can get back to doing what all this was intended to finance in the first place: the writing of my second screenplay and/or my first novel.

Meanwhile, I get tax-free sex.

So will I be able to work only, say, two-four hours a day, 2-4 days a week, someday soon and spend the rest of my time doing whatever the fuck I want to? Yes, absolutely, otherwise...I'm outta here. That's right, I'm giving myself a certain time-frame and if the Adult business doesn't get me there then I'll do something in mainstream, employing the skills I've learned during this adventure, to get me where I want to be. I've been successful (enough) with anything I've ever wanted to do in life so I know it's possible. We're not talking "I wanna retire when I've made eighteen MILLION DOLLARS" shit. I'm reasonable. 3/4 mil a year will do fine.

Anyway, it's all possible, even now, that's all I'm saying.

Your success, DigitalDivas, btw, is inspiring in its' own right. When I was looking at total monthly revenues of $853 and had to swallow my pride to ask my mom for three hundred bucks so I could eat and pay the Cable/Internet bill, and ask other friends to lend me a hundred bucks each just to pay my rent, I searched out stories like yours to inspire me, and keep me going. Congratulations on your success!

(And I did not leave journalism, journalism left me when the magazine I was working for let 90% of it's staff writers go, including me, and the blogosphere replaced much of 'old school' Fourth Estate institutions like the one I worked for. This was in 2003. I floundered for a couple years until I decided to shoot homemade porn. LOL The 'Mister Peabody story' bullshit I spin on the sites is actually fairly close to the sad, sad truth...)

02-09-2010, 08:02 PM
The Porn Nerd Living The Dream Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Inside a Monitor Posts: 19,496	I started in late 2006 and for a year 1/2 let my partners build shitty-ass websites. LOL When I finished filming like 30 girls I stopped, looked around, realized nothing was getting DONE and I wasn't making a fucking penny, I decided to do everything myself. I built shitty-ass sites that converted well with amateur traffic for about a year, learning HTML myself and building everything in Notepad, by hand. LOL Amazing when I think back on it but I learned everything on my own so I only modeled what I knew made money. I started making around $1,000 a month almost right away, and stayed there, for months! No matter HOW hard I worked, no matter HOW much traffic I sent to my sites sales were steady. That's when I knew the company I was with - an unnamed network of amateur/reality websites - was ripping me (and many, many others) off big time. On the one hand, it was easy money (relatively) working with them and they took care of all the things I knew zero about, like hosting, updating, yada yada. But on the other I always wondered how many sales I was really getting, and dreamed of the money I could make as a program/paysite owner instead of being a glorified affiliate (which is what I was, no offense meant to actual, hard-working affiliates). I had been a journalist in the music biz for years before this, and had done some investigative journalism along the way, too, so while I am no Woodward & Bernstein I smelled a rat. So in January of 2009 I launched Mister Peabody World and dived head-first into the deep end of the Paysite pool. I had six sites then, now I have 18 (with four more coming next month) and today have gross revenues (network-wide) exceeding 1/2 million. Not bad for 1 year doing this full-time, and for being a one-man operation. Did the two+ years of fucking around, getting screwed (and not in a good way) etc help/prepare me for this new adventure for Mister Peabody? Yes and no. But it's taught me that with never-ending effort, focus, HARD hard work, learning curves, a vision for how/when things will 'get better', an adaptable plan to help get you there and support from friends & family (as corny as that sounds) can still lead to success beyond one's expectations. Now, I live in NYC - no cheap place, tho my apartment is extremely reasonable at $1400 a month (1 BR) - and if I lived in Indiana or Arizona or Florida I would be living like a King. Here, I now merely have 'cash flow' (what a concept) and can pay my bills and order Japanese food every other Tuesday if I so wish. LOL But it will take success five-eight times my current level to 'free me' to where I can get back to doing what all this was intended to finance in the first place: the writing of my second screenplay and/or my first novel. Meanwhile, I get tax-free sex. So will I be able to work only, say, two-four hours a day, 2-4 days a week, someday soon and spend the rest of my time doing whatever the fuck I want to? Yes, absolutely, otherwise...I'm outta here. That's right, I'm giving myself a certain time-frame and if the Adult business doesn't get me there then I'll do something in mainstream, employing the skills I've learned during this adventure, to get me where I want to be. I've been successful (enough) with anything I've ever wanted to do in life so I know it's possible. We're not talking "I wanna retire when I've made eighteen MILLION DOLLARS" shit. I'm reasonable. 3/4 mil a year will do fine. Anyway, it's all possible, even now, that's all I'm saying. Your success, DigitalDivas, btw, is inspiring in its' own right. When I was looking at total monthly revenues of $853 and had to swallow my pride to ask my mom for three hundred bucks so I could eat and pay the Cable/Internet bill, and ask other friends to lend me a hundred bucks each just to pay my rent, I searched out stories like yours to inspire me, and keep me going. Congratulations on your success! (And I did not leave journalism, journalism left me when the magazine I was working for let 90% of it's staff writers go, including me, and the blogosphere replaced much of 'old school' Fourth Estate institutions like the one I worked for. This was in 2003. I floundered for a couple years until I decided to shoot homemade porn. LOL The 'Mister Peabody story' bullshit I spin on the sites is actually fairly close to the sad, sad truth...) __________________ My Affiliate Programs: Porn Nerd Cash \| Porn Showcase \| Aggressive Gold Over 90 paysites to promote! Skype: peabodymedia Last edited by The Porn Nerd; 02-09-2010 at 08:10 PM..