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Old 08-28-2004, 02:19 PM  
CabanaBoy
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We'll do over $115M in revenue this year. The next closest will do about $50-$75M. The number one player (Digital River) kicks all our asses with about $850M (although we're growing faster than they are so we're slowly gaining ground).

I've been running this company for 17 years (only the last five have we been doing software e-commerce). We're very profitable and entirely privately owned.

I got bored with the software e-commerce business so I took the expertise and experience and am building tools for managing partnerships (i.e. affiliates and advertisers) and handling the coinage from start to finish (i.e. payments from the end user all the way to paying affiliates and collecting from advertisers). The adult industry is leading the curve in this shit so I'll roll it out there first. There are lots of good solutions out there already, but I think I can improve on some of the things and bring some unique things to the table. Plus, my software commerce company already handles shitloads of transactions and we've got a lot of expertise in fraud prevention, not to mention a perfect reputation for paying our customers accurately and on-time. Affiliates don't like getting fucked. Webmasters don't like having their payment processor fuck them, and if you don't know someone, you don't trust them and you could be missing out on revenue opportunities. Bringing a third party in to help manage all of that is a step in the right direction. That's what I'm trying to do. Most of the major e-commerce providers outside the adult industry wouldn't dare step in here. That's just stupid. There is value to provide here and an established company that has an excellent reputation has a chance to find a niche in the adult industry.

I've never mentioned this here before because I don't want to hype what isn't available yet. I've just been quietly learning and helping out here and there. I currently work with a few people here and when I've got something that I think will work well for everyone, I'll publicly announce it.

Enough said on that subject. I'll talk about it more when it's real.

Are those the kind of stats you were looking for?

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Originally posted by quiet
oooh, can you post some stats for us?
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