Retro thread - What do you miss from say 10 - 15 years ago in this biz? - GoFuckYourself.com

CreamyMedia · 03-23-2019, 11:15 AM

I remember every morning checking my sites and trading scripts (UCJ) and ensuring all was good with the MGP's. Fuck it was so easy then!

blackmonsters · 03-23-2019, 11:23 AM

Yo mamma!

Rochard · 03-23-2019, 11:33 AM

This board used to be full of pictures of naked chicks, chicks who got naked for a living, people having fun, people making money, and people doing business.

Someone the other day told me that "porn is dead". I disagree. I work for YNOT Mail, and just over half of our customers are adult. I speak to pornographers every day, and they tell me how much money they make off of mailers. People are still making money.

thommy · 03-23-2019, 11:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CreamyMedia

I remember every morning checking my sites and trading scripts (UCJ) and ensuring all was good with the MGP's. Fuck it was so easy then!

but did you really expect that so easy made money will be forever in the hands of amateurs?

where money is is competition. in this days one medium good media buyer makes the revenue of 50 average webmasters in the old days.
and if you look at the bigger media buying companies with 100-200 employed media buyers
you might have an idea where the river flows today.

also google have learned the lesson and made it harder for amateurs and semi professionals. even to understand google analytics is today a full time job where you can never stop to learn.

easy was never good for any kind of biz. easy is too easy to copy and no matter how big the cheese is the number of mice will always be bigger.

Sly · 03-23-2019, 11:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thommy

but did you really expect that so easy made money will be forever in the hands of amateurs?

where money is is competition. in this days one medium good media buyer makes the revenue of 50 average webmasters in the old days.
and if you look at the bigger media buying companies with 100-200 employed media buyers
you might have an idea where the river flows today.

also google have learned the lesson and made it harder for amateurs and semi professionals. even to understand google analytics is today a full time job where you can never stop to learn.

easy was never good for any kind of biz. easy is too easy to copy and no matter how big the cheese is the number of mice will always be bigger.

Nice post.

When I started in adult as an affiliate there was a serious "set and forget" mentality going around. Everyone was convinced the way to make money was to create a million sites that you never touch again and just rake in cash forever.

Gosh I wonder why that didn't work!

For a business to survive and be successful, you must constantly improve said business. Always be working on the next step of that ladder, because if you aren't, somebody else is and they will wipe you out.

CreamyMedia · 03-23-2019, 11:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thommy

but did you really expect that so easy made money will be forever in the hands of amateurs?

where money is is competition. in this days one medium good media buyer makes the revenue of 50 average webmasters in the old days.
and if you look at the bigger media buying companies with 100-200 employed media buyers
you might have an idea where the river flows today.

also google have learned the lesson and made it harder for amateurs and semi professionals. even to understand google analytics is today a full time job where you can never stop to learn.

easy was never good for any kind of biz. easy is too easy to copy and no matter how big the cheese is the number of mice will always be bigger.

Your easy made money comment lasting forever - not at all. Totally understand that change happens and I have no issue with it. My point being is that it was so easy to run high traffic 50 - 100k sites and see mad ratios.
Nowadays I have clients who I have worked with for many years.

GAMEFINEST · 03-23-2019, 11:59 AM

Its hard now.
Quality over quantity

kane · 03-23-2019, 12:05 PM

There was a time from late 1999 to early 2001 I had figured out how to land on the front page of Altavista for just about any adult search term. It would only last a few days, maybe a week, and someone would replace me and I would fall way down the results, but the traffic on those days was great. I just churned out site and after site.

I also miss the almost instant traffic of the TGPs. Submit a gallery on Monday and get 50K+ visitors to it on Tuesday.

Cobra69erss · 03-23-2019, 12:26 PM

The days when full sex scenes wasn't given away for free and surfers actually had to pay for memberships to view them

beerptrol · 03-23-2019, 12:29 PM

Elite tgp parties

CaptainHowdy · 03-23-2019, 01:16 PM

Making a killing with just a simple gallery . . .

SilentKnight · 03-23-2019, 01:30 PM

I miss the currency exchange of 2003. U.S. to Cdn was about $1.40 and every revenue cheque was like found money.

kane · 03-23-2019, 01:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SilentKnight

I miss the currency exchange of 2003. U.S. to Cdn was about $1.40 and every revenue cheque was like found money.

I remember a lot of Canadians being very unhappy when the exchange rate started to drop.

Sabby · 03-23-2019, 01:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SilentKnight

I miss the currency exchange of 2003. U.S. to Cdn was about $1.40 and every revenue cheque was like found money.

The highest it went was $1.60 2001 it’s been hovering around $1.30 for awhile which still isn’t bad.

Sabby · 03-23-2019, 01:58 PM

I miss the normal people. Too many idiots now.

CurrentlySober · 03-23-2019, 02:04 PM

Personally, although I had THE TIME OF MY LIFE.... I don't actually miss anything...

Life's about moving forward - Not looking back...

notinmybackyard · 03-23-2019, 02:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rochard

I speak to pornographers every day, and they tell me how much money they make off of mailers. People are still making money.

Absolutely.

brassmonkey · 03-23-2019, 02:15 PM

the people... most people here are friendly. when epass fell we all did

redwhiteandblue · 03-23-2019, 02:57 PM

The Nasty Dollars threads.

Mr Pheer · 03-23-2019, 03:08 PM

Flying on private jets and the cool shit that showed up at Christmas like buckets of Lobsters and 21yr old Scotch, even though I don't drink.

thommy · 03-23-2019, 03:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cobra69erss

The days when full sex scenes wasn't given away for free and surfers actually had to pay for memberships to view them

that´s not really the maths.

it was the time when 10 million fucking rich surfers where worth 1-2 cent per visit and 10.000 webmasters shared that cake. the difference of their shares where just small.

today we talk about 0,0005 value per visit but 4 billion surfers.
and the people who want to grab this money are today around 250.000
but from this 250.000 there are not more than 10-15 thsd that take the major part of the cake.

so if you calculate that you see that the cake is MUCH bigger than before but also the competition is MUCH smarter.

mikeet · 03-23-2019, 03:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sly

Nice post.

When I started in adult as an affiliate there was a serious "set and forget" mentality going around. Everyone was convinced the way to make money was to create a million sites that you never touch again and just rake in cash forever.

Gosh I wonder why that didn't work!

For a business to survive and be successful, you must constantly improve said business. Always be working on the next step of that ladder, because if you aren't, somebody else is and they will wipe you out.

NatalieK · 03-23-2019, 03:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CreamyMedia

I remember every morning checking my sites and trading scripts (UCJ) and ensuring all was good with the MGP's. Fuck it was so easy then!

life´s easier now...

we film a 10 to 20 min scene every day, edit it, update my site & every profile with the video and write back to all my fans, then put the cam on and sunbathe most of the day...

10years ago, we run parties, and updating sites without a good back end data base was a pain in the ass...

there you go, make money and enjoy it, keeping it simple

Brad Mitchell · 03-23-2019, 06:39 PM

My thin physique

Brad

the Shemp · 03-23-2019, 09:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by beerptrol

Elite tgp parties

me too ...

huey · 03-23-2019, 09:46 PM

Wearing flip flops and a baseball cap to the office for 10 years.

Sabby · 03-23-2019, 10:06 PM

My sanity?

Spunky · 03-23-2019, 10:57 PM

Hookers and Blow! I hated being treated like a piece of meat

Centurion · 03-23-2019, 11:04 PM

Pathfinder...lol

CaptainHowdy · 03-24-2019, 03:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by redwhiteandblue

The Nasty Dollars threads.

That is a good one . . .

Klen · 03-24-2019, 03:50 AM

Mostly my SE rankings.

aimike · 03-24-2019, 04:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CreamyMedia

What do you miss from say 10 - 15 years ago in this biz?!

making money

aimike · 03-24-2019, 04:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rochard

Someone the other day told me that "porn is dead".

They were right.

Unless your pimproll aka porn.com or some other multi million dollar company too large to fail anymore.

Dead · 03-24-2019, 05:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CurrentlySober

Personally, although I had THE TIME OF MY LIFE.... I don't actually miss anything...

Life's about moving forward - Not looking back...

This

And Mr Shemps phone calls trying to figure out how to get Orgasmics sorted

celandina · 03-24-2019, 09:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GAMEFINEST

Its hard now.
Quality over quantity

Its quantity over quality...just ask how many tubes there are with 1000's of stolen videos.

There, fixed it for ya...

Paul Markham · 03-25-2019, 03:55 AM

The money. Back in 2004 it was easy to make $10,000s a week and more for those elite few. Anyone with a brain knew how to create and submit a gallery and get a lot of great traffic.

The huge conventions were proof of how good it was, today it's a lot harder to make a living. To compare media buyers incomes with paysite owners incomes is stupid.

2MuchMark · 03-25-2019, 07:09 AM

Miami Internext!!!!!

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escorpio · 03-25-2019, 07:16 AM

Waking up and seeing how much money I made sleeping.

rowan · 03-25-2019, 07:34 AM

The sound of the Fedex guy dropping my weekly ClickCash cheque on the tiles of my front porch. He didn't bother to try slip it under the door, or knock, just dropped it.

Cost me an extra $30 per week ($1560 per year) to get it delivered express to Australia, but back then, it was worth it.

celandina · 03-25-2019, 08:26 AM

The 29 dollar DVDs we used to sell to DVD shops.

Xena252 · 03-25-2019, 08:31 AM

Life was good back then

notinmybackyard · 03-25-2019, 11:41 AM

The problem with the jizz biz is that almost everyone tries to copy the last person that figured out how to make a buck.

Making a buck in the jizz biz isn't hard. All you have to do is:

A. Create something original that the consumer can't get anywhere else
B. Figure out how to let the consumer know you've got it
C. Figure out how to get your product to the consumer and get his money

All anyone has to do is think around the problem and then after they figure out how to do everything they should keep their mouths shut to avoid the copy cats devaluing their product.

Markul · 03-25-2019, 11:45 AM

This place. Back then. Now. Fucked.

Mr Pheer · 03-25-2019, 08:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by escorpio

Waking up and seeing how much money I made sleeping.

Or going to have a nice lunch with your friends, and then you check stats and you made more while having lunch than the lunch with your friends cost.

I can still do that but it has to be the local Thai place with the lunch special. And my friends can't come.

brassmonkey · 03-25-2019, 08:58 PM

epass! you could transfer a shitload of money for 50 fucking cents

03-23-2019, 11:15 AM	#1
CreamyMedia So Fucking Banned Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 121	Retro thread - What do you miss from say 10 - 15 years ago in this biz? I remember every morning checking my sites and trading scripts (UCJ) and ensuring all was good with the MGP's. Fuck it was so easy then!

03-23-2019, 11:23 AM	#2
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03-23-2019, 11:33 AM	#3
Rochard Jägermeister Test Pilot Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: NORCAL Posts: 72,858	This board used to be full of pictures of naked chicks, chicks who got naked for a living, people having fun, people making money, and people doing business. Someone the other day told me that "porn is dead". I disagree. I work for YNOT Mail, and just over half of our customers are adult. I speak to pornographers every day, and they tell me how much money they make off of mailers. People are still making money. __________________ “The choice is no longer between right or left. The choice is between normal and crazy.” - Sarah Huckabee Sanders YNOT MAIL \| THE BEST ADULT MAILING SOLUTION

03-23-2019, 11:59 AM	#7
GAMEFINEST Make STACK$ Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: sexy time Posts: 14,418	Its hard now. Quality over quantity __________________ Compound interest.

03-23-2019, 12:26 PM	#9
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03-23-2019, 12:05 PM	#8
kane Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: portland, OR Posts: 20,684	There was a time from late 1999 to early 2001 I had figured out how to land on the front page of Altavista for just about any adult search term. It would only last a few days, maybe a week, and someone would replace me and I would fall way down the results, but the traffic on those days was great. I just churned out site and after site. I also miss the almost instant traffic of the TGPs. Submit a gallery on Monday and get 50K+ visitors to it on Tuesday.

03-23-2019, 12:29 PM	#10
beerptrol Confirmed Asshole Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Half way between sobriety and fubar. Posts: 12,722	Elite tgp parties __________________ “If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.” -- Ulysses S. Grant

03-23-2019, 01:16 PM	#11
CaptainHowdy Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Happy in the dark. Posts: 92,999	Making a killing with just a simple gallery . . . __________________ FLASH SALE INSANITY! deal with a 100% Trusted Seller Buy Traffic Spots on a High-Quality Network 1 Year or Lifetime — That’s Right, Until the Internet Explodes!

03-23-2019, 01:30 PM	#12
SilentKnight Megan Fox's fluffer Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: shooting pool in Elysium Posts: 24,818	I miss the currency exchange of 2003. U.S. to Cdn was about $1.40 and every revenue cheque was like found money.

03-23-2019, 01:58 PM	#15
Sabby Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 2,888	I miss the normal people. Too many idiots now. __________________ Fuck off

03-23-2019, 02:04 PM	#16
CurrentlySober Too lazy to wipe my ass Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: A Public Bathroom Posts: 38,499	Personally, although I had THE TIME OF MY LIFE.... I don't actually miss anything... Life's about moving forward - Not looking back... __________________ My AI Handywork... My Dream Gal... XXX 👁️ 👍️ 💩

03-23-2019, 02:15 PM	#18
brassmonkey Pay It Forward Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Yo Mama House Posts: 76,936	the people... most people here are friendly. when epass fell we all did __________________ TRUMP 2025 KEKAW!!! - Support The Laken Riley Act!!! END DACA - SUPPORT AZ HCR 2060 52R - email: brassballz-at-techie.com

03-23-2019, 02:57 PM	#19
redwhiteandblue Bollocks Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Bollocks Posts: 2,792	The Nasty Dollars threads. __________________ Interserver unmanaged AMD Ryzen servers from $73.00

03-23-2019, 03:08 PM	#20
Mr Pheer Living inside your head. Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: In your AirBNB Posts: 20,468	Flying on private jets and the cool shit that showed up at Christmas like buckets of Lobsters and 21yr old Scotch, even though I don't drink.

03-23-2019, 06:39 PM	#24
Brad Mitchell Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Southfield, MI Posts: 9,811	My thin physique Brad __________________ President at MojoHost \| brad at mojohost dot com \| Skype MojoHostBrad 71 industry awards for hosting and professional excellence since 1999

03-23-2019, 09:46 PM	#26
huey Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: vancouver Posts: 3,644	Wearing flip flops and a baseball cap to the office for 10 years. __________________ opinions are like assholes................. "They aren't after me, they are AFTER YOU! Im just in their way" -D.J. Trump

03-23-2019, 10:06 PM	#27
Sabby Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 2,888	My sanity? __________________ Fuck off

03-23-2019, 10:57 PM	#28
Spunky I need a beer Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: ♠ Toiletville ♠ Posts: 133,919	Hookers and Blow! I hated being treated like a piece of meat __________________ *Skype : Spunky GFY*

03-23-2019, 11:04 PM	#29
Centurion Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: SeATtle Posts: 6,033	Pathfinder...lol __________________

03-24-2019, 03:50 AM	#31
Klen Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Little Vienna Posts: 32,235	Mostly my SE rankings.

03-25-2019, 03:55 AM	#36
Paul Markham Too old to care Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: On the sofa, watching TV or doing my jigsaws. Posts: 52,943	The money. Back in 2004 it was easy to make $10,000s a week and more for those elite few. Anyone with a brain knew how to create and submit a gallery and get a lot of great traffic. The huge conventions were proof of how good it was, today it's a lot harder to make a living. To compare media buyers incomes with paysite owners incomes is stupid. __________________ Blowout deal. 880 videos, 2,400 image sets, plus many RAW videos. $500. PM me for a deal. Skype Paulmarkham70

03-25-2019, 07:09 AM	#37
2MuchMark Videochat Solutions Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 48,540	Miami Internext!!!!! Bikini Hotties, limos, boats, naked chicks at the pools, hot tubbing until sunrise, big-assed glasses of Mojitos at the TooMuchMedia tent, Jet Skiing, Mansion Nightclub, Sun & Surf, Cirque de Noir... miami04 Miami05 FUBAR Webmasters :: FUBAR Events ...sigh.

03-25-2019, 07:16 AM	#38
escorpio I love to racism, bro! Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: USA! USA! USA! Posts: 22,812	Waking up and seeing how much money I made sleeping. __________________ Unvaxxed, still alive.

03-25-2019, 07:34 AM	#39
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	The sound of the Fedex guy dropping my weekly ClickCash cheque on the tiles of my front porch. He didn't bother to try slip it under the door, or knock, just dropped it. Cost me an extra $30 per week ($1560 per year) to get it delivered express to Australia, but back then, it was worth it.

03-25-2019, 08:26 AM	#40
celandina Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 11,351	The 29 dollar DVDs we used to sell to DVD shops.

03-25-2019, 08:31 AM	#41
Xena252 Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Toronto Posts: 174	Life was good back then

03-25-2019, 11:41 AM	#42
notinmybackyard Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 3,230	The problem with the jizz biz is that almost everyone tries to copy the last person that figured out how to make a buck. Making a buck in the jizz biz isn't hard. All you have to do is: A. Create something original that the consumer can't get anywhere else B. Figure out how to let the consumer know you've got it C. Figure out how to get your product to the consumer and get his money All anyone has to do is think around the problem and then after they figure out how to do everything they should keep their mouths shut to avoid the copy cats devaluing their product. __________________ *officially retired as of March 01 2018 but still fucking around and getting into shit.*

03-25-2019, 11:45 AM	#43
Markul Likes Pie Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: The land that liberated porn Posts: 12,402	This place. Back then. Now. Fucked.

03-25-2019, 08:58 PM	#45
brassmonkey Pay It Forward Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Yo Mama House Posts: 76,936	epass! you could transfer a shitload of money for 50 fucking cents __________________ TRUMP 2025 KEKAW!!! - Support The Laken Riley Act!!! END DACA - SUPPORT AZ HCR 2060 52R - email: brassballz-at-techie.com