Business Thread... The Secrets to Our Success ? Revealed in THIS Thread!!!

[FUCK J0EL]

WOW !!

That is one of the best post I've seen in a while.
One of the best in the biz...awesome read Shap !

See you in Vegas ...

[rankscom]

I have a feeling those graphs will look the same another two years from now!!

If only I could invest in "Twistys" stock and make that type of return on my money. ;)

Congrats bro, truly deserved. Hope you and Beth are doin well. We're gonna miss you guys at the show. Hit me up sometime soon!

[Kevin Cunningham]

Originally Posted by grhawkins

Those links still don't load for me. I don't know, it might just be me.

As for my thumb TGP, I'm actually starting out with a style/look like the rest, but I knew absolutely nothing about coding/ftp, the scripts, the licenses and trades until over christmas break when I did a lot of my research. My brother and I are going to run our first thumb sites so we can get familiar with everything and we eventually wanted to create our own site like twisty's. I have twisty's on my list to sign up for as an affiliate :D

I definately have the motivation to do this, as I'm looking for it to help pay for my college. and I won't quite just because of a few bumps in the road!!

Grhawkins, feel free to contact me once you've signed up and I'll approve you right away!

Kevin at Twistys dot com, ICQ: 215-457-848, or call me at my office 416-361-2033. We're happy to help in any way that we can. Talk soon!

[Shap]

Originally Posted by auscguy

awesome post! Its great to read posts like that in here, its like one big family most of the time. I dont post alot as you can see but have been a member going on 5 years and thought Id put in my 2 cents and say thanks!

Thanks for posting and glad you enjoyed it

[Shap]

Originally Posted by Devin

Nice way to kick off the New Year. I especially enjoyed number 1 and
number 8. Treat your business as a serious business, even if you are new
and part time. And dont make excuses.

Check out the story of Chris Gardner "Pursuit Of Happiness" if you want to
see why there should be no excuses.

Thanks for the post.

Hi Devin thanks for the recommendation. I've never heard of that book and someone else also recommended it here. I have to check it out.

[Shap]

Originally Posted by Mr Bond

Just Signed up

I've always been afraid to join your program...

... because...

When I look at your girls...

...
..... I touch My-Self ..... and there goes the day

Mr.Bond

Awesome. We'll take good care of you

[Shap]

Originally Posted by Ghost Rush

Shap, I emailed your thread to our staff. I gave you credit for it though :D

It is just so awesome to see threads like this in the middle of so many dramas, fights and whatever.

Two big thumbs up, again. Sorry for sounding like an asskisser, I just liked it a lot.

Thanks I appreciate it. It took a while to write so it really feels good to get feedback on it

[Kenny B!]

This is a great thread, and a welcome change from all the bs ones on the board

[jact]

Bookmarked for later reading.

Edit: BTW I will be sharing this thread with the entire Homegrown crew, I haven't read it yet, but I know I don't need to, to know it's value. (Plus LM told me it was good :P)

[LadyMischief]

Originally Posted by shap

You know who wrote that then too right? lol

Definitely will be in vegas. See you there

Hey Shap I tried reaching Kevin, maybe you can get in touch? Thanks!

[Shap]

Originally Posted by LadyMischief

Hey Shap I tried reaching Kevin, maybe you can get in touch? Thanks!

Just emailed you

[Sosa]

awesome post shap!

[Martin]

Great post Shap Wish you continued success for years to come.

[chemicaleyes]

Great read, good thread Shap.

[ADL Colin]

I'd say this is the best thread of the past year.

[David - PG]

You now can also purchase this thread as an audio CD, digitally remastered. Here's the cover shot:

[JFK]

Great points sent you an email

[beckie]

Awesome thread!!!

[IWantU_Jeff]

great read!!

[fuzebox]

Holy fuck, what an awesome post

Many of those are the same values I'm applying to my business this year.

[SleazyDream]

everybody i know says twisty's has amazing retention and keeps paying months and months after someone stops promoting them.

good job beth and shap

[Za Ha]

Wow what a great post!!
Congrats on the constant success.

[Altheon]

First I'd like to say that this is an excellent thread Shap! Sadly, this philosophy is new to the adult industry but standard operating procedure for mainstream companies. A quality product and customer service is what this industry is moving towards since the old "take the money and run" business models are less viable due to a maturing market.

Any site that plans to be successful will eventually adopt quality as a mantra or fall to the ones that do.

-A

[aimeesweet]

Great thread Shap

[Hollywood376]

Shap is my Jesus.

[Nismo]

Amazing post Shap. It has inspired me.

[alexg]

good read!

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Altheon

First I'd like to say that this is an excellent thread Shap! Sadly, this philosophy is new to the adult industry but standard operating procedure for mainstream companies. A quality product and customer service is what this industry is moving towards since the old "take the money and run" business models are less viable due to a maturing market.

Any site that plans to be successful will eventually adopt quality as a mantra or fall to the ones that do.

-A

Quality post, to an already quality thread.

[Trixxxia]

shap, as always, you don't fail to provide helpful, factual posts.
The thing I admire most about Shapette and yourself is that you never forgot how you got there. Many people in the biz did.

The thread you just posted is something every site owner or newcomer should read and re-read then build a checklist to go over it monthly to be sure they stay true to the basics and not venture too far away. Solid foundations keep a house standing a long time.

Great thread, as always! My compliments to the Twisty's team on your ongoing success. Well deserved.

[tombarr]

What an insightful and informative post. Certainly an inspiration and motivator.

I was just having this conversation with another webmaster and we were lamenting about how few actual business threads with serious information is posted on this or other boards.

Thanks for a great post!

[Shap]

Originally Posted by spasmo

Excellent post, shap. You reminded me of a few things I had long forgotten.

Thanks Spasmo. We all forget them from time to time. I'm lucky to have realy good people around me that remind me whenever i get off track

[Shap]

Originally Posted by sexykat

Shap you are great. Got so much inspiration from you. Read both yor posts. Even took down some notes. There are not many people who like to give away their secrets and spend so much time in helping others.
I am new to this...been hanging around the forum trying to learn stuff. Now my aim is to start up a nice TGP. Learn the ins and out and then eventually start a paysite.
Will love to learn stuff from you.... you are my idol

Hi SexyKat. Your reply made my day. Thanks. It's always a pleasure to help those that are willing to learn. A large reason we have succeeded the way we have is thanks to people that were willing to spend the time and answer our questions when we were first getting started.

Any questions you have feel free to hit up myself or any of our crew. We'd be more then happy to help you out.

[Shap]

Originally Posted by minusonebit

#12 is very, very true. Couldn't be more true. When you have a breakthrough, you have to double your efforts and not only maintain the current level of activity but plow forward further at three times the pace.

I had (and still have) a mainstream site that I was spinning my wheels on for a couple of years. Then one day I got it wrote up in the media (big publication, nationwide). Traffic poured in and the site became super popular. That was almost two years ago and my traffic has never went down since then, not because I sat on it and "enjoyed the success" but because I never stopped pushing the site, never stopped trying to exchange links, never stopped checking up and never stopped trying to get one more user to sign up and start using the site.


Bookmarked this thread for when I have more time to read instead of skim, but lots of good ideas here. Thanks for posting.

Great experience Minus. I had a similar one with a free site of ours. Many years ago a link trade of ours (Wifey's World) was featured on Dateline. We got 50,000 hits in one night from them. Instead of sitting back and doing nothing i worked my ass off that whole night working link trades. Result was thanks to that one night the traffic on our site went to 17,000 to a sustained 100,000 a day over a few weeks.

[anne]

Awsome thread Thank fucking god for a good business thread ahhhhhhhh i feel like i just had sex ;)

[beta-tester]

An amazing read Shap! I enjoyed reading it and kinda got motivated to kick off my business even more

Cheers!

[mpahlca]

Good read as always Shap, very well written ;)

[uno]

You sure have some amazing threads Shap. I'm glad you give others the opportunity to learn from your success.

BTW, please hit me on icq.

[beemk]

you definitely know what you're doing shap, i wish there was more sites like twistys out there to promote. i just checked my stats remote and you were in my top 5 for last year.

[beemk]

ps, thanks to gfy for telling me to go with revshare on twistys. i ended up making $8+ more per join last year since i didnt use pps.

[spacedog]

Shap.. you made my day.

Now I feel inspired considering how I can relate to much of what you say.

[needlive]

Thank you very much for posting...

Pretty instructive and inspiring writing in one...

Professional

[Shap]

Originally Posted by QuaShe

I think Twistys and Freeones are very much alike.

Great post Shap!

Hey Roald. Our two companies definitely think alike and have alot in common. Looking forward to working much more with you in 2007

[Shapette]

Originally Posted by Pornwolf

Shap, I've been around since the beginning and I must say you have never posted 1 thread that wasn't helpful in a meaningful way. Thanks for that.


(and I'm includng the threads about Mrs. Shap too. They were helpful in another kinda meaningful way... she's hot! )

Thank you Pornwolf, my ego is blushing!

[Dancelina]

thank you
very good thing

[LadyMischief]

Originally Posted by Shapette

Thank you Pornwolf, my ego is blushing!

I know that when he posts "we" you were as much a part of that as anyone. ;) Us ladies need acknowledgement too, and you're an inspiration to many of us, Beth

[Mr Bond]

Originally Posted by shap

Awesome. We'll take good care of you

Quality Content Bro... Choosing Thumbs is hard...

Mr.Bond

[Jamie]

Great info there Shap
Nice post

[LBBV]

Shap, that was an excellent post. You could plug any business into that mind set (and it IS a mind set) and it would work. If someone were to ask me why NationalNet was so successful, it would be many of the same things you listed.

I was looking at your bandwidth graph and it's risen every month since you've been with us. The cool part is that the sales graph you included in this post rose higher and faster than the bandwidth graph each month, which speaks volumes about your business model!

There are those that "get it" and those that don't. Shap is one of those that absolutely "gets it"

[germ]

fantastic read :]

[LiveDose]

Very nice reading and words. Thanks Shap.