Has anyone here started a non-adult business and made money?
 

I just found a business opportunity. Another one. This shit is so easy. For less than $20k startup I can have a multi-million dollar company in less than 6 months. WOW.

Talk to Bdjuf about pyramid schemes

yes, our mainstream stuff we started in august 2003 cleared 1 mil in 2004.

Thats what we do...mainstream development (adult designs and scripting on the side :) )

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Interesting..

Nice

Wanna fill me in? :)

If it's to good to be true then it is! :2 cents:

Hit me up.
I will invest if its worth it.

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I been running an none adult business for a few years now it has been paying of very well.

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Keep that up kid.


9-5 is for you.

Because Detoxed needs your $

Its not too good to be true, too good to be true is $1 can make $1 billion in 14 minutes, or 90% of you finding a girlfriend.

I need everyones money. I want everyones money.

I've tried and failed...think I'll stick to adult

Well its dead simple:

if there are 5000+, webmasters pushing the same sex sites and making little to decent money just imagine what you can do with a product or service that you alone are pushing.

The only big difference between sex and any other product is that you ahve to push it (sex is a pull product, or was.. with all the saturation and competition even this isnt much of an advantage during the marketing process).

Another great advantage of sex is that its a perfect subscription service as in : rebills. But again due to the saturation of the market thats easily compensated by high volumes sales of a product with less competition.

To be honest if i had to start something new *from scratch* i could easily think of 100s of nonadult ideas but not one adult idea that would take off and be profitable within 3-6 months.

My first non-adult business had sales of more than $400 million in 2003. Unfortunately I sold it 25 years ago and sales back then were only just into 7 figures. It has also changed hands and been merged with other services several times since (it's part of Deutsche Post now), and bears little resemblance to what I began.

Even so, I can't help getting a kick knowing the brand name is still around and although the logo is a different color, it's otherwise unchanged.

im with mrthumbs on this.

holla fo shizzle !

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hmmm, mainstream.

you know, I'll bet if you took an adult mindset and entered mainstream you could make a killing.
I wonder why no one has thought this yet. :1orglaugh

I'm not even talking about internet, I'm talking about ANY non-adult business. Most people here just cant hack it outside the adult industry, and thats why they are here.

I've run several non-adult businesses
Some have done well.. some not so well..
Everything has always been over the internet though

Before next year though I plan to have my first non-adult brick-and-morter business
Should be interesting

I ran a mainstream e-commerce site/business for awhile. I bought from the client I made the site for as he didn't put any money into marketing it. I had the site #1 - #3 on Google for just about every important keyword ... not that I was/am an SEO guru but I built the site in '97 before everyone and their sister was trying SEO. I had good inbound links from hobby sites, listed in Yahoo/DMOZ and made sure that SEs could index the ASP-based pages. It was aquarium related and for "aquarium supplies" we were #1 for literally 2+ years - even ahead of all the biggies (Pets.com, etc.)

Unfortunately, a victim of my own success (too much time on fulfillment) and a plunging US dollar in 2002/3 killed it. Since 99% of my customers were in the US - I'm in Toronto - I was converting US funds to CDN at 1.5x initially. By early 2003 it was something like 1.35?!? Anyway, my supplier hadn't lowered his prices yet so I was getting crunched badly. Thank goodness I sold it off as now the USD is anywhere from 1.17 to 1.21 here. Ouch.

We do web and print stuff main stream. It is our side business to the adult.

Yes . . . .