Any pictures of the loft? I'd like to see it:thumbsup

awesome story.
i kinda feel what you are saying with "SCALE. if you have something, anything, that works, scale that cocksucker up to as high as it will go."

well done and enjoy life at the fullest! you deserve it.

Nice to hear somebody who got out at their peak. Since your uw and uws domains point to nowhere, have you ever considered selling them?

Great success story. Not being a ball buster but why would you retire so quickly? If I was retired, i doubt I'd be posting here on a regular basis. Are you sure 2005 isn't when you should have retired? :1orglaugh jk

yeah, i thought about it, but honestly, don't really want to part with them. i know, sounds gay (probably is), but i just don't feel the need to sell them. i've had plenty of offers though.

iusers.com is for sale though ;)

dude, i have gaps of 3-4 months when i don't post here at all. my real posting days are over, that's all in the past. sure i fire the odd comment here and there (i actually find gfy to be one of the best news sources on the internet, as well as nice place to shoot the shit about whatever). i still use the internet, and this place is a place i have been posting to for almost 10 years. i doubt i will ever completely leave it until it shuts down.

I hear that. I still come here for entertainment. Haven't posted for months up until yesterday.

Did you ever try a higher price? 29.95 or even 39.95? Was there a reason not to use 19.95 and use 18.95 instead?

Don't you find it "boring" not having to do any sort of work\manage stuff?

Dont you miss having some "work stuff to do"?

Hello AndreJ! :hi:smilie_we

For some reason I always thought your empire was a 1 man show. Good read.

:drinkup

I'm glad life has treated you well:winkwink:

Nice read. :thumbsup

Hey Quiet,

If you had to start from scratch today, how would you do it? What's your take on the industry these days?

Thanks :)

i never charged more than 19.95 (briefly). 18.95 seemed, i'm just guessing, for your average porn surfer, to save a buck, and yet get a quality product. it certainly worked for us.

i have tons of shit to do man. i have to manage money, constantly, i didn't lose any money in the current economic crash, that's because i am all over it.

i am going to start a new small biz here in Whistler, it sounds boring, but it's something really needed in this pain in the ass resort town.

as already stated, i also enjoy traveling the world, reading, snowboarding, downhill biking, hiking, and lots of other things. i am definitely not bored :glugglug

in adult? i would be working the mobile shit.

but i won't ever get involved again, i just push my old traffic and bank a little on that. i'm on to new things now, i feel for you guys. is there a way for a small guy to make milions in adult internet at this point? i'm sure there is, but damn, would not be easy.

Great read! Very inspirational and informative. Congrats on your success.

Solid story, that was good reading.

gfy 4 life

I need $ 100 ...

I was talking single sites, not aff. programs.

I remember that one of the things that set your site apart was that it had a TON of content compared to 99% of paysites at that time. Back then every paysite was using the same crappy Holio plugins, and images that were shot in the 80s. This was considered to be a standard full paysite members area back then which had zero value in it. You completely ignored that format and instead had lots of quality full length videos updated regularily. It seems like a no-brainer to build a rep with surfers and make solid income, yet it was extremely rare at that time.

I think that falls under, WTF was it? 'The Ultra Promise'?

very interesting :thumbsup

btw what is the hun?

long live a good webmaster ;)

It was on video encoding. :)

ah. well then, you are probably right. i do remember the biggest one of all time, what the hell was the name? wetlands or something along that line. i heard that couple made around 50 million or more.

sent you an email Jimmy

Thanks for the answer...a few more questions, if you don't mind. How much did you spend monthly for traffic, hosting, content? Each separately would be great.

this is totally off of the top of my head (i shut the site down 4 years ago lol), but, traffic costs... had to have been 50-60K a month. probably more. hosting was pretty huge, after we'd got all of the servers and hardware we needed, around 35-40K a month, could be more. if DavidD is around, he can probably remember. content was pretty expensive, we gave up our dvd/retail rights to it, just exclusive internet rights, and shot a couple of hours a week. i'm guessing 20-25K a month or so.

why do you even want to know? the adult industry has changed so much since then, it's not going to help you in anyway. weird.

good story

What in your opinion is the reason for the big decline in sales/conversions in adult?

Lots of people blame tubes/recession which do play a part. I think it's the product quality.

What do you say?

One thing about BC I miss is Whistler... use to go up there quite often when I lived in Vancouver.

excessive free porn, cheap bandwidth, no real copywrite inforcement.

LOL. Is The King really Pathfinder, or is that a bunch of BS?

It didn't change that much, really. Most niches don't convert now, but its just because they got boring. Hollywood movies from the 90s wouldn't make shit nowadays in theaters, too. The only thing that really changed is super cheap bandwitch(thanks to the tubes, I guess) and some traffic is cheaper, too. Other than that, adult is still rocking.

hmm, it hasn't changed that much? that an interesting take on things. i still push traffic, and it seems to be a completely different landscape vs 4 years ago.

anyway, cheers.

I think your story is amazing as so few people can walk away from something after they have hit their goals.