What was your biggest noob mistake in this business
 

I know, we've had similar threads before but it's always fun to read them.

Mine prob was when i just entered this industry. 10, 12 years ago or so?
I had my first paysite running, no clue about servers, BW, traffic, etc.
I submitted a "gallery" The Hun. It was just a bunch of clickable pictures that were part of my tour.
Within minutes after getting listed i could smell the smoke coming out of my Raq3 server through my screen :1orglaugh
I quickly uploaded the full sized pics to Geocities and hotlinked the thumbs from my server. And honestly, i had no clue this was wrong. I didn't try to screw anyone over, i was just keeping my server alive :)
Obviously my gallery got removed pretty soon after that and i got banned from The Hun.

I sent him an email explaining i truly didn't do this just to leech someone else's BW and Patrick unbanned me right away...how cool is that :D

Closing down my paysite in 1998, because it was "too much work". (just as things were set to explode).

Posting in one of your threads.
I've never recovered.....:D

Biggest mistake? Fucking models. LOL

Finishing college :1orglaugh

Wtf are you talking about cowboy? My threads are pure gold!

Selling exgfs.com for $100 not even a week after I registered it just before the whole "ex gf" niche exploded. :Oh crap

Bought a domain name, sold it for x,xxx, its now worth xxx lol

getting trolled on gfy :(

How is that a mistake?

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh ...

I remember when domains like www.bukkake.com were available..and i did nothing.

Launching mobile too early: Had done mobile porn site + applications in 2003: custom photos of sinerian girls with phones used as toys, all over color wap + java midlets for motorola's and nokia's (someone remember "j2me" apps?), billing via SMS texts only (was no any Apple or Google stores...), submitted galls on thehun etc... in fact I made this GFY account just to hire someone helping for tgp submissions.
Made really small sales - I had to focus on cams instead - at least sold mobile domains years later for $X,XXX and still own "videomobile.com" and bunch of these.

Not saying adult mobile brings serious sales today yet... does it? :)

ouch :1orglaugh

I don't want to brag but i'm pretty sure i started the whole ex gf thing.
I know most people will be like yeah sure but there are 2 or so people here who can confirm it.

to believe that Jesus will help me

Story of your life.

Not registering more domains in 97/98 and not capitalizing more in the early years to really generate as much revenue as possible when conversion ratios were much better than today.

Me doing a 'dirty turtle' while reading GFY... :(

I did like 60 full price sales on a free Hun listing.

Yup, but back then you didn't realize how big certain things were gonna be.

I used to put a Topbucks banner on top of my site and convert it 1 in 60-100 @ 35 dollahs. It made me shitloads but i wasn't smart enough to exploit it. I thought that would go on forever. It didn't.

Too many domains.

accidentally deleted a whole gallery server, (10k+ galls) was moving too fast in an ftp trying to clean up space, years ago. thank god for back ups

my biggest mistake was entering this industry period.

Biggest mistake I made was not working harder back when money was super easy to make. The money just came so fast that it was easy to slack and still make a lot of money with very little effort.

Second regret was not getting in on the shemale market early on. I was already around all the ladyboys in Thailand and could have been making a killing with them. Instead I was having fun and shooting girls while other guys cleaned house in the shemale niche back before most people even knew what a shemale was.

I left the business for almost two years in 2002. At the time I had a pay site up and some very nice domains which I let go. Another mistake was not working smart but only working hard.

Nice, I remember seeing a thread on a now defunct board about how hot exgirlfriend content was getting and I was like, hmmm whois exgfs.com -> THIS DOMAIN IS AVAILABLE. and bought it... Someone saw and offered me $100 and I stupidly was like "fuck yeah, 10x turn over in 3 days!" and now I slap myself daily for it.

Second mistake was selling my site that was making $150/day for $2,000 upfront in it's first two weeks alive, because I seen the immediate cash and ignored the fact that if it just sustained that much daily, I'd bank $3,000/mo let alone if it grew.

$150/day on 35,000 uniques was good money.


All this happened when I was young and naive. 2004-2005ish.

Iow, you were too busy sucking katoey cock.

Biggest mistake was having far too much fun from 1998 to 2012 because when its time to stop I am going to miss it a lot. :)

created my first images in BMP for some FHG's and chewed through $500 in BW within the first week :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Back in the day 35,000 uniques would easily be $3500+. Man how I miss that. :(

Yup...that's what most people do. The quick money. It makes an easy victim.
The "ex gf" site i had btw had none of those words in the title. Once i started promoting it on The Hun and World Sex etc people started to copy it real fast. Also because i had a bunch of affiliates who found out that it converted like crazy.

Dude, i make way more than that with way less traffic.
It's not a thing of the past.

:1orglaugh Duh. Those cocks don't suck themselves. ;-)

They were everywhere but I didn't start shooting them 2003. Was shooting only females until then. If I had a time machine, I'd totally pass on on working with females and start with the ladyboys and US shemales back in the mid 90's.

Trusting strangers

Checking stats too often.
Not being well organized.

working an hour a day in the early days...because it was enough to make decent money

you don't know me from adam, yo!

Yeah, back then that would've made you a fortune.
Are you never afraid shooting stuff there though? It's highly illegal and besides that the people you shoot there (in general, not just you) are pure scum! The ladyboys are as rough as rough can get. And also the regular bar girls are 100% trouble.

Come again?

Not testing a change I made on one of my join pages on IE, and wondered why my sales were shitty over Christmas.
oh boy. Not good