How many of you have become successful in mainstream, and do you think the skills and talents you learned in adult gave you an edge?

oh man.....here i go...

We're trying

http://www.weekend-jewelry.com

http://www.paperjewels.com

http://www.weekendjewelry.com

Allright now this is just my opinion based on what i have found.

If you truely know your adult stuff and are making money at it, then it should be DAMN NEAR IMPOSSIBLE TO FAIL IN MAINSTREAM.

I have found that the targets i set myself in mainstream have been twice as easy to hit as the targets in mainstream. Im not exactly sure why but i do know that our tech in this industry is pretty advanced, and when stuff comes out in adult it usually takes a couple months for the mainstream guys to spin it.

Bottom line...in mainstream you have less of a worry about coming across "bad zones" that the engines dont like, you also have the ability to market and promote your shit on 100X's as many places. (including the mainstream media)

What you need to look at??

Make sure whatever your gonna promote pays. Very few places offer PPS or even a percentage that i see as worth my time (lots of 7-10% payouts...FUCK THAT NOISE) . But you can also find some gold out there....I have many contacts in mainstream and i will tell you some of the hotspots these guys make good bank in is....

GAMBLING
DATING
FINANCES
REAL ESTATE
MOBILES
HEALTH (adsense ROCKS with some good health shit on them)
SCIENCE (once again an adsense builder)

And my all time favorite one....ohhhh....and...

Fuck that. ..heh


Views expressed are in no way the views or beleifs of Oprano.com. All views and opinions read in this post are solely the proprietary actions of JizBiz. For more information please contact idontgiveafuck@oprano.com

Allright now this is just my opinion based on what i have found.

If you truely know your adult stuff and are making money at it, then it should be DAMN NEAR IMPOSSIBLE TO FAIL IN MAINSTREAM.

I have found that the targets i set myself in mainstream have been twice as easy to hit as the targets in mainstream. Im not exactly sure why but i do know that our tech in this industry is pretty advanced, and when stuff comes out in adult it usually takes a couple months for the mainstream guys to spin it.

Bottom line...in mainstream you have less of a worry about coming across "bad zones" that the engines dont like, you also have the ability to market and promote your shit on 100X's as many places. (including the mainstream media)

What you need to look at??

Make sure whatever your gonna promote pays. Very few places offer PPS or even a percentage that i see as worth my time (lots of 7-10% payouts...FUCK THAT NOISE) . But you can also find some gold out there....I have many contacts in mainstream and i will tell you some of the hotspots these guys make good bank in is....

GAMBLING
DATING
FINANCES
REAL ESTATE
MOBILES
HEALTH (adsense ROCKS with some good health shit on them)
SCIENCE (once again an adsense builder)

And my all time favorite one....ohhhh....and...

Fuck that. ..heh


Views expressed are in no way the views or beleifs of Oprano.com. All views and opinions read in this post are solely the proprietary actions of JizBiz. For more information please contact idontgiveafuck@oprano.com [/b][/quote]
:wnw:


I'd add meds to that list :)

:wnw:


I'd add meds to that list :) [/b][/quote]
errrrr

Actually thats the one i removed from it

:groucho:

But i will add this one.

Psychics (like crack for most people out there)

Oh lord, I'm spending so much time trying to crack adult that I just dont think I could even think of going mainstream right now :( :unsure:

Ummm sorry , but I totally disagree.

In fact I think it is vice vera..

I think most people in thisw business are here :
a) because they are pervs
B) because frankly they failed in mainstream/real world.

I was very successful in mainstream and retired to the spend half my time in Manalapan Florida and The countryside of England.

I had interests in car parks ,tailer parks and a classic car garage.

However...

You get used to a certain standard of living lol...and so my burn rate was prretty high.

Fortunately my brother was online fucking around in 96 as I nagged him to come out into the florida sunshine.

After coating him about being a nerd he informed me "there porn" and so I was in like Flynn. LOL

I went to Persian Kitty saw the banners traced back and say that you could earn from them saw PKs counter , assumed everyone clicked on the banners and though "holy crap , you could get rich doing this" LOL

A perfect way to top up my burning nest egg. :)


I am an opportunist.

I do not just sell porn.Most of my money come from non-adult. I follow the money.

I like the adult world because it is similar to how I made money in the real world.

You can duck and dive , it is unregulated and the competition ain't that great ;-)))

myself included :)

Your not a 'wise guy' are you? :(

I dont see where this is disagreeing...:)

The way you did it was opposite but what you did was the same.

You didnt dabble in mainstream and in adult before finding success but you knew your shit in mainstream BEFOR moving into the opposite field.

Sorry if im wrong. :nyanya:

The difference with those who are 'successfull' in mainstream are apparent.

Many of the webmasters now looking at mainstream from a 'pornslingers' perspective do fail because they do approach mainstream based on what the 'adult industry' has told them 'mainstream' is ;)

In 'mainstream' they dont call themselves 'mainstream' thats how you can tell if a site, product or service is being offered by someone from the 'porn world' ;)

Thankfully we have some success in the mainstream world so far as gleaming the vast amounts of mainstream webmasters, the problem we're now having is turning all of that traffic into $$$ we'll get there, i have no doubt about that, its just going t take a little longer than we had originally anticipated. :)

Your not a 'wise guy' are you? :( [/b][/quote]
No mate...I'm a pikey :)

So I'm wondering here JixBiz how much did you make in adult before you decided to go into mainstream and how mush are you making in mainstream?

And between adult and mainstream what kind of income are we talking about... nothing motivates better than seeing what other people are accomplishing..

I should add that Ive watched Nick from waay back when Netpond was C.O.N.D.O.M and I know he is making money!

There are a lot of specialty niches in mainstream just like adult as well...
one I'm pursuing with a partner is http://www.loadbase.com
it's not quite complete yet, but very close.

There are an over 10,000 trucking companies and owner/operators and over 3500 registered freight brokers and they are 5-10 years behind on techonology and eager to learn (when motivated by money ;-))

Nice idea sykk! :)

:( Thats even worse


:lol:

i've had a bit of luck in mainstream:)


the two are different animals. sure if you are going to be an affiliate in mainstream the dynamics arent that different, but your business model is the same, the product just change, that isnt starting a mainstream business, its just being an affiliate for someone else who has (nothing wrong with that at all, lot of people have done extraordinarily well)

membership model + upsells + future offline products like kiosks and wireless internet services
it also helps that my partner in the project has been in the trucking/transport business for over 30 years and his family has been for 80 years

and this is in addition to the other project you heard a few things about but they can also be intermingled ;-)

membership model + upsells + future offline products like kiosks and wireless internet services
it also helps that my partner in the project has been in the trucking/transport business for over 30 years and his family has been for 80 years

and this is in addition to the other project you heard a few things about but they can also be intermingled ;-) [/b][/quote]
Speaking of which.. how close are you with what we mentioned about Wisconsin?

Speaking of which.. how close are you with what we mentioned about Wisconsin? [/b][/quote]
prototypes are being built as we speak and should be ready first part of May :)
then our $$ guy writes a bigger check

The kind of answers I'd like to know as well :)

The kind of answers I'd like to know as well :) [/b][/quote]
In every community there are subjects that genteel people just don't talk about.

How much are you making is a question that is often asked by newbies but is probably not considered to be in good taste amongst adult webmasters.

Apart from being good taste or not there is no real way to verify the answer and a lot of people that you will see posting on adult webmaster boards and who look like big wheels in the industry are often not what they seem.

In every community there are subjects that genteel people just don't talk about.

How much are you making is a question that is often asked by newbies but is probably not considered to be in good taste amongst adult webmasters.

Apart from being good taste or not there is no real way to verify the answer and a lot of people that you will see posting on adult webmaster boards and who look like big wheels in the industry are often not what they seem. [/b][/quote]
I take that as a given but am I really expected to take advice from someone on the basis that the are a mod on a webmaster board?

I think not! Show me that your successful and I'll follow, don't show me.. well then your just another surfer passing time!

Ok lets not go down the lines of 'how much do you make'! But I do want some kind of credentials, what have you accomplished?

Start to finish - built and sold with!

I don't know what goes on in secret talks and I don't know you from Adam but you're all over here offering advice and I want to know if the advice is good. If it's not then don't be a wanna-guru!

Well once again it seems that you may be disappointed - this is the adult internet where we are in the business of selling illusions and fantasies.

Some of us even do that when selling ourselves.

The best you can hope for is to take what anyone here may tell you and then weigh it up against common sense, what others say and what you may have learned from your own personal experiences.

But there is one over-riding test that you should apply to everything you are told here or on any other board and that is if it sounds too good to be true then it probably is.

Oh ... and don't ask us to show you what we have already built - that's jsut inviting someone to copy our work and I'm sure every one of us here have had that happen on too many occasions.

In every community there are subjects that genteel people just don't talk about.

How much are you making is a question that is often asked by newbies but is probably not considered to be in good taste amongst adult webmasters.

Apart from being good taste or not there is no real way to verify the answer and a lot of people that you will see posting on adult webmaster boards and who look like big wheels in the industry are often not what they seem. [/b][/quote]
I never wanted to step over the line and I do understand that this topic is over that line :(

I do feel that Pro_Zac does have good point though and I'd like to hear any answers that JizBiz is willing to provide :)

I am a net God.

I have earned over 15million USD Dollars in this business (Gross)

Ask me a question I know everything :)

(true or false?)

;-)))

I actually started in mainstream and came over to adult. Did ok my first year and a half but snorted it all up like an idiot. Back on track now though. :awinky:

Well once again it seems that you may be disappointed - this is the adult internet where we are in the business of selling illusions and fantasies.

Some of us even do that when selling ourselves.

The best you can hope for is to take what anyone here may tell you and then weigh it up against common sense, what others say and what you may have learned from your own personal experiences.

But there is one over-riding test that you should apply to everything you are told here or on any other board and that is if it sounds too good to be true then it probably is.

Oh ... and don't ask us to show you what we have already built - that's jsut inviting someone to copy our work and I'm sure every one of us here have had that happen on too many occasions. [/b][/quote]
Then make me a mod because I can build 2000 money making site per hour!

I call bullshit!
:angry:

After watching you over the years Id have to say false - its got to be so much more than that!

if my brain were veal, how much would it cost?

if my brain were veal, how much would it cost? [/b][/quote]
How big is your head?

if my brain were veal, how much would it cost? [/b][/quote]
Free Range veal or factory grown veal?

I'm sure though that it would be vealy good :)

How big is your head? [/b][/quote]
Stay tuned my friend im typing as you read this....

How big is your head? [/b][/quote]
see, if nick knows everything, hed already know that, therein lies the rub lol;)

I rock a size 8 Buckeyes cap though:)

Are you in a bad mood Pro?
You seem very pissed off :huh:

I’m with The_Other_Steve on this, you either take the advice or you don’t.

If you asked me to prove anything you would get pissed off with me telling you to fuck off!

JixBiz has no need to prove anything, no one here has… but we all have advice to offer and 99.9% of the time it’s good advice.

Either take it.. or don't!

Allright first off... If anyone of the people OFFERING advice in this thread are newbies that would probably be me.

History.

2 and a half years ago i clicked that elusive "webmaster" link and signed up for Nasty Dollars. Like many newcomers i chased the dream and built galleries and tried my luck at TGPS (like most newbies)

I VERY VERY soon realised that tgp was not the best business model if you were interested in quality reliable traffic. So i embarked on a journey to study traffic generation and hunt down the "best" traffic.

This lead me into SEO and to things like blogs. I can tell you straight up that i spent well over 60 hrs a week for 16 months, studying serps and backlinks on every fuckin page i built plus everyone i could find, listed that i didnt make.

I LEARNT my market, i learned how to attack it, how to intice it, and how to sell it. I focused on one thing and still i strive toward that one thing, the one goal i had for myself, to be able to generate traffic at will from the search engines, the golden traffic.

BUT point in story...i pursued what i was after relentlessly, i didnt sidetrack to try a mgp or sidetrack to try out mailing..i focused on what i wanted as a finished product. Im still not done.


Now it seems everyone here wants to talk about money. I have only officially been fulltime at my online business for less then 4 months. My trade was an electrition (over 10yrs) and my last contracted job was for 43$ an hour plus benefits. I will never need to twist another screwdriver if i choose not to. When the union calls and offers 45 an hour plus 125 travel a day i can just laugh...They could double that salary and it would be less then i make now after 4 months fulltime in my online business.

IT IS NOT EASY, this isnt something that just happens, be prepared to bust your ass and spend more time working for yourself then you ever worked for anyone, otherwise you have allready lost the battle.

But if your good it will all pay off dividends.

As far as calling bullshit, well to each there own, i have nothing to prove to anyone here, and definately would NOT post any official earnings or any of my money making sites. If you would like to talk in private THAT is a diferant story.

Well put JizBiz :okthumb:

But we should get together and do some 'real' world things because I'm a mechanical engineer by trade and your a sparky :)