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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
What new businesses have you invested in this year -- anything interesting?
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Troll note: made the Aspie test?
Investments: The cam sites go auto pilot with 1 CEO (spends time collecting star wars fan material), 1 admin (mostly to register new models), and me part-time (mostly to do nothing, except sarcastic comments to carders and cheating affiliates - I do mainstream stuff really most of the time, never been a wholly adult guy). Cam CEO just collected profits past few years, with no any "investment". Except some media buying in 2011 or 2012... last investment in past 3 years was few $100's of developers to implement Skype plugin a month ago. Cam site just pays affiliates and models the $$ it should (which is what counts), and runs auto. There is no point in being into internet business if you work every day, it must run auto. And should not require to re-invest often.
Actually, specific to these last cam sites, I advised not to invest, and just to collect profits instead. That's a strategy. It worked so far. I also told several others who approached me in the past years, asking for help to open a cam site, about the minimum money needed and the risks associated. None opened a cam site, and instead been successful elsewhere.
I advised to invest instead to met-art at the time, and I think it was worth the results, at the time. There is a time to invest, and one to collect profits. I would advise to invest today's site, if the site it was bigger (to try do big change in market), or smaller (to avoid it dies), or else reason to think that investing $X one would get back $X plus more. But I honestly think the risk to waste money in investing in adult (in general, including TLDs I guess - where XXX initial sales may have been a special case because the first one) is too high. Who got a cash cow in adult, small or big, better to just get the cash, and not fix what works with cash you could keep for yourself or invest in gold, or even bitcoin.
I know of opportunities in mainstream for a $2M, but that's off topic in GFY. The reality is that there is not much happening in adult in past 5 years because who got big cash, it knows they should invest elsewhere than adult.