Originally Posted by Alice22

Ehhh
Most writers of short stories lost 75-90% of there income from this month.
(after amazon decided to cut the borrows and pay per page read).
So, it's not going to be this way anymore.

Originally Posted by Alice22

What do you mean by "game will change" ? what direction?

Originally Posted by L-Pink

See your own post above.

Everything changes. And changes quickly.

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Originally Posted by Alice22

hehe, well, maybe something specific that i don't know...

Originally Posted by lock

finding time seems i need much more of it.

Originally Posted by sojproductions

Traffic from affiliates, we used to have stacks of good affiliates, most are on auto pilot nowadays and new affiliates dont seem to be interested in our main niche even though it still sells well :/

Originally Posted by sonofsam

I'm the exact same way, and that stuff makes me feel overwhelmed and like there are always 300 things I don't want to do, but have to be done, which makes me lose drive

What works for that is bringing someone on you can delegate that stuff to, do you can focus on the stuff you're good at an actually enjoy. Makes the whole process more fun

Originally Posted by sonofsam

Start a business doing something you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life... or something along those lines.



Shap: Do you still have your lambo?

Originally Posted by Bladewire

Right now my biggest business struggle is trusting others in business.

Over the last 15 years I've given ideas to people I've personally worked with in the industry (not so much online) and things worked out great for them. A good few years of income, both of the really successful ones kind of puddled out slowly over time, as a lot of things do. I have a few close people I've known for years that I trust.

But what I've been focussed in on like a laser the last last month now, none of them can help with as it's a small programming glitch in a software solution for adult. I've put 2 things together that nobody has thought of, and a little bit of code is getting in the way of them working perfectly together, creating the final solution. Fully open source license, all clear. The bit of code I need made, or will create myself, will not be open source.

I'm afraid that if I get a freelancer they will put 2 & 2 together and run with it. My biggest struggle right now is trusting others.

The second struggle I'm seeing ahead, is implementing it in such a way that it gains traction before being copied by others that clearly don't have the best interest of our industry / community at heart. I'm not that guy that has those connections. While it will make a ton of money and turn things around for many people, and I have the enthusiastic support of my biller (NDA), I want it to go right and fly into what it's meant to be, not being stifled by my lack of connections.

Aside from that life is great and Happy 4th of July everybody !! :-D

Originally Posted by Jane-Busty.pl

Have in mind, offline is online's biggest enemy.

Don't let Your biz, which is an online reality, grow with huge offline ballast on the sides.

Spend time and money on Your online reality, get rid of offline heavy ballasts.

Cut off as much as You can from offline which surrounded Your online.

You'll be surprised how much offline shit is around Your biz and sucks on it like vampire.

Then You will be healthy again. ;-)

Originally Posted by Jane-Busty.pl

Have in mind, offline is online's biggest enemy.

Don't let Your biz, which is an online reality, grow with huge offline ballast on the sides.

Spend time and money on Your online reality, get rid of offline heavy ballasts.

Cut off as much as You can from offline which surrounded Your online.

You'll be surprised how much offline shit is around Your biz and sucks on it like vampire.

Then You will be healthy again. ;-)

Originally Posted by Feng-PD

Getting bought traffic to convert. Tried loads of shit without any success.

Originally Posted by Jane-Busty.pl

Have in mind, offline is online's biggest enemy.

Don't let Your biz, which is an online reality, grow with huge offline ballast on the sides.

Spend time and money on Your online reality, get rid of offline heavy ballasts.

Cut off as much as You can from offline which surrounded Your online.

You'll be surprised how much offline shit is around Your biz and sucks on it like vampire.

Then You will be healthy again. ;-)

Originally Posted by Jane-Busty.pl

Originally Posted by Freedom6995

Writing a killer cold call email for a mainstream venture.

Originally Posted by MaDalton

Getting people to answer their mails.

Originally Posted by TwinCities

This is a big problem. It shows the unwillingness people have in this industry to truly want to get anything done. In my mind, managing e-mail is a life skill, and many here just don't have it. I respond to every email that needs or should have a response even if its just a "not a good fit right now."

Originally Posted by Shap

To get clients or investors? Is cold call approach a smart approach?

Originally Posted by MaDalton

Getting people to answer their mails.

Originally Posted by sojproductions

Traffic from affiliates, we used to have stacks of good affiliates, most are on auto pilot nowadays and new affiliates dont seem to be interested in our main niche even though it still sells well :/

Originally Posted by femdomdestiny

Change the format of affiliate newsletter. Put pics in it, we don't have a time to copy paste every link to see is it good for next update. Also, add descriptions of every gallery (few sentences) so we can copy-paste (with some text changes).

Simply, see how cashkaboom is doing.

Originally Posted by mineistaken

This is amazing. So many businesses do not reply to emails. Losing deals left and right.
If you are my employee and you do not reply to emails - you are fired.
Leaving money on the table like that...

Originally Posted by Shap

At the same time I was relieved to not have to carry the stress of an office full of people that rely on me in so many ways. It was a stress that I wasn't comfortable with at that time.

Originally Posted by Barefootsies

That right there is a HUGE responsibility, and I also am glad to be out from under it. A few years back I had 5 part timers, 2 full times, a handful of programmers and designers working on all of my projects. Between servers + programming + payroll I was carrying a lot of responsibility and monthly expense. It was very very stressful having these people livelihood in your hands.

In the past 18+ months, I have had a lot of change and people close to me or that I have known through the years pass away. It has given me a lot of perspective considering I will be 43 this year on how I would like to spend the last 1/3rd of my life.

I have cut almost all staff, server expenses by 90%, and scaled back and back and back to the point that through automation I can still attempt to live a decent lifestyle without that huge monthly recurring nut you have to carry on your shoulders. I am honestly very relived.

What I had thought I wanted a couple of years ago, is not really what I want now. I would much rather invest in life experience (weekend trips, vacations, traveling) and free time with a comfortable life and my friends versus working 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, trying to be the next (fill in the blank). I am much happier now.

Originally Posted by Freedom6995

Writing a killer cold call email for a mainstream venture.

Originally Posted by Shap

Agreed 100% however at the same time how much time is wasted on email? As an example I like MaDalton but when I had Twistys I had 15 madaltons hounding me on email. Eventually you tune out and only tune back in when you need something.

Email is very hard to master imo. I imagine if you are strictly a sales person email should be your specialty. For me it's always been a struggle

Originally Posted by Shap

It's also amazing when you realize what you thought you wanted wasn't really what you wanted.

Originally Posted by mineistaken

Ps: there is a difference between emails that try to sell you something and emails that buys. It is not a big deal to ignore selling emails, but ignoring emails from buying customers is completely different matter. Many companies do that, it amazed me for years

Originally Posted by sojproductions

Traffic from affiliates, we used to have stacks of good affiliates, most are on auto pilot nowadays and new affiliates dont seem to be interested in our main niche even though it still sells well :/

Originally Posted by Markul

If you have hosted mp4 files I can get you both traffic and affiliates hit me up: markul (att1) easyxsites.com

Originally Posted by Barefootsies

Quickly to your point, that is you're assuming they actually get them.

Most of the emails I receive from an adult oriented company end up in my spam folder. I do occasionally peek in there, and assuming your on that first page I might see it. But if not, you could be easily missed depending on how much spam that person gets. I find many, not all, adult webmasters dump their pornographer.com emails into a Gmail account. So they will end up being shit canned more often than not by default.

Food for thought.

Originally Posted by mineistaken

Fair point, but if you run business and provide email to customers - make sure you do not miss any email in your spam folder or whatever.
I mean does it make any business sense to lose half of your customers just because you can not take care of your spam folder?
Spam folder is not an excuse

Originally Posted by mineistaken

Spam folder is not an excuse

Originally Posted by Shap

Agreed 100% however at the same time how much time is wasted on email? As an example I like MaDalton but when I had Twistys I had 15 madaltons hounding me on email. Eventually you tune out and only tune back in when you need something.

Email is very hard to master imo. I imagine if you are strictly a sales person email should be your specialty. For me it's always been a struggle

Originally Posted by Barefootsies

True dat top notch.

However, I am just talking from experience. Most of the adult domain related emails I see are junk boxed. Not because I put them there, the gmail filters do. I do try and check my spam folder every now and then to see if there is something in there that shouldn't be. But, not everyone does that.

The better solution as a business owner (you) would be to make sure your emails are hitting the inbox, and finding a way to track openers and such that way you know they are, or are not, receiving and reading them. You would then be able to follow up accordingly if your emails are not being opened or read. That would actually be a better solution for you if this is a major problem for you as discussed versus waiting on them, assuming they read and do not reply, etc.. It's a no-brainer based on your example.

In short, you invest in your business and take a more proactive approach if this is so critical in regard to them actually being able to receive and read your emails. Especially if it's costing you thousands or whatever was previously cited. For a few bucks, you could resolve this, and follow up by IM or phone if it was that important.

Originally Posted by MaDalton

i started using Sidekick by HubSpot - The Ultimate Email Advantage for important emails to see whether they were opened

Originally Posted by Barefootsies

The better solution as a business owner (you) would be to make sure your emails are hitting the inbox, and finding a way to track openers and such that way you know they are, or are not, receiving and reading them. You would then be able to follow up accordingly if your emails are not being opened or read. That would actually be a better solution for you if this is a major problem for you as discussed versus waiting on them, assuming they read and do not reply, etc.. It's a no-brainer based on your example.

In short, you invest in your business and take a more proactive approach if this is so critical in regard to them actually being able to receive and read your emails. Especially if it's costing you thousands or whatever was previously cited. For a few bucks, you could resolve this, and follow up by IM or phone if it was that important.

Originally Posted by TheSquealer

Finding that drive, hunger and motivation again. That drive that made me lose track of time, work 18 hr days and realize I forgot to eat that day because I was so engrossed in what I was doing.

Originally Posted by geedub

I miss this too.

Originally Posted by takethebluepill

I'm speaking mainly about dating sites, as I tend to spend most of my efforts in that niche. But in the adult arena there are really only 2 that I would ever consider dealing with....Ashley Madison and Adult Friend Finder. Sure, on AFF, the ratio is about 1 female to 20 males....but there are real females, which is more then I can say for the rest of the crap out there.

Originally Posted by Barefootsies

That right there is a HUGE responsibility, and I also am glad to be out from under it. A few years back I had 5 part timers, 2 full times, a handful of programmers and designers working on all of my projects. Between servers + programming + payroll I was carrying a lot of responsibility and monthly expense. It was very very stressful having these people livelihood in your hands.

In the past 18+ months, I have had a lot of change and people close to me or that I have known through the years pass away. It has given me a lot of perspective considering I will be 43 this year on how I would like to spend the last 1/3rd of my life.

I have cut almost all staff, server expenses by 90%, and scaled back and back and back to the point that through automation I can still attempt to live a decent lifestyle without that huge monthly recurring nut you have to carry on your shoulders. I am honestly very relived.

What I had thought I wanted a couple of years ago, is not really what I want now. I would much rather invest in life experience (weekend trips, vacations, traveling) and free time with a comfortable life and my friends versus working 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, trying to be the next (fill in the blank). I am much happier now.

Originally Posted by Barefootsies

Yep. I simply had gotten so caught up in the chase, I did not realize that I could do most of what I really wanted now while I am healthy enough to do it (i.e. traveling). Why chase down $5 million dollar dreams that could be 5/10/20 years away when you can do them making a $100/200/300k?

It seems almost laughable now that I did not see I already had the keys in my hand to what it was I really wanted, and was simply not using them because I had built this prison of responsibility and took my eyes off the ball. I simply was spending 90% of my time on work, and little time on myself or my own happiness.