|
Quote:
|
Quote:
|
|
Quote:
It is always good to see the old timers still hanging out here. I had one other question for you if you don't mind. Knowing what you now know, if you had a limited budget and were going to start over from scratch what would you focus on. Would you go the paysite route again? Maybe cams? Clip stores? Just work as an affiliate and try to build up a traffic network? Or maybe something all together different. |
Name ten people still actively working in the adult industry who you believe have 'what's best for the industry ' high on their priority list.
People who are interested in more than this month or this quarter. If you think there are more than ten, who are your top ten... Thanks |
Is there light at the end of the tunnel? =)
|
Quote:
Things change. If you look at successful mainstream internet companies from 10 or 15 years ago and where are they today? Some are still doing well. Many are probably out of business. They've been replaced by new companies that have jumped on new opportunities that have come up. It's not 2009 anymore. I think it's important for people to maximize their returns on what used to work but also know when to move on and start looking and new opportunities. For example if you made 10k a month submitting galleries to tgps in 2005, and you made 7k a month in 2009 and you make 3k a month now. There probably isn't much you can do to get that 3k back to 10k with tgps. But there are probably other things you can try that may help you start clawing your way back up. |
Quote:
|
Quote:
That's a great question but far too long an answer I think and to top it off I'm a little out of practise and generally really bad and turning my ideas for design into words LOL ask my former staff :winkwink: Here are some of my thoughts on each. Tour page I think it's important to cater the tour page the to traffic hitting it. You have someone coming from a Lisa Ann video on RedTube don't have the first 10 girls they see be blonde, flat, 18 year olds. It's hard enough to sell to catered traffic never mind trying to sell everyone with one approach. Cater the tour page and try to show what you are about. I am a big fan of a tour page that grows and changes as the site grows and changes. It's important for prospective members to see that your site is a living breathing animal. I think many of your best members might not join the first time they see your site. You are going to have to earn their trust. It's a marathon not a race. If they don't join today that's not the end of the world. Join Page Join page is interesting. You have to a/b test non stop. We tried so many things I thought would never work and I was proven wrong. Test test test and test some more. Any time not testing is a potential lost opportunity. Clean pages are best. As simple as you possibly can would be the way I'd opt for. Members Area I built Twistys members area based on the Karups members area. A huge vast area that seemed never ending. So many members areas have a finite feel to them. I think it's important for the members area to be so well laid out and so easy to navigate that there are no moments of doubt in the members head. You want to make sure your best content rises to the top. It's obviously important to have a chronological aspect to your site so steady members can always see what's new. But you always want to be sure new members don't only judge your site and your most recent update but also on your best available content. Just because a video was uploaded 2 years ago doesn't make it any less hot to somebody who is seeing it for the first time. Also you have to be a lot like google. You want your member to be able to search for exactly what they are looking for but also you have to show them something that you think they may want even if they don't even know it. We built that feature into Twistys a long time ago before it was easy to do. Nowadays it would be even easier. Cater to them. Clean layout. The funny thing is the cleaner the layout the less shit you'll take for any ads you add to the members area if done right :winkwink: |
Quote:
|
Quote:
End of the day we need a striker that can score :disgust |
Everyone should be taking advantage of this thread!
Hi Shap! :) |
Quote:
|
Quote:
|
have you ever boned a tranny?
|
Hey Shap, cool thread... one question I got is if you could touch on your drive. It seems like your were always pushing forward and never satisfied with stagnating. That's something a lot of people in this life, myself included, have a hard time dealing with. When you're working at home for yourself, it's not always easy to push yourself if you're content with your situation.
So what kept you motivated besides the money/material things? |
Quote:
|
And Shap, I hope your enjoying your life, you and your partners!
|
|
Do you think you WON GFY Hall of Fame award... I predict you did ;)
|
Quote:
|
Quote:
|
Interesting thread, lots of good reading :thumbsup
|
Thanks Shap! I really appreciate this because Im in a bad spot and working to get out of it.
**My goal is to earn $100k by the end of December. is this possible? How I was going to do it: I have 5 dating websites. 2 mainstream sites - older people (like senior friend finder) and Christian. 2 sites for men who like to dress as women 1 for gay hookups which one would you focus on, or would you focus on promoting all 5? what would you do to promote them and get them off the ground? I know you started from nothing and worked your tail off to build an empire and I want to do the same. I dont know *exactly* how to spend my 10 hours a day building my empire I also have $5k in savings I can use to start promoting and get things moving quicker. Or I could do something besides dating, but I *really* want to hit 100k by the end of 2014 and get my life back on track. I have no distractions and can work 16 hour days if I need to. this is more important to me than friends or anything to distract me. Thanks, yay Shap! |
Quote:
|
Quote:
With foot fetish traffic my sites convert well and retention is great. This is very small business. I know sites are small and microniche, design is not the best, promo tools also. I also know I have very good quality content that can sell really well with the right traffic. |
Quote:
Be prepared to spend $5000 to make $5500. |
1) How much did you sell your business for? We all want to know :) Even a ballpark figure
2) Have you invested any money into Bitcoin? I've noticed you ask a few questions about it on GFY 3) Are you getting bored with being retired? Has money bought you happiness? i.e. having the total financial freedom to do whatever you want 4) Where you see the internet heading in the next 5 years? i.e. Name 3 industries you'd focus your time and money if you where going to start a new business online today 5) What's your best piece of advice for expanding a business with new staff, especially if you're the type of personality that's a control freak who has trouble trusting other people to perform key tasks. 6) What are the 3 key things you've learnt in business from working in the adult industry? |
Quote:
http://d25yla7xp697oa.cloudfront.net...644_lukaku.jpg |
Where did you stay in the South of France?
How did it feel to finally bench press over 300lbs? How big was your boner when you met Gary Vaynerchuk (i love him) and did he say anything to inspire you? |
one fifty
|
How does it feel to have all that money and yet have no direction in life? Waiting around for something to interest you, trying this and that but not getting too excited about anything...how does that feel? Emotionally, do you regret the sale? I ask because, with Twistys, that was your "life's work", YOUR vision, YOUR thing. Now it's someone else's and it sounds like you have yet to find a new gig to replace the Twistys passion.
Lastly, have you considered offering Manwin a couple million to buy Twistys back? I mean, how much can Twistys "mean" to Mind Geek now? What's Twistys doing for them, really? Maybe they'd like to get rid of it.... After all, didn't the guy you worked with, who created and ran GayTube, come on GFY recently begging Manwin to let him run the site again? Why not just offer Mind Geek a (low) sum and take it all back? It's still a Win for the Shapster. :) |
Quote:
|
Quote:
:winkwink: |
Quote:
|
Quote:
|
Quote:
Shap has said he's invested in a few start-ups, nothing major. Has spent most of his time traveling. Comes on GFY a shocking amount of time for someone who's made millions and should be POOF long gone. Has said if the situation is interesting to him, in Adult, he'd jump back in. Sounds like a man who doesn't know what to do with his time/money. LOL Kids, family, travel etc would be enough for ME to keep my attention, probably for life, but it sounds like Shap is looking for something more to do with his time/life. So I ask. :) |
What is your technique in making sales?
You can email me in private :) |
Quote:
Im sure youre hiv looking ass is gonna be keynote too :thumbsup |
Quote:
As for the GFY award I did vote for you so I hope you do win. |
| All times are GMT -7. The time now is 02:55 PM. |
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.8
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
©2000-, AI Media Network Inc123