Big deal, Like nobody has seen Rob and Richard banging in my backyard before.. lmao

Atleast the slide and the firepits are being put to use right?

wow that looks like a blast !

cool interview !!

hahaha, exactly!


Baddog.. I hear ya
I felt kinda bad but didn't have time to resize them

i liked him better when his hair was long... he had that whole Tarzan thing working for him... :321GFY

Any regrets so far Mike?

Awesome. Fabulous interview Sleazy and Mike!! :)

If you like World of Warcraft you should check out Guild Wars. Definately my favorite of the two.

that video is awesome!

Awesome interview :thumbsup

Very nice interview mike

Weboverdrive is the most comprehnsive tutorial/webmaster board on the web next to ynot. Good stuff. It helped me tons back in the beginning years ago. Thanks Mike.

Great interview of a great guy!!!

xoxo

Cool interview. Love the pics. :thumbsup

Is most of your traffic internally generated or affiliate generated? Does Silvercash own TGPs/MGPs?

Great interview!

LAMike, if you dont mind, what's the name of the language training center you went to in Utah? I'd be interested in checking it out.

biggest regret was not buying more domains in the begining. And not starting sooner then I did

I'll check it out for sure

thanks a ton



And Thanks Aimee!! You guys rock!!

Mike33. Most of our traffic is definately driven from out webmasters. We do have some of our own traffic and we do have a TGP, domains etc.

Alright.. Just got home from a night of softball. I'll do the rest in the morning :)

Cool interview. :thumbsup Love the car pics.

It's amazing how similar some of the stories are for many of the successful paysite/program owners.

At least Steve (lightspeed), Brad (siccash), and now Mike of Silvercash said their first site(s) were launched using interent content. Good thing there wasn't any 2257 back then eh boys? :winkwink:

I promoted AVS sites in '99 and yes I also used internet content, lol. It really was the wild wild west online back then. :)

Crazy when someone does the same to them in a much smaller way and they flip out, C&D and sue, sue, sue them... or just flame them really bad.

its peculiar to say the least :2 cents:

Mike very rad interview.... your a great guy and have become a good friend to me!!! I love ya' for that!

:thumbsup Whitney

Honestly I didn't really know better until someone told me :)

Nope I just go to their house and slap them around a bit. No need for C&D's :)

Honestly though I might cut a guy some slack depending on the situation. You also have to realize there is a ton of ways to get free and cheap content. There is also educations sites and actual rules and regs and laws posted all over the place. When we started there was barely an internet and I was on a 9600 baud dialup. :)

Thanks Whit... you rock and you know I love ya girl! :)

26. What's the relationship with Bangwang?


Back when I first started and was doing the whole circle jerks thing I was using a shared webserver with a number of other people from a local dialup who all hosted their home pages on the same server. Bangwang (Richard) was also hosted there. After I started getting my circle jerk sites going in just a month maybe I started pushing some good traffic. So much that I took down my providers server. They called me and told me they had to kick me off. I was so bummed because I had just built up a nice circle of traffic and was making some money. They told me that there was another guy in town that had just done the same thing to them a few weeks earlier. I was shocked to know there was another guy doing the circle jerk game in town. I mean there was only maybe 100 in the world at the time. So I told them to give that guy my number. So one day this guy Bangwang calls me up. We start talking and comparing and I found out he had been at this at least a few months before me and knew alot more then I did. He helped me get setup on dedicated server so I could run my traffic again. I then told him how I had this content and he was "NO WAY, you can't do that" so he invited me to his house and I took a drive over there one day. I pulled up to his house and almost didnt go in. I was a little freaked out by some guy that just met me on the phone and invited me over.. lol So I go knock on the door and this 3 year old kid answers and tells me to come in.. lol I was ok walked in and waited for Richard. Then finally comes out this long hair bearded man. I was like oh shit. Look at this weirdo.. haha (richard has since cut his hair) lol

Anyways Bangwang had this bench setup with multiple computers on it and we smoked cigs and drank pepsis all day and he helped me get setup on some real content. And the only thing I remember that you could buy back then was ZMaster which I think Lee Noga was selling. He also hooked up on FTP and how to use it and some search and replace scrips and some other easy stuff like that. He really did a lot to help me get going and to point me in the right direction. He had some really big free sites of his own and was also a part of Pornholio.

Bangwang taught me a lot and told me that the more people I knew the better and he introduced me to some really key people in the biz including Rick from Ynot and Lars. Although Rick would never let me become a member because all my sites had popups :)

So when the time came that I felt I really needed more help at Silvercash and I needed someone that knew everything I knew to help take some work load off of me I thought of Bangwang. I learned a lot from him and I totally trusted him. Shit I was getting triffic from ynots link list and you werent suppose to have an exit console. But I did and Richard saw it and he went into YNOT and had me removed. I was shocked because he was my bud but he turned me in. LoL..I learned a good lesson and I also learned he was very hosest. So I ended bringing him in to Silvercash and he knows everything I know if not more and has been a HUGE help.

Props to my man and V.P. Bangwang!!!

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Kick ass read !!! Kudos to Scott and LAMike :)

Awesome interview, and congrats on all your success.

I noticed in the backyard pics there was some kids toys and the like. Do you have kids of your own, and if so, what are your thoughts on being in the adult business and being a parent/father.

Being a single father, I love the freedom that this business permits, and the time it allows me to spend with my child.

I've been focusing a large amount of time on mainstream projects as of late in an attempt to 'phase out' my adult ventures by the time my son starts asking more advanced questions as to what his daddy does.

The fact reamains though, the bread and butter is adult, and there is certainly much more money to be made if I spent more time with it.

With your large level of success in adult, have you ever felt comprimised by these issues, and if so, how have you dealt with them?

Wow, that's a cool story about Richard :) Great interview all around and INCREDIBLE pictures. I talked to my resident handyman Wig/Dan with WTS/ACHdebit yesterday and told him I wanted a waterslide ;)

good luck ;)

Thanks and the answer to your question is coming up

Hehe, no kidding. Once he told me how much it would cost and I realized it was more than what my whole house and 2 acres of property is worth, I rethought it and told him HE needed to get one and I'd have unlimited access :)

27. Who do you look up to in online adult, in life? who do you look down on?

I know you want to get some names but I would be here forever and I really feel that I would miss a few names that I would feel bad about later. So my answer is anyone that has made money in this buisiness and made something from all of this I look up to. I think I can learn something from everyone.

I look down on the Acacia's of the world who are doing IMHO some sort of legal extortion of people that have become successfull. I look down on those who rip off others as happened to so many of us online so many times. And I look down to those that are jealous of others. Jealousy is ugly. And most of all I look down to those involved in any way in child porn.

28. What pisses you off?

People who talk behind my back. It's fine to talk behind ones back until it's lies. I hate those that are jealous. Those that put down others to make themselves look better.

I hate when my Dolphins, Ducks, Angels, or Lakers lose.

I hate when slow ass drivers doing 40 in the fast lane.

I hate the rain for more then 1 day at a time.

29. Have you ever yodeled?

No, and where did that question come from? lol

30. What's digitalbucks?

It was my first every affiliate program around 96 or 97'

I was a sliding scale program that payed more based on your signup ratio. And it was strictly pay per click. We closed it down eventually when we built Silvercash.