Stephen Hill’s dark life in porn

• June 10, 2010

"If porn is a joke — and, particularly these days, it most assuredly is — male porn stars are its punch line." "
"So-called woodsmen are paid significantly less than their female counterparts, for their efforts are treated like props on the movie sets where they perform near Herculean sex acts of which most men can only dream and more often than not end up as decapitated, frantically thrusting tubes of meat in this industry’s final product."
http://www.salon.com/life/feature/20…rns_lost_boys/
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What was the Industry Like When You First Got Started?

• June 5, 2010

Considering how young the Adult Online Industry is (’90’s) it’s pretty crazy how fast things change even over the course of a few years. I got in mid 2005 at the tale end of the big affiliate days when cars were still given away at shows, there were webmasters who were slinging it and considered "whales" because of the amount of traffic and sales they had, and solo girls were the hottest thing that folks were pushing. There was also two big things happening in the industry, Ibill shutting down and Alberto Gonzales and his 2257 crusade.
What year did you start and what was going on then that you remember most?
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my stupid little life

• May 30, 2010

(American Beauty reference). Anyhoo, people have been asking me for around 7 years to drop the story on my biz. here it is. it will probably bore the fuck out of most of you, so feel free to skip:
1996, i am taking a cyberphilosophy course at the University of Alberta (i think it was numbered 365). we did a bunch of things, but one of the things i took away from it was that this internet thing could make money. before i’d finished uni (major in Genetics, minor in Philosophy), i had a couple of accounts/pages set up with several adult verification services (adultcheck was the one that really got me going). so my parents are stoked that i’m making money, as i’d been a starving student since i started university. gf at the time was stoked too. though i did get both mine and my gf (at the time’s) university accounts shut down for excessive usage lol.
around a year later, i started a small (read: shitty) paysite, using interbill as the processor. i don’t think many people remember interbill, but anyway, they were super sketchy.
1997, i’m making around 4500 bucks a month, then, interbill stops paying me, and i am freaking the fuck out. in the end, they do actually pony up the amount owed (six months later) but by then i am with ibill, and was just barely able to cover the rent.
how was i getting traffic at this point? spamming the seach engines of course. it was easy as fuck to get a reasonable amount of traffic. infoseek? altavista? yep. load a page full of keywords, upload, and you were good to go. rinse and repeat.
1998, by now, i have an okay income, around 8K a month, life is good for a 24 year old guy straight out of uni. hooked up with a new gf, and using the money i’d save up (around 10K or so), we built a new paysite, and i dropped the 10K on a search engine called goto.com (it’s called overture now) for advertising. they were the first (i believe) search engine to offer paid listings. anyway, it was a complete and utter failure lol.
girl leaves me, and things kind of go sour. my income drops to 4K a month, i am seriously considering going back to uni to do a masters, or possibly a trade school (my dad runs a small electrical company).
Then: someone (whoever you are, thank-you) submits one of my random spam galleries to the Hun. BAM. my piddily little virtual account could not handle the traffic (obviously), and i was super pissed. but then the sun came up over the horizon. this could actually be a good thing. i knew that night, that i would become a multi-millionaire. of course, no one i knew believed me lol. i remember telling my dad and my best friend exactly that right after the Hun listing, and they thought i was crazy. i totally understand why though. because it sounded crazy.
1999, i am making a solid 20K a month. pretty happy with everything. enter DavidD, formally of Candid Hosting. gave some great technical advice and super helpful 24 hrs a day. This is the point where i am adding server after server because the demand for my new, high quality (for the time) paysite and especially the endless galleries is going insane.
2000, i start shooting all exclusive video content (not personally lol). redesigned the site (you know what, i have almost told no one this, but i have designed ever reiteration of ultrawiredsex.com myself lol, straight up html by yours truly), and hired a team, an actual team of people, to do nothing but submit to tgps, to buy spots on tgps and build galleries. we worked 100 hours a week, but i paid my employees well. scaled the FUCK out of tgp submission. i also bought all of the top hun listings. they were a bit of a pain in the ass some times, but i got every available listing.
2001, just cranking the submissions, making 350K a month, after expenses. getting the video on every tgp on the planet. nice office in Banff, Canada, with 6 people working around the clock.
2002, i *think* this is about the time Mark (GTS) came into the picture. we cranked their paid submissions about as hard as you can crank anything. MONEY.
2003, not much changed.
2004, ibill goes tits up. i was lucky, and got paid far longer than a lot of other guys. i got paid consisistently until april 2005. they still owe me around a quarter million dollars though. don’t think i’ll ever see it lol.
2005, retired.
what i did i learn from all of this? SCALE. if you have something, anything, that works, scale that cocksucker up to as high as it will go.
ps: take a flight on the concorde
cheers boys and girls.
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If you’re a surfer and not an adult webmaster I have a question for you…

• May 30, 2010

Why are you here?
I get the feeling there are a lot of you here lately. As in, a lot, and I can’t figure out why someone who isn’t in the industry in some way would want to spend their time here.
It’s getting harder and harder to find threads by known webmasters these days.
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GFY Educational Series: Know Your Target Market

• May 27, 2010

Know Your Target Market
In advertising, it’s important you know exactly who is buying what you’re selling, and then talk ONLY to those people. It’s inevitable that no matter what medium you choose for your advertisements, there will be a percentage of people who see it or hear it who will NOT be prospects for what you’re selling. So make sure your message is directed and targeted at only those candidates who are qualified prospects.
For instance, if you’re in the market for a new car, there’s a good chance you’ll see all the TV commercials, hear all the radio commercials and see all the newspaper ads for cars. If you’re not in the market for a new car, however, chances are you won’t see or hear those exact same ads. They’re still there but you just don’t notice them. You’ll either "tune them out" mentally, or physically change the channel or turn the page. So what’s a car advertiser to do?! Talk directly to people who are interested in buying cars, instead of wasting time trying to get the attention of those who aren’t.
Some advertisers feel like they need to put something catchy, cute, weird, sexy, colorful or bold in their ads to make sure that every person on earth pays attention to their ad. Then, they figure, if everyone’s looking, they’ve got a better chance at selling to more people (hence…a numbers game). There’s a real trap in introducing your advertising in this manner. Because when you try to speak to everybody, inevitably your message will get diluted to the point where it says nothing to anybody. You can’t be all things to all people.
This is what’s called the TIGGER syndrome. In the cartoon, Winnie the Pooh, there’s a character who is a hyper-active tiger named TIGGER. Tigger has a spring for a tail and his talent is bouncing. He’s the best bouncer of all but his main goal in life is NOT to excel at bouncing, but rather to be liked by everyone else. So he always tries to do what everyone else is doing just so they’ll like him. Someone asks him if he can ice skate, to which he replies, "That’s what TIGGERS do best!" and goes on to crash into a tree and ruin everyone’s fun. Someone asks him if he can climb trees, to which he replies, "That’s what TIGGERS do best!" and then promptly gets stuck at the top of the tree. He does this time and time again until finally, demoralized, he realizes that his efforts are best spent and most appreciated when perfecting his own talent…which is BOUNCING.
There are a lot of TIGGERS in the business world. For example, a video production company wrote an ad to sell corporate videos. They were using e mails to send out their message and quite frankly, the message was extremely confusing. They made about 4 different selling points, had 2 different offers and 3 headlines scattered throughout a ONE-PAGE letter! This letter had a little bit of something for everyone in it. With this particular company, their main selling advantage was low price. Normally, you don’t want to promote low price as the main selling advantage but in this case, they really were lower, and it was mainly because competitors had not lowered their prices over the last 5 years, even though technology had significantly reduced the costs involved with producing these videos. That’s what this TIGGER did best - LOW PRICE.
In their situation, out of the 30,000 businesses on their list, only 10-20% would even be in the market for corporate videos. Take into consideration that out of those 10-20%, they were all on different levels of readiness to buy. Some qualified prospects may not even realize that video is an option for them at this point. Some may have investigated it and found it to be too expensive. Some may have only thought about it. Some may be making videos now, or have made some in the past with another production company. Some of those may be perfectly satisfied; some may be ready to find a new company to produce their video. There are a lot of different situations. You can’t try to sell to all of them at once! You’ve got to make your message focused like a laser beam in order to effectively reach YOUR real target market.
Another example is a specialized box company. While there are not too many things more mundane than cardboard boxes, this company runs an extremely exciting business. They have streamlined production to such an extent that they can design, produce and deliver custom boxes in 4 hours or less. Their fastest competitor can get the same type of custom order designed, produced and delivered in about two and a half days! Most take one to two weeks.
Why would anyone need a box designed, produced and delivered in four hours or less? If a company is manufacturing goods and doesn’t have any boxes at the end of the assembly line to put those goods in, it stalls the whole line and costs the company money. It happens more often than you’d think. So this particular company’s ability to get boxes out quickly not only helps a company out when they get in a pinch, but it could actually save some purchasing agent’s job.
So what does this have to do with knowing your target market and only talking to those qualified people?
They started out filling short-notice, four-hour orders for their big customers. They could actually do it ANY time for ANY customer and hold the pricing to a reasonable level. But they hadn’t promoted it that way, so most customers had no idea they could do this.
Since that was their company’s strength, and it differentiated them from their competition, they needed to put the 4 hour ability towards the forefront of their marketing. They needed to promote it all the time in all communications. The owner’s response to this strategy was, "Well, not everyone needs four hour boxes. In fact, 90% of all companies won’t need that service at all in a given year. Why would we want to promote that?"…Think about it. Why would they want to promote that?
By promoting the 4 hour service, they would let everyone know that they had created an absolute breakthrough in the box business. They would be saying something that purchasing agents would most definitely store in their mental banks.
So a series of oversized postcard mailers was put together and sent out systematically every 3 weeks to a targeted list, along with some promotional products that were imprinted with their new logo, Custom Boxes On Your Dock In Just 4 Hours…Guaranteed. The results? They went from doing one or two 4 hour orders a month to doing as many as seven a day. Many of those were new customers. Who do you think those customers ordered their regular, non-rush boxes from after this company bailed them out of a major jam?
That would easily explain how this box company went from doing $880,000 a month to $1.7 million a month less than a year later, despite losing two major accounts to bankruptcies. They knew their target market, talked directly to them and communicated the exact message their customers needed to hear.
In summary, first identify what you’re selling and who will buy it. And then ONLY talk to those people. People who aren’t within your target will not buy regardless of what you say. It’s imperative that you don’t waste your precious marketing dollars making general statements that may get attention but don’t sell. Pinpoint your message. Pick out your prospects. Talk to them individually. And forget everyone else.
This article and the ones to follow in the GFY Educational Series were previously published as part of a marketing system that Adult B2B Marketing has full copyright approval to republish.
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How do you Make Money

• May 19, 2010

Yeah The world wants to know, how do you make money?
what is your secret…haha, I do not expect anyone to share what really works for them…
but share something… that a GFY user can use and build on…

SEO works….backlinks, press, articles, social media communities …etc
PPC does OK …. find keywords with high demand and low supply.. work best..

Affiliates … some are ok and some just want what you know…lol
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EU webmasters using Verotel wire transfers

• May 19, 2010

Hi:
Are there european webmasters using verotel and wire transfer as payment method? If so, are you paying any aditional charges beside 7.5 EUR for wire transfer cost that is claimed by verotel?
I am asking this because last two wire transfers were 20 euros more expensive (each), where verotel once send me that money back and now they are telling me that intermediary bank is taking that money. And I am their webmaster for several years, without changing any banking parameters, costs raised for those new 20 eur per transfer. (before, it was like they told 7.5 so I know that something is wrong there)
thank you
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Unprofessional Models!!!! ugh (RANT)

• May 18, 2010

I had a professional model looking to venture into adult, who learned of me through someone I worked with so already a referral. We then e-mail chat for a week or so and we set up an appointment to meet for lunch, she was very professional showing me front, back, headshot photos. Gave me stats and knew right off the bat what she was ok with doing on camera. She called to confirm before I did (Up to this point I wished everyone was this easy) and then 30 minutes later she texted me a message that said something like this…. "Nobody owns a legit adult company, you are just a married man trying to cheat on your wife and I will not be used in this way."
I then proceed to tell her I am not married and we are just meeting for lunch anyways. She tells me some guy from Craigslist tried to have sex with her (SURPRISE ). I then explain that its craigslist and not to expect much from the adult section there and direct her to some more legit places with info about me, and other work ive done etc. But she said she didn’t want to meet and I just left it at that, waste of time.
What is going through these peoples heads? Sometimes I just want to punch my monitor seriously, who calls to confirm like 1 hr in advance and then txt cancels 30 minutes later because of some bull shiat?
BTW shes a milf so not 18 or something.
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Then I had another girl, no show on a meeting… who BEGGED me to meet with her. She wouldn’t pick up the phone or answer email I sent while I was waiting from my phone.
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In my area we have a website where you can write stuff about models, good bad etc. My opinion is to stay out but I feel like maybe I should post some of the crazier ones on there. I won’t but I REALLY REALLY WANT TO!!!!! FUCK PEOPLE WHO BEG TO MEET WITH YOU AND THEN DONT SHOW!!!! I HATE YOU!!!!
</end rant>
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Best FLV player?

• May 17, 2010

I’m using a very good player from rich media but it’s a big pain to modify it and add new features like ‘on end’ functionality.
What’s the best fully featured and flexible flash player to use?
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Steve Jobs wants freedom from porn

• May 17, 2010

Read all about it: http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/15/ste…edom-and-porn/.
I guess that’s why Apple is trying to control the kind of content that can be accessed with their devices.
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