Thomas Byers

How did you get involved in the adult industry?

I started out with Herbalife
in 1984 and made some good bucks and then I found
Netpond and some other sites that are no longer
on the net today. I began to study , read and listen
and I did a lot of note taking and still do today.
I learned more at Netpond than I ever did anywhere
else. I used to listen to the Netpond Show each and
every week and I read the Netpond Board every day.
I learned ton’s from Sleazy Bears posts and also there
used to be a webmaster around named Serge that I learned
tons from. I think my first Adult Sites were in 1995.I
really laugh when I go back and look at some of them
but they made sales. I also was involved big time back then
in email marketing. It was nothing to do a mailing and
make 10-15 sales in a hour. My best day ever when doing
major email marketing was 166 sales. But I still get
excited when I see a webmaster post that they just got
their first sale. I am grateful to Netpond and the
people there for everything me and my family have.

What about Blogs. How did it happen?

I started out with adult Blogs at Blogspot in 1998
and built it up over the years to a $1000.00 plus a
day income. But I did it wrong. One day Blogspot
allowed adult blogs and then Google bought them out
and before you knew it really over night they shut
down all the big Blog Farms and some people including
me took a serious almost over night hit. I saw a $1000.00
a day income go down to $300.00 a day. And I knew I had
to make some radical changes to get back on top. Its
not been easy but today I own hundreds of domains on
several different hosts and I have feeder blogs on many
free blog hosts that allow adult content. The best one
to me of the free blog hosts right now is Thumblogger
at http://www.thumblogger.com/ I am also expanding out
into mainstream more and more. I really believe more
and more that you want to be extremely careful about
putting all your eggs in one basket. Always and I say
always have multiple income streams to cover you in case
you lose part of your sites one day.

What Is Thinking Outside The Box?

I see too many webmasters let others tell them exactly
how a site should look and work. If you have a ideal for
a site and you will if you haven’t don’t be afraid to try
it. Try your ideals as long as they don’t violate a
sponsors terms of service go for it. You never know you
just might make a few bucks.

What Do New Webmasters Do That Really Bothers You?

First thing that comes to mind is they piss off the porn
surfer. Don’t put active x bullshit and pop ups on your
site. For the most part the average surfer today has
them blocked and the ones that don’t your going to
piss off and lose. You should try everything you can
especially in today’s market to make Joe Porn Surfer
unhappy. One thing for sure make sure you tell him
how to bookmark your site and if its a blog how to
use your sites feeds. If you do it will bring you a
few extra dollars every week. And anytime you can
bring in a few more dollars you should.

If You Build It They Will Come ?

Lol? I stole it from one of my favorite films
of all time , Field Of Dreams. But its very important.
Every day you should try to build at least one new page
optimized for the search engines.And if you build it
they will come. I think of it like fishing. If you
go down to the ocean and put in one baited hook you
might catch a fish, But if you could put in 500 baited
hooks , 1000 baited hooks well you get the ideal. Its
really very simple. The more sites you have the better
the chances are that your going to get the sales that
you need to give you the income that you need to survive.
And that’s very important especially if you are a full
time webmaster.

What Are Your Plans For The Future?

I plan on opening a new multiple site pay site
of my own. Really it will belong to me and my
brother. We plan on having it open as soon as
possible and we have been working on it for over
a year now. We are almost ready with it and I
think everyone will be surprised at the quality
and new ideals we have as soon as we open it.

People Have Asked Why Do You Help New Webmasters?

I truly believe in trying to help others just like
I was helped myself. I really believe you should
try to give others a hand up. I believe in Karma.
What goes around comes around. I really believe
that if you help others that you will profit
from it also. Both with building up contacts and
I believe in Karma like I said. I believe you get
as good as you get in life. Its really one of the
reasons I have always liked Netpond so much. For
the most part everyone tries to help everyone else.

What Do You Think About The Future Of Adult Webmasters?

I think they have a very good future if they will
just stick with it and not give up. But at the
same time in today’s market I would advice building
multiple income streams. Check out mainstream and
try to make it a certain percentage of your business
plan. I right now am doing about 60 percent adult and
40 percent mainstream. I’m not going to give out
specific program urls but there are a lot of mainstream
programs that you can use on both mainstream and adult.
A lot of people miss these, T Shirts especially Adult
Humor sell well on Adult sites. Just make sure you
don’t violate any T.O.S. of any company you do
business with.

What Advice Would You Give To New Webmasters?

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