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Networking is a vital part of this industry. Sure it’s possible to be an island and just never chat with anyone, but in reality, the best possible way to get ahead in any business, whether its brick and mortar or whether it’s internet based, it’s through networking…. making business contacts.

Of course, I think one of the best ways to network is via a message board or forum like the ‘Pond. One *could* just sign up as a member on a forum and just start posting away but chances are that person would be picked out as a “newbie” or “spammer” and endure the wrath of the board. There is a fine art to participating on a board.

1. Board etiquette. It would be considered in bad taste to just jump in and post. While there’s nothing to stop a person from doing that, it’s more wise to lurk for a bit. Read some threads and get a feel for the board. What makes the board a community? What’s acceptable and ! what’s not? On Netpond, posting/resurrecting old threads is not cool. We’d rather that you start a new thread, get fresh opinions, and add new information. Old threads generally have dated information.

2. Once you do finally post a thread, help it along. Don’t make a post and then abandon the thread. If you don’t monitor and respond to your own thread why would anyone else want to do that? Lots of “cut and paste spammers” are quickly branded as such by making the same single post on several boards. Be careful of what you post and how you post it. Be creative and don’t post the same thing over several boards.

3. Quality vs Quantity. What is laughable is how much importance some people put on post count. Post count has nothing to do with anything. A “board whore” could run up a post count in no time and most likely have not contributed anything valuable to the board. Always, remember that with each post you are engineering your future in the adult biz. What you ! say, how you say it, and how you react to other posts shapes your online personna. In many cases, this is the only way other people will ever know you. While you do business with each other, you may never meet face to face, so this reputation you build is very important. Not your post count. Size doesn’t matter!! LOL

4. Use board features. Many message boards are operated by a sophisticated script. These scripts allow the board to have many useful features. Depending on the site administrators, some forums have more features than others. Netpond is fully functional allowing webmasters to use it as powerful tool. Members have the ability to communicate with thousands of other webmasters, not only through the forums, but through Personal Messages or PMs, user profiles, avatars, and signature.
As a member, I encourage you to put all of these features to work for you! Traditional advertising on any forum can be ver! y costly, but as a member you can use your signature, titles, PMs, and avatars to work for your business. There is no cost and if you post wisely, your avatar, title, and signature can get thousands of views by other visiting webmasters and members.

5. Make the most of your time on a board. Some people feel that “hanging out” on a board is a waste of time. Its important to manage your board time. If you don’t care to read every thread, use the “View new posts since last visit” feature. That way you only see new threads/posts. Alternatively, one could subscribe to specific threads and receive notices only about that thread. Some members use RSS feeds which sends them the newest posts to their feed reader. The goal is to network and do biz.

6. Netpond offers even more! Check out Netpondresources.com. These resources are easily navigated by browsing or with a simple search, members can find the resources they need when they need it. Whether its a tutorial, a sponsor for a new niche, an SEO tool or some cool scripts, members can find what they need all here in one place.

So, feel the power! Join the ‘Pond and get to know your fellow pornographers! Network, have fun, and move forward!

This has been an insane week for me with hours I really prefer to avoid and not a lot of sleep. However all of you know when you are self employed you work harder and enjoy it more usually.
Anyway, it occured to me that it would be interesting to compare my schedule now to what my schedule was say, when I first entered the adult business.
When I first reentered the business I was armed with a few basics that some newbies might lack. Prior experience with the adult industry.
I can hear a few people say great you had a head start. Yes, in a way I did I understood some basic concepts but let me tell you the web is a whole other place this time around, than it was say 5 years ago and even more so 10 years back. So, though I understood basics like html. What a freesite is, what a tgp is and even what traffic is and a bit about herding it I had so much to relearn and the business had changed to become way more competitive more innovative and much more technically demanding.
So, I did what the typical newbie does (at least my concept of the typical newbie). I lurked and read and researched. I was quiet for at least a month and even then I asked my questions in pm.
When I thought I had even a tiny grasp I then proceeded to make my first site. Well, let’s say I attempted it. I read and then would try and build. I cossetted that site and I petted it. I got a little bit further each day. I would arrive home from work and check my email. I would check my messages. I would read the boards, all of them. I would then research any ideas that came up on those boards. Man, there are so many avenues to research so many approaches that seem sure fire.
I was a mess. I would after a few hours of reading and then running off hither and yon to research that idea but then I would run into another idea.
Google and I became best friends.
What I must emphasize here is I was spending 7 and 8 hours a day “working” on the net but getting nothing done. NOTHING even my first site was in process. I would build a little bit then I would run into something I did not understand or some “improvement” I wanted to make and BAM…off I would go “researching”.
Oh that was bad and worse were the days when I run into something too interesting to resist! Games you just can’t miss! An article or 10 you just must read! God, the net is a strange place just begging to be explored and every time I stopped (every five minutes) I was drug off in another direction.
I had newbie ADD and knew it. I had nothing to show for a long day on the net and no income because nothing I did got finished.
Better yet when I finally finished that first site instead of building the next I was instead checking my stats and still trying to fix that first one and make it “ego” perfect.
Oh yeah did I mention checking stats? Like a blog with few link trades and nothing much yet would be doing anything. As time passed my time became more productive. I had fewer questions and still lots of plans I was still somewhat distractable but managing better. Still I was extremely disorganized and would spend hours doing nothing productive and calling it research. This could not continue.
So I began a regime. Self imposed but necessary too.
Log on after work check email and check icq. Yes those must be done but no boards none no no no…first the project for the day must be done.
Whatever it was it had to be accomplished. Because I worked outside full time then I would set smaller goals like installing and tweaking a wordpress, and updating all existing blogs.
After those goals for the day were accomplished then I would allow myself an hour yes, an hour on the board as a reward for what I had done.
Checking stats was no longer a problem since I had too much to do and a structure to do it in.
If I remembered to check them once a day then I was doing good sometimes I would forget entirely I was busy and the sales would take care of themselves. They did.
Now when they did well enough for me to become full time it became even more interesting. There I was with a full day in front of me. Oh lord I needed a plan I quickly saw that. I could not fluff out for 8 hours then work for 7 no I needed to be productive.
Those first days were not pretty. I lived on coffee I would spend too much time on youtube just like in the beginning and I wasn’t accomplishing anything like what I thought should be accomplished, though I had far more time.
I hate structure but about then the need for it became apparent. So I instituted a schedule.
Wake up 7 a.m. Put on the coffee grab the dog and off we go for a walk. Yes walks do clear my head!
By the time I am back coffee is done and I am ready for the shower and the dog is happy. This is important the dog can be very nasty when ignored. I once found my entire underwear drawer (the contents) strewn over the entire front yard displaying my very pretty lacy underthings (much chewed) over the front lawn for the enjoyment of passerbys.
So the dog is cared for my computer is warming up as I shower my sister of course will pop her head in my door 7 times before she FINALLY leaves for work. However by 8 am I can sit down and start up.
Emails must be answered then IMs. All group projects are checked ( a calendar I use in cooperation with my partners in our company).
Then begins work nothing else must take precedence. When I finish each segment I allow myself a five minute walk around break and at lunch a peek at the boards.
Morning is for building. Afternoon is for posts and evenings more posts and networking. Yes I do more than chat on ICQ.
Most days I don’t remember to check stats but sometimes I will before bed.
Lunch happens when I begin to starve and remember I am starved.
Dinner may or may not happen but I do take frequent walk breaks. Just getting up and stretching.
Usually there is some humor even a small amount in what I write however I find it lacking in the subject of scheduling. I really offer this for other new persons struggling with Webmaster ADD. Schedule yourself and hate it or don’t and hate yourself and lack of progress.

Peace all

Usually I have a topic for chatting to you about right on the top of my head, or right on the tip of my tongue, just clamoring to be read or heard. Usually. This week I have been so buried in work that I’ve missed some of the things that would flip that switch in my little brain and make words bubble up.
So when stuck for a topic I always revert to the oldies but goodies. Now, I have a grandad that can talk for literally hours about politics. Mention a name in politics, any name, (no I won’t do that here) and he is good for at least 4 hours of a non stop political tirade against that name.
I too have such a trigger. At home in the real world, mention the net to pull my string, just mention about any topic having to do with computers or the internet and I am good for at least 2 hours (no one has stamina like grandad).
I often force my hapless and good hearted sister to listen to this verbal diarrhea and bless her heart she doesn’t usually retaliate with her only interest, the glowy eyed church and it’s people with the Charles Manson stares.
When it comes to the board I also have a string to pull. That would be on the topic of helping.
Yeah we all know the usual line of course this is the best and most helpful board ever built that anyone will help you and it can all be found here. Sound familiar?
Well, it is true, with a single caveat.
Like with my grandad, everything offered needs to be taken with a grain of salt and some willingness to do your own research too.
If you ask a question on Netpond chances are you are going to get a ton of answers. Depending on your topic it could be 20 or more different takes on the same question. Now that is a lot of help yeah? Are they all right? Well sometimes they are.
The bottom line is you take what you can from all those answers and do a bit of work. No one I know has a step by step golden plan to succeed in this business it will be different for each person. People on this board will offer you the tools what you make of them is up to you.
However when you ask how can I improve x or y or z in what I am doing there are going to be 10 people that have hard facts on how to do that and usually all will be different ways to do it. They are going to offer this advice freely and without strings and it will be good sound advice
Yes, this board is famous for that. People are not stingy with good advice I don’t mean just the garbage you sometimes see but with good sound advice.
Your problem will be choosing the method that is going to work for you.
Research, yes,that dirty word, that is where that comes in and some trial and error.
I think what I am trying to say here is you can’t believe anyone who says they will make you a success. You have to do that yourself and besides investing tons of time and some money into it you also have to invest the time to research and try things out.
This board is here to lay out all the pieces but what it will look like in the end is up to you.
You also need to find your particular skills.
When I first joined this board not too long back I followed a thread that helped me more than I can say it was one by Thomas Byer’s on blogging. I can’t tell you all the information I took from that thread and I will be forever grateful to that man! However, I learned very quickly the rule “what works for them doesn’t always work for me”.
ACK I am a failure, was my thought. They said it would work and it did not. Hair pulling, teeth gnashing and much self recrimination later it dawns on me. Thomas was not lying about the techniques. They DID work. The level of success was wholly dependent on me and my resources and MY skills.
So I was not a failure per se and through that thread I learned how to take yet another path and play to those strengths I do have. No they were not exactly the same ones as listed in his thread because I am me, not Thomas Byers, but the whole purpose of the thread (that I conveniently missed as a newbie looking for the blueprint) was to give me the skills to make my own way. I took the things I was successful in and built on them using the techniques he gave me, and lo and behold it worked!
Old Joe Blow with the new thread or Thomas Byers with the old one over there who says do x and then y and then z and it works like a charm and you will succeed, may well possess a particular set of skills you do not. Joe Blow is not lying to you when he says it works, it does work like a charm for him but what you may not know is Joe Blow over there possesses a few extra things, maybe a flair for writing text I mean inspiring text or perhaps a genius for SEO. Everything that Joe Blow is goes into making his business a success and unless you possess the exact same skills your results will be different.
Have I convinced you yet a blueprint doesn’t exist?
Well then let me argue that it does in a way. You follow Joe Blow’s steps and you still are not a huge smashing success. Errm so what now? Well you either go over there and follow Sam Sung’s thread and try it his way or you take a step back at your project and try and figure out what skills you do have and where it can be improved.
Whatever you choose you have to remember that both Joe Blow and Sam Sung all have different skills. So will you be hunting for a 3rd when Sam Sung’s doesn’t work for you?
Nope you are going to be smart. Take everything you can and make it play to your own strengths. There is no blueprint no one will take the pain of succeeding out of the business. There are however, outlines and those are what you should be looking for.
I guess it is human nature to look for the easiest path. I assure you here and now as have many other people there is no easy path. There is only the one you make for yourself.
I want to move this idea out to everyday lives.
There are a lot of blueprints out there for living the good and happy life. You can find them all over. My sis tells me at every single opportunity that if I only join the glowy eyed people and follow them I will be happy.
Well, I am not much of a follower myself and that Charles Manson stare really makes me nervous so the path I take on my personal life is going to vary due to my ability and skills. But then I am not looking for exact blueprints for my life or my business. Are you?

This week my sister (bless her pointy head) said something that made me stop dead in my tracks and think hard.
Most of us are adults in fact all of us I think. Our world view is pretty much set and is often something we don’t even in fact consider. We are either comfortable with our social status, or working on improving it, and hopefully the adolescent heebie jeebies have settled down. I know this seems off topic but I hope this statement will prove to have a bearing.
I say most of us. I also put forth the theory that once our world view is established and we are comfortable within ourselves we spend less time questioning the world view of others. In other words if we are comfy then surely (unless they display huge insecurity issues) then so must everyone else be.
Now my sis comes in for lunch and as usual knocks on the door knowing full well I am working but unable to resist disturbing. So, we talk and she says “I have a crush on XYZ person but he would never look at someone like me, look what I do for a living (she is an account executive for a local cell phone company) and look how I live!”(we have an old duplex in a very respectable part of town with high property values but not the highest).
Ok so can someone PLEASE tell me what is wrong with that statement or what is wrong with where we live or…why a city councilman would never consider an account executive who lived in a higher middle income community?
I find in webmastering there exists that standard as well. Sploggers vs bloggers tgp vs free sites omg the list of “social” groupings people try and imagine and even sometimes take it on themselves to enforce make me cringe.
I myself confess to having envied more than one wordsmith with the ability to craft these shining towers of interwoven words and double entendres. Imagine the finest blown most intricately designed vase and that is what I see in their words.
However, I also know who I am, and am comfortable with it. Rather than masturbating with my words and displaying them in their beautifully wrought symmetry for others to enjoy with me, I am capable of only the plain word fuck.
Say it. Said it. Good. A sturdy plain brown vase that does what it is intended to do is all my best efforts can create. Though i envy the crafters of wordly majesty I am happy with what I can do. I try not to put the wordsmiths on another social plane nor will I accept them being placed there by another’s judgement. Instead I admire their work and enjoy my own.
However this strange social misperception seems to be growing in the webmastering community, and is to me even more amazing because where it is supposed to be about dollars it seems to some to have become more about “status”.
These are completely artificial social barriers stemming from no business point of view, but instead, arbitrarily erected, ,and summarily enforced by some self appointed magistrates of social standing for no discernable reason beyond that of self aggrandizement. I do not understand those trying to erect them, and understand less those bowing to other’s judgements. It just floors me.
I am comfortable in who I am. I am too busy to examine what others do in depth. I make money with my way. I know many who make money with what they do, whether be they on the top of these false social ladders or no. So how on earth can this be happening?
Every time I see these social epeens trying to establish a “top of the pile” order, my jaw drops. Everytime some silly sod says “blah blah blah I do it better” I cringe. Every time someone listens to and buys into this steaming pile of horse hockey, it makes me burn.
I don’t think I can change my sister, because something in her mind has made her feel less “socially acceptable” than our status determined by our jobs or home say she should be.
I don’t know if I could even change the webmastering community or should even try.
However, I can register my amazement that anyone would allow a stranger to dictate how they feel about their work.

Peace

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