wakoff
Registered Member
- Jan 20, 2016
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Background:
I'm a scoundrel who was making about $120 a day through promoting porn/camgirl sites. However, that well has dried up for me. I got squeezed out of the business by competitors, bots, account bans, ip bans, perma-bans, etc.
I reached my peak for about 3 months before my cashflow started going downhill. $120 a day turned to $100, next month it was about $70, next $50... etc. In the end, I was lucky to make about $20 a day.
And all the while, I was spending money on fruitless business ventures and working all day just to sustain $20. I said to myself, "Geez wakoff, what the hell are you still doing with this crap? You're better off working in McDonalds than trying to fix this sinking ship. This business has NO future for you."
What I mean by "No Future" is that imagine looking at yourself when your 40, your son asking you what you did for a living and you telling him, "Well son, I made a living off of tricking school kids on instagram to download apps."
Or "Son, I spent hours trying to get horny dudes to register for a porn site."
In the end of the day, Black Hat (or Grey Hat) isn't something that I see myself doing anymore. Pretty ironic, since I originally jumped into the porn game using Black Hat schemes.
On that note, I am now completely BROKE. Splurged all my money on apple products, eating like a epicurean, and escorts (yes ESCORTS).
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Why Kindle?
Because I don't see Amazon shutting it down anytime soon. I was browsing for children's books for my baby brother and noticed how shitty some of the indie work was. I thought to myself, "Someone really wrote this piece of crap?"
Maybe it was just me being an adult and reading a children's book again for the first time in years but I soon started researching how to publish books on Kindle. It was surprisingly pretty damn easy, just upload a cover and a pdf.
My only real beef with Kindle and Amazon is the fact that they take 60 days to pay you. I find that complete bullshit but at least it's a reputable company.
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Why Erotica?
(Because I don't have many skills to write about but I have had sex. And I really really like sex.)
Well after I decided to be an author on Kindle, I decided to research exactly I wanted to write about. I was leaning towards writing non-fiction, such as "How to XXX", but learned that there are 2x more fiction buyers than non-fiction.
Then I considered writing short stories since I know for a fact that I'm not the most brilliant writer nor was I any good at organizing my notes.
And after browsing on BHW to see if anyone else writes on Kindle, I found one guy who was making about $20 a day (I believe) writing eroticas.
You might be wondering, "Well what's the difference between him making $20 a day from eroticas and you making $20 a day on porn?"
Because Kindle is something with a future for me. I can start work as a electrician and still make money from amazon from doing nothing. It's a turnkey operation that's also white hat. Not to mention, this sounds like it could be highly scalable.
For porn, I made $120 a day, but there was work to be done to maintain my accounts (Imagine having your 20k REAL follower accounts closed every few days and having to start from ground zero to build it back up).
What's surprisingly odd is the fact that there doesn't seem to be many Kindle journeys going up. But I figure it's because a lot of people don't have english as their native language.
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What I've Done:
So I actually already have 15 published eroticas up on Amazon, all targeting the same niche. It's been about 20 days since I've started this project, so that's about 0.75 eroticas per day. Each erotica is about 3000 words in length. I'm planning on slowing down with the production very soon since I'm just burnt out from trying so hard.
Obviously the profits were extremely low at the start but counting up all the money I've made this month so far, I'm averaging $7.9 per day. When I started this month, I had maybe 7 stories published at the time.
Also, based on how KENP is going, I'll likely make about $90-$100 from there too.
Here's a graph of my journey so far:
As you can see, despite the fact that the number of books are increasing, the profits seem to stay fairly the same. This is very very depressing. I feel like I'm doing something wrong here but I'm not quite sure what it is. Hopefully, things pick up in a week or two.
Conclusion:
Any advice on what I could do better would be helpful for me. Not gonna lie, the fact that I'm BROKE as balls and that Amazon only pays after 60 days (after you reach $100 at the end of the month) is really demotivating.
I may or may not continue to update this if I'm not making any progress.
I'm a scoundrel who was making about $120 a day through promoting porn/camgirl sites. However, that well has dried up for me. I got squeezed out of the business by competitors, bots, account bans, ip bans, perma-bans, etc.
I reached my peak for about 3 months before my cashflow started going downhill. $120 a day turned to $100, next month it was about $70, next $50... etc. In the end, I was lucky to make about $20 a day.
And all the while, I was spending money on fruitless business ventures and working all day just to sustain $20. I said to myself, "Geez wakoff, what the hell are you still doing with this crap? You're better off working in McDonalds than trying to fix this sinking ship. This business has NO future for you."
What I mean by "No Future" is that imagine looking at yourself when your 40, your son asking you what you did for a living and you telling him, "Well son, I made a living off of tricking school kids on instagram to download apps."
Or "Son, I spent hours trying to get horny dudes to register for a porn site."
In the end of the day, Black Hat (or Grey Hat) isn't something that I see myself doing anymore. Pretty ironic, since I originally jumped into the porn game using Black Hat schemes.
On that note, I am now completely BROKE. Splurged all my money on apple products, eating like a epicurean, and escorts (yes ESCORTS).
------
Why Kindle?
Because I don't see Amazon shutting it down anytime soon. I was browsing for children's books for my baby brother and noticed how shitty some of the indie work was. I thought to myself, "Someone really wrote this piece of crap?"
Maybe it was just me being an adult and reading a children's book again for the first time in years but I soon started researching how to publish books on Kindle. It was surprisingly pretty damn easy, just upload a cover and a pdf.
My only real beef with Kindle and Amazon is the fact that they take 60 days to pay you. I find that complete bullshit but at least it's a reputable company.
------
Why Erotica?
(Because I don't have many skills to write about but I have had sex. And I really really like sex.)
Well after I decided to be an author on Kindle, I decided to research exactly I wanted to write about. I was leaning towards writing non-fiction, such as "How to XXX", but learned that there are 2x more fiction buyers than non-fiction.
Then I considered writing short stories since I know for a fact that I'm not the most brilliant writer nor was I any good at organizing my notes.
And after browsing on BHW to see if anyone else writes on Kindle, I found one guy who was making about $20 a day (I believe) writing eroticas.
You might be wondering, "Well what's the difference between him making $20 a day from eroticas and you making $20 a day on porn?"
Because Kindle is something with a future for me. I can start work as a electrician and still make money from amazon from doing nothing. It's a turnkey operation that's also white hat. Not to mention, this sounds like it could be highly scalable.
For porn, I made $120 a day, but there was work to be done to maintain my accounts (Imagine having your 20k REAL follower accounts closed every few days and having to start from ground zero to build it back up).
What's surprisingly odd is the fact that there doesn't seem to be many Kindle journeys going up. But I figure it's because a lot of people don't have english as their native language.
------
What I've Done:
So I actually already have 15 published eroticas up on Amazon, all targeting the same niche. It's been about 20 days since I've started this project, so that's about 0.75 eroticas per day. Each erotica is about 3000 words in length. I'm planning on slowing down with the production very soon since I'm just burnt out from trying so hard.
Obviously the profits were extremely low at the start but counting up all the money I've made this month so far, I'm averaging $7.9 per day. When I started this month, I had maybe 7 stories published at the time.
Also, based on how KENP is going, I'll likely make about $90-$100 from there too.
Here's a graph of my journey so far:
As you can see, despite the fact that the number of books are increasing, the profits seem to stay fairly the same. This is very very depressing. I feel like I'm doing something wrong here but I'm not quite sure what it is. Hopefully, things pick up in a week or two.
Conclusion:
Any advice on what I could do better would be helpful for me. Not gonna lie, the fact that I'm BROKE as balls and that Amazon only pays after 60 days (after you reach $100 at the end of the month) is really demotivating.
I may or may not continue to update this if I'm not making any progress.
