JBM POPULAR THREADS OF THE WEEK

Where would you rank this biz nowadays? by Makefuckingmoney
"98-99 it was fun and exciting, birth of the internet and people were making mad money....."

Good retention ratio? by Anamorphosis
"Since my site is launch, a couple members signed up, didn't even look at the members area and cancel. So I guess the retention is not only about the members area. What would be a very good retention ratio? 50%?"

Pay per view business model. by Danielle
"We have been experimenting with the pay per view (click) business model and so far it is doing a lot better than we expected....."

What % of total revenue do you derive from dialers? by J$TYLE$
"Do you free site owners employ dialers or do you count on the programs you're sending traffic to - to credit you on THEIR dialers?"

If you could custom build your office building...  by BradShaw
"My Dad just bought a piece of land close to my existing office/house. We are going to custom build a 2 story 10-11,000 sf office and split it. He is in the construction business so I can design things just like I want and use the double jewish discount."

What was the first adult tradeshow you attended? by Gregtx
"and who did you meet that really made an impression on you???"

How long do you think it should take? by BradShaw
"To build click/affilate software. Along the lines of MPA2, Nats, True Stats, etc etc. We are not reinventing the wheel here."

Increase in sales when switching to cascading? by Sherms Shack
"Man I just saw an ad from them..cogent only servers, 10 mbps, $199? that includes the server?dang..there is gonna be some major bandwidth wars coming.."

If you could have breakfast with one person in the biz by Meni
"If you could have breakfast with anyone, who would it be?"

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OPINION - BURNOUT

It's happened to all of us at some point. You just stare at your computer screen but you just can't seem to get it together and actually get to work.

This has happened to me several times over the years and it always seems to creep up on me when I least expect it. What do you do to get past it?

I think the first thing that helps is just to turn everything off. Get away from the computer, turn off the cell phone. I know it may seem difficult to do. In the back of my mind I am always thinking..."I need to check on those stats.....I may be missing that call from so and so.....I have to download the email" blah blah you get the picture. Really though if you can cut the cord for a little while and immerse yourself into a hobby just once a week it helps a ton.

Since I had started in this business in 1997, I had pretty much dropped all my hobbies and was too interested in just the online stuff 24/7. A few years later I was totally burned out. I did not even want to look at the computer anymore. I was considering buying cheap labor to do my job for me  lol . I would roll out of bed and start downloading my email and just kinda blank out and stare at the wall for an hour. Luckily one day while I was zoning out, I saw a spam about remote controlled cars. This set off alot of memories of when I used to fly r/c airplanes in the late 80's and early 90's. I was really into them and was even writing for a large r/c magazine in 1993 for awhile.......until of course I got burned out on them.

So I thought, maybe I should get back into them again, maybe it would help. I started contacting friends that I flew with, starting buying parts off Ebay and next thing you know, I was back in it like I never missed a step. This has helped me alot, because I now have a whole seperate set of friends and belong to a club that meets once a month. They have no idea what i do for a living, I tell them I sell drugs and they laugh it off.

Point being, if you don't have any hobbies, get one! Anything really, sports, fishing, art, whatever, it will help you more than you know. Burn out sucks, but getting away and doing something else for a bit will bring in fresh inspiration. Or if that doesn't work, you can just look at this picture for awhile....it helps also:       ~Shok