Making money at home

[Kolle]

I'm curious if any of you have discovered good, legit ways to make money at home. The stuff i've seen so far is either too meager or a heartbeat away from scam.

[Phelps McManus]

Start a porn site.

Or maybe a site that tells you how far into movies you can find porn.

[Kiroy]

Originally Posted by Phelps McManus

Start a porn site.

Or maybe a site that tells you how far into movies you can find porn.

Didn't the other 'make money at home' thread come to this same conclusion? I think so.

[Kolle]

yeah i thought there was a thread but i didn't see it, feel free to link it anyone

thing is my roommate has some serious medical issues. i don't want to go into a lot of detail, but for a good while i have to be available at all hours. it would be really kick ass if i could generate a nice income without having to leave the house. i've thought about getting into porn for years, but i just never bothered with it since i was busy with other things. it's an option i'm willing to pursue. i just need to learn the best way to go about it.

[prescient63]

There are a good amount of customer service jobs which let you work from home. Offhand I know putnam investments offers that option.

[Kolle]

Yeah i've thought about doing CS. It won't be my first option, but I won't mark it off the list just in case.

Anyone correct me if i'm wrong, but this is what starting a site would require:

-design
-hosting
-buying/leasing content; creating content
-merchant account?

missing anything?

[prescient63]

Marketing costs? How are you going to drive traffic to your site? There are about 10 million porn sites out there.

[Kolle]

yeah good point

[tikkus]

I had a porn site about 4 years ago, when I was a Freshman in high school. I'm sure the industry has changed in terms of competition since then but I generated $1,500 in income in a little over 2 months with no advertising at all, except submitting to search engines. After that, my mother asked "Where are you getting all of this money from?" I had to come clean and there went my cash cow.

If you're interested Kolle I'll talk to you further, just not on these forums. Right now, the market is saturated enough as it is.

[Jitx]

Just dont do it from Iran, or you could end up..... dead!

Iran¿moves to execute porn stars - CNN.com

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's parliament on Wednesday voted in favor of a bill that could lead to death penalty for persons convicted of working in the production of pornographic movies.

With a 148-5 vote in favor and four abstentions, lawmakers present at the Wednesday session of the 290-seat parliament approved that "producers of pornographic works and main elements in their production are considered corruptors of the world and could be sentenced to punishment as corruptors of the world."

The term, "corruptor of the world" is taken from the Quran, the Muslims' holy book, and ranks among the highest on the scale of an individual's criminal offenses. Under Iran's Islamic Penal Code, it carries a death penalty.

The "main elements" refered to in the draft include producers, directors, cameramen and actors involved in making a pornographic video.

The bill also envisages convictions ranging from one year imprisonment to a death sentence for the main distributors of the movies and also producers of Web sites in which the pornographic works would appear.

Besides videos, the bill covers all electronic visual material, such as DVD and CDs. Other material, such as porn magazines and books are already banned under Iranian law.

To become law, the bill requires an approval by the Guardian Council, a constitutional watchdog in Iran.

It is widely believed that the drafting of the bill came about as a reaction to a scandal last year, when a private videotape, apparently belonging to Iranian actress Zahra Amir Ebrahimi and allegedly showing her having intercourse with a man, became available across Iran.

The videotape was leaked to the Internet and released on a black market DVD, becoming a full-blown Iranian sex tape scandal. Ebrahimi later came under an official investigation, which is still ongoing. She faces fines, whip lashing or worse for her violation of Iran's morality laws.

The unnamed man on the tape, who is suspected of releasing it, reportedly fled to Armenia but was subsequently returned to Iran and charged with breach of public morality laws. He remains in jail.

In an exclusive interview with the British newspaper The Guardian early this year, Ebrahimi denied she was the woman in the film and dismissed it as a fake, made by a vengeful former fiance bent on destroying her career.

In recent years, private videotapes have increasingly been leaked to the public in Iran, riling the government and many in this conservative Islamic country, where open talk of sex is banned and considered taboo.

However, porn material is easily accessible through foreign satellite television channels in Iran. Bootleg video tapes and CDs are also available on the black market on many street corners.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

[Jadaki]

Online Poker.

[Thorpe]

Originally Posted by Jadaki

Online Poker.

If you are good, doing just that can make you a good amount of money.

[Kiroy]

Originally Posted by Thorpe

If you are good, doing just that can make you a good amount of money.

That would be stressfull, not only do you have to get good, but you have to run like 8 games at a time to make decent cash (so I read). Yikes!

On a side note, I've been thinking about getting back into it. Any client suggestions now adays?

[Soriak]

Originally Posted by Kiroy

That would be stressfull, not only do you have to get good, but you have to run like 8 games at a time to make decent cash (so I read). Yikes!

On a side note, I've been thinking about getting back into it. Any client suggestions now adays?

I think many sites block US IPs these days, you may want to try www.bwin.com
I also used to play on PokerRoom.com - Play Poker Online, Texas Hold'em Poker, Casino Games, Tournaments that was very reliable, but since bwin is mostly a sports betting site, I found the poker players are much worse there

May have to be careful with it though, no idea how obsessed US authorities are with going after players. They sure don't like the people running them though.

[Kiroy]

Originally Posted by Soriak

I think many sites block US IPs these days, you may want to try www.bwin.com
I also used to play on PokerRoom.com - Play Poker Online, Texas Hold'em Poker, Casino Games, Tournaments that was very reliable, but since bwin is mostly a sports betting site, I found the poker players are much worse there

May have to be careful with it though, no idea how obsessed US authorities are with going after players. They sure don't like the people running them though.

Oh ya, I completely forgot it's a felony (in WA) now.