I have a personal theory that approximately twenty people on this planet
have the same brilliant idea at the same time. At exactly the same given
moment -because of various sets of circumstances and occurrences of
fate- twenty individual citizens of this world come up with precisely
the same concept simultaneously. My theory continues in that ten of them
forget the idea the moment it occurs to them. Five or so consider the
possibilities and disregard it as silly. Three or four will believe
their idea to be amazing but are slackers and do nothing but talk about
their idea at cocktail parties. Then there is that one or two who see
the whole vision of their revelation and put the idea into motion. They
act upon their unique notion and promote it and push it until it's heard
by positive ears.
My theory about ideas continues. The thing about ideas is that new ones
come along every day. That idea-having blabbermouth at the cocktail
party may just inspire the productive entrepreneur listening to him
blather on. When an idea catches on, no matter how hard the creator
tries to protect it from duplication, others will do everything they can
to take it, better it, reconfigure it and present it as their own. From
fake designer handbags to software clones, for each of the twenty people
who had the original idea, there are twenty x twenty others who try to
steal it.
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Do you have a good idea? Do you believe in it? Do you have a sincere
faith that your idea is the answer to what porn surfers have been
looking for since the Internet was conceived? Is your idea the be all,
end all of all that is online smut? Take a word of advice. Keep it to
yourself.
Now, I don't mean don't believe in your ideas. I don't mean don't follow
your dreams. What I mean is be very careful who you tell them to.
Recently, a fellow that worked for company A decided he wanted to work
for company B. The fellow began to exchange emails with a rep from
company B. Eventually the rep decided to hire the fellow. In their
emails, the rep told the fellow not to turn in his notice with company A
until he had gotten collected as much information about company A he
could. The fellow agreed to hoard trade secrets for his new impending
job at company B. The thing was, this exchange of emails was enough to
get both men charged with corporate espionage and jail time was served.
Somebody couldn't keep their mouth shut and they left an electronic
trail.
Well, maybe you won't come across corporate espionage as an adult
webmaster, but keeping your ideas to yourself is a good idea. So many
times I see some poor schnook come into an adult webmaster message board
and proceed to lay out they entire works of their fabulous idea and ask
for opinions on it's viability. While they spend the next few weeks
posting back and forth trying to defend their idea to the jaded masses,
somebody else takes their idea and runs with it. Or have you ever
noticed that when webmasters finally find a sponsor that converts well
and pays on time, they spend hours of their time spamming them on the
adult Internet? Now, I know that sharing good ideas makes for more good
ideas but it often seems a sponsor gets hot, gets overexposed and then
gets dumped by all the affiliates.
If you have the next big idea, do yourself a favor. Wait until you have
it built, hosted, copyrighted and fully launch-ready before you go
asking for opinions on it's feasibility. More than once someone in the
adult Internet has come up with a fabulous concept and while they were
busy blathering away to their friends on ICQ about it, somebody else
snatches it and presents it first.
See it all goes back to my original theory. I believe that folks in the
adult Internet have greater vision than those in the non-adult world. I
think that twenty adult webmasters have a great idea pop into their
heads simultaneously. The trick for the one who beats the others to the
punch is an open mind, a clear vision, hard work and a closed mouth.