How to Make $$$ Promoting Adult Films Online - by Kath Blackwell
Whether you choose to encode your own amateur videos and post them to your adult membership areas - or if you choose to promote affiliate services that offer premium adult films - the basic benefits to working with this type of content are the same. Surfers are demanding more from their adult content membership programs in the way of high-speed content - this can include videos, adult films, cam features and other "heavy" offerings...

Get Real: Reality Sites Are Here to Stay! - by Kath Blackwell
Of course we're not talking real reality, but the pseudo reality that gets spoon-fed to American consumers who eagerly gobble the slop up and ask for more. Every day of the year we see the popularity of so-called reality programming through advertising, the success of "Girls Gone Wild," reality series such as Paris Hilton's infamous Simple Life - even real-life people on dating shows, game shows and daytime TV with Oprah! Today's prime porn purchasing demographic likes it real - and raw...

School of Punk - by Brandon Palmer
Sex and rock and roll have always been happy bedfellows, from Jimi Hendrix to Britney Spears. But punk - a full-blown subculture - was long left by the Internet's erotic wayside. The punk rock scene favors tattoos, piercings and crazy hair - but until recently, punks had to make do with traditional online porn. The best marketing scheme in the book is simple - know your customers and give them exactly what they want. But punk porn takes this adage one step further, by not just making content for the punk community, but creating sites that have become a part of the punk community...

Reality Porn: From Joe the Millionaire to Joe the Porn Star
The American public has been swept away by the concept of reality programming on television. It's everywhere you look. It started with crime-based shows like Cops and Unsolved Mysteries and then moved on to more comedy-based features like home video giants: America's Funniest Home Videos and America's Funniest People. Today's world of "reality TV" has taken a step more towards watching nobodies become 15-minute somebodies as they get humiliated on the little screen. Most viewers realize that the "real" in reality has been somewhat twisted, err scripted - in order to make the program more entertaining...

An Orgy of Niches - How to Sell Your Site - by Kath Blackwell
How many thousands of frustrated adult content surfers are out there - angry and disappointed because there are no sites that properly cater to the specific interests and needs they are searching for? You would be surprised how many communities of fetishists hang out in online chats and complain about the lack of representation for their interests - and the sites that ARE out there generally miss the mark, and word spreads quickly of the botched attempt...

Carving Your Niche on the Adult Industry - by Kath Blackwell
Some choose to work with content - others in traffic. But that's not the kind of niche we're talking about today. We're talking about niches like fetishes, specific interests or categories for adult sites - even super specific micro-niches. Discovering a new niche and finding ways to successfully promote it and gather traffic for it could be a major feather in your cap. If, you do it right. New niches are born each and every day - the industry is a veritable pool of evolving organisms, searching for that "hot new thing" to make available...

Major Bummer - by James Reade
Don't Try This At Home, Kiddies: Ray Laticia and Ty Beeson's (not their real names) first release was ballyhooed on Howard Stern's show- may have made e-commerce history and turned them into millionaires. The Las Vegas-based co-producers reportedly e-sold 250,000 copies of their $19.95 video/DVD Bumfights, Volume I: A Cause for Concern at their www.bumfights.com site, in the first six weeks following its April debut, and subsequently e-sold another 50,000 copies. But the estimated $6 million jackpot has come at a steep price for the twenty-somethings...

Niche, Micro-Niche, Fetish, Way-Out, and Right-Out
"Niche" is a very generic term, "micro-niche" is a new term, and "fetish" may be a misunderstood and loosely used term. The purpose here is to see if it's possible to sort out the many pigeonholes into which adult Web sites fall. Not because any webmaster wants to be pigeon-holed (that's a tall order anyway!), but in order gain some perspective and make sense of the incredible diversity of sites currently available-because you've got to know the territory in which you are selling...