20 Surefire Ways to Increase Your Revenues - by Kath Blackwell
Keep your site updated regularly to increase its value to your current members and to continue attracting new ones. Membership areas (inside your paysites) can be updated automatically with plug-in content programs such as the brand new Plug-in-Feeds program. They offer nine straight products and two gay products that are updated weekly with extreme, hard-edged content to supply your members with the freshest content available. High-quality video and image galleries are provided in an affordable leased content package, giving the webmaster multiple options by price, niche and market...

The Top 10 Worst Things Webmasters Do - by Marc Laffer
As President of AdultChamber.com, I asked the staff to put together a list of the top 10 worst things webmasters typically do which negatively affect success, or lead to the ultimate demise of their online businesses. The staff has experience in the Adult Internet business community since 1990, with tremendous experience over the years in creating adult websites for clients and advising them on design and marketing matters. The list, after very careful consideration, was widdled down to 10. Here are the TOP 10 Worst things we typically see webmasters doing...

Webmaster Fraud Control - by Lisa Ryan
In days past, a fraudulent webmaster could cost your business money, but they were rarely a threat to the survival of your program. These days, with processing controls tightening, particularly in relation to charge-backs, a fraudulent webmaster can force you to lose your processing, either your merchant account, or your account with one of the third party processors, purely because of the number of charge-backs they generate. Without a method of charging credit cards online, the viability of your business is next to nil...

Profitable Laziness - by Jo Hawke
We are all looking for ways to make more money. We have plans, dreams, hopes and yearnings. I don't know about you, but my little dream is to make enough cash to lie back on a tropical beach while watching hula girls and drinking fruity boozers with pink umbrellas. But in order to have my simple little dream, I have to make a big chunk of cash. If I want to live on that beach, then I have to make that cash regularly enough to count on - even while lying on a beach with a fruity-boozer. The big-wigs call it: Productivity...

Getting Down to Business: The Adult 'Net Gets Serious - by Kath Blackwell
So many webmasters just work and work, figuring there will be time later to organize, get their business affairs in order... Others think that they don't need to get outside help like legal counsel, accountants or even hire business managers. For years the veterans of this industry have been preaching to the new folks that come along, telling them that they need to treat their business professionally and make sure that they handle it as such. Taking care of business means hiring professionals and taking care of the those little "legal nuisances," like taxes, incorporation, and other things that inevitably come along with this kind of work...

What is XML? - The Basics and Beyond... - by Gary B. Smith
Extensible Markup Language, or XML, is quite literally changing the face of the Web as it gains in popularity among Webmasters and other online specialists, who require greater functionality in their Web pages. While most documents on the Web are stored in HTML (Hypertext Mark-up Language), this trend is changing as more developers begin to realize the numerous advantages of XML. According to the authors of The XML Files, XML's beauty lies in that it can perform even the most sophisticated data-management tasks...

Surviving the Taxman - Deductions for the Webmaster - - by Dyanna S. Culp (Temos)
You can deduct all costs associated with running a business or attempting to obtain new clients, whether your endeavors were successful or not. That includes mileage, gas, phone calls, and even air fare. Everything related to running a business is tax deductible, either in full, or as a percentage over time using depreciation or amortization tax rules. Being a home based business opens up even more possibilities, allowing a percentage of rent or home payments, utilities and home repairs to be deducted...

Reinventing the Web: Innovations Moving Forward in 2004 - - by Kath Blackwell
Is your business in need of something new and exciting to push it forward to the next level? Do you feel like your old business model is just dying on the vine before it ever really got a chance to blossom? You're not alone. Many webmasters are putting real time and effort into finding new ways to drive traffic, process sales, build sites, design tours, explore new technologies and make things more user friendly overall. Yes - that's what I said - user friendly!

Writing Adult Fiction: It's Not just an Adventure, It's a Job - - by Jo Hawke, AEBN.com
Writing may look artistic, and creative writing certainly is artistic (that's why they call it Creative Writing), but writing for a living - writing for publication in the adult industry with the intent to get paid on a regular basis - is NOT artistic - it's NOT always fun, and it certainly is NOT easy... Writing for publication in the adult industry is WORK. Sure, some of it is fun, but the bulk of it is mind-bending, eye-straining work. Don't get me wrong, creativity is part of the job of writing for a living...

Adult Personals, Are You Promoting Them? - by Marsha "Princess" Youngs, RatedHot.com
Adult personal sites are definitely on the rise these days and can offer webmasters even more cash in their mail boxes. Here lately the only real chore to adding them to your lineup of affiliates that you're promoting is picking the one that best suits your needs or the needs of your niche traffic. Gone are the days of just a generic personal site. As with anything in the industry these days there's a personals site for every niche it seems.

Banner Burnout - by Marsha "Princess" Youngs, RatedHot.com
How many times have you heard "I'd like to cancel my advertisement, it's just not very productive anymore?" If you're a marketing representative I'm sure you've heard it more times then you actually care to remember. Companies that advertise naturally assume that if their ad spot isn't doing as good as it once did that it's the site they're advertising with that's having a problem with traffic or some other issue. For some reason banner burnout is always the last thing that comes to mind - that is, if it's ever thought of at all.

Analyze This - Is Your Site Up to Par? - by Kath Blackwell
Are you doing everything you can to ensure that your site is working to its full potential? Have you cross-referenced your sites with each other, built up an inner structure of traffic within your own domains, tried every sponsorship program available, explored new niches and looked at your business model from every possible angle? Chances are - whoever you are - that your answer to those questions was no...

Revenue Reaping Resolutions - by Eric Rogell
Ring in 2003 with a commitment to a new business plan with focused objectives based on the fundamentals. I know. Every magazine you open this month has an article demanding you become a better person, along with a list of suggested resolutions you should adopt: "This year I will exercise more often." "This year I will spend more time with my family." "This year I won't watch my downloaded copy of Christina Aguilera's video Dirrty, 14 hours a day..."

Free Porn - by Eric Rogell
The subject of free porn and how it affects the adult Internet industry is something that is a concern to many veteran webmasters - those who have "gone before us," who have seen the different evolutionary processes of our business first-hand. Some describe the power of free porn as unstoppable - others feel that only the government can step in to eradicate it. But no matter how you slice it, "free porn" is something we all have to deal with, overcome and move beyond, if we're to find continued success in the future...

What's in a [Screen] Name? - by Kath Blackwell
The questions that are asked daily by webmasters from all walks of life, political backgrounds, sexual orientations, genders, races and religions... Would a webmaster by any other name not be as sweet? Or perceived as being as intelligent? Or as respected within the industry? Or accepted into the industry fold? It seems almost comical that in an industry that is based upon the illusion of sexual fantasy that those who work within it would be wrestling with their own identities, but it's quite true.

Cloaking - Part 1 - by Dyanna S. Culp (Temos)
You'll find the term Cloaking being bandied about all over the Web these days, but it refers to some vastly different processes. Some of the hottest cloaking topics include custom language delivery, IP based delivery for broadband users, geotargeted advertising, and hiding one's e-mail and/or e-mail address, from prying eyes. Unique techniques are utilized to "Cloak" Web pages for the purpose of SEO (search engine optimization). This type of Cloaking is the process of delivering one version of a Web page to a search engine...

Cloaking - Part 2 - by Dyanna S. Culp (Temos) 
We need protection from the nuisance Spam messages that overload and crash our systems, the growing multitude of hackers, and the FBI's Carnivore surveillance system on the loose. Privacy advocates are in an uproar these days, and tools to cloak our presence- such as Encryption, Re-mailers, Alias addresses, along with a paranoid personality are critical, for those looking to protect their privacy online. It's looking more and more like George Orwell's 1984...

Getting the Right Stuff!
"Adult e-commerce is one of the few profitable online enterprises, and it is already raking in more than $1 billion per year," says Theresa Lutge-Smith in an article appearing on adult.tophosts.com. Smith points out that the Internet adult entertainment industry is the most active and lucrative area of digital commerce, with 80-90 percent of all online business being conducted at adult sites. "Some top sites regularly garner more than three million hits per day, which puts them well ahead of such corporate sites such as General Electric or Boeing..."

Pump Up the Volume: Help Your Affiliates Help YOU Increase Sales - by Kath Blackwell
Knowledge is power. In many ways education is the most valuable tool of all. Yet in this industry we have webmasters - both newbie and veteran - running around the Internet, building sites without a clue as to how to properly promote their sponsors' programs or products. This is an element affecting our industry since it began. The best way to improve upon this ignorance is to educate...