Spreadthinitus…
It’s a disease that some say originated in ancient Rome where the emperors would marry many wives and still somehow father illegitimate children. Others claim it began much later in North America where industrious settlers felt they could and should do everything that was needed for their colony. Me… I first saw it happening in […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Monday, February 23rd, 2009
The New Pornworld Order
2009 is here, the economy has been rough to say the least and the proliferation of “tube” sites has had as dramatic a negative impact on paysite sales as the advent of TGP/MGP sites ever did. If I take a look across the board of sites I own as well as clients reporting into me […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Branding? In Adult!?
In just about any other industry but ours, millions of dollars are spent on the simple idea of branding. Is it really warranted or is it just a collective ego thing for each company? I’m sure it’s some of both and to varying degrees depending on the product/industry but let’s look at the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Thursday, June 12th, 2008
The Right Bag of Tricks
For this tip I’m going to share with you some of the links and software that I have in my little bag o’ tricks. Over the years I’ve found lots of neat tools to make my jobs easier and hopefully my projects more profitable. Maybe you can make good use of them too.
Google […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Monday, November 19th, 2007
Affiliate Software?
It’s a simple enough question and I’ve seen it come up on a couple boards and with a couple consulting clients recently so I guess it’s time to talk about it here. =]
I think the best way to approach answering the question is to make a simple pros/cons list. I’ll start with the cons […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Saturday, October 27th, 2007
Don’t Skimp on the Trailer!
This month’s tip discusses one of the most commonly overlooked aspects of selling your website(s)… The video trailers. I can’t tell you how many times people have come to me, scratching their heads, wondering why their very good tour is not converting so well only to find out when I look at the video trailer […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Friday, October 12th, 2007
Squeeze Out Every Drop of Profit…
Going by the mantra, “Every little thing adds up!” I have a few little tricks to consider that will help bring your margins up pretty nicely especially when all combined. I don’t think any of these are some big great secret but plenty of people aren’t doing a good percentage of them and they […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Top 10 Tour Crushers
No I’m not Dave Letterman with a list of cards and the cool glass breaking noise when I toss them over my desk. But this month I do have for ya’ll the top 10 things that screw up a perfectly good tour:
Horrible picture selections: Nothing will send your surfers packing faster than crappy choices […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
How Much is Too Much?
A couple posts back I did “The Biggest Mistake” and spoke about people not allocating nearly enough funds for advertising. Well in this post I am going to append all that and add in the other biggest mistake I keep seeing:
Cardinal sin #2 revision F… Doing too many sites at once!
A lot of startups […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Advertising Strategies
So you’ve got great content… you have some kickass designs… you’ve been online six months and you’re still doing only a handful of sign-ups a day! What in the heck can you do to make it past the meager stages of a startup and into the types of numbers you hear people talking about?
Well […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Wednesday, June 13th, 2007