"Freshhh Dave" is here from Gutter.com and TubeClicks. He gives us his take on legal tube sites and how to monetize their traffic. The program he represents is a unique model; along the lines of Rabbit's Reviews referral program. News and the usual updates from the industry with J-SiN and GC.
Marc Womack is back to give us insight on how to properly manage the ad inventory on your website to make the most money. He should know; he runs an ad network called Madison Avenue, built on the knowledge gained during the many years managing the ad inventory of his Consumption Junction website and the Sick Site Network.
George from Guerrilla Traffic stops by to share his wisdom on how best to monetize the traffic to your website. We talk a little bit of everything from traffic targeting to conversion strategies. George also shares some real world examples of these items in action. GC and J-SiN handle the news and we premiere a new show segment.
Chris "Barefootsies" Marcus shares more than his fair share on setting up a niche pay site. He gets down to brass tacks fast and shares some great answers to frequently asked questions about choosing a niche and running a pay site. GC and J-SiN cover the news and pick their "bad idea" for the week.
Kroy is back! This time to share his wisdom on shooting your own content. We cover when it makes sense to produce, as opposed to license content and then dive right into the how, what and where to actually do it. If you've ever been curious about the secrets of a talented adult content producer, this is the podcast to listen to!
Round 2 with Kroy on shooting your own content. We are geeking out with the tools of the trade and talk shop on the hardware you'll need. Probably the best 2 part interview we have recorded to date; it is definitely the most useful for those who have or want to produce custom content. GC and J-SiN make the latest industry news accessible with our own spin.
Jeffrey Douglas, Max Hardcore's criminal defense attorney, gives us an update on the case, the legal climate in Adult, and what the political changes in Washington may mean to us insiders. We go long this week, but its worth it! This ain't no stuffy lawyer interview.
SilverCash Albert discusses the lessons he's learned on his journey working in mainstream and adult. What works and what doesn't in building your business strategies. J-SiN and GC do the news which features our last political-based rant for a while.
Mona from Klixxx stops by to lend her sage advice on marketing via message boards. We start off with the basics but quickly progress through topics like: brand building, non-advertising promotional methods, and message-board specific do's and don'ts. If you are trying to reach webmasters or consumers via the boards, this is the interview for you.
Everyone knows you can't use email marketing to promote adult products, right? WRONG! Damian Jennings is here from Making Email Work to tell us Yanks just how you can skirt CAN-SPAM and effectively use email to build your email list into a money generating machine.
Well known adult industry attorney Gregory Piccionelli is our guest this week for a discussion on copyrights, trademarks, and patents. Why should you care? Well these tools are what you use to protect your business and its intellectual property, including anything you create or own. This interview is a great overview of what you need to know.
Dan Hogue, from CamZ, and Dirty D, from How I Got Rich, help us kick off our first roundtable interview of the podcast. No news this week, so we spend the entire 30 minutes chatting with these adult business owners about the challenges they face, how they overcome them, and what changes they see in the near future.
Michael Brandvold from GameLink stops by to talk to us about why affiliates fail. Specifically we talk about affiliate business plan formulation, successful traffic sources, landing page optimization, niche marketing and, of course, new online marketing opportunities.
Keith Glazer aka "kmanrox" from Feed Morphers stops by to talk to us about RSS feeds and how to use them to distribute updates and help automate marketing of affiliate programs. We discuss how morphing feeds are changing the game, and the right way and wrong way to use RSS feeds, as an affiliate and as an affiliate program owner.
Woohoo! Our 30th episode and we've got a whopper of a topic for our interview today. Scott Rabinowitz, co-founder of Traffic Dude, stops by to tell us why the traditional affiliate-dependent pay site marketing model may be on the outs. How does this affect you, and why is this change well underway?
J-SiN and GC wrap up the year's most newsworthy happenings and put they're own stank on 'em. Too drunk or stoned to remember what happened in 2008? well this is the show for you! If however you were actually half-way sober through most of the year you'll be reminded of all the events we talked about this year and why you should have cared.
Hot off the front lines of fighting for free speech, Lawrence G. Walters, of First Amendment.com and the law firm of Weston, Garrou, Walters, and Mooney, is breaking the silence and talking about what the new Department of Justice revisions to the 2257 regulations really mean to you.
What is the one investment you should make after turning the corner on profitability in your business? Joan Irvine of the ASACP stops by to inform us how this group continues to prove its value to the adult industry even in these hard economic times.
Lawrence G. Walters, of First Amendment.com, is back to discuss what the regime change in the United States means to the adult industry, online and off. How will Barack Obama and his staff change the policy at the Department of Justice regarding enforcement of 2257 and obscenity prosecutions?
The one and only "Sharky" from PimpMansion gets on the mic this week to talk to us about cross-sales and up-sales. Why is Mastercard all in a tizzy over cross-sales? What's the difference between cross-sales and up-selling? The appropriate ways to increase your revenue while not pissing off your customers.
Wildline president Charles Hentrich is here to discuss what you need to know about Search Engine Marketing (Paid Search). This will be the first in a series with Wildline where we will go deep on several topics relating to SEO and PPC advertising techniques. Today we cover what is SEM?
In the news we cover Showtime's new porn-based reality series; The Deputy Attorney General's ties to the adult industry; and how Google plans to create an even tighter "walled garden" around its search data.
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What a treat we have for you this week! Vita Vaysman from Wildline is here in studio for an in-depth conversation about Yahoo! Search Marketing, the Yahoo! pay-per-click text ad system. We talk about how YSM is different from Google Adwords and the right way to get an adult campaign off the ground.
We've all heard about the pending mobile porn explosion happening around the world and probably wondered when it is going to hit the US market, right? Well Mark Frieser from My VIP Room is here to announce "the mobiles are coming! the mobiles are coming!". This is not an interview about the tired foreign mobile phone industry.
This is the first in our Conference series, recorded at the XBiz State of the Industry show in February. We took the best bits of each relevant seminar and will be posting these in place of our normal one-on-one interview, every couple weeks.
Michael Brandvold of Gamelink is back to share his wisdom on using social networks to brand and market your business. This may seem like a straight forward subject but there are so many ways to go wrong with this burgeoning communication mechanism.
This is the second seminar we recorded at XBiz State of the Industry 2009 a few weeks back. "Staying on Top Online In Today's Hyper-Competitive Market" is moderated by Colin Rowntree and includes Dan Hogue (CamZ), Albert Lozarito (CECash), Allison Vivas (TopBucks), and Ron Holiday (12Clicks).
To play an early April Fools day joke on everyone GC will be interviewing yours truly, J-SiN, on a topic near and dear to my heart, Google Adwords. I will share my strategies for competing in the world of Adult on the best paid traffic platform in the world. We start off with some basics but then quickly get into intermediate strategies for optimizing your campaigns and not losing your shorts.
Here we go with our 3rd (out of 4) seminar highlight recording from the Xbiz State of the Industry '09 show a few weeks back. The days of ‘Content is King’ are over forever — or are they? Maybe we’re on the cusp of a revolution in adult content and the way in which affiliate markets promote it online.
Diane Duke, from the FSC, and Eric Johnson, from Sureflix, stop by to talk to us about the problem of piracy and how it effects even those who don't produce content.
While preparing for his seminar at Cybernet Expo this year, Dave Cummings, stops by to share with us how he maximizes profits from content he shoots and produces. We talk specifically about: is it still worth shooting your own content domesticly; what you need to know before you start shooting; quality vs.
Jay Kopita, aka LAJay, from YNOT and Cybernet Expo stops by to impart some wisdom from his many years pressing the flesh. We've talked in the past about what you should do, and even why, when you are at an event meeting new people. Now we concentrate on what you should not do to create that lasting impression.
To understand where we are going, we must know the history of where we've been. That's exactly what Sharky from Pimp Mansion is here to do today. A veteran of the online adult industry since 1996, he has been around long enough to see the trends in our industry.
Jay "XXXJay" Quinlan is one of the few people others point to when talking about webmaster success stories. Having made a nice living during the 'golden years of porn', he is now co-owner of affiliate program OC Cash, an adult talent agency, and other businesses.
Chris Marcus, also known as Barefootsies, is like most of us in adult. He started as a consumer and then graduated to the other side of the table when he thought he could create and sell something better suited to his own needs.
Just like alternative billing, translating your site's content into other languages can be a boon for your profits and increase your business even in hard times such as these. Mo Aguiari, from Translations XXX, is here to share his experience on the subject and tell us how to best take advantage of such an opportunity.
Once upon a time, traffic generation was as easy as offering an affiliate program and watching your traffic stats skyrocket. Today, because affiliates are spread among so many affiliate programs, companies are increasingly turning to other sources of traffic; both internal and external.
Trying to come up with a sexy title for this topic was hard, but ultimately the interview is well worth just about anyone's time to listen to. Spannow, owner of Solo Babe Cash, graphic designer cum affiliate program owner, has the background to give us the inside scoop on how good design fundamentals can be key in creating a profitable website.
DamageX was our very first interview guest when we started this podcast over a year ago. We picked him because of his broad range of knowledge and vast experience in the online adult industry. Well, he's back and this time he talks with us about the questions that seem to get asked again and again on boards such as his, AskDamageX.
