How Do I Get Started in Adult?

Barefootsies

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I get asked this question all the time. I will tell you my honest opinion although many others may disagree depending on their background. Some people are nothing but traffic guys, and work the affiliate and traffic broker game. Others are looking to do their own pay sites, and maybe produce their own content one day. While others do not care about any of that shit and simply want to make money from their home and in their underwear.

In my opinion the easiest way to start in the adult industry is with a clip store. It is low risk, and as long as you follow the routine daily, you should easily get your R.O.I. in a few months and from there you expand. However, before you go head strong into the adult industry you need to keep in mind that your success and failure resides completely on YOU. I can give you all the best advice on the planet, 13 years of experience, what I would recommend you do based on your knowledge, cash, and skill sets. But if you do not listen. There is nothing to keep you from ending up in the shitter. Adult online is the same as any other business. You have to put in the WORK. Obviously, there are some perks. Freedom, and working in your panties from home. That said, let’s get rolling.

This is going to be a basic business outline you would follow assuming your end goal is to develop your own pay sites, and possibly your own content. Before you get to that point, REGARDLESS of how much money you have, you should follow these steps. They obviously are not going to make you millions over night. But you WILL learn the skills you need to make money online.

1. Go to your local county clerk’s office and register a business D.B.A. (doing business as).

2. Go to your local bank and open up a BUSINESS checking account, and get your credit/debit card that goes with it.

3. Research the niche you want to start out in. There is a lot of good content out there you can get for a few thousand dollars that would last you for YEARS of updates. I would recommend you get into something you like personally. You are going to have to look at this stuff daily. So it would make you life more enjoyable if it is something you are passionate about. But you can always go more mainstream hardcore if you like. You may just need to work harder.

4. After you have picked a niche(s), then you need a domain. This will be important for a pay site later, branding, and watermarking your clips. I have written a tutorial on how to find good domain names in that section.

5. I would get a virtual hosting account. This is going to be for your banners, your gallery submits, posting up pictures to forums and other things. Virtual hosting is about as low as you can go, and be dependable. If you use a free host or something similar, they can nuke you and your content at any time. There is nothing more annoying that working for a month, and then have your content killed because you broke some Terms of Service or became high bandwidth. Hosting, in time, will be the life line of your business. You need to invest in a decent one for everything from hosting your site, promotion materials, branded email and DNS/domain management.

6. Next, you need to sign up for your clip stores. There are a number of them out there now a days, but really the only two I have found that make you decent money are Clips4Sale and Clips.com. The terms vary, and I prefer C4S myself, but typically you are looking at a 60/40 or 50/50 type of split. For their end, they are taking care of the billing, hosting, and other b.s. that they take on their end. While not the best deal around, it is a decent deal.

7. Once you get your content, you are going to want to watermark you clips. There is a tutorial to do it with one of the mid range programs I use, and recommend. There are higher and lower end on the market. I also use Premiere and Sorenson Squeeze, depending on if the clip is a re-run, or a 1st release, etc.. But I digress…

So you watermark you FULL LENGTH clips. Once you have done that, you would then want to cut your clips into sections. Some do this, some do not, it’s up to you. I am giving you a very basic overview of what has worked for me. So you do say maybe two week’s worth to start. Watermarking and compressing your FULL LENGTH, and the cutting into sections. I like to do three pieces. So if a clip is 10 minutes long, I do 3 minutes per. You can’t be less that 2 minutes on a Clip Store.

Continued later…
 


BF is one of the few in adult still making a nice living doing this, however his advice will probably continue to be under-appreciated until he makes an ebook on the topic and has a big launch around it :-)
 
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How can we research adult keywords? (google's tool won't search for them)
 
How can we research adult keywords? (google's tool won't search for them)

Honestly, your best bet for this business model would be to do this.

1. Go to Clips4Sale.
2. Look at what are the top selling stores, and clips, on the main page.
3. Find content provider in those niches. License it.
4. Come back to this thread, and follow the steps.

Good luck!
 
If you do want to do keyword research on Google, right now you'll have to use the old keyword tool (available from a link on the new version). In the old Google Keyword tool you'll still need to expand the advanced settings and check the box to allow adult results.

I've been pinging Google to allow the new keyword tool this same functionality, and my contact says it is coming soon...
 
damn this is a pretty decent guide for people who arent in adult to get started. some newbs should follow this advice to a T and bank
 
LOL there is a farting section on Clips4Sale...

....and a section for you to get your balls stomped on, or salad tossed, or cornhole.....

Yeah. Lots of niches out there. Some that most never thought of.
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Don't get started in adult, prob the best idea.

+1

PPS affiliate programs going under almost daily due to new(ish) VISA regs regarding cross sales with other merchant accounts (thanks all you mainstream rebill peeps :p). Revshare affiliate programs are all good, but member retention is alot lower than it used to be and it's only getting worse. That combined with falling ratios makes for a pretty bleak outlook.

A lot of adult webmasters are recently branching out into mainstream as another more stable revenue stream.

The only real positive thing in adult is that SE traffic is piss easy to get and paid traffic is cheap as chips :)

Sorry, slightly off topic as these comments are in regards to the affiliate model, not what the OP was talking about.
 
Don't get started in adult, prob the best idea.

If you are nothing more than a lowly affiliate, that is probably good advice.

For others, there is still plenty of money to be made. Not only doing clip store money, but also in content production on a smaller scale, custom shoots, among many other things.

Today, it is about setting realistic expectations, and being consistent.
 
Got some ideas flowing. Thanks!



What is the best way of finding a reliable content provider and licensing the content?

It depends on what niche(s) you are looking for. I do foot fetish, and tickling for example. I work with another guy who does EX-GF style content, I also work with a major adult content provider who caters to more mainstream adult niches, including gay and tranny. Plus offers HD content.

So first thing you would need to do is.....

1. Figure out which niche(s) you are looking at.
2. Work out your budget.

From there, it is fairly easy to match you up. There are only a few major, big library, providers left in adult online. There are a number of independents, but matching you up will come down to niche, and budget.

You could get by with a few months worth of content, or you could go for thousands of scenes. Which would be helpful if you want to launch a pay site, or a tube site, later after you have learned the ropes.

Here are a few decent STARTER DEALS that would give you decent R.O.I. in a short period of time. I also have some additional options, or people I can point you to, depending on #1 & 2. Once you have that figured out, I can better direct you.
 
If you are nothing more than a lowly affiliate, that is probably good advice.

For others, there is still plenty of money to be made. Not only doing clip store money, but also in content production on a smaller scale, custom shoots, among many other things.

Today, it is about setting realistic expectations, and being consistent.

There is still a lot of money in adult. If you have big innovative ideas and resources you can make a big impression. All I'm saying is for new affiliates adult probably isn't the best niche, it's tough and getting a lot tougher and if you put the same amount of effort into other niches the rewards will likely be much better.
 
For others, there is still plenty of money to be made.... but also in content production on a smaller scale, custom shoots,...

lol. This isn't directed at you, but anytime I saw some ugly dude on a porn clip linking back to a pay site I always figured it was the webmaster looking to recoup money spent paying to bang hookers.
 
lol. This isn't directed at you, but anytime I saw some ugly dude on a porn clip linking back to a pay site I always figured it was the webmaster looking to recoup money spent paying to bang hookers.

As long as there's a business plan, it's still technically a business ;-) Oh and... YOU'RE WELCOME!
 
All I'm saying is for new affiliates adult probably isn't the best niche, it's tough and getting a lot tougher and if you put the same amount of effort into other niches the rewards will likely be much better.

Agreed.

If you are little more than an affiliate, I would seek greener pastures.

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