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Goal Setting

Today I’ll discuss why I think it’s important to set up goals no matter at what level you are in the online adult game. This also holds true whether or not you’ve gone fulltime.

When I started out with my online work over a year ago I was so psyched in the beginning when I made my first sale and just the thought of being able to make a living selling porn online was pretty damn cool to me as it is to many adult webmasers. But then when you realize that the first sales might have been lucky and when more sales just don’t continue to roll in you might start to become frustrated over your performance and begin to despair.

And it’s then that you need to realize that you’ll get nowhere with any motivation or goals to go after. In a later post I’ll get into goal setting techniques I’ve used and which has worked for me but for now I’ll just say this: Longterm goals are extremely important in any business and the ability to not just be here for the quick bucks is essential if you wanna get anywhere in the competetive environment of the adult online market today.

That’s it for today - I’ll be back with some examples of my goal setting very soon so stay tuned!

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Got Motivation?

I’ve been selling porn online for a little over a year now and what I’ve realized over this period of time is that if there’s one thing you have to battle to be succesful online (and in life generally!) then it’s the horrible diseases of laziness, discouragement!

When you look around at the various webmaster boards you might sometimes spot a thread with one of the big dogs posting his stats and you have a horde of people coming on and saying “Nice stats! Very inspiring post - I wanna get to that level!”. Blah blah blah is what that is and you know it - that right there is not real motivation on any level because let me tell you this:

Real motivation to work your ass off and be successful comes from the inside!

Only you and no one else can make you succesful in life and it’s not until you realize that and actively take action and responsibility for your own life that you’ll begin to move forward for good. I’m sure this is not news to most of you and some of the big dogs might read this and say: “D’oh! Of course!” - but that just proves my point: The guys that are pulling in 500 sales/month are the ones who have started to take responsibility for their life, who have a plan/goals and are disciplined enough to follow their goals religiously.

I’ll be posting more motivational articles and some stuff on goal setting too here at my blog so stay tuned! The advice I’m posting here are all things I’ve learned about and started doing in this last year and that has worked for me so it might just also be what you’ve been looking for to get your ass on the fast track :) .

See you back soon!
ynuahayt

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Reality Check

I might as well have called this post “Things that amazes me in the adult business”. Most of us new Adult Webmasters keep on churning out TGP galleries and free sites, just the same old, same old. I do (I hope you do too!) realize that I will never get rich off this - I’m too green to get all the mega traffic partner accounts and both ways of marketing are heavily saturated because well everyone does ‘em!

Now I know there are arguments like “Galleries/free sites are a great way to get into the biz, get to know people etc.” and to a certain point I agree. But how about sitting down for a month, reading about all your options, ask questions on Netpond and generally getting to know the biz. You could also make some galleries and other pages to get some basic skills (HTML/image editing etc.) if you lack these. And then use your imagination and come up with an idea that goes beyond the normal stuff newbies do and which you believe would work!

I’ve been trying new things lately and here’s two things that has been cool - not major earners but just something that shows there’s a lot of money out there besides TGP/free sites.

I found a niche forum by using google and have been posting there like all the other surfers do - you know like “Hey when I was surfing xxx.com for porn I just found this foot fetish gallery - hot stuff don’t you think!?” - Gallery of course has my linking code, you get the picture.

Here’s my stats for less than half an hour of work:
4 sales at a conversion ratio of 1:18! And this is revshare so people will probably be rebilling for a long time couze they *love* the niche.

Second example - I recently setup a blog where I pretend to be a crazy swinger/dater/webcam sex obsessed woman. The site has only had around 1000 unique visitors but none the less those few visitors have produced a $50 sale and a ticket @ Pussy Cash - ratio? 1:37.

Now I know that those ratios could be pure luck and that I need much more traffic to the sites before I can really tell how good they’re performing but my point is this: Remarkable results can quite possibly be achieved by asking yourself if you still wanna be submitting galleries at this time next year? I’ve been in this biz for one year now and submitting galleries/free sites is becoming boring - why stick to the same methods of generating income when there’s a ton of new ones out there YOU can invent!

Thanks for your time :)

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Struggling With Sales Text? This’ll Help Ya!

Hey all!
For a long time I’ve been struggling a lot with my sales text and descriptions - I still do galleries and free sites but I often find that my text is not the best at all. So, I thought that a way to make it better would be to learn new words!

English is not my native language (I’m from Denmark) so I don’t know all that much sexual slang and synonyms for body parts/sex. But that is about to change since I found the sites below:

http://www.thesexdictionary.com/
http://www.mybodyvibes.com/sex_dictionary.html
http://www.darkerotica.net/EroticThesaurus.html

And my absolute favourite - everyone should check this one out, it has tons of slang for body parts, all kinds of sex and sexual emotions!

http://www.uta.fi/FAST/GC/sex-scat.html

I hope this is as helpful to you as it is to me - now if you’ll excuse me I’ll go Bash the Candle while watching some Meat Grinder get plugged by an Old Blind Bob ;)

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A tip on Chameleon Submittter…

I’ve been using the Chameleon TGP submitter ever since I started in adult and while it’s a good proggie I have one issue with it.

When I got the program I thought it was pretty neat that it had an auto update feature - I mean that would make sure that only quality TGP’s would be on my submit list all of the time right?

WRONG! On the Chameleon homepage it states that the database has “more than 2200 TGP & MGP sites” - well after I started optimizing my submit database it currently has 1677 - and I’m constanty deleting crap sites as I find them.

There are so many fake TGP’s and dead sites in there and some of them you submit to every single day because they are listed in all categories - and they never send one visitor back - they only leech off the established TGP’s that their recip sits besides.

I haven’t updated my database in 2 months now but unless the Chameleon crew has started to go through the database and weed the suckers out I wholeheartedly suggests to you that you start to optimize your database youself.

It will save you server space, your submit time will be shorter and you can then spend the time making more kickass galleries!

Hope this was some helpful advice for the serious gallery makers out there :)

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