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Ilana Rothman: A Fetish for Filmmaking
Most woman directors in the adult industry come up in the ranks from the talent pool. They’ve performed in scenes; know the technical aspects of production and in some cases feel that it’s time to make their mark behind the camera to make way for younger stars.
Executive seat: Intellichat's Billy and Jeremy Thomas
Some of the most interesting success stories in the adult entertainment industry aren’t necessarily people who have spent most of their working lives as adult entrepreneurs. Some are people who had track records in the mainstream business world before diversifying and branching out into adult. A perfect example is the British father-and-son team of Jeremy and Billy Thomas, who are the brains behind IntellichatAdult—a program designed to increase sales on adult websites. Founded in 2007, the U.K.-based Intellichat started out as a mainstream-oriented company— and Intellichat is still doing a lot of business on the mainstream side—but in 2008, Jeremy and Billy realized that if Intellichat could increase sales for mainstream websites, why couldn’t the company work with adult websites as well?
Executive Seat: Smashing Through Walls
Most people would get a major headache. A big one! But Smash Pictures Vice President Stuart Wall seems to thrive on the pressures of being in charge of that same company’s sales and production departments. Wall meticulously oversees everything from a movie’s inception, to its distribution on a worldwide basis. A unique position, especially considering the fact that his boss, Dan Quinn — the owner/CEO of Smash — is located 3,000 miles away in Connecticut.
Elemental Shadowing With Cascading Style Sheets
Website designers have long used cascading style sheets (CSS) to define, enhance and layout their projects, with varying degrees of design sophistication and cross-browser compatibility. This latter challenge of ensuring consistent visual display among viewing platforms has led some designers to employ hybrid table-based/pure CSS approaches; to rely on the CSS support of web design software; or even minimize their use of CSS.
Visualtron SMS Server Could Be Right Solution
For creative operators seeking to reach today’s technologically savvy and mobile equipped audiences, leveraging the power of Short Message Service (SMS) marketing can open up entirely new revenue streams while bolstering existing offers.
iPhone Pulse: Bridging the Gap
With all of the options unfolding in the mobile marketplace, adult entrepreneurs are seeking answers to the basic question of what type of mobile presence they should be investing in developing — both for today’s market realities and beyond.
Solid Solutions - Traffic Building for White Label Sites
Whether you want to easily extend your current site network, find a use for a parked domain, or take a shortcut to a new virtual empire, deploying one or more of the many “white label” website solutions offered by adult entertainment companies is becoming a favorite option for affiliates. This may be especially true for those lacking the capital and technical expertise to develop their own branded, quick-to-market adult website solution — but is deploying a white label always the best choice?
On Holiday
Holiday Products Vice President Ken Sahn tiptoed his way into the adult world in the ‘80s with five trendy, risqué retail locations in major malls, which he coowned in suburban Detroit. With retailer experience and natural people skills, Sahn’s career in wholesale distribution burgeoned as a jack-of-alltrades during a 19-year stint at adult novelty distributor Nalpac. Now as an executive at Holiday Products, Sahn employs his wealth of knowledge and industry relationships to methodically rebrand and rebuild the company as a solid distribution channel for retail stores, Internet sites and home party planners.
XBIZ Launches Lead-Generation Services Via XBIZ.net
Through XBIZ.net’s expansive and rapidly growing network of qualified industry members, XBIZ is now offering its clients targeted lead-generation services to maximize their marketing campaigns among all sectors of the adult business.
One Last Shot
The old saying that “it’s not what you make, but what you get to keep,” applies as well to the arena of website traffic management as it does anywhere else — especially when viewed in the context of maximizing the profitability of your traffic investment.
Liquid Lust - Libido in a can
It seems everywhere we go these days, there’s a new energy drink hitting the marketplace, promising to boost our energy and overall health with a plethora of vitamins and herbal supplements.
The Death of Downloading
Recent trends toward streaming video in the daily use of many mainstream surfers, fear of content piracy and several other factors are contributing to what appears to be a growing movement among adult site owners toward offering streaming-only content without any authorized downloadable formats for subscribers. That movement has brought out passionate proponents and plenty of opposition from some affiliates, review sites and porn buyers who have submitted feedback about the trend. Does this movement signal the eventual death of downloading?
XBIZ Introduces First-Ever 'Qualified Industry Members Only' Online Poll Results
Starting today, XBIZ’s online industry polls will be restricted to votes submitted by qualified members of the adult entertainment business community.
EuroRevenue Gets A Huda Boost
EuroRevenue has seen impressive success with its exclusive websites and hardcore content. Starting out as a one man show with just two websites nine years ago. EuroRevenue today has more than 30 websites in sic languages and a variety of niches ranging from bukkate and facials to teen, shemale, gangbang and recently gay bukkate. Business is do good that EuroRevenue will open an office in Los Angeles toward the end of this year, and one of the men responsible for the success of EuroRevenue will be city hopping between the two venues — racking up the air miles while trying to keep the ball rolling.
eMerchantPay Enjoys Success at XBIZ Summer Forum
There was no shortage of sun, fun and business being done at the XBIZ Summer Forum this year, and eMerchantPay was at the center of it all as the Diamond Partner of the trade event.
Store-Bought Sex
The puns are inevitable when discussing the ins and outs of sexual-enhancement products, the double entendres are just bursting out all over the place. Especially when discussing the retail successes of such in-demand erotic items as longevity pills (“the competition is stiff!”), ejaculation volumizers (“sales are exploding”) and stay-hard pills (“the market’s bigger than ever!”).
Not Another ‘Not the-This Ain’t...’ Porn Parody?!’
Guess again. The floodgates have opened. The secret is out. The masters of adult narrative filmmaking have known it for decades; take a simple story, one that everyone can relate to, one that lends itself to any number of erotic plots, twists, innuendo and sexy teases, embellish it a bit with nicely appropriate locations add a pinch of wardrobe that both is reminiscent of the original and perfectly fitted to bodies that don’t quit and there you have it. The perfect porn parody! Or do you? Very basically, it depends upon whom you ask.
Webbilling Talks Shop at XBIZ Summer Forum Panel
Wrapping up the final day of XBIZ Summer Forum seminars, Webbilling’s JoeD moderated the panel focused on Visa regulations, good business practices and the card associations' rules, past, present and future.
Revelations - Xbiz Summer Forum & Billing
As the Xbiz Summer Forum wrapped up last week I enjoyed the opportunity to moderate the panel focused on Visa regulations, good business practices, and the card associations’ rules, past, present and future
Health Products For The Horny
They promise everything from making men harder, women hotter and stimulating enough to arouse just about every sexual sense humans have. Basically they’re health products for the horny.