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How To Make Money From Porn When Times Are Hard

Can I Still Make A Living From Porn During A Recession?

This is a time when everyone is watching their cash, or perhaps wondering where their next dollar is going to come from. So you will be wondering whether now is the right time to make money from selling porn on the Internet.

First, I have to say that it is harder to make a living selling sex site memberships today than it was even a year ago. But it is still possible, as long as you work at it and explore all angles.

I am not the most experienced adult webmaster in the World by a long way, but I have been selling this stuff long enough to have learned that sex sells, even in a recession. And sellng porn is still one of the best ways to make a living online. If you work hard at it.

People will tell you that people cannot afford to buy memberships to online sex sites today, but stop and think about this one moment.

Most of us have had hard times at one point or another. Have we always reacted ’smart’ to this? Have we always scrimped and saved and never spent our money on any ‘little pleasures’? Unless it has been a case of not having a cent for the next meal for our kids, I bet most of us have ’splashed out’ on something we really felt we shouldn’t have; just to make life seem more tolerable.

Paying for a membership of an online sex site really isn’t that expensive. In fact, there are so many ‘one dollar trials’ today that anyone can get some porn pretty quickly just by registering their credit card. Of course, the idea is that the surfer will ‘forget’ and not cancel on time to be hit with a monthly fee, but even monthly fees are pretty damn reasonable, considering all that’s offered and, in any case, many surfers are smarter than that and will take their ‘1 dollar trial’ and then cancel that card.

Either way, on a Pay Per Signup basis, you will get paid for that sale. It is your job to get the surfer to the sponsor. After that, it is up to the porn sponsor to entice him into staying there and the best sponsors, with decent content, are very good at doing that. And so they should be - that is their job after all.

Revshare is, of course, a different matter. If your surfer makes a chargeback, you will lose all of your commission on that sale. Nevertheless, I still think personally that if you are working a good niche, with plenty to offer that the surfer cannot get elsewhere, revshare is still a viable option. But I think (and again, this is my personal view only) that when times are hard you have to choose those revshare niches with care that comes with experience of the sponsor’s content and how you find revshare with him or her is working for you.

I have written before here about Deciding Between PPS or Revshare. The rest is up to you.

So: How To Make Money From Porn During A Recession:

First of all, the usual rules apply. You just have to work even harder at them.

• You have to be prepared to work very, very hard.
• You have to want to learn and continue to learn.
• You have to be able to be aware of changing trends and adapt to them (or even be ahead of them).
• You have to ask questions of other adult webmasters. You can hide away reading webmaster boards and try to learn from the host of different advice given and you will learn a lot. But at some point, you will find your head full of so much conflicting information that (as well as testing it out yourself) you will have to ask questions to clarify these points in your head.
• If you make these questions specific, you will get good advice and, also very important, you will make friends along the way. Which leads me onto my next point:
• It is very hard to go it alone in any internet marketing work. It is almost impossible to do this when selling porn. You may need people to trade with and you will want to check them out with others.
• You will definitely need to develop a team of people you can trust (if only a little), so that you can email them or send them messages via ICQ, when you do not want to post all your details on a webmaster board.
• And when things get tough (see more about this below), it is good to share these times with someone who has ‘been there’ (we all have). You will not feel all alone then and that is important too.
• When times are hard for surfers, you have to assure your surfers they are getting good value for money. They may have been quite happy to spend 30 dollars or so on joining a site just to test it out before the recession. Now many of them will want to be assured that their hard earned cash will be spent wisely. That’s where you come in. You need to emphasise the quality content your sponsor has; the extras he/she is offering them; the ’special offers for this week only’ so many of them push, and so on. You have to think like a hard-up surfer and ask yourself, “why would I sign up for this sponsor?” and work on that. These are basic facts for any time, but during a recession, you cannot make money without considering them.
• Don’t make the mistake of offering too much ‘free porn’. I made that mistake at the beginning and I guess most of us did. But ‘free’ is very difficult to sell; that content would have to be extra special to convince an ardent ‘free surfer’ to part with his cash. Better be upfront and say you are promoting quality content which is unmissable and very good value for money, because the ‘free’ links may bring you loads of surfers, but all you will ‘gain’ is high bandwidth usage (which will cost you) and hardly any sales.
• Despite what some will tell you, you have to ‘think out of the box‘. This doesn’t mean going off half-cocked on some scheme you think will make you oodles of cash, when chances are, it won’t. If you have a ’scheme’ like this, by all means try it out, but don’t spend lots of money on it or a great deal of time, unless after testing it out you find it to be working. The idea is to think ahead and use the above methods to work any new scheme. The best way is to go with what is already working for you and then ask yourself “how can I do this a little differently? Are there any other skills/tools I already have which I could put to this use?”

One thing you will find, as you try to make money from porn during a recession, is that the extra hard work involved will get to you. The vast majority of adult webmasters experience ‘burnout’. In this business you work long, odd hours and. although I would definitely advise taking breaks for exercise and fresh air, eating healthily, etc, it is the sad truth that most of us give scant regard to this when we are busily involved in earning a living online. The result is that we all, at some point or another, experience ‘burnout. Many will suffer this at regular intervals and just see it as part of the job.

So, what do you do about webmaster burnout?

You take a break. Simple as that. All that porn will still be out there for you to sell when you get back; all those blogs, sites and galleries you put online are still out there. True, some of them may not be getting as many clickthroughs as you get from submitting them every day, but if you have worked on your SEO strategies they will still be spidered and still getting hits and you will still be making sales. The recession seems like it’s in for the long haul, so there is no point in trying to beat it. Just go with your body’s instincts to rest. If you don’t, then basically you will be no good to anyone when you are an exhausted, gibbering wreck.

In my experience of ‘burnout’ (and I get it fairly regularly - about once every three months or so), when I take that break, it takes all of the first week to get all the stuff I am working on out of my head. It is only by the second week I can relax enough to take a walk, go to the gym, or sit and watch tv without constantly thinking of what I ’should’ be doing. But it does pay off. By the third week I am fitter and ready to go and again able to work hard and fast.

We all ‘rest’ in different ways. That is just what works for me. I long ago got over the fear that “I may not want to return after a break”. That feeling goes once you realise all you needed was some space to relax.

And don’t forget that Being An Adult Webmaster Is A Real Job. So treat it that way. If you worked somewhere nine-to-five (or whatever), you would have to take holidays and the job would still be there when you got back. It works the same way when you are selling porn, even during a recession.

The difference with making money from porn is that you choose your hours and you are your own boss. Learn to make the most of that

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