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Originally Posted by MisterPeabody
Those of you who are in "mainstream": What the fuck is "mainstream"?
I see many on this board posting about "now being in mainstream and it's great, there's so much opportunity in mainstream..." Awesome! Now what (exactly) are you fucking talking about? I'm not talking about people who got J-O-B-S (ever notice how "bs" is part of the word "jobs"?). I'm talking about this:
You have a website. You are a Webmaster. You run a website. This website has nothing to do with porn or adult but instead sells..... what? Provides information? Are you an affiliate? Are you an owner of a company with a web presence?
I ask because "mainstream" is such a vague term and I often wonder if my adult webmastering/design skills could be applied there. You know, sell shoes instead of porn. So go ahead, mainstream Gurus, please list the top 5 (via a website) "mainstream" moneymakers.
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I can only speak for Europe, but "mainstream" + affiliate can mean:
http:/www.tradedoubler.com (publicly listed affiliate network)
http://www.zanox.com
http://www.euroads.com
http://www.tradetracker.com
etc..
So basically the same shit as
http://cj.com
The "hot" moneymakers are blogs. Not splogs.
If you know how to get people to your blog and to follow it, you're in the money. Especially in fashion. The commissions are LOW (compared to adult), like 5-10% of sale.. but the conversions are 1:100 etc from clicked traffic. Tradedoubler etc also have iSales, which means you get commission if a visitor SEES you banner, but doesn't click it (and types in the sale). This is fun if you have a high-volume site, with brand name ads which also do offline ads which work in you favour.
..or if you have a big "niche" site, be it cooking or fashion, you can become friends with media agencies or traffic networks and sell traffic CPM/CPC.. or if you have a BIG site, just join rubicon, google adExchange etc and start selling preferred deals with RTB capabilites to media agencies.
..or if YOU sell goods, ie. you have an ecommerce site, do the opposite.
Add your program to the affiliate networks, start BUYING RTB traffic etc...