Originally Posted by Publisher Bucks

I started working online around 2006, selling online books and magazines through an affiliate program, shortly afterwards I began my foray into the adult industry, signing up to a few affiliate programs, ARS, Maxcash, Silvercash, being the primary ones.

After a few months of trial and error, sales slowly started to roll in ad, as they did, I started building more and more sites, replicating the ones that had shown success while leaving the ones that didn't have any sales to fester and slowly die off.

A few years went by and then I began to branch out into a variety of different niches, most notably (for me) Asian, black and BBW, all of which seemed to be experiencing a growth spurt in popularity in the industry at the same time the larger adult affiliate programs began promoting the 'Build Your Own Tour' business models and direct to join form linking, much like the AVS/AEN systems had been doing for years prior.

Around this same time, I also created a CCBill account and began rolling out my own private member areas, they were rudimentary yet, still sold.

A year or two later, I consolidated all of my web properties and sold them to a good friend, he still runs a couple of them.

After selling I broke back into non-adult, again selling books, magazines and a range of other textual based products and services, which almost immediately picked up where I left off sales wise before entering the adult industry.

Around 2018 I decided to start dabbling in adult again, this time primarily focusing on create traffic generation sites, TGPs, Link Directories and basic multi-page, niche specific websites developed just for search engine traffic, over the past few years the traffic on these sites has had its ups and downs but, they're slowly paying off and generating income without any hands-on work needing to be done.

Meanwhile, I saw a boost in non-adult sales over the past few years, in part because of people being quarantined at home with nothing to do but browse the internet and buy stuff online, to the point where I've hired 3 part-time staff to write exclusively for me over the past 12 months and manage my content aspect of the business so that I can focus on R&D in addition to in-house traffic acquisition again.

As with anything, the timing to see rewards over effort is directly correlated to the effort put in, along with the market conditions at the time, when I first started out in adult, it took me a good 3-6 months to generate my first slew of sales, this time around, due to market saturation and people not having as much disposable incomes as they once did, due to being out of work, housing prices and medical issues, its taken a little longer but, its improving on a weekly/monthly basis.

That being said, my primary focus for the past few years (and will continue to be for the immediate future) has been non-adult opportunities and being able to generate and leverage in-house traffic sources.

In my experience, non-adult is definitely an easier 'sell' than adult is these days although the profit margins are slightly lower, the bar is higher so there isn't as much competition, especially if you can create niche traffic sources that match with a specific set of product or products.

As of right now, I have a custom written eBook on Amazon that has been online a little over 1 month and has already generated $1500 in sales, it is very niche specific though and in the top 25 list on Amazon at present.

Find the niches that sell most typically, real estate, medical, health & wellness and diet & nutrition, personal finances, etc. From there, you can build your traffic and content and ultimately sales revenues.