Recognition for being and doing something different and interesting. From that the money will roll in..
That is the position I'm in now. I started off in my niche back in Feb 99 and I'm now known by a lot of people in the biz for what I do. The whole world has now jumped on the Indian bandwagon and it's spread the biz a lot more from back then when there were only about 6 of us in the whole world working it. The main prob is that the major sponsors who've opened these sites use non Indians, have very little content for this niche and actually frighten off surfers from joining real Indian sites as theirs are crap. Luckily I've had a couple of well known review sites give me a good rating recently and so sales are picking up as surfers know they're going to get what they want.. Here's the link to Richards Realm review:
http://www.richards-realm.com/review...?reviewID=1171
I was filmed a couples of years ago for terrestial UK tv about my sites. I've been approached by Playboy tv in the UK to make programmes for them.. I have two companies about to release my vid shoots on dvd UK at Xmas. One company will be selling them to sex shops in the UK and the other, over the net from outside the EU. I'm currently waiting for AEBN to agree terms for licensing my vids for streaming..
I could have sold my stills shoots many times to some of the major sponsors and other webmasters but as what I shoot is unique, I want a certain price but no one wants to pay for it.. Big deal.. That means my work is still totally exclusive to my sites and makes me $$$ continually rather than the odd lump sum now and again...
So do it right.. get known and the money will roll in..