How Many Of You...
 

How many of you make money in both adult and mainstream? If both, what type of mainstream stuff do you do? Not looking for numbers here. Just trying to see if ppl are successful all around in both here. I find them both extremely difficult!

Yes, I've had mainstream sites for as long as I've had adult ones. Going on 14 years now, give or take.

Sorry, no further details forthcoming. :D

Pretty much everything adult of mine is on autopilot. Doubt if I will put much more effort into it for the foreseeable future. I'm going more and more mainstream now.

As a Program Owner/Sponser it's differant for me. I have 30+ paysites and a whole network of sites and affiliates to deal with so Adult is pretty much what I do full-time.

I do have a couple mainstream websites I started before getting into Adult in 2008 but those are doing only so-so because I don't pay attention to them much.

I am always looking for mainstream opportunities tho since it's never a good idea to have all your eggs in one basket. :)

Domain Sales
Domain Acquisitions
Ticket Sales
Cams

Main things going right now, staring at 463 unused .com domains so I generally try at least 1 new business idea each year.

WOW! I have 50 used and 50 unused. I thought that was alot. Holy crap you must make some good money to be able to pay for 400 .coms.

Don't make mad sales but when I do make a sale I make sure it counts.

Domain Sales
(best in terms of ROI on one of my own names $7 purchase into $7500)

Domain Acquisitions
(best one made about 13k in 3 hours)

Ticket Sales
(new venture, lot of work to get it going but seeing sales now so think I'm doing okay considering it's all new to me)

Cams
(promoted quite a bit, now kinda busy with mainstream stuff but previous work has built a small solid user base that spends each month like clockwork, receive quite a bit of free search engine traffic as well from previous marketing which helps)

I started mainstream in 2002 then added adult in 2003, then quit adult in 2006, few years ago brought adult back in but mainly just promoted cams/dating and recently haven't been active on the dating so basically just cams now.

I did have paysites 4 years ago, then I left adult and stated mainstream. Running 2 online shops now, hotel booking service, online photo school. Now I'm going to start cam project and try to get back in adult. When you have right people working with you, it's not difficult to be in both adult and mainstream.

I play in both, I even have developed products that are sold to churches.

Mind telling where you sell your domains?

have sold a few at the popular places Sedo, Moniker etc... years ago but most of my sales come direct from parking page sales links to my own domain sales sites as I'm not crazy about the anonymous factor the common places have. Having name, email, phone, ip address etc... helps in negotiations.

I DESIGN .. adult and mainstream.. for me is the same business. Nice thread anyway!

We published our first mainstream photography coffee table book recently. We're in talks with several local retailers to get it on the shelves.

As someone said above...much of our adult work is basically on autopilot these days, recycling updates. I no longer have much spare time to devote to it...it's no longer cost effective to book new photoshoots.

Once you have perfected adult, it (to some degree) you are simply tweaking in mainstream. It's not like adult and mainstream online marketing are different planets. There are some things different, yes. But the underlying premise for converting a sale, or marketing is the same.

You should try and perfect the adult side, or mainstream, first. Then once you've learned some of the basics, it gets a lot easier. In mainstream, it's like an ocean compared to adult. A lot more choices, pitfalls, and options for traffic. I think it has a different learning curve.

That being said, the underlying factors to making money online is the same. You need quality, buying, traffic. You need to fill a need or want. You have to market effectively, and ask for the sale. It really doesn't matter what you're selling, that doesn't change.

:2 cents:

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Sound advice.