Don’t Make These Common 4 Mistakes Selling Porn!
August 15th, 2008
Porn Star Rachel Roxxx
Myths concerning selling porn are appealing and attractive. People who do not know the entire system are prone to believing that it is something capable of giving them great fortune overnight. Stories concerning affiliates who earn tremendous amounts of money swim in their heads, and while these stories are as true as they can be, there are those who believe that they are going to have the same fortune once they indulge in this particular business.
It is true enough that selling porn can be VERY financially rewarding. People who have gone through everything to be able to succeed in this business are reaping the seeds that they untiringly sowed. Many of them enjoy the kind of existence that was not possible for them to have had under ordinary circumstances. Having gone through the A-Z of selling porn, however, these people are the ones who know that while such business is lucrative, there is absolutely no easy money in it.
Ignorance of this fact is one of the main reasons why there are people who fail miserably in the online marketing and selling porn. There are those who believe in myths concerning the easy money involved in systems such as making money online and selling porn. They don’t realize that there are those who have wasted time, effort and too many resources in trying to pursue the life of ease that they believe this business will give them. And so they go into adult marketing armed with nothing but myths and fantastical notions of wealth swimming in their consciousness, never realizing that they bound to make mistakes that would prove to be their downfall.
What may be the reason why many are called but few are chosen? The fact that many affiliates make mistakes that result from their ignorance of facts concerning how the entire business runs! Selling your porn or adult marketing is not as simple as an affiliate promoting a merchant’s wares through his website and getting paid for it. It is also about knowing the market and the customers at hand.
Discovering what the most common mistakes affiliates make can perhaps dispel the myths surrounding porn by correcting some wrong notions about it. It might also be able to make those concerned understand that like any other business, there are dos and don’ts involved in this one if they want to make each of their steps count.
The first common mistake affiliates make is their lack of knowledge concerning principles involved in their business. This refers to the affiliate’s knowledge of search engines in particular.
Selling Porn involves advertising, and advertising through the internet could not have been better without the existence of search engines. What every affiliate has to do is to make these search engines his best friend through studying search engine optimization closely. This way, he is able to know what to do in connection with building a better website to ultimately use for his business.
The second is that affiliates make the mistake of stuffing their sites with banners that do not provide enough information about the product at hand. You have seen banner farms all over the place, and most people do not make big money with them. The best way to battle this mistake is to provide good content hand-in-hand with such banners. It is important for customers to know and understand the features of a product, and good content will be able to help them realize this goal.
The third is that there are affiliates who make the mistake of promoting only one product. Consequently, customers are not given enough options to choose from. There is also the risk of generating fewer sales as compared to having more options for customers ponder about. It is always better to give them a few better alternatives than to give them only one.
The fourth is that there are affiliates who make the mistake of promoting too many products. As a result, customers are confused and end up beyond making a choice. It is perhaps good to give them only the best choices. This is because it is ultimately up to them to judge which one is the best for them to patronize. So we don’t want to offer only product A, and we don’t want to offer products A-Z either. Figure out a good blend… there is a reason why people know their ABC’s and not their ABCDEF etc… get the point?
All in all, affiliates that are doomed to fail in the porn business are those who do not exert enough effort to understand everything involved in the industry that they are in. Knowing their path step by careful step will prove to be beneficial to them, as there is no other way to succeed than to go through any path slowly but surely.
August 20th, 2008 at 1:08 am
Id like to add to your list
I feel a mistake that is often made is not targeting a niche that you love. The more passionate and knowledgeable you are on a topic the easier it is to sell – and if its a small niche – even better!
A little newbie is NOT going to compete with the huge promoters who have thousands of dollars to invest.
Pick a small to medium niche that YOU love, find 3-4 sponsors who target your niche (and similar ones – like you said – give them a choice) and as you yourself are into that niche you have the upper hand in selling to surfers who share your tastes. Your written content will be full of genuine enthusiasm for the content you promote – and your surfers will see that and trust your recommendations leading to more sales.
August 20th, 2008 at 7:44 am
Great Point! Did you read my ebook already
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Seriously, if you don’t enjoy what you are working with, you won’t last. That is the simple truth of it.
I touched on this concept in a previous post here:
http://sellpornmakemoney.com/blog/2008/07/17/dont-go-for-the-money-this-is-still-a-job/
August 20th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Just so you know our deal is still on
Been very busy lately + adding a lot of RSS subscribers to give you some value.
Good post it does correlate with the book which I have only had a chance to skim as of yet.
Scots last blog post..Paypal is Ridiculous
August 20th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Glad to hear you liked the post… and glad to hear you are building your RSS.