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The Dating Game - Dating Gold Strikes Gold

When Allan Henning took his first baby steps in the computer dating arena by launching his own mainstream dating site in 2001, the initial results were meager, to say the least. All he had to show for his $10,000 investment was a trickle of sales.

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TrafficForce Makes Grand Entry

Last September, PIMPROLL unveiled its new network of sites and traffic tools, TrafficForce, and in its first month of existence scored more than 900 million impressions. Now, only a couple of months later, that number has jumped to nearly 2 billion.

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MojoHost: Emcee of Web Hosting

When Brad Mitchell and his friend Corey Baldwin took the first baby steps on a journey that would become MojoHost, one of the top web hosting companies in adult, it was still the 20th century. Founded in 1999 and then refocused as a hosting company in 2002, MojoHost has come a long way from its humble beginnings on Mitchell’s PC in his own home, where his customers paid him for server rental and bandwidth. One day Baldwin noticed that Mitchell had space for extra servers and suggested they start selling hosting, which he would manage. From there, MojoHost has grown into a powerful firm with offices in Michigan and Florida, serving more than 1,100 clients with more than 100,000 website domains. Today, the friends are still partners, Mitchell the CEO and Baldwin the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of Mojo- Host.

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Looking Up - Elevated X Stays Above The Competition

Five years ago, Elevated X debuted as a software company that sought to fill a void in the adult online industry by offering a content management system designed specifically for adult businesses. Today, thanks to constant updating of its system, Elevated X remains a leader in its field.

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Company Profile: Making It Clear

When Bill Parodi founded WTS in 1997, he sought to install a business model that really worked for a billing company in the adult market online. He decided his company would specialize in offering Automated Clearing House (ACH) services, an electronic network for financial transactions that processes large volumes of debit and credit transactions that include direct deposit and direct debit transfers.

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Company Profile: Tasty Tube

It’s always risky to make a radical change in the nature of a website, especially one that has been established for years. But this is exactly what happened about a year ago when a new brain trust assumed control of Porn-Tube. Surprisingly, the results have been tremendously positive.

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Reporo Rides A Surge

Last spring, the mobile advertising network, Reporo, netted 3 billion ad impressions in one month and hoped to reach 4 billion by mid year. Well, it’s mid-year and the firm has more than met its goal by logging 5 billion ad impressions in the month of June.

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Executive Seat: Milton, Not So Private

Anyone who doesn’t think that Berth Milton could be the most interesting man in adult entertainment had better reconsider.

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EMC2: Full of Solutions

Anyone who wants to start a business should know that online payment processing probably is not the optimum arena for a newcomer.

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How Dimensional is 3D?

The technology of 3D may still be in its infancy, but past history indicates that studios and content providers had better start paying attention to this terrible new child. Right now the opinions about 3D range from passing fad to fanatical. Justin Lally, president of Funky Monkey Movies, weighs in among the latter group of opinions.

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Mobile Ad Dominator

Four years ago, Reporo debuted as a mobile social mdia network that became a mobile advertising network after sites like Facebook and MySpace went mobile. Thanks to a spectacular Business plan and hard work, the company has gone from 30 million ad impressions per month over its own three sites 15 months ago to taking on new clients and posting close to 3 billion ad impressions last month.

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Payoneer Expands in Adult

Payment processing in online adult entertainment already was a crowded arena when Payoneer.com decided to toss its hat into the ring not long ago. The competition was beyond stiff. It was stifling. Established giants like CCBill and several other companies seemed to have a stranglehold on the marketplace and even their executives complained of the shrinking opportunities, not to speak of the constant pitfalls that come with this kind of business — recalcitrant credit card companies, angry banks and customer fraud. So why did an established mainstream processor like Payoneer take the plunge?

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Mallcom.com Celebrates 15 Years

The parents of Jerry Aharony wanted him to be a lawyer. He was headed for that life 15 years ago when something funny happened. He created a hugely successful company instead.

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Live Cam & Chat: What's Next?

The live cam and live chat business is one of the most vibrant and successful areas of online adult entertainment. It is also the most mercurial, owing to the constant improvements and breakthroughs in visual technology, mobile phone technology and interactive capability. For this reason, XBIZ World contacted various executives who have spent years in the live cam and live chat arenas, to learn their educated views on what trends are taking place right now and in the near future.

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Swurve Puts Moves on Dating

There used to be a notion that women are generally passive about initiating sexual relationships, and that they view them mainly as avenues toward long-lasting romance. But one woman refused to believe it. Instead, Michelle Crash went with her instincts. She rolled up her sleeves and created a evolutionary new dating site, Swurve.com, tailored for the woman who wants casual sex and wants it now.

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Company Profile: No Stopping Alto Global

Attention online payment processors: there’s a new kid on the adult block. Alto Global Processing recently launched what promises to be a unique and specialized approach to private merchant accounts through its revolutionary “Payment Gateway.”

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Take Hold Of The Future

Million dollar ideas often occur at the most unexpected times. Witness the case of Andrew S., majority owner of VSex.com, who received his inspiration while attending a convention of video game freaks. Knowing that Andrew was involved in the adult entertainment field, many of the gamers repeated the same fantasy: wouldn’t it be great to find some way to have virtual sex with the hot heroines of their video games?

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Executive Seat: Mobile Foresight

Andy Alvarez has been in the adult game since 1996, when he ran one of the first online content providing websites, Mega Hardcore, from an old computer in his garage.

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Executive Seat: Farber's Market

In January 1997, Mitch Farber entered the online adult arena with his own website, and was surprised to learn that there was no decent credit card processing company to be found that provided all of the services to handle realtime processing and customer service affordably.

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Company Profile: Metro Has a New Look

When Metro opened its doors 40 years ago, there was no Internet. In fact, there was no video. If customers wanted to see models move, they had to purchase Super-8 film, invest in a projector and a collapsible screen, and watch in a darkened room.

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