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XBIZ Retail '11 Expanded Show Sold Out; Top-Floor Suites Added
With interest exceeding expectations, XBIZ Retail Expo & Conference officials said that additional floor space recently added to accommodate overflow has sold out.
GTBill Named 2011 XBIZ LA, XBIZ Awards Sponsor
XBIZ is pleased to announce GTBill as a Gold Sponsor of the leading digital trade conference XBIZ LA and Platinum Sponsor of the XBIZ Awards.
WIA Profile: Samantha Lewis
Each month, industry news media organization XBIZ spotlights the career accomplishments and outstanding contributions of Women in Adult. WIA profiles offer an intimate look at the professional lives of the industry's most influential female executives.
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.
DatingGold Named XBIZ LA Gold Sponsor, Hosting Networking Lunch
XBIZ is pleased to announce DatingGold as a Gold Sponsor of XBIZ LA, where the dating program powerhouse also will host a Networking Luncheon at the award-winning restaurant Simon LA.
Bob Christian: Mad Hatter of Adam & Eve
Adam & Eve, the flagship firm of PHE, Inc., which was founded in 1970 by Phil Harvey, is among the well-known companies in the adult industry. In addition to operating retail stores, Adam & Eve produces videos with original titles and contract stars, including such high-profile ones as Teagan Presley and Alexis Ford, and before them Bree Olson, Kayden Kross and Carmen Luvana. The company’s high-quality movies — “The 8th Day” and “Rawhide” and the co-production “Pirates” with Digital Playground, among many others — have brought it more than its share of industry awards.
AWE Named XBIZ LA Corporate Sponsor, XBIZ Awards Platinum Sponsor
XBIZ is pleased to announce Adult Webmaster Empire as the Corporate Sponsor of XBIZ LA 2011 and Platinum Sponsor of the highly anticipated XBIZ Awards.
2011 XBIZ Awards Pre-Nom Period Ends Nov. 19
The deadline for pre-nomination submissions for the 2011 XBIZ Awards is 5 p.m. PST on Friday, Nov. 19.
It’s Alive: The Perpetual Frankenstein of the Web
In the September issue of Wired magazine, editors Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff debated the “settled” notion that the web is dead.
XBIZ.net Mobile Launches; 1st-Ever B2B Mobile Social Network
XBIZ is pleased to announce the launch of XBIZ.net Mobile, the mobile version of the adult industry’s No. 1-visited social network.
Secrets of Adult Lead Generation
As every adult webmaster knows, it’s notoriously difficult to convince first-time website visitors to buy a subscription or product. The severity of the American recession has reduced the likelihood of obtaining impulse buyers.
XBIZ Retail Expo to Showcase Diverse Range of Exhibitors
As a preview to the diverse variety of companies that will showcase their goods and services at the highly anticipated XBIZ Retail Expo, XBIZ is happy to announce Bluebird Films, GVA, Sin City, Mile High Media and Fleshdrive as the latest additions to the showroom floor.
Reinventing The Wheel
Can struggling companies — including those who may have outgrown their business models, or seen them driven into obsolescence — meaningfully redefine themselves and earn another shot at success?
Folsom Fun: Folsom Street Fair
Jack Shamama has been living in San Francisco for 15 years, and he never misses a Folsom Street Fair. He’s eagerly awaiting the 27th installment of the popular leather-lover event, which typically attracts more than 300,000 visitors from around the globe.
It Is a Small World, After All
When looking at the worldwide opportunities in any market, the key issues go well beyond simple supply and demand to include many other factors, such as the customer’s ability to pay for your product or service.
Are You Eco-Sexy?
For something to be comprehensibly green, there’s a near endless checklist of things to do and sometimes you’re left with a choice between a rock and a hard place. What happens when you find a material that is totally ethically sourced, processed in a compliance with the highest ecostandards, but it means the end product will be ridiculously expensive? XBIZ spoke to a number of toy manufacturers about the greening of novelties, and found out what in which ways they are eco-sexy.
Adult Novelty’s ‘Founders’ Named Exclusive Corporate Sponsors of XBIZ Retail Expo
California Exotic Novelties, Doc Johnson, Pipedream Products and Topco Sales, aka the Founders, have signed on as the Exclusive Corporate Sponsors of XBIZ Retail Expo.
The New Synergy
Magazines aren’t dead. Quite the contrary according to a recent magazine industry ad that’s been running in a number of publications that boldly states that the Internet and social networking — the usual suspects blamed for the decrease in magazine readership – are in fact bolstering online subscriptions to the print editions, especially for the young-adult, 18-to-34 demographic.
Bright Future for E.U. online Processing
The more that American webmasters do business in Europe, the more they realize that Europe and the U.S. are two very different environments when it comes to payment methods for adult websites. Continental Europe and the British Isles have long been major producers and consumers of adult online content, but their payment preferences set them apart from American consumers—and the webmasters who are the most knowledgeable of European payment trends will be the ones who do the most business overseas.
Horizontal Mambo in the Summer of ’61
The very first time I was away from home for the entire summer was when I was 15 and working in the Catskill Mountains as a busboy at Kutsher’s Country Club in Monticello, N.Y. I would be gone from the familiar streets of the Bronx as the tar melted in the gutters and the schoolyard chums cooled themselves off by making water showers from the fire hydrants. The heat and humidity made the city sweat. This is what I’d be missing, but I would be embarking on what would turn out to be an eventful summer. Certainly, the most eventful to date.