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On Holiday
Holiday Products Vice President Ken Sahn tiptoed his way into the adult world in the ‘80s with five trendy, risqué retail locations in major malls, which he coowned in suburban Detroit. With retailer experience and natural people skills, Sahn’s career in wholesale distribution burgeoned as a jack-of-alltrades during a 19-year stint at adult novelty distributor Nalpac. Now as an executive at Holiday Products, Sahn employs his wealth of knowledge and industry relationships to methodically rebrand and rebuild the company as a solid distribution channel for retail stores, Internet sites and home party planners.
XBIZ Launches Lead-Generation Services Via XBIZ.net
Through XBIZ.net’s expansive and rapidly growing network of qualified industry members, XBIZ is now offering its clients targeted lead-generation services to maximize their marketing campaigns among all sectors of the adult business.
One Last Shot
The old saying that “it’s not what you make, but what you get to keep,” applies as well to the arena of website traffic management as it does anywhere else — especially when viewed in the context of maximizing the profitability of your traffic investment.
Liquid Lust - Libido in a can
It seems everywhere we go these days, there’s a new energy drink hitting the marketplace, promising to boost our energy and overall health with a plethora of vitamins and herbal supplements.
The Death of Downloading
Recent trends toward streaming video in the daily use of many mainstream surfers, fear of content piracy and several other factors are contributing to what appears to be a growing movement among adult site owners toward offering streaming-only content without any authorized downloadable formats for subscribers. That movement has brought out passionate proponents and plenty of opposition from some affiliates, review sites and porn buyers who have submitted feedback about the trend. Does this movement signal the eventual death of downloading?
XBIZ Introduces First-Ever 'Qualified Industry Members Only' Online Poll Results
Starting today, XBIZ’s online industry polls will be restricted to votes submitted by qualified members of the adult entertainment business community.
EuroRevenue Gets A Huda Boost
EuroRevenue has seen impressive success with its exclusive websites and hardcore content. Starting out as a one man show with just two websites nine years ago. EuroRevenue today has more than 30 websites in sic languages and a variety of niches ranging from bukkate and facials to teen, shemale, gangbang and recently gay bukkate. Business is do good that EuroRevenue will open an office in Los Angeles toward the end of this year, and one of the men responsible for the success of EuroRevenue will be city hopping between the two venues — racking up the air miles while trying to keep the ball rolling.
eMerchantPay Enjoys Success at XBIZ Summer Forum
There was no shortage of sun, fun and business being done at the XBIZ Summer Forum this year, and eMerchantPay was at the center of it all as the Diamond Partner of the trade event.
Store-Bought Sex
The puns are inevitable when discussing the ins and outs of sexual-enhancement products, the double entendres are just bursting out all over the place. Especially when discussing the retail successes of such in-demand erotic items as longevity pills (“the competition is stiff!”), ejaculation volumizers (“sales are exploding”) and stay-hard pills (“the market’s bigger than ever!”).
Not Another ‘Not the-This Ain’t...’ Porn Parody?!’
Guess again. The floodgates have opened. The secret is out. The masters of adult narrative filmmaking have known it for decades; take a simple story, one that everyone can relate to, one that lends itself to any number of erotic plots, twists, innuendo and sexy teases, embellish it a bit with nicely appropriate locations add a pinch of wardrobe that both is reminiscent of the original and perfectly fitted to bodies that don’t quit and there you have it. The perfect porn parody! Or do you? Very basically, it depends upon whom you ask.
Webbilling Talks Shop at XBIZ Summer Forum Panel
Wrapping up the final day of XBIZ Summer Forum seminars, Webbilling’s JoeD moderated the panel focused on Visa regulations, good business practices and the card associations' rules, past, present and future.
Revelations - Xbiz Summer Forum & Billing
As the Xbiz Summer Forum wrapped up last week I enjoyed the opportunity to moderate the panel focused on Visa regulations, good business practices, and the card associations’ rules, past, present and future
Health Products For The Horny
They promise everything from making men harder, women hotter and stimulating enough to arouse just about every sexual sense humans have. Basically they’re health products for the horny.
Devil’s Films Eric Gutterman — Fired Up and Ready to Go
Three decades is a long time. Time enough for a kid to become an adult, enter college, graduate, get a full-time job, get married, have kids and develop ulcers. Well, maybe not ulcers. But, yes, 30 years is a considerable amount of time. And that’s how long Eric Gutterman, the general manager at the Devil’s Films has been in the adult film business. Well, 28 years, to be exact; that is, since 1982, when there was no Internet, and the adult industry was a totally different world.
XBIZ Summer Forum '10
I have just returned from XBIZ Summer Forum '10 in Las Vegas, which provided a unique glimpse of the state of the online adult entertainment industry today
Sexy Sizzle - Burn your Brand In Their Brain
With so much free porn available nowadays, it takes a unique idea and something out of the ordinary to get people to slap down a credit card. Sage advice from industry director James Avalon, a veteran who’s seen the industry change first-hand over the years.
Protecting What’s Yours
"Protect yourself,”adult operators have been told for years now. Sometimes this advice comes from attorneys as they expound the virtues of registered copyrights and the brand security afforded by trademarks. Sometimes it is the government telling you to use a condom when filming a sex scene. Sometimes it involves listening to that little voice inside of you saying that a certain situation just is not right. Protecting yourself seems to be everyone’s business, but most of all it is your business — and something to take very seriously, when the profitability and viability of your business is at stake.
Lupe Fuentes Named Miss XFANZ Summer
Pint sized sexpot Lupe Fuentes booty-shaked, sweet-talked and tossed copies of “Lupe Fuentes' Interactive Girlfriend Sexperience” into the audience during today’s Miss XFANZ Summer Pageant, winning over the crowd and judges for the coveted title.
XBIZ Summer Forum Ends With High Hopes
As the curtain begins to fall on another successful XBIZ Summer Forum, the B2B event of the summer is going out with a bang giving attendees opportunities to gain knowledge and network through the very end of the show.
Players Ball Rocks the XBIZ Summer Forum
Some think Vegas may be too hot, but attendees at this year’s XBIZ Summer Forum said “bring the heat” as hip-hop star Too Short ignited the crowd once again at this year’s Players Ball.