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Webmasters who work in adult are not necessarily porn surfers. Yet, many cash programs chose to plaster admin areas, logins, stats and even payment slips with explicit images and messages. For business minded webbies this comes as a negative side effect, diminishing opportunities to work with programs while traveling or working in public areas. We neither want to work in dark corners nor do we want to observe a cum-splattered genital close-up appear on our laptop screen while checking stats in a Starbucks Cafe or while using inflight wifi on an aircraft from Dubai to Sao Paulo. And after all, we see so much porn, why do we need to see the same stuff every time we want to check stats? It just makes no sense. We found a way around this.
Until it's demise in 2010 Epassporte NV of Curacao was the first electronic wallet provider for adult webmasters. Webbies were able to collect many smaller affiliate payments into one wallet enabling them to withdraw combined funds by wire or offshore issued debit card. Other, similar services emerged with Canada based Paxum becoming the business leader for adult affiliate payments, today. Years after the disappearance of Epassporte services the original domain epassporte.com expired and was deleted from domain registry to be auctioned off to the highest bidder on Dropcatch.com.
I have never visited an adult business convention, but insiders keep telling me the best industry fair is the Phoenix Forum in Arizona. Presented by CCBill payment processing company, the gathering lasts four days. Attendees pay 275 US$ for access to parties, seminars, business lunch meeting and other events hosted by sponsors. Basically, you will be hit hard by guys who want your traffic in exchange for their business card. It's highest quality porn with beautiful Asian girls - although censored in many cases: Japanese Porn. Neutral observers will possibly say it's much more of an art to produce this hot content in Japan compared to lousy Quality of British or American sex movies. Fact is, most Japanese porn in circulation online and on DVD is pirated by the Taiwanese Mafia. Chinese gangsters make the biggest profit off of Tokyo pornstar exploits while expensive to run movie studios from Japan face financial losses.
Washington state based credit card billing company Safshop LLC announced termination of their credit card billing facility for December 31st, 2012. Safshop.net used to collect payments for some of the largest adult niche sponsors like TSM Single Travel, World Sex Archives and Interdollars. However, lack of trasactions and increased reporting requirements made them close doors. However, it was considered one of the smaller players with less bureaucracy and quick payouts without holdbacks.
The other day I was looking for information on AVS programs. Cyberage AVS has quit sending payments to many of their loyal webmasters with shady reasoning and Mega Masters popped up as the number one resource for AVS webbies. Unfortunately, megamasters.com domain had expired and I quit on my idea to get back into building AVS sites. However, I decided to backorder this nifty webbie domain to create a valuable blog for people who market adult programs online. My plan is to talk about daily business, complex strategies for site building, SEO and content. Besides I want to point to quality resources like 'how to guides' and income opportunities with honest and ethical sponsors. Not an adult guru here, but sharing is helpful.
