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As a gay porn blogger, I’m faced with having to pull together new posts for a couple of dozen blogs each week. Unlike those producing free sites, bloggers need to work with a variety of sponsors in order to deliver good variety for each blog they publish. The more blogs one has, the wider range of sponsors he or she needs to work with, and the less time the webmaster has to hunt for content.

Webmasters that publish numerous blogs, and a lot of them do, simply don’t have the time to be hunting down content, if it can be avoided. More preferable is for the content to be delivered to our desk top, by the sponsors. Even with as many blogs as I have, there are so many sponsors sending me content every week I’ve got more than I can use. With some exceptions, particularly in a couple of niche areas, if the sponsor isn’t delivering content to me, he’s not on my radar.

If a sponsor launches a new site, the best he can hope for is a one time post announcing the new venue. If the sponsor fails to follow up by delivering promotional content to me, he gets forgotten.

The days of expecting the webmaster to visit a sponsor’s web site to see what new promotional materials are available are quickly going away. With only a few exceptions, if a sponsor won’t even take the time to let me know when new materials have been added, and make them easy to identify, I can’t be bothered. Hot House Entertainment does a great job of notifying me of new materials, but when I get there nothing is in chronological order and there are no dates on anything. Guess who doesn’t get my traffic?

More and more I’m seeing sponsors come to the realization, if they want to be competitive with affiliates they need to stay in front of them weekly, and deliver turn key promotional materials to their desk top. Who are the sponsors that are out in front of all the others? Well, first and foremost, there’s Randy Blue. He pioneered this concept and is the benchmark for everyone else to follow. Other top dogs are Cocky Boys and Nice Dreams Entertainment.

While there are many others doing something to stay in front of their webmasters, these three are out in front of all the others, because of the total package they deliver. In one mailing I get the all important text write up, along with downloadable photos and video, a free hosted gallery, and a hosted embedded flash video. These mailings are designed to accommodate any need an affiliate webmaster might have, blogger or not!

Is it paying off for the sponsors? You bet it is! Randy Blue once said, and I paraphrase, “It’s a lot of work to do but well worth the effort.” Am I looking for more sponsors to do this? Absolutely! While I’ve got more content coming at me now than I can use, I’m still looking to improve on the variety of my posts.

My Gay Cash has partnered with award winning Alpha Male Media to produce Alpha Male Fuckers, their latest in a string of new gay porn web sites.

Members get access to award winning videos and exclusive Alpha Male Media scenes which have never been released before. Alpha Male Fuckers presents 31 beefy models in hardcore original and exclusive video and photo content. There are thousands of high quality photos and a good selection of videos, certain to satisfy beefy men lovers.

Updated weekly, the site already offers members full access to several other My Gay Cash sites. Members also get bonus videos, including behind the scenes action and a private blog maintain by porn star and Alpha Male Media owner Trojan Rock.

As with all of the My Gay Cash sites, webmasters will find plenty of promotional materials, including hosted galleries, a hosted blog, picture sets, content previews, embedded videos, RSS feeds, banners, and more.

Alpha Male Fuckers is My Gay Cash’s 9th membership site, and they aren’t stopping here. Their objective is to release 3 more sites, in well pursued niches, by year’s end.

Latin Cash announced today they are now paying $45 PPS, or 70% Rev-share, for sales made at their Latin Gay Porn site Latin Boys.

Badpuppy is back in the news with their soft launch of Ogle Me, a new social networking site consisting of amateur and professional video sharing, video chat, private video conferences and blogging. Ogle Me targets Straight, Bi and Gay clientele and is free to viewers.

On the Gay side Ogle Me will offer channels featuring Badpuppy model content and branded channels for the companies hosted on the Badpuppy Network who produce their own content. In conjunction with the launch, a new advertising opportunity is being offered to selected strategic partners, who also produce content for their membership websites, but are not a part of the Badpuppy Network.

The intent with Ogle Me is to deliver a system where any “Joe six pack” can share their own videos, but channels can also be established for video production companies. Badpuppy owner Bill Pinyon says, “Ogle Me is not a free for all. We will be moderating the site seven days a week. Posting of illegal or copyright material is not going to be tolerated from the start.” Pinyon went on to explain the new venue allows his company to expand its reach, and offer another delivery system to video production companies that have been cut off from other tube sites.

Ogle Me has launched with a focus on the Gay market, but welcomes straight amateurs and couples to begin posting on the straight side of the site. They are also looking for companies, with straight member web sites, to set up partner accounts and post their own original content. The video and audio are streamed via Badpuppy’s Flash Communications Server.

The new website also features live video chat. Registered users can video chat one-on-one or with groups of up to 6 people. Additionally, password protected private rooms can be established for by invitation only chat sessions.

Between October and January 31, 2009 Ogle Me is having a contest in which one lucky winner will receive up to $5,000.00. Simply upload 10 videos to be eligible. The more videos uploaded, the more opportunities to win. Official Rules and Details are available at Ogle Me.

PuppyCash, the affiliate program for veteran Gay porn mega site Badpuppy, has added 3 new Network sites for participating webmasters to promote. When members sign up to any of these sites, they also get access to the Badpuppy mega site, and all 60+ Network sites.

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The focus is on producing 2 to 3 live Gay porn shows weekly, featuring everything from hot amateurs to well known Gay porn stars. Between the live shows are hundreds of photo galleries and videos of recorded shows, as well as 24/7 live chat.

Club Amateur USA
Offering exclusive, original content that features solo, action duo and hands on erotic massage sessions, all with happy endings.

Huge Brazilian Dicks
Alexander Pictures, an award winning Gay production company brings you hot, hunky models from Brazil and nearby locations in South America. Their exclusive, original content consists of steamy photo galleries, featuring only high resolution images and corresponding videos where the quality is nothing less than incredible.

PuppyCash pays a 60% revshare, on new member referrals, including rebills and also offers a $30 PPS option. Promotional tools are also available; Free hosted galleries, zip files of model galleries and their corresponding video content for use on your websites, blogs or to make your own TGP / MGP galleries, and their new model iframe that displays the newest models and updates itself each time a new model is added.

With the recent turn of the economy Intense Cash has announced they are permanently raising payouts to $35.00 per signup for the $1.00 PPS program effective immediately. Intense Cash has 20 venues for webmasters to promote, including the very popular Broke Straight Boys and College Boy Physicals gay porn sites.

Well, most people in the industry seem to be in a bit of a panic over the recent economic problems in the US that have now begun to impact economies world wide. While I’m no economist, I’d like to offer my perspective on all this and toss out some suggestions on how everyone can weather the storm.

First, and foremost, vices have traditionally done well during recessions, and full blown depressions. People may elect to hold of on that European vacation, and cut back on those expensive dinners. They probably won’t be buying a new house, car, or big screen TV either. But most won’t give up their drugs, cigarettes, booze, or porn. These are the last things to go when tightening one’s belt.

For the most part, failing companies are those that rely on a substantial line of credit to maintain their inventories, or their sales depend on the consumer being able to secure big ticket loans, or both. This is why automotive dealerships, manufactured housing, and swimming pool companies are biting the dust left and right.

In my opinion, the greatest impact on our industry will be determined by unemployment figures. When people are out of work they’ll max out their credit cards, and that’s bad news for us.

We will have a better idea on how long this is going to last when the Christmas retail projections are announced. If they are bleak, and I thing they will be, we’re looking at about one year before things begin to turn around. As of this writing, I suspect the impact on our revenues will be much the same as the traditional summer slow down. Of course, only time will tell just how bad it’s going to be, but I choose to remain optimistic.

It is unfortunate this has happened right at the tail end of a summer slow down, as many have probably depleted most, if not all, of their cash reserves. For those with money to invest, I suggest doing so. Focus on things that will facilitate efficiency, expansion, and diversification. Most of us already work long hours, so finding ways to free up our time may be the only way to expand and diversify.

One solution for freeing up your time is to look for ways to do the work once and use it many different ways. GunzBlazing has got this down to a fine art, with the development of their affiliate promotional materials.

Those that are focused on one niche market and/or operate only one or two sites are at greater risk than operations tapping multiple markets with a suit of properties. This means the US based small to medium sized businesses, targeting only one market, are probably going to feel the pain more than others. Similar European operations will fair better, because they have more expertise on tapping their own consumer base.

The US companies will need to get smarter about penetrating global markets if they hope to offset their losses. I know of one company that just hired a guy with expertise in tapping the European market. Early projections are they will double their money within 6 months. These projections were made before the economic down turn became evident, but it will certainly give their business a much needed shot in the arm.

The number one reason businesses go under, particularly small businesses, is failure to protect their cash flow. What ever you do, make sure there’s enough cash on hand each month to cover your burn rate.

Affiliates should keep a close eye on what their sponsors are doing to siphon off webmaster traffic. Most likely it’s going to be the small and medium sized operations that will opt to start doing this, but some larger operations will fall to the temptation as well. Every single affiliate webmaster should stand up and make their voice heard loud and clear, they will not stand for sponsors surviving at their expense. If left unchecked, when things get better these sponsors will not do a reversal!

Webmasters should be discriminating about taking the advice of some sponsors, as it often comes with a self serving agenda. Be your own man or woman and make critical business decisions with your eyes wide open and focused on the big picture. If the advice you’ve been given is good, you should be hearing it from more than one source.

Affiliates should evaluate their operation for its effectiveness. Off load those tasks that are not giving you a good return for the effort put in. Then reinvest that time on things that will. It is very difficult to let go of something you’ve spent a lot of time developing, but you have to be realistic, dump what isn’t performing for you.

On the bright side, this pretty much guarantees the democrats will win the presidential election, and that should take the heat off of our industry from a legal perspective. Our industry will survive just fine. How well our country will fair is another thing, and that’s what we really should be worrying about.