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Articles by Ben Fraden
Creating Your Dream Workspace
Since joining the adult industry in late 2018 and seeing the rise of subscription sites, paired with the necessity of working from home, I’ve seen more and more creators getting innovative with their workspaces. In turn, I have been inspired to build a home studio in my bedroom! After a lot of planning and trial and error, I’ve enjoyed creating my dream workspace.
Monetizing the Art of the Tease on Cam
In the race to be unique and stand out from the crowd, models focus on coming up with groundbreaking cam show ideas, but often forget about common everyday practices that could turn into serious moneymaking strategies. I’m talking about teasing, and more precisely, teasing shows. Giving pleasure in small amounts, or stimulating the other person only to then withdraw, is an art form — one that’s worth spending some time mastering if you want to keep users coming to your room.
Changing Your Pronouns While Camming
My name is Muse and I’m a trans, nonbinary cam model on Chaturbate, which is where I was first inspired to cam in 2018 after I saw a model I looked up to camming there. It wasn’t until 2019, however, that I really decided to take camming seriously and made it my full-time job. Now, almost five years later, I have started transitioning, changed my pronouns and started taking testosterone — and I still have the same amazing fans that started out with me.
WIA Profile: Erika Icon
Each month, 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. After more than a decade in the adult industry with a full-service adult PR agency, The Rub PR, Erika Icon has cultivated a diverse clientele that includes top-tier stars and big-name companies.
Building Proactive Relationships With Billing, Payment Providers
They say that April’s showers bring May’s flowers, so I hope things are blooming nicely around you — or that you are at least thawed out by now. This month I am going to discuss relationships and how important they are. While there is no question that relationships are important to your personal well-being, they are also important to your business’ well-being.
Adventures in Dealmaking: Keep It 'Business as Usual'
I’m a nice guy so I hate to say this publicly, but: website owners need to stop messing up their websites before trying to sell them. Many website and business owners wait too long to decide to sell their websites.
The Financial Fallout of Russia-Ukraine War
Like many of you, I am deeply saddened by the fighting between Russia and Ukraine. Our modern times give us a front row seat where we can see what’s going on 24 hours a day. It’s both mesmerizing and sickening to see the images of cities being blasted, families being displaced and people killed and injured. It conjures up emotions you don’t even realize you have. It’s hard to believe it’s all real.
Q&A: Jacob and Harley Discuss Creator Duo Success
Jacob Acosta and Harley Xavier are from the same town and were around each other quite a bit growing up, but it wasn’t until high school that Xavier made his move. With determination, he actively pursued Acosta during a period of courtship, until the much-wooed apple of his eye relented. Persuaded to give romance a chance, Acosta attended a Renaissance fair with his newfound crush.
The Perks of Branded Merch Go Beyond Added Revenue
Would your jaw drop if you learned that most models cannot mount much of a lifestyle based solely on their earnings from branded merchandise? That number gets skewed even further when you think about models who have the compounded expenses of maintaining an ecommerce website, inventory acquisition, packaging, shipping and customer support — and this doesn’t even factor in the most important expense, time.
Overcome 'Creator's Block' for Fresh Content Ideas
Think, Andrew, think! You must think of an article to write for XBIZ that will be amazing and informative all at the same time… but what to say? Yes, I’m starting this article that way. Got a problem with it? You shouldn’t, because this is the way I cure my writer’s block. Whether I’m writing an email to an angry customer or trying to ingratiate myself to a prospective model I want on the site, the first thing I do is just start typing. “Great,” you think.
Getting to Know Your Fans to Increase Content Sales
As a content creator, you have the freedom to be creative in ways you wouldn’t if you worked for someone else. But in a way, that is an illusion. You’re really working for your fans, since they are the ones who pay you.
Do's and Don'ts of Collabs With Your Fellow Talent
I just reached down to check my phone and saw a Gmail notification. “Ah, yay,” I thought. “‘Horny Tattoo Wives Hit the Pussy Jackpot’ sold!” After setting my phone down, I started thinking back over my seven-plus years of sex work and everything I’ve learned along the way about working with other models. As someone who’s had the pleasure of working with many talent over the years, I’ve always tried to work with people whose content I resonate with.
Q&A: Maye Daye Brings Fantasies to Life for Fans
With ivory-hued hair and posh aesthetics, Maye Daye likes to cultivate a fantasy environment for her fans when she goes online, at once approachable and ethereal. While she initially explored camming as a means of supplementing her traditional 9-to-5 income after chancing upon an ad promising freedom and major profits online, Daye has now turned her love of seductive teasing into a bona fide career Along the way, she has also become more open-minded in all aspects of life, evolving significantly.
How to Increase Intimacy in Private Cam Shows
Private shows can seem intimidating, especially for newer cam models. Even when you’ve been in the industry for a while, keeping customers coming back for more is still one of the biggest challenges. You may wonder what to do, how exactly to best interact with the user one-on-one, how to personalize the show and more. The magic word is “intimacy.” The No. 1 way to engage fans in a private show and turn them into returning customers, is to create a feeling of intimacy during the session.
Cultivating Community With Your Social Media
There are an estimated 4.62 billion people globally using social media. With approximately 400 million new users yearly, and an average of 2.5 hours spent online daily per user, it is safe to say no business should be without a strong presence on socials.
How to Create Your Own Cam Model Blog
Have you ever thought about creating your own blog? The process may seem intimidating, especially if you don't have the money and resources to create your own site from scratch. However, getting a basic blog up and running is surprisingly easy. Now, before you say "But blogs are like, so 2010," hear me out. Blogging is a great way to promote yourself on your own terms.
Utilizing Apps to Facilitate Cam Shows
I have been camming on Chaturbate for five years as HimexMarie. I first started doing so after getting out of a shitty relationship; I was looking for validation and a way to feel beautiful again. It’s an amazing job that not only helps build your confidence and lets you work from the privacy of your own home, but also offers several revenue streams and ways to make money. You can create fan clubs, play games, go cam-to-cam and more.
WIA Profile: Casey Calvert
Each month, 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. After a decade in the adult industry, Casey Calvert has made a name for herself as a prolific Spiegler Girls performer with nearly 900 scenes under her belt, and as an award-winning director for Erika Lust studios’ Lust Cinema and XConfessions.
Why Venture Capital Doesn't Really Work in Adult
Mainstream is flush with cash. Millions of dollars flood into startups every single day and billions annually. There is more funding for mainstream startups than there is market cap for the entire adult industry combined. When you read the news of those billion-dollar buyouts, however, not all is what it seems. In a lot of cases, the big sticker price is a lot higher than the actual amount paid for a business.
New Mastercard Rules for Negative Option Billing
At the end of 2021, Mastercard implemented new rules regarding “negative option billing,” with even more rules going into effect on June 8, 2022. Examples of negative option billing might include a free trial that automatically renews to a paid membership or a membership to your website that has an introductory rate of $2.99 but renews at $19.99. If you are thinking that there is nothing new about this, you are correct.
Getting Ready for the Metaverse With Blockchain-Powered Platforms
The metaverse: you may or may not be familiar with this concept in the adult industry. As a current buzzword in mainstream tech, it is a concept that is still somewhat vague and broad. The basic definition of a metaverse is: a network of virtual worlds that connect together, something straight out of science fiction.
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