The basics of porn affiliation websites (Track #1 - Affiliate marketing)
What is affiliate marketing?
I will cover production lessons in other blogs
When you sign up for a company to work with, this is known as a sponsor
The sponsor will give you an ID code when you sign up.
This code ID's you to the sponsor after you sign up with them. When you make a sale, you get a commission. A typical cut often is 50% commission to you, a 5-10% commission to whoever "recruited" you (which is me if you sign up with the link below,) and the sponsor keeps the rest.
Why does the sponsor give up part of their profit? They give you content to work with which makes you a salesman for their porn. If you make the sale they didn't make, you are making them money!
There are many webmaster sites in which webmasters share information and help. In fact, the use of these boards will be an early lesson. Most of the people that help out on these sites act as referrers for their favorite sponsors
Understand this. You will not get rich quick. You won't make any sales for at least three months. There are entire websites full of free porn, and there are lots of people working this type of business.
You don't need to start a corporation or business to do this. You won't be making enough money when you start to make it worth the while. Most cities have a lawyer consultation service which will set you up with a lawyer for about $20 for an hour's worth of questions. You will need an accountant if you start making money.
Your first sponsor
MovieDollars: they cover all niches and they have a lot of tools to help out webmasters
Boxometer -"Add a dynamic iframe banner with rotating video covers to your site. Customize videos using any category, studio, or show recently added videos from our major sites. You choose the colors, layout, content, and even its transition effects. Banners can link back to specific Custom Theaters or any of our award winning sites."
Bloggers - "Choose RSS feeds from our Movies of Day, Categories, Featured Content, or create your own custom feeds. Directing your traffic to exactly what they are looking for has never been easier!"
Staple Tools -"We offer the largest selection of hosted galleries. Our 40 different niches of video galleries cover all fetishes and themes with new galleries rolling out every week. Promote our sites with a wide variety of banner ads for HotMovies.com, GayHotmovies.com, Fetishmovies.com, MovieDollars.com and more that are provided FREE and updated every week. Utilize our Dynamic Search Banners that update with the top 5 videos every hour. They can also be customized to feature movies from any category, studio or star on any of our VOD sites. Use our Link Generator tool or Quick Links for link codes to best target your traffic."
Movie Cards -"HotMovies.com is proud to present a new and lucrative opportunity for your business. You can give HotMovies.com Free Prepaid Cards to your patrons. There is NO cost to you. Use the cards in DVDs, packages and direct mail and in stores. Once people try Pay Per Minute Billing, they come back over and over again."
A website
You need a website to host the porn. DO NOT USE STEEMIT UNLESS YOU ARE PRODUCING YOUR OWN CONTENT AND UNDERSTAND HOW PEOPLE TOLERATE PORN. You can use Blogger to start and look for cheap hosting after that. Setting up a Wordpress site is really easy.
MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHETHER HOSTING PORN ON A SERVICE IS ALLOWED BEFORE YOU PUT WORK INTO IT. Read the Terms of Service (TOS)
Once you get the hang of things, and start making sales, you can look at paying for hosting which you control fully.
Notes
Organize - enter your program information into a spreadsheet
Rome wasn't built in a day, and your website income will take time to build as well