Lesson #01 The Importance of Networking
Written By Titmowse

When the non-adult business world looks at the online porn industry, they express amazement at the cooperative climate they find. The link trades and traffic exchanges and associations of adult webmasters seem foreign to corporate types. They understand the whole sponsor/affiliate thing. What they don't understand is the coefficient atmosphere among adult webmasters and those in the online porn sector. We trade traffic and links. We gather together as an industry, not as a single company. We are an army of independent contractors who pay well and hire from within.

How does all this happen?

Primarily the Internet makes it happen with message boards and chat rooms and email. We gather as an industry because we can. Most of us don't work for mega-corporations or even small offices. We work for ourselves and we gather strength by making solid associations of our own choosing. One of the strongest platforms for an individual or company to make their case is the adult industry convention.

The web makes it possible to converse, view works, promote services, create new work and check on business all at the same workstation. However, the anonymity of the net removes so much of our basic animal assessment skills. The person who is verbally inept in a message board setting might be quite brilliant in person. The big poser in the chat room could be a professional liar who's more detectable with eye contact and observation. Sponsors and bigger players see screen names by the hundreds every day. They may be aware of talkative or well-selling favorites on the web but none of those contacts compare to a handshake and a real conversation. Networking, discussions and seminars communicate far better in real life.

Adult webmasters, content providers, paysite owners, designers and the like get together in physical settings as often as possible. Their conventions and gatherings are just like those in the non-adult world except with more fun and nude bodies! They hold vitally informative seminars and showrooms with sponsored booths and giveaways. Larger adult companies and groups of professionals throw elaborate dinners and parties and free adult photo opportunities are everywhere. Adult online industry gatherings advertise for the newbie and veteran in a profession where non-physical communication is the norm. The bonding at these conventions is deep and the impressions lasting.

While it's possible to work without ever physically meeting an associate in the adult Internet, why would you want to? The web has given humanity a great gift by opening a line of worldwide communication that never before existed.

The next natural step after doing business with faceless people is the desire to associate faces with names. Adult Webmaster conventions not only give you the opportunity to meet and make lasting relationships, you get the chance to meet peers from all over the world in a most amazing setting. When was the last time you went to a convention where live nude models were on the showroom floor? They are held all over the world and they are held regularly. Adult webmaster conventions and gatherings are packed with detailed seminars, true industry players, great parties and naked models.

How could you NOT want to go?