How to Boost Sales During a Retail Slow Period

How to Boost Sales During a Retail Slow Period

Have your sales hit a dry patch? This is normally the case during this time of year when shoppers have exhausted their holiday-through-Valentine’s-Day gift funds.

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Tue, 2 March 2021

Balancing Activism and Self-Promotion as a Sex Worker

Balancing Activism and Self-Promotion as a Sex Worker

I first started camming when I was in my early twenties and wanted to start making money working from home.

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Mon, 1 March 2021

Has the Pandemic Cause a BDSM Toys Sales Boom?

Has the Pandemic Cause a BDSM Toys Sales Boom?

This year has been full of changes for everyone, including shifts in our intimacy and sex lives.

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Sun, 28 February 2021

Has the Pandemic Caused a BDSM Toys Sales Boom?

Has the Pandemic Caused a BDSM Toys Sales Boom?

This year has been full of changes for everyone, including shifts in our intimacy and sex lives.

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Sun, 28 February 2021

WIA Profile: Ashley Jacobs

WIA Profile: Ashley Jacobs

Each month, industry news media organization 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.

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Sat, 27 February 2021

The Growing Threat of Synthetic Shoppers

The Growing Threat of Synthetic Shoppers

Fraud isn’t a new thing. In fact, people have been posing as other people for as long as civilization has been in existence. With the global pandemic, so many shoppers have resorted to solely digital transactions.

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Fri, 26 February 2021

How Adult Retail’s Community Bond Ensures Its Success

How Adult Retail’s Community Bond Ensures Its Success

Thriving during COVID can seem a foreign phrase, but our industry has done just that. We have accepted the challenge of doing more, while doing it better in order to ensure that as many of our retailers survive while many other stores around us shutter.

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Thu, 25 February 2021

Beware of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021

Beware of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021

The bipartisan package provided much needed financial assistance to so many, but unfortunately once again, politicians used the stimulus package as leverage to push through some very controversial laws.

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Wed, 24 February 2021

A Look at How the Pandemic’s Upgraded Adult Retail Customer Service

A Look at How the Pandemic’s Upgraded Adult Retail Customer Service

Online. That’s where everything is going. Online. There’s nothing we can do about it. We can’t change it. We can’t stop it. All we can do is try to avoid it, which isn’t going to get us very far.

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Tue, 23 February 2021

Ensuring User Uploads Remain Compliant With Credit Cards

Ensuring User Uploads Remain Compliant With Credit Cards

In December, Pornhub captured headlines after it was featured in a New York Times article. The attention made many of us working in and with the adult industry a little nervous.

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Mon, 22 February 2021

Bits and Bytes: New Year’s Resolutions for Webmasters

Bits and Bytes: New Year’s Resolutions for Webmasters

The 2020 memes are (mostly) done, and we’ve made our resolutions (I’m planning to get out more, maybe spend a bit more time with humans).

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Sun, 21 February 2021

Blasting Barriers: Dillon Diaz Talks Directing Debut, Effecting Change

Blasting Barriers: Dillon Diaz Talks Directing Debut, Effecting Change

One of the first mentions of Dillon Diaz by XBIZ was when he was named “Man of the Month” several years ago by Noir Male, an imprint of Mile High Media. “They used a really great photo of you for that announcement,” I remark.

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Sat, 20 February 2021

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