Running an adult company for over 11 years has been an experience, often duller than people would expect, there have also been the mega-stories you’d expect from a porn outfit. Most of my day is many hours spent at a computer working with models, photographers and customers. This is my personal diary of running a prominent adult company – my thoughts on the industry, my current projects and up to the minute information on Grooby Productions – the websites, the models, the photographers… and occasionally, the customers.

Feb

21

Grooby Steven & Groobybucks featured in Klixxx Magazine

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This was a good interview on the transsexual niche in Klixxx magazine in January, which is a magazine that mainly sells to adult webmasters and affiliates. Over the last few years, more affiliates and larger web companies have realized that their is money in the TS niche and have ventured into the shemale area with [...]

Sep

6

Personal tgirls blogs … Kimber James Blog

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As an experiment I launched KimberJamesBlog to see how it would do in the search engines and was happy to see it in page 6 of Google for “kimber james” after about a week. 5 weeks later it’s on page one and making me about $150 a day for sales to Grooby sites as well [...]

Aug

26

Cool feature in AVN Magazine … Branding. Hustler and Grooby?

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http://www.avn.com/internet/articles/31628.html This article appeared in the August edition of AVN Online magazine … yes I just love the publicity! It’s nice to be in the same thread as Hustler Leveraging Your Brand Name Successful branding takes more than name dropping. By: Michael Pearson Posted: 08/25/2008 Every prominently successful business reaches a point where its name [...]

Aug

16

Shemales.net sells for $60,000 …. why ?

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A moniker auction at the Internext show in Miami on Friday, listed among it’s sales, Shemales.net for $60,000. Now given that Shemales.com sold recently for a whacking $500,000 this might seem like a good deal but is a .net domain worth anything, even with a good name, if your not doing fuck all with it? [...]

Aug

1

Cockroach Crushing Shemales ?

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Ok, so I get my fair share of emails.  In fact, the first hour of every morning is filtering them, the next two hours answering them – most are fairly straight forward but some are just bizarre.  My policy, probably against better judgement is to answer them all – and not just placate them with [...]

Aug

1

My opening post ….

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Finally, I’ve found some time to get this blog up.   I’ve so many interested and fun experiences working in this industry and as anyone who knows me, I’m fairly outspoken also either on the transgender erotica industry or the adult industry in general, that I’ll at last have a place to ramble on. Is anyone [...]