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Scandinavia
Enter the land of Scandinavia. Actually three countries: Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Buy any Dane, Swede or Norwegian a beer and he can talk for hours about the differences between the three countries. Get him on the subject of sex and the Internet, and you will quickly discover that they share a great deal. What is the most important similarity? You can make tons of cash here... |
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Finding Finland
Find Finland. Go ahead, try. If you're an American it might be challenge. According to a recent survey over 10% of Americans could not even locate the USA on a map. The US scored second to the bottom for geographic skills. Sweden, Finland's neighbor, was at the top of the list. Our neighbor, Mexico, was at the bottom. So, how does a worldwide webmaster find Finland? And, what does he find when he finds it?... |
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The Ways the World Pays - The Short Story on Telecom Billing
There are 800 million netizens, according to InternetWorldStats.com, 23% of whom surfed for sex within the last month. That's 184 million porn surfers. Many of these porn surfers do not live in the "rich" countries of North America and Western Europe, and do not have credit cards. How do they pay you? The way the world pays you is with telecom billing... |
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When to Translate and When NOT to Translate
There you are, sitting at the bar getting more and more drunk. You're too sloshed to communicate clearly in English, so you pretend you're foreign. It works! The Hotness to your right - the ice queen - melts. Why? Because she's never met anyone from "Vrkslikistan" before - never! "'VAK-ER-STEEN!' she squeals! That's soooo interesting!" She wants to talk all night, to teach you how we speak, you know AMERICAN, to show you her world... |
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Belgian Bling!
Belgium is famous for ''french fries,'' Jacques Brel - one of the most popular French language singers, the world's best beers and Eddie Merckx, the five time Tour de France winner. Which is to say that the great things about Belgium are extremely great - but it takes a little effort to discover that they are, in fact, Belgian. This country also happens to be the center of the diamond trade in Europe. In this month's column the Worldwide Webmaster will help you discover what's great about the Belgian adult online market, and find the 'bling-bling' awaiting you there... |
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GREECE: Goats or Gold?
There are over 10.5 million Greeks living on the 3,000 islands and mainland that make up the eastern edge of the European Union. If you were to put all those islands together you would have a land mass slightly smaller than Alabama - with over twice as many people. Today there are over 1.7 million Greeks online. The number of Greek end users grew by 71.8% between 2000 and 2004. This is a golden opportunity for growth, with only 15% of Greeks yet online, compared with the average European Internet penetration of 44%. And, Greeks are big fans of nudity. Today, the most popular nude beaches in the world are found in Greece... |
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Converting Croatia
into Ca$h
Croatia is the world in which the other half of your traffic
lives. This half lives outside the rich countries in Western
Europe, North America and East Asia. In this month's Worldwide
Webmaster column we will make a number of recommendations for
making profits in Croatia - and each suggestion applies to 230
more countries. Follow these suggestions because this half is
growing - and the rich half is not. Croatia has nearly 4.5 million
people - 1,497,525 are males between 15 and 65... |
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Slovakia - Tiger
of Central Europe
Slovakia is two times the size of New Hampshire, and known for
it's great nature, including the High Tatras mountains (which
the Worldwide Webmaster recently snowboarded), NHL ice hockey
players, Supermodels and in general - smiley, warm-hearted people.
Slovakia is also becoming an economic tiger in Central Europe
for two reasons: for the last five years it has attracted a
significant number of new investors in every sector, but most
impressively in the auto industry, and secondly, they have achieved
the great dream of former US Presidential Candidate Steve Forbes,
the flat tax (19%)... |
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Free Versus Paid
International Engine Exposure
- by Dyanna S. Culp
NoCreditCard.com Director of Business Development Bjorn Skarlen
recently voiced concerns regarding policies and differences
between European and US search engines and portals. Among his
concerns were questions about the constantly changing rules,
arbitrary and exorbitant fees for clicks and impressions which
adult companies pay and pay, and he posed the question, "What
might adult companies do to join forces to present an aggressive
united front to negotiate rules and pricing policies of the
major engines?" Klixxx set out to find some answers... |
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Spain is Different -
and Better than You May Think
This month the worldwide webmaster is taking you to a state
with more coastline than any other in the European Union. The
largest city in this state is famous for its movie stars and
endless traffic jams. The second most important city sits on
hills, overlooking an international port, and is a high tech
hotbed known for its tolerance and cultural vitality. There
are over 35 million people, millions and millions of whom speak
Spanish as their mother tongue, and millions more who speak
it as a second language. And, this state may just be as important
to your adult online business as California... |
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Go for Growth in Poland!
As of May 1, 2004, Poland is now the most important new member
of the European Union. They are one of nine new countries joining
the EU, and they are the biggest, richest and the most "European"
of the new members. The Worldwide Webmaster recently visited
Warsaw, Poland and saw sure signs of growth: expensive restaurants
and construction everywhere. Not to mention some of the most
beautiful women in the world, looking great in the latest European
fashions... |
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Bank on Switzerland
Switzerland is rich. The people who live there are rich. The
people who keep their money in the banks there are rich... and
webmasters who target end users in Switzerland get rich. It's
also very secret. Many adult webmasters have set up their companies
in Switzerland because of its private 'no questions asked' banking
policy and 'light' laws. In this month's worldwide webmaster
column we tell you how to get rich, and give you a few reasons
to consider setting up shop in Switzerland... |
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The Netherlands:
The Main Gate to Europe
A small country with a big adult business, a country of opportunities.
Klixxx brings you this exclusive interview with Phillipe Van
Ooteghem, chief of the biggest adult company in the Netherlands.
. The Netherlands, a small country between the United Kingdom
and Germany, is well known for its liberal drugs policy, red
light district area and lenient policy towards adult erotica
of all kinds. "Many people are aware of the potential of Holland
for the adult Internet industry. Despite of the size of the
country, it's a very interesting market in which to exploit
adult pay sites." |
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Ich Bin Ein Fraudster
As Europe's largest economy and most populous nation, Germany
is a natural target for webmasters who want to start making
money in Europe. So, what does the German market look like?
Germany has an estimated population of 82 million inhabitants
making an average of $26,600 per person - just a little below
the average Joe in the US. There are over 28 million guys between
the ages of 15-64 years. In 2002, there were 32.1 million Internet
users online in Germany. All of these figures total to a multi-billion
dollar market for adult content... |
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