Question about Marketing

[SWorldMegan]

Hey there!

I am new here ... I want to say Hi! first of all.

My name is Megan and I am the webmaster for http://www.shanesworld.com , http://www.collegeinvasion.com and http://www.shanesworldcash.com .

It has recently come to my attention we have a lot of gay and bi members to our sites. I found this out when running a contest on the sites. I would really like to be able to create marketing materials specifically geared in their directions. The gay and bi markets are very new to me but have been an idea we have tossed around for a while.

Being a girl i think will help me since I can defiantly appreciate a hot guy , but i feel i am lacking when trying to create something for these niches. Considering we are a "straight" movie company i am not sure of what type of clips I should look for, for the TGP's I plan to create.

Anyone want to through some suggestions my way?

Thanks a million!

xoxox,
Megan

[edk]

Hey Megan :high:

Welcome to GWW! Hey check out my website and let me know if you like to talk.

[Dawgy]

wee its about time. i know boys whove had memberships to your site for ages.

youll definitely get some support here

[Jasun]

Hey welcome to our twisted little family.

it's been mentioned already in another few threads, but take a quick look at http://www.gayisnotaniche.com fora few small points, take a look at some of the other threads that talk about getting into the gay market, and yeah, give Eddie a ring.. I'm sure he can help you out.

His team sure ain't too tough to look at, either.

[Takemytaco]

Welcome you'll find great people here.

I like your site
http://www.collegeinvasion.com - frat boys having sex with pornstars.
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[collegeboyslive]

Hi Megan

take a look at what we offer , maybe we can help

[Lee]

Welcome to the community Megan :thumbsup:

Tell us a little more about what you have planned for the gay market, that will ensure you get given the most pertinent info

Regards,

Lee

[Dzinerbear]

Oh my God, she said "gay market" and not niche. (I'll let that "niche" slip pass in the third paragraph.)

Megan,

Firs of all welcome. Definitely read the articles at the site that Jasun pointed you to. Here's a recent thread that is sort of on topic, too: http://forums.gaywidewebmasters.com/...ight=gay+niche

and

http://forums.gaywidewebmasters.com/...ight=gay+niche


What exactly are you wanting to do? Are you wanting to create a paysite product geared at gay men? Or are you wanting to create marketing tools that will sell your existing straight products to gay and bi men?

Here's another post that had a lot of dicussion about a site creating by some straight folks that wasn't converting very well.

If you're thinking of creating a product for gay men, did you have some ideas you wanted to run by us? I only ask because a lot of the products that straight companies come up with are demeaning to gay men or they just plain miss the mark.

We've got tons of twink and straight college boy sites. We need something way out there. Penispalooza has an interesting product.

Cheers
Dzinerbear

[SWorldMegan]

WOW! This is an awesome reply! Thank you all for such a warm welcome!


Eddie: I am checking out your site now and will probably be contacting you.

Dawgy: That's good to hear! I am glad we apply to such a large audience!

Jasun: Thanks for the awesome link! It will surely be helpful!

Takemytaco: awww ::blushes:: Thanks. I think collegeinvasion.com maybe one of the few 110% reality lines out there. We set nothing up on those ... we don't have to LOL and we are very picky about guys in our videos.

collegeboyslive: Nice feeds! Thanks for the link!

Lee: We are not really sure what we have planned yet. It's something we have just been mulling over for awhile. Since we are most known for our reality stuff, we would probably do something to that effect. Got any ideas?

Dzinerbear: We want to do both. I would like to make our current stuff more marketable to the gay and bi market. Those markets seem to find us more by mistake and i would like to make materials strictly for the markets. I also agree on the overuse of twinks and straight college boys. We would want to come up with something unique. We try to do that with all of our stuff. We do fit into certain "niches", but we have our unique flare in them.

The biggest problem we have found in the past when throwing these ideas around is talent. Which talent agencies have the hottest guys? Like i said we are very picky ... makes for good product, makes for difficulty casting LOL

Thanks again everyone for such an awesome response! If any of you would like to contact me anytime, you can ICQ me at 250636875 or email me at webmaster@ any of the above listed sites =)

xoxoxoxo,
Megan

[rubikkx]

hello and welcome
check it out and keep in touch

[cj.]

Ok, I'm totally lost ... forgive my ignorance but ...

What about the college invasion site is appealing to the gay market?

I thought straight couples having sex was bad, according to the rules and guidelines in my handbook of the 'gay niche'? (sorry Dzinerbear ;-) )

just goes to show - when you think you have everyone in nice little boxes, one of them pops open and there's a clown inside!!! :bush:

[Chilihost]

no advice, just a warm welcome

cheers,
Luke

[Jasun]

I think that there's some guys in the gay market who really like seeing straight guys turned on an getting laid... i do actually like to see striaght guys having sex with women.. my problem is that most sites ignore the guys altogether... they clip out their faces, don't show us what they look like and treat them like props.

Straight porn that does it for me shows the guys close up, shows their faces, shows them having a good time and most of all shows that their bodies keep going up past their waists.

So I think that if you want to market those sites to gay surfers it's a good idea to make sure that you don't block the guy out, and don't be scared to put him front and center.

[SWorldMegan]

Originally posted by cj.
Ok, I'm totally lost ... forgive my ignorance but ...

What about the college invasion site is appealing to the gay market?

I thought straight couples having sex was bad, according to the rules and guidelines in my handbook of the 'gay niche'? (sorry Dzinerbear ;-) )

just goes to show - when you think you have everyone in nice little boxes, one of them pops open and there's a clown inside!!! :bush:

What our customers have been telling us is they like the cute straight frat boys in uncomfortable situations type thing. One scene in particular that is mentioned is in one of our Scavenger Hunt videos we send some pornstars into a frat house and the girls take a shower with several of the frat boys. There are about 10-14 naked frat boys in the shower; standing in a line up looking nervous ... it is actually a funny scene because of their faces! LOL

But that was actually my question too, I was pleasantly surprised to find out how many gay and bi members we had.

XOXO,
Megan

[SWorldMegan]

Originally posted by Jasun
I think that there's some guys in the gay market who really like seeing straight guys turned on an getting laid... i do actually like to see striaght guys having sex with women.. my problem is that most sites ignore the guys altogether... they clip out their faces, don't show us what they look like and treat them like props.

Straight porn that does it for me shows the guys close up, shows their faces, shows them having a good time and most of all shows that their bodies keep going up past their waists.

So I think that if you want to market those sites to gay surfers it's a good idea to make sure that you don't block the guy out, and don't be scared to put him front and center.

Jasun, thank you for this post. This is something we have been doing without realizing we were doing it, which can explain our appealing to the gay and bi markets. We have always thought the guys played just as an important role in our stuff. We pick cute, young, fun guys.

You shed a lot of light for me!

xoxox,
Megan