Running a successful adult business is a lot of hard work! Having an Adult Industry Business is not only time consuming, but it can also be really confusing as there isn’t a lot of how-to-guides on running escort, adult brands, how to start an escort agency or how to grow your business.

Being ‘adult’ is problematic as many tools and online options are not available to adult business

You can spend many hours setting up a website on weebly.com, adding Mailchimp or Paypal only to find soon after all your hours of work amounts to nothing as you are blacklisted for all 3 services, they do not allow adult so all your hard work is gone. It makes you want to curl up & cry

Grow your Adult Industry Business in 2020

Some days I spent over half the day reading terms & conditions trying to find a solution that is either adult-friendly or at least doesn’t kick me off if they find out their tool is being used for adult services promotion

I have been doing digital marketing, web development and SEO for the Adult Industry for almost 2 decades. The path hasn’t been easy or fast & some days it’s still hard as hell.

I have made a tonne of mistakes and I have learnt a lot from these mistakes. I am still learning and trying new things that aren’t always successful

Atlantic aims to help Businesses achieve success and grow

To help give you back a little time in your day I have curated a list of my favourite tools and resources. Many are free. I hope you find them as helpful as I do

Create A Website

Yes, you can create a website yourself. It will take you many hours to create a site but you can do it. If you wish to learn how or you can save yourself those hours and the grey hairs by paying a professional. If you do pay a professional, go with someone that has SEO experience so they can build your site correctly from day 1 so google can access it & rank it.

Website Building Platforms

My preferred platform and also preferred by many web developers and designers. WordPress powers over 30% of the web.

WordPress is open source which means anyone can use & create for WordPress. It’s particularly great for escorts as nobody can kick you off the platform. If you own your domain & your hosting you have full control

If you are going to use WordPress then I suggest Siteground for Hosting as they are fast, have great customer service + have a lot of great freebies which save you money such as Free email, CDN, SSL and the SG Optimizer plugin.

One of the most popular front-end frameworks and open source projects in the world, designed to make front-end web development faster and easier.

Very easy to use but I find it’s too limited. I have created sites for clients in Wix at their request. It is a website builder with templates, drag ‘n’ drop editor + a cute mobile site editor. Wix controls everything so not great if they kick you off their platform. You can only host with Wix, pay by the month. The only way to move from Wix is to recreate your site elsewhere. It’s a tedious and time consuming job

Website Resources

NameMesh – Free domain name generator

WindowResizer (google chrome) – Helps you check different screen sizes to test your website design layout

Thank you Radu from Rank Tracker SEOlium.com for this cute SEO graphic

SEranking Great for SEO beginners, excellent value for money & easy to use. The SERP reports are easy to ready and include the ability to monitor SERP features. I like that you can add keywords directly from Google Search Console

HotJar

SEO Site Checkup

SimilarWeb

Screaming Frog SEO Spider

SEMrush – A great tool for experienced SEO and the tool I use personally

Site Speed Checkers

Pingdom – check your website speed

Gtmetrix.com – Website speed & Performance Optimisation including a waterfall so you can see what you need to fix

www.webpagetest.org – this is the one I use as its the most thorough

A fast well design website is vital for SEO and conversions. Studies have shown that if a site doesn’t open in 3seconds many people will move away. After 10seconds you will have lost over 50% of your audience

Google has lots of tools to help you with your site and SEO

Design Pretty Things

Graphics

Canva There is thousands of design resources available for anyone to access I have used various but I personally love Canva and get all my clients on it too. It’s so simple to use, I do Canva Graphics on my phone in the ads if I am watching TV lol

Freebies and Templates

There’s no need to design everything from scratch. There are tonnes of freebies online

Free Fonts and Typography

With so many free fonts available at the click of a button, you can have ultimate flexibility in your designs.

Canva Font Combinations

FontFace Ninja – Browser extension to help you discover what fonts were used on a website.

Google Fonts – Open source designer web fonts.

WhatTheFont – If you see a font on someone else’s website you can use this site to find out what it is

Social Media Graphics

Creating social media graphics—like blog headers and Instagram quote cards help grow your social media followers

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Pablo

Canva

Photo Editing Software

Photo Compression

Before uploading images to your website you need to optimise them. I use photoshop but these sites are handy tools that will help you save on Website hosting bandwidth, speed, and storage

Speak to your clients

LiveChat

You can speak to clients with these tools added to your website

LiveChat– This is the one I use – Lots of functionality available

Tawk.to – Free messaging app that lets you monitor and chat with visitors on your website.

VOIP

Skype – Free video calls, voice calls and messaging.

Online Surveys

Surveys are a great idea if you are stuck for ideas. Collect real-time feedback, demographic information and customer satisfaction

Google Forms – Create online forms and surveys for free.

Survey Monkey – Online surveys and questionnaires.

Twitter Polls

Marketing – Social Media

I am not a social media person but I use it to help grow my brands

Bitly – Create, share, and track shortened or custom links.

SocialRank – Find and analyze your followers on Twitter and Instagram.

TweetDelete – A great tool to delete all your tweets or delete them after a certain amount of time.

Social Sharing

I always have social sharing buttons on my blogs. Make it easy for your readers to share your content across the web

AddThis

ShareThis – Free social sharing buttons for your website or blog.

SumoMe Share – Smart share buttons optimized to increase social media shares on your website by 20%.

Disqus – A popular comment system for your blog.

Publishing & Automation

Schedule post and plan your social media from 1 platform

Hootsuite – Manage up to three social media profiles and get basic analytics, content scheduling, lead capture campaigns, RSS feed integrations and free social media courses.

Buffer – Share what you’re reading and schedule social media posts.

Later – Schedule and manage your Instagram posts.

Content

Copyscape – Plagiarism checker that searches for duplicates of your content.

Free PDF Creator – Create PDF documents from any Windows program including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Free Summarizer – Summarizes any text in just a few seconds, then sends you the summary via email.

Grammarly – Improve grammar, word choice, and sentence structure in your writing. It’s free!

Be More Productive

Manage yourself with a to-do-list

Asana – I have this app on my phone & use it for personal to-do-lists, project to-do-lists and for larger team projects

Todoist – To do list software

Useful Little Helpers

1Password & LastPass Save your passwords & Logins

Unroll.me Keeps a list of all your subscription emails so you can unsubscribe easily

Evernote

Google Keep

Online Contracts

DocuSign – Send, sign and approve documents

File Sharing and Storage

Dropbox – File sharing with up to 2GB of free storage. I use dropbox to store and share photos with clients

Google Drive – Google cloud storage. I use the spreadsheets & documents in google drive to store & share data with clients. The first 15GB of storage is free.

WeTransfer – Transfer photos and files for free up to 2GB

I hope you have found my list helpful and you found some tools to help you grow your Adult Industry Business