My Production & Marketing Advice for Beginners in Onlyfans & Adult Entertainment.
- danistreay
- 23 hours ago
- 6 min read
I work with businesses, independent creators and sex workers in the adult industry. These are adult content creators posting on Onlyfans, Fansly and others, but also erotic artists, retailers, dancers, entertainers, escorts and so on. I produce their content, advise on set up and process, create, refine and expand their brand and help work out marketing strategies and so on.
I am a Video/Motion & Graphics Designer, who also covers Digital, Print and Web. I am also capable in Videography and Photography, and hone upon Social Media and Marketing.
I am a Jack of All Trades, and Master at being a Jack of All Trades. I am not the best at all of the above, but I have found clients to hardly ever need that. The overwhelming majority of the time I have been more than capable of covering their needs. I am not a web coder for example, but I design and build websites just fine. If in the very rare chance a client needs more depth of speciality to construct a dedicated system, I can comfortably outsource that while maintaining oversight on the rest. I will intertwine that element more effectively than that specialist can, who often only prioritise their defined niche.
Assisting Adult Industry and Onlyfans Creators is one of multiple avenues I apply these skills to. I am an introverted workaholic who works with clients across a myriad of different fields. During the Pandemic I identified and jumped on the Onlyfans niche early, to varied levels of success, and have been doing this for a few years now, producing regular content, making promo vids, PPV products, branding etc. It widely varies per client.
I also focus a fair bit on SEO, which is why I just wrote all ^^that^^ above. As you are most likely a sole creator or small business, it helps for you to start thinking the same way, which is what this post is about. It's about suggesting ways of approach.
This post will outline a number of observations and tips for people looking to get started in content creation for Onlyfans, and promotion for their Escort business and/or other Sex Work. The article will focus mostly from the Onlyfans style content perspective to keep things simple. This perspective comes from the production side of things, and in enhancing your efficiency and onscreen effect. This is not about actually performing the job itself. You’re better off referring to veteran creators themselves for that. You can find some reasonable creator communities on reddit like HERE to gain those perspectives.
I’m going to be breaking this master post up into smaller digestible sub-posts linked out from this central main index. Each covers a different area so have a look at the list below and take your pick. They all run on sequentially from each other as well, and link back here. It’s all clicks, so SEO stuff for me, but I’ve tried to keep that side of things from being too obnoxious so you’re actually able to get something out of it.
This will likely become an evolving thing, with new sections being added. If you'd like any of these topics to be further extrapolated, or are stuck on other issues you'd like me to add, hit me up and let me know.
So here goes...
Before you get rolling in Onlyfans content creation, or doing Escort or other sex work, it really helps to work out why you’re doing it. This will inform your next step.
Before you can sell your business in this buyer’s market of Onlyfans or adult industries, you need to actually know what it is you have to sell.
There is a difference, and the mentality you adopt in your approach to this business may have serious knock-on effects down the track.
Streamlining your processes goes a long way. It allows you to do far more with what initial little you might gain, which will then propel you forward all the more.
I have worked with a few sub 1% creators now, and there is a distinct difference between how they operate vs new starters, regardless of initial success.
Everyone’s gonna tell you their Top 10 tips for success in Marketing your Onlyfans or Escort or Sex Work business. They’re doing that though in order to market their own business to you. You’re their target for clicks. Now those tips aren’t wrong, and that’s why everyone uses them and drowns themselves within the flood of everyone else. But marketing is actually more about finding what ‘else’ can be done.
Your answer is ‘yes', I know… but hear me out on something.
I have clients asking me to blur out identities on occasion… but if you’re thinking that’s actually going to be enough to keep you hidden, you may be in for a surprise in a couple of years when you actually become big.
Just a few thoughts on the state of this art that has a lot of creators worried.
Regardless of how successful you become, and how supportive your friends and family might be, this ain’t a free ride.
I will be open in saying it; I have written these blog posts to give myself SEO boosts in the ranks. But that’s not the only reason.
I myself am an independent creator. For me it’s writing, independently publishing my books, but also trying to keep my head above water in freelancing. This economy fucking sucks, and it’s getting worse. I got into the adult industry game during the Pandemic, and have watched the industry blow up and become a buyer’s economy. That exact thing happened with the indie author scene a decade ago with the launch of Kindle. With the economic downslide we’re entering now, the market is only going to flood all the more.
I work with independent creators, because that’s what I am. In them I see myself, and through them I learn and develop my own strategies and tactics and broaden my perspective. In their success I see my own. The Pandemic put a hold on my indie author pursuits, but I’m going to be kicking that all off again and a few other things over the next couple of years. I’ll be doing that all on this new knowledge I have, and that’s why this blog set here is not solely written to bump my SEO. This helps me to consolidate my own experience, my own approaches, and I genuinely hope that what I have written here helps to establish your approach in a way I didn’t have when I started out.
I am also constantly explaining a lot of this stuff to new clients, most of whom wind up not going through with things, and thus just wasting my time. Having this here gives me a resource to refer them to. That way if they’re still serious, and not just window-shopping for a kick, we can start our working relationship much closer on the same page.
Another thing I’ll be up front on is that I am probably too expensive for new starters to use regularly. I can help set up your branding, get you a promo vid, maybe a site and so on, but as I say above, it’s better you minimise your costs until you get that initial momentum going. Once you get that though, don’t rest on those shallow laurels. When you start making money, that’s when you spend it, and that’s when you come to me to make that money work to the most effect.
You can check out my services HERE.
There are very few people out there who can cover the range of bases I can cover. You might find a graphic designer, but they can't make videos like I can. I can also develop your branding, your marketing collateral, strip socials from your content, and keep in mind the greater strategy while doing so. Can they also build you a website, one with video/motion graphics backdrops and articulated and targeted SEO? Can they take your produced content, and branding, and promo assets and strategy and redeliver it all through that website, because they have kept that very thing in mind from start to finish? I doubt that. The vast majority of designers cannot extrapolate out like that, and even fewer set it up to do so from word go. The speciality for most Graphic Designers is Graphic Design.
But maybe you do have a better Designer in mind. Okay cool, we can outsource to them for brand and I’ll do the rest. I work with specialists all the time. And we can make sure both their work and mine properly meld and inform each other in the interests of your united brand, for your style, for your audience, catering aesthetically and functionally for your intended actions.
When you get rolling, or if you are rolling already and are looking to re-invest, keep me in mind.
In the meantime, I hope you gained from this, and wish you the best of luck.
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