Exotic Gold: Recession? What Recession?
When it comes to Asian ladyboy (transsexual) sites, ExoticGold.com is truly the “gold standard.” Its flagship site LB-69.com is a proven winner in terms of content quality and variety. Building on LB-69.com’s success, ExoticGold.com’s Rami has launched ExtremeLadyBoys.com, ShemaleNova.com, and BlackBrazilianShemales.com – plus the solo ladyboy sites Areeyasworld.com and www.Longmint.com.So why has Rami launched an actual solo *girl* site with a model named Jade, under the URL www.dirtyasianslut.com?
“During our travels through the region we very occasionally run across a girl who is just as dirty and perverted as our ladyboys and photographers, and on this occasion we decided to giver her an audition,” he replies. “She turned out to be amazing on camera and we couldn’t think of a single reason not to make her own site.”
Breaking into straight porn isn’t a stretch, Rami insists.
“We have been successful by trying new and different things,” he tells YNOT. Com. “We were one of the first companies to break our stars from LB-69.com out into solo sites and they have been massively successful. We were one of the first companies to put together a truly hardcore ladyboy site with our ExtremeLadyboys.com.”
But how can ExoticGold.com afford to launch new sites during a recession?
“Well, this is a tricky question since nobody in porn ever wants to talk real numbers, but it looks like 2009 will be one of our most profitable years,” he says. “Year over year sales will not be up but we’re doing well.”
The reason that ExoticGold.com is doing well is because “while overall daily sales may have slipped, we have added sites and used the recession as a tool to reduce expenses with vendors and inspire our employees to work harder than ever,” Rami says. “We keep finding new ways
to profit from our existing traffic, plus we added webcams into our sites and are selling other sites to our customers as well. We have a great team that is very dedicated to our sites, our resellers and our customers and we’ve been able to survive thus far.”
Rami is extremely picky about what he posts on his sites.
“We don’t shoot every model we can, we are picky and since at our core we are ladyboy lovers ourselves, we know what real fans desire,” he explains. “We strive to make sites that we ourselves would feel happy paying for. Giving customers a good site that delivers on its promise at a fair price is now more rare than ever. We have always done it and always will.”
As for the future? Despite the higher profile of shemale porn in the mainstream media, Rami expects shemale content to remain niche-oriented.
“I don’t think that something as exotic and edgy as shemale content will ever go mainstream,” he says. “If you look at the largest mainstream sites, you still see the most tame stuff being popular. This is the way it is with any product, you have what the masses like and you have what the knowledgeable expert likes. It takes a certain amount of education to find and appreciate shemales, and that is the core of our business.”
Finally, Rami makes a promise: Despite his company’s foray into straight porn, “we at Exotic Gold will never lose sight of our roots. Exotic Asian content is our core business and we do it better than anyone else in the world. Our new product offering DirtyAsianSlut.com is an extension of our brand, not a new direction.”