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Originally Posted by MikeSmoke
The short answer: Yes, there is money to be made.
The longer answer: Yes, there is money to be made *if* you take the time to research and understand the niche. People who are into smoking are very particular about what they like --- and it's not like just throwing up some pics of girls with big tits along with some generic text --- a photo or video of a girl holding a cigarette, or a girl puffing out some smoke she didn't inhale isn't going to get you much of anywhere. If you spend the time to learn the difference between a french inhale and a snap inhale --- and even better, if *you* find smoking women sexy and can write text that reflects that, then yes, there is money to be made :-)
(BTW Dan, most DVD's we've seen put out by people who aren't *fully into* the smoking fetish market, aren't anything that people with a smoking fetish would be interested in - and quite honestly, the profits to be made on smoking DVDs are much smaller than in more well-known niches. I once told a model's agent that if we sold 300 copies of her DVD we'd be thrilled, and he said "300,000 units? That's fantastic!" And I said, "um, no.......300 copies." Admittedly, we only sell by mail to our existing base, and don't have retail distribution deals, but smoking DVDs don't sell a lot of copies. The market is much more online-based.)
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The makes a lot of sense the two DVD's that were released were called Smoking Sirens by Brittany Andrews and Suck and Smoke by Grego. They both sold around units, which to them was horrible as it didn't even cover their costs. They were selling them the old traditional brick and motor way via a distributer, who sold to wholesalers, who sold to stores.
I feel that if you sell direct to the consumer via the net, or mail order that this could be profitable.