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Archive for May, 2008
No Pussy on Facebook
I am very happy that many of you are jumping on the social media train. Many savvy sex workers and adult industry business people are using it effectively to network with others in the adult industry, but some people are misusing it.
Social media has a place in adult business, it is for networking, promoting your books, educating mainstream audiences and developing new concepts. Anyone who uses them is very careful about content. They don’t put racy photos on it or link it to escort sites.
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Background: Adult Marketing & The Rest of The World
When it comes to marketing, search engine optimization and web design, it seems there is ADULT and the rest of the world. There appears to be no real correlation and there are many mainstream marketers who make fun of “supposed adult online/SEO marketers.” They don’t take us seriously and think that the only SEO & marketing techniques we are privy to are link scams and black hat techniques. Well that is not true.
Standards: Adult Marketers Define New Online Marketing Strategy
There are marketers, such as myself, that do not come from strictly adult backgrounds. We are successful mainstream marketers and have advanced degrees in business, design and entertainment. We have refined our design and marketing approaches to become the culmination of our adult & mainstream skills. By utilizing a holistic approach to our marketing strategy, we are redefining what adult marketing is and we are now setting the standards for how mainstream marketers conduct campaigns. Porn is no longer just porn, its adult entertainment with many different outlets. There is erotic film made by women for women and there is specialized “kink” that caters to specific fetishes. Those mediums don’t fall under the traditional definitions of porn and they are not sub-sects or off-shoots of it. They are their own form of adult entertainment. Mainstream marketers have always used sex to sell products. You want to be accepted, you want to be hip, beautiful and desired? BUY THIS? Ummm - where did they ever get that idea that sex sells? Most of the sexual concepts or undertones in advertisements today are taken straight from adult content.
A Review of EscortSite.com
I will keep this short and sweet. I have learned through the webmaster grapevine that The Erotic Review and BigDoggie.net are going to be banning all websites in the Rare-Escorts.com group. For the past few weeks, I have seen advertising on Date-Check, BigDoggie and a plethora of other sites for EscortSite.com, a highly customizable “free” escort web hosting service. . EscortSite.com is not something new, it is actually owned and developed by the RARE-ESCORTS conglomerate to step up their appeal. While Some people love them, but I don’t. I created a fake test site and played around with it awhile, just to see how great it would actually be. But to my dismay, it was just a better interface for the same crappy site. Here are my complaints:
An Escort’s Guide to Email Screening
As an escort, your first mode of communication for scheduling appointments with a client is email. For a few, it’s phone (phone ladies - I suggested you got to email).
You can tell a lot about a person through their first email communication to you. If they send an email or submit your request form with all the information on it, you are most like good to go for screening and seeing that person. But if the send you an email that goes something like this:
Every Escort Should Hire Marketing Professionals
I firmly believe that every escort should hire marketing professionals for web design, photography and image development strategy.
Every person who enters the world of escorting knows that is was a growth and learning process. Most likely, they started with a local ad on a free board that turned into a presence on a review board and ultimately became their first paid Eros ad. But this post isn’t for the “newbie” or part-timer. It’s for the seasoned professional who has been in the business for a while.
There are lots of resources - blogs, ladies only forums and books that has tips on how to develop, grow and cultivate your business in to a lucrative endeavor. They are fantastic resources, but they don’t hold the secret to making $250,000 to $500,000 per year.
Do you want to know how the women that make over $200,000 per year do make that sort of money?
They pay for it.
Flash, Search Engine Optimization and Adult Content
As an adult webmistress, blogger and generally geek-loving girl, I always pay attention to the debate on what is the best way to optimize the adult sites and what are the best marketing strategies for adult website owners.
One major question is about the use of Flash in web design and SEO. Most adult marketers think that flash can’t be used and it kills SEO. Well, that only a half truth. You can have a site with a flash lay over that is super duper SEO’d.
Making a flash site that is SEO friendly is not difficult - for someone who knows what they are doing. It takes a time and it takes effort. If you want use Flash, you must use JavaScript to progressively load the Flash content for search engines to index the contents of the Flash files; you must separate content from presentation and behavior.
There are many coding languages, but which one is best is is dependent on the site and its purpose. Just because Flash is COOL, doesn’t mean its better.
You have to think about what the goal of site, what is it supposed to communicate? What is message? Does it fit the medium?
A Day in the Life of A Los Angeleno Escort
Things in my life have been busy and quite hectic - all in good ways of course. Design, writing, marketing - my overzealous drive to move forward and achieve my laundry of list of things was set aside to day. I logged onto Twitter, my most favorite of all social media outlet. I made a post - “I didn’t know it takes 6 hours to get your hair dyed, ironed and your butt flushed.” Amber Rhea responds - “Wow, you should be on WhiteWine.com - Tell me about colonics”. It got me thinking about being a sex worker in Los Angeles.
(The following is meant to be humorous).
There are many myths surrounding the call girls of LA. It is said that they are uppity, only love designer bags and all of them drive at least a five series BMV (the uppity bitch car of choice in LA). It’s believed that the call girls in LA lives a life of leisure, she spends 1/3 of her day at the spa, 1/3 fucking, 1/6 shopping, 1/6 throwing up and and sleeping. But you couldn’t be more wrong! The sex worker in Los Angeles has work harder than any other escort in country (with the exception of maybe New York City). Why? Because we don’t just sit around all day just waiting to have clients fuck our brains out, we have to buy lingerie and run our businesses too! All while looking like we stepped of the cover of Vogue.
Here is what a day is like:
5 AM - Get up and eat oatmeal with berries. Hey, we have to poo on the regular, because we all love Greek (aka Anal Sex) and to always have clean asses.
5:30 AM - We are out the door for our five mile run down Rodeo Drive. We are in a perfectly matched sweat suit, with a push up bra and lacy thong. We run in high heel sneakers, just in case we see a client on a morning jog and he wants to schedule a session for 7AM.
7 AM - Back home from the run, good thing we didn’t see any clients on this trip. We are sweaty and our push up bra is just digging into our new boob job, yeah - we had them done for the third time, they can never be too big.
7:15 AM - We strip and hit the pole that is conveniently replaced the couch in our living room. We have to get “Fergalicious” booty pole work out on in order to keep toned. Tanned and toned, the California requirement. And yes, it has to be a naked worked out, because we masturbate on the pole too. It’s called multitasking Cali-style.
8 AM - Shower! Good, we are stinky and NASTY. The video camera is rolling 24/7 in our shower so you can always watch us shave and wash our kutch. Oh, Thursdays we masturbate again with our shower head. Don’t you know? We utilize every opportunity for porn and masturbation - it’s California!
8:30AM - We have two apples and start drinking the recommended amount of daily water - half our body weight - which for most women is 90 lbs, so that means 45 oz. of water.
Did you know I am the fat girl at every event I go to. I am 128 lbs and a size 6, I am FAT. I need to not eat for a month or two! I can then fit into the standard 0-2-4 size range that is acceptable.
9 AM - We are on our trendy MAC computers, blackberry/iPhone (depending on hip you are) charged and are ready to HO. Most of us prefer prebooked dates, but we are on that email, we don’t miss a dollar.
9:15 AM - We review our schedules for the day and it goes like this:
10 AM - Get ready for first client, just enough clothing to be removed in under two minutes. Make-up and hair.
11AM - Client arrives, we look fabulous in our 5 inch heels.
11:20 AM - Client booked our two hour minimum, since we all have two hour minimums and are $800-1000. But after seeing our purple push-up, 5 inch hooker heels and sexy little slinky, thing. He said, “Leave the shoes” and proceeded to rip everything else off. Hey, we don’t care, we shop at Victoria’s Secret on a daily basis.
Breasts heaving he bends us over and pulls something that is reminiscent of Angelina Jolie in Original Sin. He thanks us and schedules next week.
11:30 AM - Quick bank run and off to Victoria’s Secret. We can’t buy the expensive stuff unless they pay for it, ripping Agent Provocateur is blasphemic in LA. That’s couture bitch!
12:30 PM - Off to the Colon Hydrotherapist, we need our asses flushed, oatmeal isn’t enough.
1:30 PM - We need to see the stylist, because in LA we get our hair done professionally twice per week, we don’t know how to do it ourselves.
3 PM - Nails at our favorite ANP - No not AMP, ANP - Asian Nail Place
4 PM - Off to our Thai masseuse. We need to be loose and nimble.
5PM - We eat a $60 dollar dinner at Juliano’s Raw. No girl in California eats dairy, meat, non-organic, wheat or anything else that is remotely tasty. And besides, we all love Juliano, he is the one man in LA with more Coach or Louis Vuitton than us!
7PM - Get Ready for Date. Red - “I am fucking whore” dress. Stiletto - Jimmy Choo of course and expensive bag. The nightly hooker bag is on the floor ready to go, just like the family emergency kit. Dildo, Condoms, Bondage Straps and Nipple Clamps - OH MY.
9PM - We are at (Insert 4-5 Diamond hotel here). We meet “John” the investment banker at the bar. After pretending to pick up the hot chick, we head back to his room where the dress and is ripped off, titties busting out and we are bent over a chair.
John spends 20 minute licking our pussy through our g-string and then “allows us to take it off”. He is harder than a rock. We tie our hair back with the the g-string (multi-purpose) and show John our morning Fergie strip routine. John opens the curtains. Of course! Voyuer. We briefly flash back to how many times we have fucked in front of “HOLLYWOOD” sign. We jump on and ride him cowboy style. John climaxes, hell we do too, just because we get off by him getting off.
As John rests, we pull out our bag of tricks, slowly laying out options for the next romp. His eyes light up. He looks at the nipple clamps and whip.
We say, “Have you been a bad boy?”
He says, “Oh Yes.” in a quivering voice.
We spend the next hour punishing this bad boy.
12 AM - We are out the door, ripped dress in the ho bag, back up dress on.
In the elevator on the way down, we put on our flats. Hell, we have been in hooker shoes all day.
But that’s how we roll in LA - Absolutely Fabulous 24/7. Money In/Money Out. We can’t wait for tomorrow’s lingerie trip.
Yeah - we only sleep 4 hours per day. So you see our lives are actually quite hard.
Delving into The Adult Industry
Facebook, Stumble Upon and Twitter have been invaluable to me in making new contacts, finding people to work with and even getting some “special requests” (insert evil grin and snort here). I am surprised at the amount of mainstream men and women who want to work on the business side of the industry. I am talking about design, eCommerce, DVD authoring, writing, direction, development, etc. The trend that I saw emerging a few years ago is really starting to take hold, adult work is not taboo, it is a coo. So get involved!
This post is for anyone interested in the Adult Entertainment Business and need to do the research, the following sites will help you discover the adult world and find out if developing a career in it is right for you.
Note: These are my choices and industry standard. There is a lot of crap and get rich quick out there, that is not the goal for a successful, lucrative adult business.
The Writing Process
Wow - writing this blog is a process at times. Not because I don’t enjoy it or it’s hard, but because of all thoughts that come flooding into my mind when I find a great point. I have to cut out entire paragraphs and save them as word documents because they deserve more attention than just a paragraph or a side idea that delutes a blog. I realize a lot in this industry has been talked about, but there are still so many areas that haven’t been talked about. So if anyone has ideas or requests, stick a comment on this post. I will do my best to write and answer it.
Callie
Sex Work, Escort Burn-Out and The Economy
As an adult webmistress and sex blogger, I read than most people on the planet in order to keep up on multiple industry segments, look for trends and know what issues are most important to active sex workers.
Right now, the discussion lies on the economy, a softer working market and pricing. Women want to know if other escorts are suffering business slow down and if they should drop their rates in order to make ends meet. But I don’t think this should be the focus, I see an alarming trend that I have found from reading between the lines that girls are living off savings and compromising their values/safety in order to keep their homes, feed their kids or just live.
Here is what I say: STOP. STOP right there.