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Amanda Brooks, a retired escort and author of The Internet Escort's Handbook series, will be on Cult of Gracie radio at 9 pm (central). Since Amanda's second book, Advertising and Marketing: Successfully Creating and Selling Your Image Online, is due out in June, this is an excellent time for you Marketing Whore readers to listen ~ and call in. If it's anything like her first book (NWS), it

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In Reality Check: Dealing With Assholes, Radical Vixen answers the question, "How do you deal with asshole clients?" It's for phone sex operators; but there's gold for any business owner ~ working on the phone or not. In Rant: Strip clubs are for customers, not dancers, the SEXhobbyist gives a reminder just who the business is for. Along with clues for strippers, there are reminders for

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Wired's Paul Adams asks, Is Captcha's Moment Passing? Recently, though, the various most popular Captcha implementations have been cracked. Bots with character-recognition ability have gotten pretty reliably good at figuring out what the distorted text says. That means they can sign up for Gmail, Yahoo, and Windows Live accounts automatically, and use those accounts for their own malicious

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Just caught another one of those Domino's pizza commercials ~ from the "what are you gonna do in 30 minutes?" campaign. In this one, a guy makes a poster of the delivery guy with a unicorn, to which the delivery guy says, "Nice unicorn." In another, a trio of guys practices lame Brooklyn accents ~ which the delivery guy even pronounces are lame accents. In another, a guy has burned off his

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I was recently interviewed on XBN (NWS), a radio program run by SWOP East, which is powered by Blog Talk Radio. Not only was it fun, prompting me to schedule another interview (perhaps even host a show), but the experience resurrected talk of Sex-Kitten.Net radio. For a few years we've been discussing starting a radio show, but along with the investment costs (equipment, time and additional

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I'm going to be on XBN: Sex Worker Rights Broadcast Network, on Saturday, April 5th at 9 p.m. (central). XBN is a SWOP East Media Project, and I'm really proud to be asked. I'd love it if any of you called in...

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Cory Silverberg, About.com's Guide to Sexuality, posted Conference Explores the Intersection of Feminism, Social Media, and Sexuality: There are so few safe public spaces for people to explore, challenge, and share their thinking about sexuality that whenever I hear about a new conference giving people a chance to come together and talk about sex my heart lightens a little bit. Sex 2.0 is a one

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The best of this week's blogs by the bloggers who blog them. Highlighting the top 3 posts as chosen by Sugasm participants. All links are to be considered NWS! Want in Sugasm #126? Submit a link to your best post of the week using this form. Participants, repost the link list within a week and you're all set. This Week's Picks Filling Myself "We too want, need, conversations in which someone

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1) My dear friend, Libby, has started Red Light District Chicago, "Sex workers making media so the media doesn't make us." (In case you don't understand the need for this, here's some background: The Importance Of Sex Worker Made Media.) (NWS) 2) Dee Stewart has tips on How to Breathe Life Back into Your Blog. 3) Amber Rhea quit writing at Download Squad; can't say I blame her one bit. I

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Clearing off my desk (finally) after the weeks of being held hostage by the flu, I discovered these promotional pieces grabbed from my trip to vote in the local Democratic caucus back in February. While I won't go on about my political beliefs (or what candidate I voted for), I have a few comments to make about the candidates' political literature. These were the only two take-away pieces

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In Bad ways to use your rights (and the links therein) Val Gryphin discusses what happens when authors publish their stories and original written works at their blogs. She cautions: There is no such thing as "pre-publishing," and posting your work online gives up your first rights. You do not have to be paid to give up your first rights! All that has to happen is your work be printed in a

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Roxanne Rhoads tells us how Erotica was insulted in Writer's Digest (NWS): Mr. Vaughn interviewed a romance agent for information about the romance genre, a Steven Axelrod who supposedly has been a romance agent for over 30 years. (Obviously not a very good one if he knows nothing of the hot, hot, hot market of erotica). Axelrod is quoted as saying "You give a group of romance writers a couple of

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This post from CNN Money, Firms that actually pay bloggers (a bit) focuses mainly on Associated Content, one of Google's babies. One of the more intriguing approaches to this model is Associated Content, a site backed by Google's (GOOG, Fortune 500) North American advertising chief Tim Armstrong and hatched by his former college roommate, Luke Beatty. What sets three-year-old Associated apart is

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In Compartmentalize, or you'll get 20 lashes! (unless you're into that sort of thing) the always wonderful Amber Rhea talks about why 'sex' is really a dirty word online, exposing (some of the many) tricks deployed against any honest discourse regarding intercourse. Especially if you are a woman. I know I've talked about this before ~ and no doubt shall again & again; but now you get to hear

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Annual Good For Her Feminist Porn Awards: Why do the Feminist Porn Awards exist? As Annie Sprinkle famously said, "the answer to bad porn isn't no porn. It's more porn!" Good For Her couldn't agree more. We all know that the world is inundated with cheesy, cliche, degrading, no-budget, patronizing and stupid porn. But we also believe that erotic fantasy is powerful stuff, and that women and

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In the Ford Sync ads people are so use to giving commands to the Microsoft Auto software that they forget that not everything works that way, with comical results: I have to wonder if this campaign isn't backwards... Like the old rule of showing positives and benefits, avoiding the negatives, this ad campaign is unsettling to me. Wouldn't it make more sense to show the harried parent, the

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We've heard before that Social networkers turn into social sellers ~ at least that's the dream; that word of mouth, from friend to friend, one trusted person to another, will promote your product or service for you. But this story is specifically about a new Facebook application: BSocial Networks Inc. has launched Market Lodge, a system designed for Facebook that enables the social network's

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I don't know why I do this to myself, but occasionally I look in at message boards/forums where folks ask questions, hoping pros will appear and help them make money with their businesses. Right now I'm not too clear on why I do it... It's not like I've ever read anything from a pro there that seemed anything other than superficial. And what's worse (and likely the reason why no serious advice

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I don't often rant enough about sex work in the media. Here or anywhere. But Friday night's 20/20 two-hour nightmare, Prostitution in America: Working Girls Speak, has me foaming at the mouth. (That link is NWS; but this one is, should you need a safer site to read at.) I urge you to read it ~ and not just because I wrote it. Even if you do not consider yourself a sex-worker, you should

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A few weeks ago, Sara Winters (who dared to call me disappearing!) mentioned the ability to schedule posts using Blogger: 4. For the lazy blogger in all of us: Draft.blogger.com. Why am I highlighting this (since I'm posting on blogger and, presumably, so are most of the people who would respond to this)? 1. Because Google doesn't feel it necessary to tell people about things they're changing/

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Taking issue with Inc.com's Your Websites: Age-Old Problems; New Age Solutions... I'll just simply say that numbers 1 & 3 are those good old-fashioned (in web terms) 'sticky' tactics; and unless they are related to your product or service you've got little reason to employ them rather than written content which addresses questions & interests which move them to purchasing. I'd bet that the

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1) Copyright & legal issues for zines ~ including webzines ~ at ZineBook. 2) 50 Social Sites That Every Business Needs a Presence on: Naturally, I disagree that every business needs a presence on these sites ~ nor is is possible/polite to be there if you run an adult business; but it's another country heard from. 3) No wonder you're confused: Every Piece of Startup Advice is a Lie (including

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1) Violet Blue with coverage of sexual privacy and SXSWi. 2) Three Wise Guys on those strange outside bathtubs in erectile-dysfunction ads. 3) Just what is the big deal about sex? 4) Bombshell Betty starts a series on getting paid to perform ~ keep an eye on it for more. 5) One of my favorite perfumes is Shalimar. Reformulated, re-released, but never the same. Want to give your own

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1) A Dress A Day shows you there IS such a thing as bad publicity, which is so right-on regarding poor email releases & contact that many of you who have been so horridly pitched will find yourself saying, "OMG, yes!" That link was found at 2) bits and bobbins, where she re-caps the "don't"s for you. 3) While we're at it, check out Pop Tart's rants about bad companies ~ are you guilty of

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1) Astute observations on Asian lingerie marketing by Slip of a Girl. 2) Silent Porn Star talks about (some of the) marketing intangibles (post is OK, but the site is likely deemed NWS). 3) Val Gryphin's post last week contained this relevant marketing high-five: The article Five Easy Ways to Build Sustainable Word-of-Mouth, which is a response to Joan’s Top 10 Tips for Free Publicity. Both

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