A Gadget For Good: Why You Should Love Windows Vista, Even If You Are Still With XP

So you want to know what is going to be the next big thing in the world of porn. And you want to know it first in order to jump in the train before it goes too fast. Unfortunately, i can’t help you, because i don’t know that myself. At the end of the day, we are never sure of what is gonna be the next big thing until that train is already passing under our nose at high speed. Intuition is what lets some lucky people to be ready to jump in that train before they even hear the noise of it approaching. So, all i can do, and i will do it happily, is to share my intuition about something with you and to leave it to you if it’s a good one or a bad one.

But, let’s start from the goods carried by that train. What if you could potentially reach 200,000,000 users with your adult products and services? I know…there is the Internet which gives you already the chance to reach 1 billion of potential customers. But what if i told you that those 200,000,000 of users would not have to find your services and products surfing the web? What if i told you that they would have them right in front of their eyes all day long, with no spamming whatsoever, that they would love to interact and would interact with them and that they would even market them for you through viral marketing for free?

Welcome to the world of Windows Vista and its Sidebar Gadgets capabilities! The new Windows Vista, although it has been released with a streak of bugs as per Microsoft tradition, it was already installed in 40,000,000 of personal computers at the beginning of April and it is estimated to be on 200,000,000 of PCs by the end of the year. The new Microsoft OS comes with a new feature called Sidebar which is a resident side-bar (lol) on the desktop helping users to organize theit gadgets.

What Are Gadgets?

Gadgets are easy-to-use mini programs that give users information at a glance and provide easy access to frequently used tools.
As users use their computer to access information, perform tasks, and interact with software, they may at times feel like they’re facing information-overload. They have to open a web browser just to check the weather, open an application to view their calendar, or, for staying within the adult business, accessing a members area with their browser, in order to check if there have been any updates. Now, with Windows Sidebar and its associated mini-applications called gadgets, the specific information they need is at their fingertips, in front of their eyes, 24/7.

So, How Can Gadget Benefit Me?

Let me talk about how they benefit me and my affiliates.
I have developed a gadget which lets users spy on my life 24/7 and lets my affiliates convert their traffic better. If you look at the below picture, you can see how my gadget looks and works alike.

Click Here To See Gadget In Article At Netpond Board

What you cannot see is that users who will click on the picture of the day, on the live shows counter and on the chat icon can be redirected to my website with my affiliates’ AFFILIATE CODE.

Basically, with my gadget i put my promo material with added value (i let them know in real time when i am on chat, on msn, when i have done my last update, when my next live webcam show is gonna happen etc.) directly in the users’ desktop, every day, 24/7.
Althought i am probably the first sponsor in the adult industry to exploit such a marketing tool, this will soon become a standard because of the obvious benefits for both the webmasters and the users: the users can literally spy on their favourite chicks life and even get free content directly on their desktop: think about it…users sits in front of their computer and get to know that their favourite pornstar is taking a shower, right now, directly from her or that she is on chat waiting for them to come in and have some cyber…all dressed with some original photographic material and with the chance to click on it and reach the pornstar in chat in a second, straight from their computer desktop…what a powerful marketing tool is that for a sponsor!

On the other side, webmasters can equally, greatly benefit from it: think of building a gadget, as i did, that carries a webmaster affiliate code, every time a user interact with it and visits the model website, or her chat room or looks at the photographic material. The webmaster has just to promote the gadget, forgetting updates and sales text, because all that will be taken care by the sponsor and shot directly in front of the user on their windows desktop: all the webmaster has to do is to offer the free download of the gadget from their websites. Once the users have downloaded it and added it to their Windows Vista Sidebar, it stays there, 24/7, until the users decide to eventually uninstall it. If you are a webmaster reading this, i am sure that you are already seeing the greatness of such a promo tool also from a cookies point of view, aren’t you

But that’s not all: think viral! No matter if you are a sponsor or a webmaster, your users will be allowed to redistribute the gadget online and to their friends freely. This means that the gadget with your affiliate code will reach a much larger audience than the one that you have at your websites!

The possibilities are endless and only your fantasy can limit them. If you want to know how a Gadget technically works and how to build one, you may want to have a look at

http://microsoftgadgets.com/Sidebar/DevelopmentOverview.aspx

and
http://www.odetocode.com/Articles/463.aspx

I can anticipate that Microsoft have done a pretty great job about it and that the basic development and deployment is pretty easy, if you know basic html and if you know how to zip-compress a file and a directory. Of course, in order to build a dynamic Gadget with some neat features and which updates on-the-fly can be a bit more complicated and it requires some knowledge of PHP and Java or other script languages. I hope that this has
been useful and don’t hesitate to contact me to let me know what you think about it.

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About The Author

SabrinaDeep

Owner of the Program Located At http://www.deepsabrina.com/webmasters.html

And it is a first rate program at that with content found no where else ao be sure you check it out.

I’ve been told by a number of managers of HUGE affiliate programs that 95% of their sales come from their top 25 (or fewer affiliates). When you consider the fact that some affiliate programs have thousands, even tens of thousands of affiliates, that’s actually pretty sad!

The fact is that most affiliates join an affiliate program, and then do nothing. Why is that. It’s generally because being a great affiliate marketer can be hard WORK.

Even the top producing affiliates are not big fans of hard work. They often have insider techniques that they use but don’t discuss with anyone.

So how does an affiliate program manager energize his affiliate force?

Since affiliates don’t like hard work, the obvious answer is to make it easy for them. You do this by providing easy to use tools. For example, if you could have your affiliates just share a video with their lists and website visitors, that’s really easy. Often, they’ll use a tool like this or a branded PDF file, when they wouldn’t use other tools. Part of the reason they’d do that is that often their list members enjoy these info product and don’t seem to notice that they’re being sold.

Video works so beautifully because the prospect isn’t even require to do any WORK. They just sit and watch. We’re all conditioned to watch television and movies. However, many of us have grown to hate reading… it’s too much like work, and reminds us of when we were in school, and often had burdensome reading loads.

If only Camtasia-style videos could be branded easily with affiliate links that then redirected the viewer to the affiliate site, this would be heaven - right.

Well, you can very easily brand Camtasia videos with affiliate urls. There’s absolutely NO reason that every affiliate in your affiliate force can’t be given a personalized (branded) version of your sales-producing videos. That would get a lot more of the hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of affiliates on your team, actually out promoting your products.

The real secrets that you’ve taken advantage of is the facts that:

1) For many affiliates, you really do have to do it for them.

2) You have to make your affiliates feel special. Giving them a video to distribute that has their url embedded accomplishes that. With Camtasia, the video will play, and at the end of the video, deliver your affiliate’s prospect right to the sales page or order form.

4) You need to give your affiliates the tools that they prefer to use. This sometimes differs but video is really hot these days. It’s hot with your affiliates’ customers too, because they don’t have to work… they just sit and watch, and buy

5) Many affiliates worry about protecting their sales. They worry about other affiliates hijacking their links. With branded Camtasia-style video, as the customer is taken to the sales page, you can also “set the cookie.” Depending upon how your affiliate program software is configured, you can prevent that cookie from being overwritten.

Offering your affiliate the easy to use tools that they prefer does one other things - it makes them loyal to YOU. Many affiliates display no real loyalty, and hop from product to product… often going to competing products. If you’re offering a tool like branded video, and your competitors aren’t, your affiliates will stick with your affiliate program.

Ok, so we’ve just covered a few ideas on how to really energize your affiliate force. Doing the things covered above can easily double or even triple your affiliate sales. The key to doing that is taking massive action. Start by learning how inexpensive and easy it is to offer your affilates branded videos. You can do that at: http://williecrawford.com/brander/

About The Author
Willie Crawford has been marketing affiliate, and his own products, over the internet since late-1996. His innovative techniques and total dedication to his customers makes him an in demand mentor! Camtasia video is his favorite tool. Discover how you too can create a flood of traffic with branded Camtasia videos at: http://williecrawford.com/brander/

You know you’ve got a sweet cushy job when you’re making lots of money and not working. Not having to report to a boss, no punching in at the time clock, what can be better right? Does this sound like your kind of job? I’m willing to bet on it. Of course it’s not all bells and whistles, to get to this point you have to put in some work.

No ones going to hand you a magic potion or software and puff you’re set for life, it not that easy but its easy enough. So easy in fact that all you need is a few hours a day and you will be well on your way. In some cases you don’t even need money or a web site.

When people ask me what I do, it’s not always easy to answer. Do you want the long version or the short version I ask? When I get asked how many hours I work, sometimes I say 2-3 hours a day and sometimes I say 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Both answers are the truth, depending on my mood. There is of course the inevitable question of how much money I make. Here is where I just smile and say, “you mean since I’ve been here talking to you?”

So you want to run your own home business, well as you can imagine being your own boss takes discipline. There is no one looking over your shoulder making sure you get the job done but this is both a blessing and a curse. Without discipline you’re doomed to failure. Its great setting my own schedule, but I’ve got a job to do and there’s no one else who’s going to do it for me. The great thing is when you see the fruits of your labor coming in you will want to work more at it than you think. Money is the great motivator and what’s better; working eight hours for your boss or working ten hours for you.

So what do I do? The really short version; I do Internet Marketing. The search engines are my greatest love, it’s a win-win situation. People come to the Internet and my website with needs, my job is to help them find what they want. I’ve had my share of all-nighters in the beginning and still do, you will also. Not because you have to, but because you’ll want to. Simply because in the not so distant future while you sleep at night or you’re off on that great vacation, your computer will still be at work making you money. Now tell me that isn’t a sweet deal.

About The Author
Juan Mendez is a Web Entrepreneur and aspiring writer.

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Photographic camera became a desired consumer item since it became handheld many years ago. As it became digital with no need for film processing, digital camera became even more popular and it is now considered one of the most wanted optical/electronic consumer products.

However buying a digital camera may be a bit difficult due to the many brands and models being offered. After all there are so many features, one has to be sure of his needs in picking the right digital camera. The following tips might of some help:

1 - Price range: It is recommended that you establish a price range you are willing to pay for your new digital camera. Prices can start from bellow a hundred up to thousands of dollars.

2 - Features: Within the price range previously established, check the features available in digital cameras. Make sure it will meet your requirements for your personal or professional goals. You may find features such as zoom, automatic functions, special effects, black & white images, video recording capability and others.

3 - Battery life: Depending upon the places you go, charging the camera`s battery may not be possible. So make sure the battery life will last long enough during your outdoor activities. Also it may be a good idea to have some extra rechargeable batteries, so that that you won`t have to stop using the camera, while the original batteries are being charged.

4 - Memory Storage: Digital photographs are stored in the camera`s memory. Most cameras have built in memory, but it will accept memory card as well, to increase its storage capability. Depending upon the picture resolution, a user can take hundreds of shots, before it exceeds the memory storage.

5 - Image Resolution: Also known as pixel resolution, this is one of the most talked about features in digital cameras. Although 2.0 mega pixels will deliver good photos for any personal and emailing purposes, nowadays digital cameras with 8.0 and above mega pixels (million of pixels) have become a standard feature. The higher the mega pixel resolution, the better it will look the pictures in larger prints. For those thinking about image enlargement, high mega pixel resolution is a must.

6 - Lens: Beware that the zoom feature may be of two kinds: optical and digital. Optical zoom relies on the lens magnification and delivers a good, sharp and clear image. On the other hand, digital zoom is the magnifying of the digital image and produces a less sharp, grainy image. So make sure that the digital camera offers some optical zoom capability. Also look for lens auto focus and image stabilization features.

7 - LCD: LCD screen is a standard feature in every digital camera, and it works for framing the shot beforehand and viewing it afterwards. Look for LCD screen size 2 inches and above for better clear images.

8 - Online Stores: Whenever looking for the best deals in digital cameras, take a look at some trusted internet stores. Since prices are posted in web sites, people may find very easy to compare them, and get the best deals. Also take a look at some auction sites, for new and used digital cameras.

Digital camera has definitely become a very popular consumer product. The easy of taking shots and emailing to friends have really made this item an absolute must-have kind of product. I guess one could say that people found in digital cameras the perfect tool to preserve special moments by sharing digital photos with loved ones, around this ever growing wide web world.

About The Author
Roberto Sedycias has a bachelor degree in Business Administration and over 20 years experience in systems analysis and computer programming. Currently working as IT consultant for http://www.polomercantil.com.br

Another week has flown by and I for one never realized it was going. Traffic comes and goes conversions happen or sometimes they do not. *shrugs* Another day in the biz.
This week for Americans was special. It was 4th of July and for us an excuse to indulge, take a day off from work, eat too much, drink too much, and provide a feast of delicate human flesh for crawling and flying and biting bugs!
Sound like fun?
Well it is not.
In any case the big day dawns, and I roll out of bed just like always right around 7 am. I grab a shower and walk the dog and let my ancient pc warm up during this, as my much needed coffee perks.
All done, I sit down to work in earnest around 8 am.
The board is quiet (good) my servers are more or less functioning. I see no hate mail, or even more disturbing love letters from my blog readers.
Yes indeed, it is shaping up to be a good morning!
It is time for my daily blog posts and happily I sit down to do them…until there is a tap at my door and my sis is there, the convo goes something like this:
Sis: “Good morning it is 4th of July I am making egg salad, potato salad, sausages, brisket, and fajitas! Come help you need to get away from that nasty computer!”
Me: *mumble mumble*…”Busy.”
Sis: “Ok but you really should get out more.” Stomps away.
Something like an hour later another tap at the door.
Now at this point I am in the midst of trying to fix a broken script on one of my blogs and out of patience.
Sis: “Ok the food is nearly fixed just a few touches more, why not come sit out on the porch with us! Aunt Sally is here and Uncle Charlie. I know how much you love them.”
I must interject here with, I don’t like either of them.
Aunt Sally always tells me “You need to settle down and get married. A girl has no business spending all her time in front of a computer. The rays are bad for your complexion and besides what does a woman need to know besides cooking?”
Uncle Charlie smokes too much drinks too much beer, vomited on my living room floor last year and always asks me how much I make a year because he can get me so much more down at the car dealership doing their books, and everyone knows a steady paycheck beats out any get rich fantasies I might have…yeah I really want to come next door for that.
Final point here is, that sitting out on the side porch with relatives I do not care for and half of whom I do not know has never seemed like a grand old time to me.
Me:”Sorry sis something is broken on one of my servers and I really must fix it would you tell them I will come out in a little..k? Pretty please?”
While I tell this half lie my mind is feverishly going over the excuses remaining to me like maybe an exotic disease…no, I had used that one on christmas.
Sis stomps off louder than the last time and slams the door between our houses.
Noon comes and another tap at the door this one I am expecting.
I am in the midst of trying to make a post about two fake lesbians who in those pictures were the closest they would had ever come to licking a pussy. Eww, talk about trying to polish turds!
Sis: “You are coming out. You are coming out now, and I will not wait on you one more second. Get dressed and come make nice.” She continues gaining volume and force as she goes like a snowball.
“I cook, I slave from four in the morning to make it all pretty and impress our guests and you refuse to be polite? I will not tolerate it! Get dressed you have 5 minutes!”
Shades of our mother, Batman!
Ok for those of you laughing at me right now tell me you do not have an insane martyr relative who “gives it all up” for you to make everything nice and to give you (fill in the blank), even if, or especially if you hate (fill in the blank)?
If you don’t, I want to be adopted into your family!
If you do not have an Uncle Charlie who politely or impolitely barfs on your carpet, or as in this year, our daisies on the porch.
If you also do not have an Aunt Sally always willing to tell you exactly what you must do “for your own good’ of course” then I want your family!
Actually I am pretty stubborn and even the martyr thing won’t budge me but…those lesbians did. God I can’t stand fake porn so….
I get up and get on some pretty party stuff so that more skin is exposed for mosquito biting, and a tummy bulge will show if I eat too much and whichever new and almost surely socially inept guy they always bring for me to sit across from, will keep staring until I am ready to crawl under the table.
Sounds like a blast eh?
Into battle I go with a bit of makeup and the vision of those fake lesbians to fortify me.
Stepping out on to her “porch” is an adventure and for a west texas girl and a cultural shock.
It is green. The green hits you in a way that no one who has not spent time in the desert can understand. As you step from the side door and the smell of all her beautifully cultivated flowers wafts to you as well as the tinkle of the little waterfall set in the corner you get the feeling of peace. Hers is an oasis of green sitting in the middle of a parched texas desert. There are even what we in Texas choose to call oaks. A scrub tree only half the size of the real thing but…when in the desert take what you can get!
The surroundings always surprise me and please me, even with long familiarity with them.
My senses are next assaulted by the people and the feeling of peace is fast replaced with a vision of chaos and too many bright colors…all worn by relatives. 20 or more of them crammed into this little sideyard on benches and lawnchairs hogging all the shade they can find and talking a bit too loudly. Seas of relatives in too tight spandex over much too much bare and aging flesh and loud shirts and louder children. Plumes of smoke from both the barbque and various tobacco products burning, sift into my nostrils making my mouth water and then my eyes burn.
Of course Aunt Sally and Uncle Charlie greet me immediately and proceed to introduce me to the geek of the season. The poor guy they have brought presumably to sacrifice on the altar of “Getting Chimera a nice young man instead of those awful computers”.
This year’s offering was a guy some 5 years younger than I who could use several good meals and who had that “far away look” that we get after too too many hours at the computer.
It could be worse I think to myself, one year they brought a bird watcher. Oh that was some fun times….NOT.
Well after excusing ourselves from Aunt Sally and Uncle Charlie and convincing this poor young man that I would not bite him if he talked instead of typing we discussed general topics like “What kind of ram you have in your comp and how big a hard drive and what type of processor and do you use a laptop too for change of location?” I discover in this halting discourse that he is a gamer and me having played one of the games he was currently addicted to could add “Uh huh and you of course brought “fill in the blank” on that awesome raid on LBC right?”
This opened the dams for the strange young man and allowed me to go on autopilot while he filled my ears with tales of his glorious and dangerous excursions into his virtual world.
Man, those lesbians were looking better and better.
So why do I fall into this trap every year and come out and make nice to whatever fellow they have chosen to showcase for me instead of visiting the relatives?
The answer is the alternatives are far worse.
I have vast hordes of cousins who show off their children and make me look though literally hundreds of photos and hear wonderful stories about how successful their husbands are and what a delightful life they have, and don’t I think lavender and verdant green was the perfect color for a bathroom? Oh yes and isn’t it a shame I was stuck with no man? UGH.
Or The Aunt Sally and Uncle Charlie lectures, or time with the kids who toss hotdogs in my hair, trample our flowers, and torment the poor cats.
Yes, whatever young man they have chosen that holiday is way better than those!
Now, as this guy fills one ear with tales of his adventures in Lower Black Rock Spire, I can hear my sister from my other ear saying “Of course she makes good money, she sells fishing rods oh I don’t remember the brand but some guy’s name”.
Whew, I dodged that bullet for now.
“No, she doesn’t do that naughty naked people stuff! What kind of people do you think we are?”
That got a giggle from me. I can’t speak for my devoutly churchgoing sis, but I do know about me. Those lesbians were looking even better with each passing moment. I could surely write something inspired about two over made up, obviously contrived, busty chicks with their tongues 10 inches from any “part” that mattered.
It was just another endless family holiday, and never fails to make me grateful for my job.

Peace

Dozens of Iraqi citizens have been murdered after using the Internet to access adult websites, according to Middle Eastern media reports.

“We have received information from many sources that militants are operating spies inside Internet cafes just to find out who is browsing sites they have deemed offensive to Islam,” Iraqi Aid Association spokesperson Fatah Ahmed said. The IAA is a Baghdad-based nongovernmental aid agency.

According to Ahmed, most of the killings and abductions have happened directly after the victim leaves an Internet café.

“It is very serious because in an Islamic country in which violence is spreading on a daily basis, people search for some entertainment and it is found today only on the internet,” Ahmed said. “There are no places to go, so young people are making friends via chatrooms, which are now also being condemned by Islamic extremists.”

One victim of kidnapping and assault, university student Ibraheem Abdel-Qahar, told Al-Jazeera that he was kidnapped after leaving a café, then blindfolded, transported to what he believes was a house on the outskirts of Baghdad, and then beaten and tortured.

“They told me to take off all my clothes and handcuffed me. They started to beat me and use cigarettes to burn my legs,” Abdel-Qahar said, adding that he was beaten with an iron bar, and forced to drink chicken blood and his own urine.

Abdel-Qahar said that he was desperate, shouting questions at his abusers as to why they were assaulting him.

“After three hours of continuous torture they told me that it was because I was watching non-Muslim sites on the internet,” Abdel-Qahar said.

Following six days of torture, Abdel-Qahar said he was dropped off near his home and told that if he was found surfing adult sites again he would be killed. The perpetrators also advised him to seek salvation in the local mosque.

Makes You Glad You Don’t Live In Iraq Doesn’t It

There are hundreds of stories of how mainstream professionals find their way into the adult business. Most will admit it’s by accident. Renowned litigation attorney Paul Berra is no different. His path into the adult industry certainly was accidental.

As one of the outstanding litigants at the high-profile entertainment law firm of Los Angeles-based Lavely & Singer, Berra successfully represented a number of celebrity clients who found themselves in the embarrassing position of having unauthorized, explicit videos splashed across the Internet.

He repped Rick Salomon when he battled against Paris Hilton and their much-publicized sex tape, helping Salomon acquire property rights when the tape made its Internet debut. Berra has also been involved in a sex tape lawsuit for Colin Farrell and unauthorized videos involving Cameron Diaz and Carolyn Murphy.

Berra currently represents XPays, the company that acquired Internet enforcement rights of the Hilton tape. In 2004, XPays officially obtained selling and marketing rights to the video and subsequently filed copyright infringement lawsuits against several sponsor programs. At present, the Hilton videotape case is still deep in factual investigation. Each of the defendants has been served and Berra is scheduling depositions.

“Because of the proliferation of these videos on the Internet and various adult sites, it forced me to understand Internet law, copyright infringement law, DMCA law and other adult industry issues,” Berra said.

Berra has taken that desire for understanding to remarkable heights. He has recently left Lavely & Singer and opened his own firm in Santa Monica, Calif., that specializes in intellectual property litigation, first amendment litigation, copyright litigation and understanding of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

2257 Specialty
“I also specialize in 2257 issues, the section of the federal law that concerns proper record keeping for adult content,” Berra said. “This area of the U.S. Code is essentially a record-keeping requirement to ensure that people who appear in adult movies are over a certain age. It’s a big issue.”

How did this Detroit-born boy become such a shining legal star? It all began for Berra at the University of Wisconsin Law School. From the moment he graduated in 1996, Berra began successfully litigating cases, spending his first six years as an attorney at a large firm in downtown L.A. Finding general business litigation a bit boring, he moved on to Lavely & Singer and spent the next four years honing his litigation skills with top entertainment clients.

“For me, it’s all about fighting and figuring out ways to solve complicated problems,” Berra said. “Litigation is about finding the most efficient way to solve problems. It is incredibly challenging and I like a challenge. Entertainment litigation is very cutting edge, very high stakes and [is] definitely very challenging.”

Berra has first-chaired a number of jury and court trials, including a complex environmental case against one of the country’s most powerful land use firms, and obtained favorable judgments in each case. He’s argued legal motions of every type in federal and state court, deposed persons from corporate execs to high-powered celebs, and has settled cases both informally and through mediation. And now he’s on his own.

“I decided to leave Lavely & Singer for a number of reasons,” Berra said. “Just not having a boss was a big appeal. Not having to be at work at the same time is also nice but being on my own has allowed me to be flexible as to the types of business I work on. I’m developing business better now. I’m moving more into the adult industry. It’s been a lot of fun and a learning experience for sure.

“The adult business, especially with regard to the Internet, is becoming more and more mainstream. I find it a really good thing to be involved in, not only for business but also in terms of development of law [regarding] privacy rights and intellectual property rights.”

At present, 50 percent of Berra’s clients are adult industry- oriented with the other 50 percent involved in mainstream entertainment. How does he choose a client?

“I’ll take on anybody that I like and, of course, any client that I am confident we can maintain a healthy relationship together,” Berra said. “The kinds of cases I will accept are essentially any type that is not involved in a specialty area like divorce or criminal law.

“As a civil litigator, you can do any number of things, but if you don’t have the necessary experience, such as divorce law, you can’t do well by your client in certain situations.”

Berra does very well by his clients for general business litigation, entertainment litigation as well as intellectual property law and privacy rights issues. His core philosophy is all about the end product.

“First and foremost, I immediately look for reasonable, efficient solutions,” Berra said. “If that doesn’t work, it quickly becomes very aggressive, hard-hitting litigation. I am very mild mannered, but I’ve learned that in order to get results expeditiously, you have to be very up on the issues. You have to spend hours reading law and be very, very aggressive — otherwise you won’t last.”

If his stellar track record is any evidence, Berra is sure to last. His short-term goal is to make sure that his new firm grows and stays healthy. Long term, this competent counselor hopes to become one of the most recognized and respected attorneys in both the mainstream entertainment and adult industries.

“I would also like to be recognized as an expert on Internet law and the various cutting-edge issues that spring up every day,” Berra said. “I want people in the adult business to know me, trust me and have good things to say about me as a lawyer and a person. Someone they’d like to hang out with at events.”

Author , Lisa Dowling

Less than two years ago, Pamela Butkowski was working in mainstream distribution, and wondering how she could get into something new that would take advantage of her marketing background. At the close of 2005, the Cleveland native saw her chance. DVDs For A Buck, an adult DVD program that had been online for two years, was for sale. Butkowski took the plunge.

“It was a music club mold that works off the same basic tenets as the Columbia House Record Club,” Butkowski said. “The big difference is we don’t do contracts, which is what everybody hated about the music clubs. They tied you into a minimum number of purchases, or a lifetime contract of having to buy something every month. We don’t work like that.”

How DVDs For A Buck works is simple. Customers pay a monthly membership fee of $34.95, and new members get a bonus offer, just like the record clubs, in which they receive five movies for a dollar. After choosing which five movies they want, new members receive them in the mail with no shipping charge.

“Then each month they get two movie credits,” Butkowski said, “so they can log into the system and choose whatever movies they want to order with those credits. So no money changes hands, other than the monthly fee. Most movies are one-credit movies, and customers can purchase movies, as well. They’re competitively retail-priced, and they get 40 percent off after the first movie they buy. We charge regular shipping on movie sales.”

Whatever Butkowski is doing seems to be working, because DVDs For A Buck is more profitable than it was under its previous owners. One of the changes she’s made is to bring in movies from a number of new studios that the original owners didn’t have. Customer longevity has increased over the previous ownership, too, according to Butkowski. She thinks her company’s model may be key to its success.

“We’re the only ones using the Columbia House model, where you pick the movies you want and you own them,” she said. “My direct competition is the retailers and video-on-demand, but there are lots of people who want something physical in their hands if they’re spending money.”

Butkowski believes her company appeals to a specific type of consumer, who will continue to buy DVDs as long as the site maintains its advantages.

“If they’re really into buying porn, it’s really a good deal for them,” she said. “For most customers, the $34.95 gives them two movies per month. These movies usually retail at $24.95, so they’re getting $50 worth of movies with no shipping charge.

“The other upside to the club is that it’s physical product. I think watching porn on the computer sucks. I have to screen a lot of movies on my laptop, and it makes me think, if you want to watch porn, do you really want to watch it on a computer? Besides, a lot of people out there still don’t have the ability to watch it on a computer. They’re still on dial-up and their computers don’t have the capability. My family is back in Cleveland, and their DSL service drops out all the time. They’ve only got a choice of two DSL providers, and they’re both terrible. I don’t know how people back there get any work done, let alone watch porn on their computers.”

Since taking over DVDs For A Buck, Butkowski has modernized the site to make it more customer-friendly, as well as more profitable.

“We have an algorithm built into our program that looks at the niche the customer likes, and looks at all the purchases that customer has made,” she said. “Then it compares that to what we have in our database, which that customer hasn’t yet ordered. That way we can customize our offers, and that makes it a little more dynamic.”

Although she feels that the adult retail stores remain her main source of competition for DVD sales, Butkowski is certain that her site holds one undeniable advantage over them: privacy.

There are still many consumers, especially women, who are not comfortable buying product in a store, where there is so much visibility.

“We have a lot of customers that order transsexual movies, and those people are generally men,” she said. “That’s not exactly something they’d feel comfortable buying in a store, so this is a way somebody can get what they want discreetly. We mail it to them in a plain brown box, which is also discreet.

“We don’t sell out our mailing list, and we also don’t pass customer information to other sites.”

The Author John Stuart

So what have I to say this week? Not all that much webmastering (mistressing in my case) is hard work however as I mentioned last week it is always good to take time for your family. Even if it doesn’t expand your empire it does keep them from emailing, calling and banging down your door to see if you are still breathing. Following my own good advice I have a meal with my sister twice a week sometimes more.
Last Tuesday my sister asked the “Big Question”. You know the one I mean? It comes between “Please pass the peas” and “Do you want more tea”.
Yes, the “Exactly what is it you sell?” question. A question dreaded by those among us who have less than understanding families and communities.
Please understand, I am not a really good liar. As a matter of fact I am a terrible liar and my sister is a very intense church going person.
So my answer had to be something other than “Well sis, I look at naked people all day and write about them”.
The first thing out of my mouth was “Oh a lot of stuff but mostly fishing equipment”.
Bad choice I know zip about fishing but it was all that came to mind.
Silence reigned at the table for a little while and then she says “Well I am glad you have found something you love but,why fishing equipment and what kind?”
Errm yes… My mind was blank right around then and I blurted out. “Well, I sell poles big fishing poles and I write about stuff ..you know stuff like how they fit in your hand if they have a good reach. Though sometimes I sell drills and screwdrivers… You know stuff..”
“Oh she says what kind of fishing stuff, like zebco or one of them?” I can tell she is looking for something that is familiar to her.
“No says I, actually mostly the Ron Jeremy brand of pole”…She dropped the subject but I dread the day when she asks who Ron Jeremy is from someone who knows.
That is just a small and lame example of the kind of “half truths and untruths” we who sell porn must tell our family or in my case face an exorcist.
However there also exists a second kind of adult webmaster one who also sells porn with the full cooperation and sometimes collaboration of their significant other. I have a couple of friends on netpond in just such a situation. They market both adult and mainstream programs and both work full time in the industry. Now then the situation gets pretty amusing.
For instance, the girlfriend tells me the other morning they were working on some new sites. In order to write effectively we all know you end up viewing a number of videos and pictures from any sponsor you are promoting. She hears her boyfriend muttering nearby at his computer. Listening closely she realizes he is talking to himself. “Man spackle, baby batter, choad, love nectar…” She realizes he must be working on a cumshot and turns back to her computer.
Dinner table conversation in their home consists of:
“Dear, conversions are down on twinks this month, do you think we should push more traffic to big dicks?”.
“Honey would you look at my horny sluts site and let me know if I need more pussies?”
“Sweetheart you should let me make the big tit sites from now on or we are going to have to replace your keyboard. You keep drooling on it.”
Errm they are pretty funny couple to talk to.
I think my point, if I had a point here today is, if you must lie don’t tell them you sell a porn star’s pole.
Don’t let your boyfriend do the big tit sites even if he writes killer text!
Thank you Lucky and Biz for letting me share some of your personal life and I promise not to tell anyone about the time Lucky and you did all that research on….

Peace

Restaurants will never go out of business. Sure, some places have way too many and individual ones might suffer from stiff local competition as a result, but the business of satiating this basic human need to eat ensures that they will always be around to meet it.

Some women would argue, probably quite rightly, that men are driven by two basic emotions – hunger and sex. Having briefly covered the former, let us examine the latter in more detail.

Forget cocaine, nicotine and caffeine – testosterone is the drug to which most men are addicted. And unlike other drugs, we have a constantly renewing supply of this potent stimulant with us at all times.

When God (of your own understanding) created us, our primitive brains were hardwired to go forth and multiply. Monogamy is not in our nature. Simply put, we have been pre-programmed to fuck as many women as possible.

However, in the real world, despite our deep-rooted desire to do so, this is not always possible – particularly for those of us that have elected for the road of being in a committed monogamous relationship, which is why porn is such a powerful stimulant and fills the void left by not being able to realize these carnal desires. It might not be as good as the real thing, but the theatre and illusion that is porn goes a long way to help meeting that enormous global demand fueled by the pent-up frustration of not able to do what comes naturally when we want, and with whom we want.

CNN might claim that America is addicted to porn, but it misses the point; The U.S., and indeed the world, is addicted to doing what we were created to do: the desire to procreate is firmly embedded on our hard drives, with no delete option available.

Were porn to be outlawed outright, you can be rest assured that these powerful instincts would manifest themselves in ways that would be far more harmful to the society that it is allegedly corrupting.

Governments may try, but the underlying global architecture of the Internet makes it very difficult to censor in its entirety. You all have access to a global audience, and given that non-English language hosts now out-number English ones, steadfastly sticking to English during the sales-pitch is robbing you of potential income.

But given the sheer choice of adult material out there on the web, surfers are often reluctant to “commit” to a contractual relationship. After all, if he pays for sex in the real world, he is not obliged to visit the same prostitute the next time he feels these urges, so why should he in the virtual one?

This is part of the reason our phone billing is proving to be so popular with surfers. A simple phone call is all it takes to get “satisfaction.” No awkward forms, no digital trial, just quick, convenient and anonymous instant gratification for the surfer, with no commitments. Combine this with a call-to-action in the surfer’s native language, and you have a global website and instant new revenue steam thanks to a payment device that the entire world has – a phone.

Since the yield-per-password sold is less than that of a monthly subscription, you simply give them less time. If you have compelling content, there is a good chance that the surfer will come back and pay you again this way the next time he needs his fix – probably since you gave him the option not to commit in the first place.

Pitching a $29.90 monthly credit card subscription to the majority of the world who do not have one is an exercise in futility – which is why you can now direct traffic from countries such as Brazil, Russia, India and China to a geo-IP version of your site for you and your affiliates to promote separately to help meet that constant global demand.

Going global will ensure that you have the edge in an increasingly competitive market. The need for sex, be it for real or virtual, remains a basic human instinct which transcends all races and religions and, like hunger, is truly universal.

About The Author
Marc Jarrett password-by-phone.com

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