I felt the need to write about BEING IN CONTROL of your own "OFFICIAL WEBSITE" today due to a VERY DISTURBING trend I've noticed in the emails I've received since launching www.gettingintoporn.com
A little over a quarter of the emails I'm receiving are from MEN (I'm not a man hater, however GettingIntoPorn.com specifically says that it's primarily a free resource for WOMEN - as I don't really know much about the male side of performing) and many of these men either already fall into the "Pimp" or "Wannabe Pimp" category of which I outline under the "Porn Industry Problems and Dangers" section of www.GettingIntoPorn.com
Here's an excerpt from a recent email:
I'm kinda getting started in a weird adult career - advising entertainers on how to maximize their income - not through management, but simply coaching. It's nice to see a site like this as a resource not only for girls getting their start, but also as a way for more established girls "with blinders on" to see some additional options/choices they can make to keep a career going longer, transition to other things, and just generally be more aware of what goes on.
And of course, for me, I love it, since it confirms a lot of what I've been advising my clients, and also helps me understand things better as a relative "outsider" - I initially worked only with strippers, so I feel like I'm coming a bit late to the game on the adult acting side of the house.
Anyway, keep up the good work, I notice the site is getting a lot of press. And, if you need any help getting the content into a better CMS/organization/design, I'd do the work free.
The man who wrote the above email is a very dangerous person and is obviously a very cocky person who believes that all women , even I, will fall for his "hey I just wanna help you out - oh and for free" line. This man actually believed that I would accept his "help" and just HAND OVER my hosting user name and password and other info for him to redesign and TAKE OVER my website. I DON'T THINK SO.
To all the women out there - NO ONE IS REALLY WILLING TO HELP YOU FOR FREE. THEY (or anyone else) WILL EITHER ALWAYS WANT SOMETHING IN RETURN OR THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE "HELPING" YOU IS TO HAVE CONTROL OVER YOU.
DON'T BE A VICTIM LADIES!!!!!!!
I don't think people have ANY IDEA as to how many women in the porn industry have had people "volunteer" to build their official websites "free of charge", and then DISAPPEAR. I just had drinks yesterday with a fellow "pornstar" that this has happened to. Oh, and to make it worse she's never seen a DIME from her website which is STILL ONLINE and attracting memberships for SOMEONES NETWORK!
Many men TARGET attractive women (from exotic dancers to porn stars) and pretend to be their friend to develop their website, but then they CLAIM that the site isn't making money (cause they are keeping all the money for themselves and not reporting the actual earnings to the girl) OR they hold the site "hostage" to keep the girl around and/or force the girl to pay the guy more money than the site is worth to attain ownership of the domain/site content. Some guys go as far as to skip town with the website info and content. It's getting BAD out there.
Lets face some facts here, unfortunately most women who get into the adult entertainment world are not computer savvy - not because these women are not smart, but simply because they most likely haven't been heavily exposed to the world of technology.
If you are one of these women, I STRONGLY SUGGEST you buy a $400 to $600 dollar laptop that has software installed on it such as Adobe Photoshop and Publisher (or save some money and order one online via www.TigerDirect.com or a website of the like ) and then buy a book like "HTML for DUMMIES". YES IT IS HARD WORK BUT YOU CAN DO IT.
And if you find yourself overly frustrated and not able to do it - HIRE A LEGITIMATE COMPANY that you have researched (and actually has a decent portfolio) to build your website. That way you OWN YOUR SITE and are making money from it rather than some wanna be loser pimp.
When you start an "official website" for yourself the domain name needs to registered in YOUR NAME and so does the hosting. You need to make sure you have the username and password to your payment processing interface AND your hosting account (server space). You need to retain physical posession AND ownership of ALL YOUR CONTENT.
Anyone or any company that does not give you control of the vital keys (that I just outlined above) to your Official Website is AN ASSHOLE & wannabe pimp/scammer and NOT TO BE TRUSTED.
My new website/business www.XXXsimplesites.com will be launched soon of which I will be assisting women start their own official websites for a very reasonable price of which THE PERFORMER IS IN CONTROL OF EVERYTHING , so stay tuned for that, but in the mean time - BE CAREFUL!
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