Archive for 2008

Escort Agencies should NOT be charging startup fees

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

No escort agency should ever charge an escort fees other than the usual commission charge once they actually receive a call.

I’m hearing too often that escort services in the UK are ripping off unsuspecting newbie escorts by charging them a startup fee.

Then the escort gets no calls and the scam escort agency gets away with stealing.

If you have experienced this, please post the name of the escort agency, their city, State/Province, Country, URL, phone number and contact name(s) so other escorts can be forewarned.

Thank you

Michelle

Virtual Vocations

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Virtual Vocations
http://www.virtualvocations.com/
[email protected]

Virtual vocations provides a list of virtual work from home positions & being an online company, we have several of those we need to fill.

The customer service department asked me to forward our hiring ads to them & they would post our online positions, so I did. Here’s our open positions if you care to read them…

That is when I get an e-mail from Laura Spawn telling me that they won’t accept our ads because we are an adult site.

So once again, right wing religious fanatics decide to play god & make the choice of discriminating against honest ethical company by banning ALL adult sites.

They don’t trust their independent contractors enough to let THEM make the decision about whether they wish to apply for the positions, they are judge & jury & they decide what is best for the public.

Once again, people who don’t think other people have a brain in their heads to make their own decisions.

I wouldn’t want to be involved with control freaks like that.

Deborah Jeane Palfrey

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

This post is in memory of Deborah Jeane Palfrey

Like all things in life, there is the positive & the negative, ying & yang, comfortable & uncomfortable.

I don’t consider death to be negative, as it is just a part of Universal life, but in this case perhaps Deborah wasn’t ready to pass over yet, & she shouldn’t have had to make that choice one way or another.

I know how Deborah felt in some way, I myself always said that if they were going to cart me off to jail for doing nothing wrong, I would NOT be able to live amongst the criminals as I was NOT one, I decided I would end my life so I didn’t have to be imprisoned like some animal.

Lucky for me I didn’t have to make that choice, but Deborah did.

She was used & abused by American society’s VIOLENT need to string someone up or burn them at the stake.

The American people seem to always have this need to blame others because they can’t just live their own lives without sticking their nose into other people’s business.

Anyone bored with their lives? Do you feel the need to pretend you know the difference between right & wrong?

You don’t know the difference between right & wrong because there is no right & no wrong. Everyone has their own version of what makes them feel comfortable & not comfortable, & that is their choice as free spirited humans.

If something makes you feel uncomfortable you DON’T have to do, watch, read, talk about it, etc.

What makes you feel comfortable & happy I encourage you to watch, read & talk about.

You don’t have any right to judge others, & to blame Deborah for running an escort service is like blaming the woman who got raped because she wore a low cut top.

SHE has the right to dress sexy & NOT be raped, & Deborah had the right to run her business as she saw fit.

From what I know (I did not know her personally), she sounded to me like a nice person.

Was she opened minded?

Yes, so?

She was like me in that she felt there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with running an escort service so long as it’s run in a professional ethical manner.

I don’t care who her clients were & neither should you.

If you are the wife of one of her clients, then perhaps you feel (assuming you didn’t know your husband saw escorts) abandoned, lied to, cheated on, & I don’t blame you for your feelings, but I can tell you right now, that it’s probably better that he saw an escort, then had a mistress.

Deborah should NOT be blamed for your husband’s actions, they are his actions & his alone.

If your relationship had issues, those issues belong to you two, & have NOTHING to do with Deborah & her escort service.

She didn’t solicit him, put a gun to his head, etc. etc.

You have no right to blame someone else for someone else’s actions. That’s not even logical.

I don’t pretend to know what happened with Deborah’s case, all I know is that instead of the police & the DA concentrating on real criminals who do people physical harm, steal people money or materialistic objects, they feel the need to chase after business people who are running a business.

The escort industry in one form or another has been around since anywhere from 2400 B.C. to 1780 B.C. Because it’s been around for so long it should be respected, but alas <sigh>, the entire profession & industry has been cheapened & scorned for the last 100 years or so.

I’ll leave you with my thoughts.

Thank you

Michelle

http://www.designquote.net/

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

http://www.designquote.net/

Design Quote wasted my time.

Nowhere on their site do they say a pseudo (I don’t consider this company to be an adult site through & through) can’t hire graphic web designers, yet they rejected my ad to hire a graphic web designer.

They are discriminatory & clearly right wing religious, otherwise they would let the graphic designer choose if they want to bid for the project, not be control freaks.

What Are Your Needs & Goals for the Escort Industry

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Every person’s needs, wants & goals are different. It doesn’t matter what industry you are in, but I’m interested what your needs, wants & goals are in the escort industry. Even if you haven’t already started an escort service, but you are just thinking about it, or pre-planning, what you think & how you feel is important to me.

So, please take a few minutes & fill out this survey, & tell me where your head is at. smile

Thank you

Michelle
Exotic Publishing

 

Support Staff in the Adult Industry

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Hi all,

So I got to thinking about how difficult it was for me to find ethical professional reliable support staff when I was running my escort service, so I created a survey to find out where your adult business is at.

This isn’t just for people in the escort industry, this is for ANY adult company whether it be toys, lingerie, porn, erotic writing, erotic art, etc.

Please take the time to educate me with this survey, we never know where it may lead smile

Thank you

Michelle

Nicholas Davidson from RepairBucket, LLC – http://repairbucket.com/

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Nicholas Davidson
RepairBucket, LLC
http://repairbucket.com/
[email protected]
616-633-7304
This company is very unprofessional & borderline nasty.

I found them on a business networking site which is fairly new & since I don’t want to tarnish the networking site, I won’t mention it here, as I know the owner of it.

Anyway, I read one or two messages from this Nicholas person, was curious about this site they were building, & so I naturally went to it.

I saw their tagline “Helping neighbors make ends meet.” & decided that this would be a good idea since there are times I need help around the house for things,I’m new to my area, & if I wish to hire someone, I’d rather do it on a site other than Craigs List.

From the minute I signed up, I was given the 3rd degree from this Nicholas Davidson about what my company does.

What that has to do with me hiring a cleaning lady, esthetician, hairdresser, or computer techie for my computer is beyond me, but then I thought maybe he was suggesting I use his site to hire staff for my team as well. I thought he was just being curious & giving me ideas on how to use his site.

So I tell them I do many things, but my main company helps people in the escort industry, & maybe this would be a good place to find staff too since I wasn’t initially thinking along those lines since the site was really about people getting to know people in the neighborhood.

The next thing I know, I’m being told I’m not welcome by this judgmental close minded person who can’t even understand English properly.

He thinks I’m going to advertise an escort agency on his site.

I never said any such thing & never even implied it.

I don’t even own an escort agency, & if he had taken the time to actually read what I wrote instead of being ignorant, he would have realized my company had nothing to do with why I was signing up, but it seems he was out to get me from the getgo.

He has no signups, he should have been happy that I was his first signup.

I was very genuine, curious, & honored to help him start off his new site, & instead I get this negative condescending attitude. I don’t care if he wished me well, how I was treated was ridiculous.

Your choice if you want to deal with people like that.

Exotic Publishing’s Code of Ethics for Escort Agencies

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

In every industry there should be a Code of Ethics, and the Escort Industry is no different.

I was remiss in not drawing this up before, and I apologize. It should have been top priority on my list, but it wasn’t.

It became an urgent matter when while talking to a client, I became aware that he was planning on committing one of my cardinal sins, forcing the girls to sleep with him.

He came up with a whole bunch of reasons why he should, and while I understood why he wanted to, even after me telling him it was NOT okay, and he could get what he needed in another way, he didn’t seem to want to listen.

So, please read this over…

I will be creating one for escorts as well.

If you come across anyone (escort or escort agency owner) who is going against our code of ethics, please contact me. You will need to provide phone numbers, URLs, names (stage or otherwise) and addresses. Do the best you can do with what you have, & we will work together to see what we can do about your issue.

Thank you

Michelle
Exotic Publishing

The Adult Industry, Sleaze & Networking

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Well here are my thoughts…

Networking is a MUST for any self respecting entrepreneur, & in our industry it should be no different. Even if you are a regular client of escort agencies or independent escorts, there may still be a need to network.

Normally I don’t talk to people outside the escort industry, so I don’t deal with porn site entrepreneurs, adult toy store entrepreneurs, etc. , but that doesn’t mean I’m adverse to networking with them, I just have a problem talking to people who are crude, sleazy etc., because I am NOT, & I don’t think for one minute that one has to be sleazy in order to run an escort agency or become an escort.

Not that people outside the adult industry aren’t sleazy, a lot of guys think that just because I’m in the escort industry, that I talk that way all the time, & of course they are WRONG & it turns me right off.

The escort industry doesn’t have a trade show, hell, we barely have any place to even network, so I’d like to hear your point of view on this matter, & tell me if this is something you want/need.

Please take some time & fill out this short survey

Thank you

Michelle

Condoms

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Well we all know that condoms play a BIG part in an escort’s every day life, and for clients of escorts, or even the every day man or woman condoms are a MUST, so I’m wondering if you are a client who sees escorts, which condom feels the best for you?

If you are an escort, which condom is easiest to manage, and which brand of condom do your clients like the best?

Please take this short confidential survey.

Thank you

Michelle

Escort Industry Review Boards

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Well the general consensus in the escort industry is that escorts do NOT like review boards, and from what I’ve seen on most of them, I don’t blame them one bit.

I remember the first time I went on one years ago, I almost got very ill.

I couldn’t believe how these males were talking about the escorts. In fact it frightened me reading all the attacks, crudeness, etc. I had never seen anything like it, and they weren’t even talking about ME!

So escorts, please help me help you and fill out this short survey… The Escort Industry Needs You!

Escort Services, you are also encouraged to fill out this survey.

Thank you

Michelle
Exotic Publishing

Elance is discrimanatory

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Elance the bidding site that pretty much dominates the market discriminates against adult companies.

They don’t care that the company is probably more professional than the sole proprietors who hire independent contractors and then don’t pay them or even respond back, they just decided they wouldn’t allow me to connect to their freelance pool because I have a suedo adult site.

It’s not nice Elance, you didn’t have a problem years ago when I used you, you shouldn’t have a problem now. Mind you, years ago I had major problems with one logo designer, and a desktop publisher, so that’s not saying very much about Elance.