[Changing the subject line because I'm shifting the topic pretty far from Diane Duane's juvenile book series.]
Ms. Kitka, You dress in lingerie and read the AVN headlines and talk about sex and porn. How are they *not* supposed to consider your vlog to be "adult"? PayPal doesn't do any adult content, not just hard-core porn-- they wouldn't let you use their merchant service if you were selling vibrators, either. They won't give my husband the time of day, and he's not a porn star, just a retailer. You could probably make a living by charging for subscriptions, or by doing a teaser vlog, then charging for the full-content delivery (though this might require you to unblur the exposed bits). I'm not sure how many subscribers you have right now, but adult content is one area in which you can usually get money before other forms of content. You'd need to set yourself up with a credit card merchant account, of course, and deal with all the fraud (adult content is one of the favorite things to steal or buy with stolen cc's-- get zip code verification and use credit score reporting to determine trust levels). And then you'd probably need to get permission from AVN to deliver their articles, since they are a copyrighted source-- in fact, you might talk to them about partnering up on a vlog, which would increase readership and therefore subscriptions. Other revenue streams, if you don't want to start explicitly taking off your clothes, would be to do a "Ms. Kitka's Featured Products" to discuss your favorite toys, clothes, articles, movies, etc., then sell them on the site. It'd be a bit of crass commercialism, but you could make a bit off of the sales to help round out the subscription service, and if you yourself have seriously tried the products and evaluated them, you won't be selling out so much as just selling what you yourself enjoy. And, of course, you can ALWAYS find willing advertisers in the adult business, as long as you don't mind working with companies that spam and use popups and do other things to make the Internet a more annoying place. Even if you don't do in-video ads, you could put ads on your blog to get hits from direct visitors. I don't think anyone, looking at your vlog, would be horribly put off if you started going more commercial. When a beautiful woman in lingerie gets on screen, most people almost *expect* there to be a money angle. --Stephanie On 2/23/06, Ms. Kitka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's ingenius and I hope it works... I wish I could make a living > from donations. Unfortunately PayPal thinks I'm a porn star... > ridiculous. -- Stephanie Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blogs, vlogs, and audioblogs at: http://www.mortaine.com/blogs Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
