The professionalism of sales people has been called into question by new research showing many will secure a client by flirting.
About one in three sales people said they ‘use their sex’ to sell a product or service, suggesting an absence of training, professionalism and skills within the sector.
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The mobile adult content market is predicted to double in value over the next five years.
A study conducted by Juniper Research estimates that the market for pornographic content on mobile devices will increase from current levels of $1.4bn a year to over £3.3bn by 2011.
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Why is there so much porn on the Internet?
CAPS Internet Inc. offers a clue. CAPS, a small business housed in a Toronto office building, doesn't create or sell any adult content. But it serves up millions of pornographic photos and video clips each day on its dozens of Web sites, which have names like HardHut.com and GalleryHeaven.com and are often stumbled upon by Web surfers prowling for free porn.
Posted by Super Sub in: Canada, Porn & Sex Industry, Business at 5:52 AM GMT
The Full story: Wall Street Journal
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Successful entrepreneur or sleaze merchant?
Sweden’s answer to Hugh Hefner could be seen as a perfect example of the former, but porn magnate Berth Milton is not a popular man at home.
Building on a monthly pornographic magazine founded by his father, Milton has in less than 15 years created one of the world’s largest producers of hard-core pornography, Private Media Group. Shares in the company were listed on Nasdaq in 1999 and it had revenues last year of $49 million.
Posted by Super Sub in: Europe, Porn & Sex Industry, Business at 6:10 AM GMT
The Full story: Tiscali.co.uk
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Thank you, industry professionals, fans of porn, distinguished observers and journalists, not so distinguished industry observers and journalists, friends and those who stumbled across this site by accident, for lending me your eyes for this yearly correspondence.
The state of our industry is strong and will continue this way. But we must remember that with this strength, we must also be responsible.
Posted by Super Sub in: Porn & Sex Industry, Business, Internet, USA at 12:40 PM GMT
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Death threats have been made against the people setting up an adult book shop in Shepparton, in north-eastern Victoria.
The Eros Foundation plans to open the Club X store in 12 months. It comes after the community took the business to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal to stop it being built in the city.
Posted by Super Sub in: Australia, Porn & Sex Industry, Business at 4:05 AM GMT
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OPTUS has had a damages payout reduced on appeal in a case which exposed its role as a key player in the global internet pornography trade.
The nation's second-biggest telco will now have to pay only a fraction of the original $11.5 million damages ordered by Supreme Court judge Robert McDougall in November 2004.
Posted by Super Sub in: Australia, Porn & Sex Industry, Business, Internet at 3:15 PM GMT
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Online gambling and sex are the hottest internet commodities. A new online sports betting site mixes the two by promising its eligible clients the free participation to a "red lights" drawing: the winner will attend the filming of a real Porn Movie!
Let’s face it: sex was the determining factor in the growth and expansion of the internet in the early 90s. Pioneers will recall that the hunt for sex in the early stages of the internet brought the World Wide Web to its unprecedented popularity.
Posted by Super Sub in: Business, Internet, USA at 4:07 AM GMT
The Full story: The Online Wire
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Sounds Erotic brings dirty words right to your ears
Toe sucking. Tightly laced corsets. Sex on a motorcycle. Double penetration at a sex club. None of these things are what I anticipated when I met Brian and Catherine OliverSmith at Book Expo America.
Posted by Super Sub in: Business, Internet, USA at 2:27 PM GMT
The Full story: Village Voice
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Pornography not only provokes male hormones but it also promotes some technology adoption and development. Its impact has been especially noticeable in the last 30 years, but its influence is as old as the printing press:
Mass-produced smutty text and pictures began to appear soon after Gutenberg's invention sparked the Protestant Reformation, in the early 16th century.
Posted by Super Sub in: Science & Technology, Porn & Sex Industry, Business, Internet at 11:11 AM GMT
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On The Press: Lads' mags are under fire. But do we need a regulator to crack the likes of 'Nuts'?
So I went into WH Smith in Manchester to buy my magazines - Nuts, Zoo and FHM - and found them at midriff level (my natural height is top shelf), a little higher than the children's comics, but way below The Spectator. Nuts and Zoo are relatively cheap at £1.30. Sales will be up this week as a result of people like mefeeling the need to find out what the fuss is about.
Posted by Super Sub in: UK, Society & Culture, Media, Business at 10:45 AM GMT
The Full story: The Independent
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