Escorts! Dancers!
Pro Doms! Porn Stars!
Adult Entertainers! Erotic Professionals of All Kinds and Genders!
Join us at the Desiree Alliance 2010 Conference for the Business Development track. Increase your confidence and your bottom line by attending workshops taught by people who excel in their fields. Learn new techniques for increasing your cash flow, using the tools of your trade, and improving your business model.
You will find valuable tips to improve your business regardless of the area you work!
There will be workshops on web design, advertising, networking, health and safety, and much, much more. Learn tax saving tips especially relevant to cash-based earners just like you! Learn how to incorporate and treat your business just like your own corporation. Learn new techniques in increasing your financial gain. Learn how to stay out of harm's way and protect your identity from potential stalkers. Learn tried and true tips of the trade (any trade!), and implement them in your own practice!
Presentations (this list is subject to change):
Sarah Sloane: Incorporating Kink into your Work
Al: Keeping out of Harm's Way
William Takahashi: Disabilities and Sex Workers
Panel: Safety for Sex Workers through Personal Privacy
Panel: Building a Safe and Sustainable Business
Allen Lichtenstein: Contracts and What to Look for
Erik Peterson: Personal Finance for Adult Industry Professionals
Sarah Sloane: Burnt and Jaded: When the Passion isn't Passionate Anymore
Furry Girl: Solo Girl
Danielle dv8 & Vegan Vixen: Phone and Cam sex for Profit or Lights, Web Cam, Action!
Lee Harrington: On their Knees
Meeshee: Clicking with your Photographer
Cathy from Room Service 2000: The Value of Internet Advertising
Doug Bynon: A Tax Workshop for the Cash-Based Professional
Lusty Day: Working it Down Under
Kimberlee Cline: Keeping it Real: Coming Out to your Loved Ones
Panel: Screening
Megan Morgensen: The Value of Sex Work
Serpent Libertine and BeBeDoll: The Ethical Sex Worker
Jean Gray: Energetic Protection and Cleansing for Sex Workers
Roundtable: Your Girlfriend Sucks! For Money!
Baba Dez: Sex Work is Sacred Work
Lee Harrington: How Much an Hour?
Panel: Tricks, Training, and Transitions
Shawn Roop: Sessions that Heal
Invitation to Present (Note- deadline has passed)
Escorts! Dancers! Pro
Doms! Porn Stars!
Adult Entertainers! Erotic Professionals of All Kinds!
Do you know your stuff? Do you consider yourself an expert on your profession? We would love to have you present on your expertise at the 2010 Desiree Alliance Conference!
Desiree Alliance is requesting proposals for workshops and presentations in all areas of expertise in the erotic professions and adult entertainment industry. This is your opportunity to share what you know.
Please submit proposals for workshops and presentations on topics such as (but not limited to) the following:
· Web design; Search engine optimization; Photography
· Attending to disabled clients/customers
· Advertising and networking, Targeting your market
· Image management
· Better negotiation techniques
· Improving Dance Techniques: Pole, Stage & VIP
· Incorporating a new “tool of the trade”
· Screening, safety, and self defense
· Newbie 101 (in your area of expertise)
· How to remain within the law; Knowing your local codes, laws and regulations
· Costume Styling and Design
· Navigating personal relationships
· Filing taxes, Business management
· Sales techniques
· Tips for Touring
· House Dancer to Feature Dancing
· Self-care and energy renewal
We encourage submissions from current and former adult entertainers and erotic professionals from all areas, genders, backgrounds and ethnicities, as well as professionals in fields of expertise related to the industry (photography, web design, business acumen, etc.). We prioritize proposals that would appeal to a broad range of people.
A Proposal should include:
· Title for your presentation
·
Affiliation with an organization or social justice movement you'd like
to have listed (not required)
· A short paragraph with your background and experience, or interest, in sex work, the adult entertainment industry, or the sex workers rights' movement
· A bio which will appear in the program and on the website (approx 200 words)
· A detailed abstract (the description that will appear in the program and on the website, 500 words or fewer)
· Please include whether or not you will need any technical support, such as a projector or AV, etc.
In some cases, panels will be suggested if more than one good proposal gets submitted on a specific topic.
DEADLINE: Proposals must be submitted by March 1st, 2010 to be considered, and all submissions will be notified of acceptance by March 30th, 2010. Please let us know in advance if you need extra time or if you need to be notified of acceptance earlier.
Send proposal to: crystaheart[at]hotmail[dot]com with "Business Development Proposal" as the subject line, and CC desiree2010[at]desireealliance[dot]org.
