Here’s a quick list of reasons why social media marketing, social networking, and blogging is beneficial, and more and more becoming crucial.

The following Tech In Twenty podcast is the reason why I agreed to go on their show – it’s smart, savvy, and doesn’t throw a bunch of assumptions around disguised as fact.

Every now and then I am fortunate enough to be interviewed on a non-adult-industry show.

I’m a big fan of a trade publication that appears on tables at many of the adult webmaster conferences. With what happened at TPF in terms of the lack of understanding of social media, I think it’s important to reproduce some of the stories from AdultWebLife (with MikeB’s permission). If you’ve been attending adult conferences and are not reading his publication, then you only have yourself to blame when people mention things like social media and you’re drawing a blank.

I just returned from the annual webmaster’s conference in Arizona that is The Phoenix Forum. I’d been told for the past 2 years that TPF was an amazing conference, one of the biggest in the country, and that not only were the parties amazing, but the information provided would be valuable. If you’re going to go to one conference a year, TPF was the one not to miss. I have to say that I was sadly disappointed.

How can we combine commercial advertising and user-generated content so we can create a high-production message that is believable to other consumers?

Television commercials may not be dying as quickly as printed media, but the apparent need for it may be making a dramatic shift in the next year or so. Those that do not embrace the value of online video as a means to promote and advertise their product instead will be missing the boat.

Regardless of how a product is advertised, though, the format is still the same – a lot of American companies still shy away from placing ads on even remotely adult-themed programs, or creating ads that are suggestive.

Remember what your parents told you – ignore the bullies and make friends with the good people, and you’ll go far. Don’t, and, well…..you don’t.

You hear about people getting fired because of their Facebook presence on a regular basis in the news. People’s Tweets, MySpace status updates, and Facebook photos are regularly perused to see what a person is like – through comments, posts and photos we are allowed a glimpse into the life of the person we are meeting online.