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Might get a job doing marketing for...

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slackerinabox

Lifer
...A porn company! Had an interview and I'm having dinner with the CEO this Thursday, which is exciting but what do I tell mom and dad? Marketing manager is a great title and I'm actually excited, but my parents are ultra-conservative. What would you say???
 
Man, if you want the job maybe you need to grow up (grow a pair?) and just do it.

The first question in my mind wouldn't be whether my parents care about the job, it'd be about my own career path. Is it going to be cool for you to have teh pr0n company on your resume?? If not, do you plan to stay with this company with the rest of your life?

Does anyone really need to market teh pr0n??? I was pretty sure it sold itself...
 
adult industry. just tell em its a job in the adult industry. if you dont have the cojones to tell them what you do, then you probably should rethink the offer.
 
Originally posted by: Kalmah
So you are the guy in charge of putting the spyware on my computer? :disgust:😀
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Haha, nooo.. Viral marketing... I'll do you all a favor and, if I get the job, refuse to take part in any spamming. It doesn't even work anymore, the last company I worked for scaled back all Spam based marketing since the return made it frivolous. Low cost of entry but..yeah.. it's not really worth it anymore.
 
Originally posted by: Rumpltzer
Man, if you want the job maybe you need to grow up (grow a pair?) and just do it.

The first question in my mind wouldn't be whether my parents care about the job, it'd be about my own career path. Is it going to be cool for you to have teh pr0n company on your resume?? If not, do you plan to stay with this company with the rest of your life?

Does anyone really need to market teh pr0n??? I was pretty sure it sold itself...
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Ha, Playboy wouldn't be playboy without marketing. Seriously.

Anyways, if the offer is right of course I'm taking the job. Mostly this post was a tongue in cheerk "what do I tell my indian parents?" Anyone of asian descent knows of my dilema.

I'm not thinking if I should take the job based on their approval, screw that. Just thinking out loud - what the hell do I tell the family?
 
Porn marketer is a job description on par with heroin salesman. You don't really have to try to market porn, it pretty much sells itself, and everyone knows it exists (What? There are naked women in this film? Fornicating? My goodness, I'll take three).

And what would your job consist of? Deciding which fun shape to place over the genitalia on the promo pictures (stars are so overdone, try out the ships from Space Invaders, or maybe the sihouette of an osprey attacking a marmot)?
 
I work for an *ahem* similar place.

Lucky for me we do product movement, wholesale, etc. So I just say that we sell lots of novelty items like you would find at a Spencer's gifts or something, and that it changes so much I couldn't detail any particular products really.

All true.

And in all honesty, it's just a fairly quiet corporate environment like any other unless you go walking around in the warehouse or something you'd never know. A lot of places we work with are the same way, and marketing is marketing, it's all the same concepts.

There are some good viral marketing avenues out there to latch onto, and some that have yet to be invented, so good luck. Send me a PM if you want to swap ideas sometime. (As long as you don't end up being some direct competitor or something 🙂 )
 
Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
Porn marketer is a job description on par with heroin salesman. You don't really have to try to market porn, it pretty much sells itself, and everyone knows it exists (What? There are naked women in this film? Fornicating? My goodness, I'll take three).

And what would your job consist of? Deciding which fun shape to place over the genitalia on the promo pictures (stars are so overdone, try out the ships from Space Invaders, or maybe the sihouette of an osprey attacking a marmot)?
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That's just not true. Cookies sell themselves yet the cookie marketing business is worth a pretty penny.

There's a marketplace inundated with product from every mom and pop with a video camera and vaseline. You have to differentiate yourself from the masses for people to buy your product. Suicide Girls did a great job of this, others have as well. It's a crowded marketplace, you can't just film something and assume it'll sell.
 
Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
Porn marketer is a job description on par with heroin salesman. You don't really have to try to market porn, it pretty much sells itself, and everyone knows it exists (What? There are naked women in this film? Fornicating? My goodness, I'll take three).
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True... except for the part where everyone knows that and the competition becomes super fierce. (Which it most definately is)

It's more a matter of traffic than conversion, though you need both to get anywhere of course.
 
"Oh, yes. Oh, yes. New York City's nakedest ladies. They're not even wearing
a smile. Nod suggestively. Yes, six, count 'em, six gorgeous ladies just
dying...for your leers and cat calls. Yowsa, yowsa."
 
Originally posted by: MysticLlama
I work for an *ahem* similar place.

Lucky for me we do product movement, wholesale, etc. So I just say that we sell lots of novelty items like you would find at a Spencer's gifts or something, and that it changes so much I couldn't detail any particular products really.

All true.

And in all honesty, it's just a fairly quiet corporate environment like any other unless you go walking around in the warehouse or something you'd never know. A lot of places we work with are the same way, and marketing is marketing, it's all the same concepts.

There are some good viral marketing avenues out there to latch onto, and some that have yet to be invented, so good luck. Send me a PM if you want to swap ideas sometime. (As long as you don't end up being some direct competitor or something 🙂 )
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Ha, thanks! If I get the job I'll keep in touch. Maybe a profitable cross marketing plan, bundling novelty products with films, could be worked out 😉
 
lol...well, honestly, just say it pays well and you won't get too 'involved' in the industry 🙂
 
be careful if you are planning on working there only temporarily. I had a friend that had a hard time getting another job because he had worked for a porn company (not acting or anything like that).
 
Originally posted by: Darthvoy
be careful if you are planning on working there only temporarily. I had a friend that had a hard time getting another job because he had worked for a porn company (not acting or anything like that).
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How do they ever know unless you divulge the info?

Don't most of the marketing subsidiaries have different, legitimate, names? I mean, he won't have:
"C** Guzzler Productions Inc., 2007-2009" on his resume, will he?
 
Originally posted by: Darthvoy
be careful if you are planning on working there only temporarily. I had a friend that had a hard time getting another job because he had worked for a porn company (not acting or anything like that).
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QFT
 
Originally posted by: G Wizard
"Oh, yes. Oh, yes. New York City's nakedest ladies. They're not even wearing
a smile. Nod suggestively. Yes, six, count 'em, six gorgeous ladies just
dying...for your leers and cat calls. Yowsa, yowsa."
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lol
 
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