i've been unfocusedly tossing around the idea of a book ever since i slapped together a chapbook and liked what i saw. today i spoke to someone in publishing who had some thoughts on making it a reality (met through this site, natch), so now i'm copying and pasting the contents of the site into a word doc. 50 pages and counting, and i haven't even gotten the blog in there yet. and here i thought i was so clever getting through college without every writing a 15-page paper.
and then i came home and opened this little morsel:
sent: thursday, june 06, 2002 1:31 pmat least i merited the sex-e-bits senior sales manager contacting me about my "adult" content for both "males" and "females," although i unfortunately just laid off my marketing v.p. i found her solutions results-oriented, but not actionable, scalable, or delivering a measurable r.o.i.
to: dantewoo.com
subject: "adult" advertising solutions for dantewoo.com
hello,
please put me in direct contact with your company's online media buyer or vp of marketing for dantewoo.com . i have contacted dantewoo.com in the past about "adult" advertising opportunities with sex-e-bits, and i just wanted to inform you that the sex-e-bits ezine is currently reaching 1.45 million "adult" consumers that would be interested in your "adult" related products and services. the cost to advertising in this ezine is $2,750, but for the month of june we are offering advertising in this ezine for only $899.55 (this is our break even cost). we really believe that our audience will find a personal liking to your site, and because of this we want to give you a very inexpensive opportunity for you to feel confident advertising with us.
here are a few samples of the sex-e-bits ezine for you to look over and see how the ads look.
[ lame url 1 removed ]
[ lame url 2 removed ]also, we are offering solo-mailings for only $0.02 per email. you can choose to send your solo-mailing out to "males" or "females" only if you choose this rout.
please let me know how you would like to move forward.
thank you,
[ name withheld ]
sr. sales manager
sexebits.com