Lecture 14, started off discussing Jill Kelly.  Jill Kelly who is a famous porn actress, retired from doing movies in January of 2002 because she wanted to start her own production company.  Just like any business person you want to go where the real money is, and that is exactly what she did.  A very successful Jill Kelly Productions started up in 2004. 

I spoke in a previous blog about working the AVN show, here in Vegas.  I got to see and meet many people and one of those people was Jill Kelly.  Not only was my boyfriend just so excited to talk to her, I was pleasantly surprised to see that she was actually a very intelligent woman, who knows exactly what she’s doing and just how to make some serious money.  Professor speaks in lecture 14 of how hard it really is to get going in any type of business, but to make some serious cash in the “porn” business is not as easy as it looks. Using Jill Kelly as an example of success in this lecture got me googling her name and I found this website http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0446483/bio that explains her coming from nothing to big time.  Professor Halavais explained that she had some help, since being in the business she had many contacts within the industry and that no one has ever managed to have Jill Kelly’s level of success. 

In this day and age, making a profit is getting easier and easier.  You have the cell phones now, where you can download porn. This website: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-5622471.html talks about how profits are estimated to reach approx. 5 billion dollars by 2010.  The $$ is continuing to increase in this business.  The best part about being involved on the other side (the business end) is that there will always be a demand for porn.  Sex is sex, it dosn’t get old, it will always turn people on and people will always pay- and that is why this business is a good business in this day to get into.

Hello All and Professor (ofcourse)..

I began evaluating myself and believe I have many strengths and things I can defintly work on.  Lets start with my strengths.  I believe that I am going outside the box.  My posts deal with topics and news that I find outside of the class.  I do not only respond to the lecture material, but I make sure that I am blogging about topics within the lecture as well.  I blogged about Heidi Fleiss, because I felt she was a great example for the lectures on prostitution.  I also blog about my experiences living in Vegas, and talk about the financial aspect that porn brings to this growing city. 

I make sure to blog atleast 2 times a week.  I do realize however, that I usually blog late in the week, and that is something that I should work on to improve my grade.  I watch every lecture and try to get involved as much as my little typing fingers allow.  My personal life has been getting in the way a bit, since I have just entered my career in the Public Relations world out here, and that I will work on also. 

I do believe that I am at a low B maybe even a high C.  I hope you agree.  I know I have room to improve, and I will.  I do want to say that this class is very interesting and I love the “music” in the beginning of each lecture..nice touch.  Hope to hear from you “professor” soon, with good news on my grade ofcourse.