Community Profile:
12 Questions from Twinkley

1. Can you give our readers a little background about yourself. What did you do before you got in this business?

Twinkley: Before I got into adult, I was floating around trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. I was a waitress at Disney for a while, an admin assistant (glorified secretary), and a call center rep for a well known cell phone company. I ended up getting into the industry by answering an ad in the newspaper for a Customer Service position ... for TrueCash!

2. How did your previous job/profession help you in what you do today?

Twinkley: Really, nothing could have prepared me for leaping head first into this industry. It is 100% unique from any other job I have held before ... obviously the right job since I have been at it 6 years now!

3. How do you feel about having one of the longest running adult internet radio shows today?

Twinkley: I love it! Pillow Talk is my pride and joy ... as well as being my outlet to the webmaster community. Pillow Talk gives me the freedom to voice my opinions on whats happening in the "adult" world, and gives my listeners a chance to get inside my head for an hour each week. The fact that it's lasted three years blows my mind. I have to show love to webcamcash.com, they took a chance on me when no one else would and look at how well we have done together!

4. You are going back to college what courses are you taking and what will that do for you in the future?

Twinkley: I started back to school last year, after deciding that I loved the radio gig too much to give it up. I am a broadcast journalism major, with a minor in communications. I never thought I would say this, but I
LOVE school. It's a completely different experience to go to classes when its something you actually
want to do. I will be taking a lot of basic courses this term, including International Politics and World
Geography.

5. What is your daily routine like?

Twinkley: One of the greatest things about working in adult, is the daily routine changes almost daily. Typically tho I will get up, make some coffee (im a coffee-addict big time now) sit down and check email, say good morning to the guys of YNOT, work through some customer service, webmaster listings (I run the YNOT Service Directory), and see what this weeks "big project" is. From there I could be building free sites, building advertising campaigns, working on traffic strategies ... my job pretty much runs the gamut of everything and anything I have the skills to do.

6. You're a gamer whats your favorite games? How many hours a week do you play?

Twinkley: Well, I don't get nearly the time I would like to play anymore, but I am still hooked on  Final Fantasy XI, fondly referred to as "FFXI" by anyone who plays. I love Role Playing Games, even though they have a bad tendency to eat up MAJOR amounts of time. There is nothing quite like sitting down "for a few minutes" to play, then realizing you have been so immersed in the game, you have been sitting there for a couple hours.

7. What is the most important thing you have learned over the years in this industry?

Twinkley: Be nice, or at the very least respectful of the people you meet and deal with in the industry. Too many times I have seen someone blow off a newbie, only to see that newbie rise to the top of the industry in months. People remember how you treat them in the days when they were "nobody" and will carry that impression around with them for a very long time. The people are the lifeblood of this industry, get to know them, hear what they have to say, learn from them. Its the easiest, and definitely the most fun way to soak up knowledge on the industry.

8. What is your favorite part about working in this business?

Twinkley: The freedom. This is the only industry where people can choose to work all day, all night, weird hours, weird schedules, fly off on vacation at a moments notice. Working on the net means really being able to work from just about anywhere ... as long as you have a decent internet connection. I have sat in a hut on a beach in Jamaica in checked email, with the most spectacular ocean view staring back at me. It allows me the freedom to spend time with my family, do my job, go to school, travel and meet new people
on a regular basis. You really can't beat that!

9. If you were starting all over today, would you do anything differently? And if so what would that be?

Twinkley: The only things I think I would do different, if I had to do it all over again, is I would have started earlier, snatched up as many cool domains as I could, and have started a couple of awesome niche paysites when everyone else was still doing the mega site thing. I got started fairly late in the biz (1999) but even so, there were still TONS of opportunities to be had, and I believe, there still are!

10. What are three things would you like to see changed (be it positive or negative) in this industry, tomorrow, a week from now, or a year down the road?

Twinkley: I would like to see the whole .xxx thing go away, quickly and quietly. It's just plain bad for the industry as a whole. I would also like to tell the people who consistently blow everything that happens in the industry out of proportion to "chill out." It seems like the biggest thing this industry is losing as a whole is optimism. Adult has faced decades ... centuries if you wanna really go back, of adversity. They aren't going to destroy us, and they aren't going to get rid of adult material. Hang in there, there are ups and
downs to any business ... and this is a phenomenal business to be in!

11. What would you say are the biggest obstacle(s) facing in the adult industry today?

Twinkley: I think the biggest obstacle this industry has always faced, and continues to face is its own lack of cohesiveness. I know its not going to magically vanish, but I would like to see webmasters pull together more. Just because you are willing to throw in with a group for the collective good doesn't mean you will lose control over your own means. It just means you are helping to create a greater good. That good could be something as simple as making sure that we protect each other from the people out there that would like to see us all go away.

12. Any new projects in the near future you would like to share with our readers?

Twinkley: All I can say about new projects right now is this ... Go check out ynotpayment.com, it's kicking ass in the payment processing department, and keep an eye out on the YNOT Service Directory  we will be launching a VERY cool new system on it this month!

Danielle "Twinkly" has been working in the adult industry for 6 years.
You can see more by visiting the ynot.com website.