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Now you’re lookin’ mighty fine! But you’re going to be lonely on that corner unless you tell your Johns where to find your sites.

The first thing you need to do is make sure everything you send out or print has your contact information and website addresses on it. This includes every piece of art, every letter, every e-mail, business card, flyer, poster, advertisement and invoice. You could even list your sites at the end of any articles you write, such as this one. (Hint: Look at the bottom paragraph, beee-aatch)

A great trick is to also leave your website address on your answering machine or voice mail. Let your Johns check out your goods while they are waiting to hear back from you.

Most Johns use search engines when they are looking for great creative work and a fun time. You should submit your site to any search engines you wish to be found on. You can do them one at a time, but AddMe.com allows you to submit your site to the top 14 search engines at once for free.

Facial Expressions: A Visual Reference for Artists by Mark Simon.

You should also trade links with other sites that share your fetishes. You can get many links on other sites by offering to place their links on your site. Make it easy for Johns to find you.

If you want more Johns, you gotta dress your site up, make it sweet and easy for your Johns and pimp it so everyone can find it. Now you will have to excuse me while I go bitch-slap some Java code.

Mark Simon is an award-winning animation producer, storyboard artist and lecturer who is also the author of books for artists such as Facial Expressions: A Visual Reference for Artists, Producing Independent 2D Character Animation and Storyboards: Motion In Art. He can be found lurking around his animations at www.FunnyToons.tv, his storyboards at www.Storyboards-east.com, his books may be found and purchased online at www.MarkSimonBooks.com and custom resumes for the entertainment industry can be found at www.YourResumeSucks.biz. The Pimp may be reached at MarkSimonBooks@yahoo.com.