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Neither site has been updated for years.
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@All – I just wanted to throw in a couple words here. We have put alot of thought into how StudioVeena.Com is engineered and designed. I have fifteen years experience in online marketing and business seven of them specifically in the area of social networking.
Your security is of the utmost concern to us as is the growth of the pole community. These are two needs that often seemingly have opposing requirements. We balance these needs by providing a relatively open community that is designed to appeal to the people who are interested in the subject matter found here. The look and feel of this site is not an accident, it is the result of the many years of experience both on my part and the firm we hired to create the design.
It certainly is easy to create a profile here and that is by design. Many women who are interested in pole are not ready to jump up and say "here I am". The forum is full of members who said "I watched what was going on for a long time then finally bought my pole", likewise we recieve emails to this effect quite frequently. If it had been difficult to join you would not be sharing your love of pole with nearly so many people accross the world.
We love you all and look forward to being your pole community for many years to come.
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I'd love to throw in my two cents, maybe I can spur some ideas that will help move the concept of showcases and competitions forward for pole.
First, we are hard-wired to enjoy watching competitions. Competition is how pecking order was established in earlier times and is still how the majority of the animal kingdom works out first and last in social units. Competitions naturally have more draw than a showcases because of this.
As to showcases, think about all the showcases that happen around us every day, radio personalities, television shows, sales pitches, construction work and even your line of work. Everything that we do as people are simply showcases of the our talents, regardless of whether someone sits down and watches us or not. The point being that maybe a showcase isn't just setting people down and make them watch people's pole tricks one after another. Maybe there are other options, the first thing that comes to mind is to use your participants to tell a story, people love stories it is engaging and will bring them back. I also remember being at a club in san francisco called Ruby Sky, they had a belly dance troupe backing the dj for the night and they worked for a share of the liquor sales. I think of Veena's ET video where she combined her pole skills, dance skills, creativity, story telling and video production to create a whole that was greater than any one of her many talents. Or Charley's performance at the last detroit showcase where she really pushed to say something with her dance.
I don't think there is a right or wrong answer to whether a competition or showcase should be free or not, that is entirely up to the planner of the event to work out the economics on their own, and whatever they decide they need to be willing to defend just as you would with any business.
Finally, whatever you choose to do, know why you chose to do it and what you hope to accomplish. Armed with this knowledge your critics and detractors will have absolutely no power over you because they certainly don't understand your goal or strategy and you will see that their criticism is most definitely self serving. Without a goal and strategy in mind you will aim at many targets, and you will feel like a failure when someone tells you that you didn't do something right and it will drag you down and make you feel unnapreciated.
Hopefully this is helpful to some in this thread.
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We've upgraded your account and we would have taken care of cancelling the recurring for you. Glad you are enjoying the lessons, have a great day!!!
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@LoneStarDiva – I just tested this in all major browsers on all major platforms and am experiencing no issues. Are you hitting the submit button? We don't have the "enter to reply" functionality of facebook yet.
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There are two NY Pole Dance locations.
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Vibram makes alot of shoes, the specific model is called "five fingers".
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The videos are posted in the video section, just click the link that says just the challenges. As to the challenge description itself, watch the forum every month.
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We currently have no other method of accepting payment. PayPal provides security for both us and you and reduces risk for both customer and business because of their strict requirements.
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X-Pole will email these to you if you call them.
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Should be working now 🙂
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I'm sorry, I see what you are talking about now. I thought we were still talking about blogs, but yes there does seem to be something broken with profile commenting. I'll take a look at this.
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If you are running a security suite you could try shutting that off. I've heard of Symantec/Norton products preventing AJAX calls before.
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This indicates that something is wrong with the javascript interpreter on your computer. Generally this is caused by a failed plugin or malware installed in your browser. Sometimes its as easy as running an anti-virus to fix it but often it can be harder than that. Most malware that causes this kind of problem is not a major concern so the functionality can be restored simply by using a different browser.