4. How long have you been married to Lars now?
lars and i have been close friends for years now. much longer
than i have worked for him. we used to sit around at a coffee
shop here and we would talk about work, and he would always
joke around with me. ?so when are you going to come over here
and work for me? i always told him that i was loyal to the place
that i was at, that i couldn?t quit, but it would still come up every
now and then. it was at a time that
www.streamray.com really
was just getting off the ground and really was not making that
much money. he would go back and forth quite a bit if he was
going to even keep doing it or go back to focusing on his free
sites. a situation came up in my life, that i will talk about later,
that really sort of made me look at what i was doing and where
i was going. what i was really able to do.
so i talked to him about moonlighting a little for him. doing
something on the side and going to shows with him. we were
good friends anyhow, so i thought that it would be fun to travel
a little bit and also learn some new things. i started looking at
adult sites really for the first time (oddly i had not really surfed
that much porn) and was trying to figure out how the entire
dynamic worked. lars was really terrible at training an employee.
it was a lot like this:
? here are a bunch of websites. see if they want to send us traffic.
here is a phone and one of my old computers?
then it went a whole lot like this:
sean: ?hey, whats this cyberotica stuff? they look big?
lars: ?thats my friend ron. we have been trading traffic for
years.?
sean: ?what about this python place? they have a lot of stuff.?
lars: thats david. i have known him since the early days. we
have traffic deals
sean: ?hey i found one, maxcash!?
lars: ?i think last year i was one of their biggest affiliates?
sean: ?ok, what about topbucks, they have some cool stuff?
lars: ?i will introduce you to kevin when we are in vegas,
we have been buddies forever?
sean: ?ok ok. i have one. 4free bucks?
and at that point i just gave up on all the big programs. i turned my
towards lars?s own free sites and started looking at more. TGP?s.
nobody was really talking to them about free webcams. we had a
cobrand product in hand that we made because CE insisted on it.
so i started hitting them up. free chat. cobrand. free content. and
they would return your icq?s. they always seemed to be working.
day in and day out. turns out that lars knew most of those guys
also, but i found an area that he had not beaten that hard yet by
lars.
our working relationship really has not changed much since then.
lars: ?hey, this site is cool. lets do something like that. hit them
up?
sean: ?what? what are you talking about? what site? geo what??
lars and i were friends before all of this and we will remain that
way after it has all gone. he is the one that showed me that friends
and family come first. and he also showed me how to have ethics
inside of this industry. i remember when he would not even put a
dialer up on a site because he didnt want anyone to lose their phone
service.
i did fall in love with the job. it is endless in so many ways.