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6. What is " Xplor Media?"

When we finally took over the assets of Homegrown Video from the bankruptcy proceeding naturally we were excited to get right down to business and get a new title out. We created a new box design and put together a strong bunch of scenes for it. After spending a bag of loot to get a bunch duplicated we sat down to make our first sales call to a big brick and mortar distributor.

"Hello"

"Hi"

"Who's this?"

"Hi, this is Farrell from Home-"

"Fuck you and fuck you mother!"

Click.

Every call we made. Either hung up on outright or chastized for a few seconds of abuse then hung up on.

Finally we realized that no one was going to take anything called "Homegrown Video" because the previous ownership had destroyed the goodwill of the company so thouroughly. In fact, we couldn't sell a distributor a piece of Homegrown for an entire year. The one sale we thought we made was returned.

Two things saved us from going out of biz almost faster than we had gotten into it. First, we hobbled along on our mail list to sell direct to consumers. Then, we created the name Xplor Media and we started putting together titles that were based on themes that were popular with our mailorder customers.

That is how we ended up being the first company to market series based on niche specific themes. We were the first company out there doing a cream pie series for example and hairy bush, plump, horny over 40, etc. (And this was a huge asset to us when we went from selling vhs videos off bbs sites to actually running a website since we were so deep in niche)

Once the Xplor brand had earned enough respect then we started bringing back the Homegrown and have kept working to make that our marquee brand, today, tomorrow, and beyond.

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