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Originally Posted by joshgirls
PS - in the future, no more attacks from me on your business. i like you & what you do. Im a dumbass to attack you. "JoshGirls" by definition, are beautiful well endowed ladies who perform exercises that bounce their boobs. Hopefully you will like what i am about to start selling.
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I appreciate that. Disagreement is one thing, and constructive criticism is good too. But fighting and attacking each other is only good for one thing: amusing other people.
I prefer to meet people on GFY and find ways to make money together. Friendships can be forged in this business that can be very profitable.
As far as the amount of money...I'll be totally honest with you, and I'll bet most others would agree: I had far less stress and worry and debt in my life when I was playing in bands making $200 a week. I didn't have a care in the world.
But now? Well...2 years ago everything had been going great for 10 years straight. Money growing and growing. So I invested a lot of that money into real estate. Which left me with some BIG mortgages to pay every month. My mom was driving a 20 year old car that breaks down constantly. So I bought her a nice little Chevy HHR, it's in my name because I'm making the payments on it...which also means I pay the insurance.
In 2007 I bought Claudia-Marie a new corvette. It was a promise I made to her if she would do the website. So we started it in May of 2007, and by August it was exploding! I had a Hummer that I wanted to get rid of so I used it as a trade in and bought the vette for her. So I'm making payments on that and the insurance is crazy.
I also decided in 2008 to get out of South Carolina. I was living in a small house in a tiny hick town in S.C. I had been frugal for all my life and decided it was time to get myself my dream home. I was making good money and I'm in my late 40's. I figured: "now or never"
Plus it was getting kind of scary living in the Bible belt in that little town...everybody knew what we did for a living and all it was gonna take was one town council member to decide to "get tough" and it would have been bad for me.
So I decided to move to Vegas and closer to the business. So I bought a big ass house for a shitload of money and a huge mortgage and moved here Sept. 26th, 2008
Well, I don't have to tell you what happened the very week I moved here...that's when the economy collapsed. lol
So yeah...I do need to make lots of money just to break even these days. A year ago it was still good. My affiliate work from all these years was still bringing home the rebills.
But over the last year, I have watched those rebills disappear too. Why would a guy keep rebilling on some of those sites when their buddies at work are laughing at him because they get the same site for free on illegit tubes and/or torrent sites?
So it's been devastating for me as an affiliate of other paysites. If it weren't for VOD sales to AEBN and cam sales to Streamray...my affiliate work would only add up to a few hundred dollars a month. Keep in mind that in 2007 I was making 80 to 90 grand a month off of my work as an affiliate.
So anyway, THAT is the reason I push so hard for others to protect their content. As an affiliate I simply can't make any money with sites who have their stuff everywhere for free. And I'm not talking about crappy sites either. I'm talking about sites that shoot their own stuff and shoot it damn well...like Naughty America for instance. Their content is better than ever. But it's also EVERYWHERE for free and everybody knows it.
I just want to change that so that myself and others who have made their living as an affiliate can start making money again on paysites. Cam sales are great. But they've always been great. It's trying to sell paysites that is a nightmare right now.
And if I can still kick ass with Claudia-Marie.Com by shooting exclusive content and KEEPING it exclusive by protecting it...then so can a company like Naughty America and the other hundreds of programs that I promote.