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Originally Posted by papill0n
paul markham - is without a shadow of a doubt - the dumbest person that posts on gfy
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Well considering I'm the longest serving person in porn and one of the most successful, being dumb hasn't held me back.
Why do you think so many lever people are struggling then?
Again people reveal their stupidity so easily.
This is what I've done in porn, for the stupid.
Was a model in the 60, 70s, 90s, and 2000s.
Started selling photographs to the end user via mail oder in 1977. The expanded to shooting sets in 1979. In 1982 shot my first 3 videos, which was for a client, then moved into shooting them for myself and selling mail order and overseas so B2C and B2B. The majority of that business which is what
Astral Blue was direct to the customer with them writing in an order and posting it. Communication with customer to client was essential and many gave comments about the work. Far better for communication the the Internet because it required pen and paper for the customer to get his goods.
A single video of
Astral Blue content was 3 solo girl scenes and would sell on average 1,000 times at a price of $40 to me. By the time we were raided for selling non certificated videos by the local trading standards I had a list of 300 titles. Do the maths.
While running Astral Blue I employed 2 people full time. They did little more than post out videos, the Post office van came twice a day to pick up sacks full of parcels.
During this time I was still shooting for magazines and sold to Barely Legal and achieved the first 2 front covers. This must of been mid 90s and they were still clients in 2009. Like most magazines we retained these customers for decades.
Met Eva in 1998 and instead of retiring in 2000. I married her, moved to Czech and gained a new lease on life and a new level of business. Simply the girls here were awesome. In the UK I would find 2-3 good girls a year and 1-2 great girls every couple of years. Here we were finding a good girl every month and a couple of great girls every year. From shooting Less than 400 sets from 1988 to 1998. we shot over 2000 from 1999 to 2008. And the value of each set was far more.
Sold to magazines in the beginning, then opened the content stores and then the paysites. Also sold to DVD companies. While here we ran a staff level that grew from 1 to 8 in a few years. From shooting and working in the house we rented to renting a 3,500 studio and office. And bought our house with cash.
Nearly 3 years after devastating events that made us decide to close down production and effectively let the business run on auto pilot we still make money. Eva's accident, my cancer and the demise of our main market would of put most of you out of business. We still carry on.
For a dumb guy who never adapted, not a bad CV.
And I didn't even mention getting $3,000 for an afternoons shoot.