04-05-2012, 10:23 PM
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Too old to care
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: On the sofa, watching TV or doing my jigsaws.
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Originally Posted by Pipecrew
Welcome back. Meaning to ask you. Did did you mean NON? exclusive content and shooting for magazines back in the day make money?
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Yes.
Long answer if you want to read how.
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Of course it depends on your business model. If you could regularly get published in magazines and had a constant supply of fresh faces it was a gold mine.
Ultimately you had to be able to shoot on film, fund a production line of 6 months+ able to shoot a set of 120 pictures and find good new suitable faces.
Some can shoot great single images, but not 120 of them, find new girls and fund the production line. Those who could, the earnings were the highest for any shooters.
The year Squealer says we were broke was 2004, 2003 we had shot nearly 300 sets at 2 sets a day and a cost of $300,000. 2004 we shot nearly 275. Went on holiday to Thailand and the US. We ran a 3,500 sq ft studio, 2 studio staff, 2 content people correcting, editing, preparing sets to go to editors and monitoring their progress. And 4 programmers. He met them. Yet he never asked why a shooter had 4 programmers who we only had a couple of sites. 
Yes we had a cheap car, not clever to show models you're paying $300 to, then, that you might be making a fortune out of them. Might be thinking of asking for more money. 
It was all justified by the return on investment. Which is why I never wasted time shooting for clowns wanting us to work cheap. somehow it would of cost us money.
The strangest thing about online porn is they can't understand the concept of a guy with a camera making a lot of money if he doesn't open a paysite and drive traffic.
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