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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
Her/my point is that her 'success' was unreplicatable, as was mine. The same holds true for my years in the adult business. Sure I can show someone how to do this or that but really each person has to find their own way.
No shame in any of that! Just the way it is for some people.  |
I could show people how to point a camera and click the shutter. Would that make them as good as we were? No because of my ability to coax the best out of models, to light, pose, direct, control, build a scene.
One only has to look at all the webmaster experts attempts to open paysites to see their failure to adapt. Most could never afford the huge costs of the content to start up.
50 - 100 scenes for $600 - $2,000, Hosting, design, programming was way beyond the fortunes they claimed to be making as affiliates. So they either shot it themselves and came up with a poor product or got another cheap bloke to shoot it for them. Hence your ability to pick up loads of sites or shoot content yourself.
Now wait for all the clever asses to tell us they know someone who started a paysite with nothing and now flying in a personal jet.
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The key factor is desire and drive, and it sounds like Paul, after years in the magazine game, was burned out. He was older (in his fifties) and dealing with a changing technology and just didn't want to deal with it. Thus, retirement and any attempts at online success failed because his heart was not in it and he didn't work 20 hours a day 7 days a week to get somewhere.
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30 years a content producer and selling on to publishers and direct is enough. I had planned to retire in 2000 but met Eva and at 22 she had no visions of living in Thailand on a beach and the prospect of doing something new in Czech excited me.
But when the magazines died or stopped buying, it meant working twice as hard to earn half, or retiring and enjoying my remaining years.
What part of this makes you think I could come back? Due to my health.