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A New Reality Blog Following the Life of a Guy in the Porn Biz

I’ve never been so pissed! I had to send my laptop off to get repaired as I caught a horrible Virus/Trojan. I have several computers lying around the place so I was able to use them to check emails and post more ads. The thing is, I didn’t have my outline/written future posts with me as they were on my laptop, lesson learned - ALWAYS HAVE A BACKUP AND BACKUP THAT BACKUP!!! It’s going to be fine as I have majority of my topics written on paper, so I just have to re-write about them again.

The goood news, during that little incident - I was able to recruit some more talent, speak to more investors and visit more strip clubs for review which I will be posting up later this week.

Oh yeah - the talent is just getting better and better.

This last week has been pretty hectic due to a lot of meetings with financiers to get potential investments and agencys to book potential talent. I met with four potential financiers and presented my pitch about the biz that I am doing and where I can/want to take it. For the most part I received real good feedback and some real good constructive criticism that I will definitely consider. I have two more meetings coming up with potential financiers and I also signed up with an investor club that may bring in a lot of capital. I spoke with a few agency’s about some of their women to see if I could work out a deal where I would hire at least 1-3 a month to get better rates. I have also pitched to them about sending talent to them directly if need be. I actually came up with another idea as well to help out talent that works with me or not to post their own personal profiles/bios for FREE on my site to help get them more work. With that I will also submit their profiles/bios to producers/directors/agency’s I have met or will meet to increase their chances of getting more work and I won’t even take a cut. I am working on the coding for that page at the moment and should have it up in the next few weeks.

As you can see to the right sidebar, I have added some ads and links to help promote and sale the site more. I have been doing a lot of research in trying to find the right ones to campaign with. I have to admit, there are a couple of companies that I am dealing with - but their coding is really jacked up and keeping me from using them on the site. I just don’t have that time right now to go through it and tweak it.

These ads are trials for me to see which ones will benefit the site and traffic the most. Also, at this point I have decided not to deal with pop-ups or full blown pages yet. We’ll see though. Another thing I’ve been doing a lot is submitting my site to all kinds of search engines (Non-Adult and Adult related). These next couple of months will show how they all pay off, so far I have seen a slight increase traffic as well.

I was checking emails today when all of sudden an earthquake shook us in Southern California. The Magnitude was about 5.6 - 5.8 which is fairly hard, but there has been no damaged or injuries reported so far - thank goodness.  Back to business, I’ve made contact with some new girls and they are looking very promising - so hopefully I will be working with them soon. I am going to post some more ads today and start working closer with some ad agencies to get some marketing ideas and tips. I will be discussing that in my next post or two.

As you have seen, I have chosen the name to be XXX Biz Blog. It wasn’t easy though, as I went through about 50 different titles/names before I came to choose that one. First, you have to think of something that is catchy plus something you can scream across a bar or room to someone and that someone will remember it without having to write it down. Second, you have to do your research to make sure no one else has the same title/name and that it is available as a domain as well. That is how I came up with my name and it is something I can scream across a room and stick into your brain.

These last few days have been crucial with keeping up with my database of talent and trying to stay in contact with them. I’ve noticed some talent are more than anxious to work and very few are on the fence of getting in the biz themselves. I got to tell you though, the ladies I have lined up are very nice and you will enjoy them if you haven’t already. I’ve also come up with a new application that was responded by maybe 55% of the talent. It gives me a better method of organizing the talent in my database. I put out more ads to search for more talent - you can’t have enough. We will see how that goes and how the current database is still holding up.

I’ve spoken to a few models and talent over the last few days, some of them have been very interesting to say the least and some are just gorgeous. I can’t wait to work with them and for you to see them. Funny thing, I actually got into a debate with one model who didn’t send photos as requested and just stated her age, stats, willingness to do anything and that she has an athletic/fit body. I requested the photos and I was rather disappointed as she does not have an athletic body. Now, don’t get me wrong - I am a firm believer in self-confidence, but you have to be truly honest with yourself too. I played it cool though, as I didn’t want to assume the photos she had sent me were recent, so I inquired if they were. Well, let’ say she got pretty offended and bombarded me with email after email in less than 1/2 hr window. I won’t go into details about her reply’s, but it was about 4-5 emails into it and I didn’t even get a chance to respond to the first one yet! When I felt she had cooled off with the reply button, I sent a reply myself to let her know - hey I wasn’t trying to offend you but let me let you in on a little something about what is considered to be a “athletic/fit” body type. I was diplomatic about it and in the end I just told her it would be best if we both moved on. I do wish her the best and much success in whatever she does.

To sum it up, week one was a lot of work and pretty interesting and I look forward to the next - I hope you do as well.

I post a free ad today to see if I could gain any interest from women talent to work with. I didn’t get too many responses; maybe my ad isn’t trustworthy or interesting enough? I made a few adjustments, like adding a company name/identity, was more specific in what I am looking for, add the pay range to the title as well, threw a disclaimer in to let them know that this is serious and their info/photos are well protected. I received way more responses than the first few days. I have to keep posting them though (every day), as I am getting some really weird ones and unresponsive/shy ones too. I need a good amount to respond too as my guesstimate are only 60-75% of lookers will actually respond and 25-30% will probably show up. I have to get those numbers up, so I will re-post ads throughout the day and night - I also found another site I can post at for free as well - so that should help too.

I looked into a few agencies’ to see if they could provide talent or guide me in the right direction and I received some good responses. I am going to bypass them for now and continue my search through independents.

I have received so many responses, some have been duplicates and you can tell which ones are canned responses as well. This great as a lot of these women are hot! Next, I am going to send replies with applications to get more or forgotten information and to get a better organization on all information collected. Plus, I want to see who is really serious about working.

I have done some heavy research these last few days and made a list of what I have and what I am going to need. I’ve searched and read many adult and non-adult blogs to see what they have and didn’t have as far as content. I also used various search engines and directory’s a lot to search for different blogs communities, hosting sites, ways to advertise and for the best prices on cameras. The modeling/scene rates I am currently using come from experienced and not so experienced talent in the industry, so I will use it as a guide for now.

What tools/resources do I have now?:

• Laptop computer and/or desktop

• PayPal account

• Internet access

• Photoshop for editing/touch up photos

• DVD/movie authoring software for film editing

• Domain name

• Web host

• Talent

• Few advertisers

• Make-up artists

What tools/resources do I need now?:

• Camera (photo and video)

• Space/locations to shoot

• P.O. Box

• Biz line

• More advertisers

• Lights for shoots

• More investors

Coming up with the concept was pretty easy, it’s how I am going to go about it and come up with enough money that is pretty challenging to me right now. My idea is to start a production company and to produce photos and film for an adult website. I’ll more than likely start off with the blog and website first as they are the least expensive to start. Maybe start off with just photos for the site and work my way up into filming when I generate more interest and money. What does it take though? Well, so far I’ve learned it takes equipment, commitment, dedication, confidence, money/investors, persistence, personality, and time just to name a few.

Another thing, giving up my time isn’t going to be too hard as I recently quit my job to pursue this full time, so my day time hours 9am - 5pm are free and if need be -I can do some more work into the late hours as well. Nice! Hey, you have to give 100% if you are going to succeed in anything, right? I think so.