Quote:
Originally Posted by After Shock Media
Foremost it does not take 5 hours a day to have 1000's of posts, not even counting the years some of us have been here. Many of us can type and read pretty damn fast. Making 10-20 posts a day may take 20-30 minutes a day. Though yes some out there do just sit around here all day.
Something else to consider. Early on I would spend 15-20 hours a day at times working. That went on for years. Over time we have learned how to work much smarter and not harder or longer. You learn to hire things out even if you could do it yourself just to give yourself some time if you want it.
Content wise you do your best to build up a stockpile. Often years and years worth. I could not shoot again for 2-3 years and still have all my sites update as they are scheduled too. Only thing that would suffer would be clip sales as they do need manual uploads as I can not schedule those in advance. I dump some clips up each day but that again does not take much time. Only real bitch to me is encoding, well encoding and uploading. Either way that shit can happen either with or without me. It is just a waiting game.
Paysites with a proper CMS run themselves. Assuming you take the time upfront and set everything up way in advance. Of course you need to monitor and check in on things but again not a major time sink.
|
GREAT points! Outstanding description of what a 'normal day' is for us. Barefootsies' day/rundown is pretty spot-on, too. I tend to post at the end of days, sometimes first thing (to get my porn juices flowing, ew) or when I just cannot stand the repetitive 'monkey work' that's so many of our's bread-and-butter (updating, emailing, uploading, etc etc) and need a break. Business IS conducted on here, BTW - a major draw.
My paysites run themselves five days out of the week and only need updating twice a week so it's not much time. But add up all the differant things a business owner has to do - and I won't even begin to list them here - and it can add up to a long day. But there's still time to vent. Shit, it's even healthy to, once in a while!
Thing about clip stores: I HATE how much man-hours it takes to update those sites! Hours and hours and hours just to get a week ahead (as in, if you're updating once an hour, every single day). It just burned me out out after a couple years. But then again, I never made over a grand on clips stores (only about $400 a month, and that extra $100 a week didn't seem worth the effort after awhile) so I guess if you're making coin it's worth all the effort..