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Originally Posted by Paul Markham I'm sorry for asking this. Were you in the porn business during the 70s and 80s? Because if you were you wouldn't make that statement.

No, in the 1970's I was a porn consumer. I saw Deep Throat, Behind the Green Door and and the Mitchel Brothers "big budget" porn epics in the adult theater big screen venue of its day in Southern California. I was making a lot of money selling case quantity specialty lighting equipment to industrial and commercial accounts during the first "energy crisis." We made all that money in a business that doesn't exist as it did in the late 70's -- I accept that and don't fool myself that the product we sold would be marketable today -- we evolved and moved on. One of my coworkers evolved into one of the first distributors of the forerunner of the screw base replacement florescent light bulb for the incandescent light bulb -- he adapted in 1978.

I changed careers as the business I was in "imploded." A mutual friend introduced me to the CEO of a CFL Lender and in time I joined him as the Vice President of the Trust Deed (Mortage) Division that we started up in 1980 in the depths of the Carter-Regan economic recession. Our business was the deep discounting and resale to investors of seller notes created for reason that bank financing of housing purchases was difficult to obtain and expensive (18%+ interest rates on 1sts) during this period. As the economy improved in the mid 1980's the ease of 1st mortgage seller financing changed our specialty business -- I accepted the change and didn't try to relive a past that was not there.

During the construction booms of the 1990's I was a State Licensed Building Contractor. I ventured into Internet marketing in 1999 with porn as the choice as the product of least resistance. I felt that the building industry and construction has peaked by 2002 so I got out of it before the bust happened and I never looked back.

However, since 1999 I only have directly been involved in the development of webcam porn. I was in reality before reality even existed. We have made fortunes turning out amateur content for close to ten years now. Walmart is more successful on a grand scale than the shoppes of Rodeo Drive (Beverly Hills high end retailers [to the unacquainted]). Like Walmart retailing to the masses; amateur reality porn is what the masses are buying and that is what I sell.

1.) Sell what the people want or you can create the need for.
2.) You cannot relive the past.
3.) When in doubt re-read rule #1