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Originally Posted by xxxupdate
good advice  |
Thank you.
This is the World I worked in. Viv Thomas, Dani de Francesco, Kevin Maklin, Steve Hicks, Jack Harrison, Suze Randall and right the way down to me, 100s of us. We're "Guns for hire." A lot of our work is done on a freelance basis, we go find the girl, see if she fits what we need, shoot her then go sell the content. I would say 33% of my job was finding these girls. Some spent more time some spent less time. After it was shot, paid for delivered and sometime published, we were paid. It was a calculated gamble.
This applies not just to me, but to 98% of good offline shooters.
Sometimes a client bought the work outright and sometimes we sold it license by license, the latter was more work, still not a lot of work, and a lot more money ultimately. Allows me to blow out the stores at $3,000 a time. Which is why we never shot much custom work.
Our earnings were good because of the supply of girls we had here, nothing to do with my shooting capabilities.
So how many of the big mega sites or programs thought to themselves "Lets get one of these guys to shoot or even take over the content side"? A few did and the shooters know of the approaches. Yet all negotiations fell flat the moment it got to money, they simply wouldn't or couldn't pay us what others were paying.
This is 2001 to today in most cases. One company who could pay the money, had a competition. When hiring the top dog for the job. It doesn't need a competition on GFY, except to get "Bro" status. you should know who the top guys are and approach them with an offer they can't refuse. Not base your content production of a first past the post one off race.
There's nothing terribly smart about creating another Twistys, Met Art, Perfect Gonzo, etc. You just pay the right shooter the right wage to get him.
Which is what we've been doing for affiliates. Pay them as much as possible. For the product I see people buying on the lowest price possible. This has a direct effect on your traffic numbers, conversions and ratios.