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OK some education is required here for those who only know online. In regards to content production.
Content producers were first and foremost businessmen. The costs of running a business producing porn that publishers and then consumers didn't buy, will send most bankrupt. Film, model, Make up, location, etc. All costs money. Often money we never saw till publication or acceptance plus a month. Few sent us a 50% deposit to shoot content.
So we had to not only be good, we had to run good businesses.
All it takes to get us to work for people is money. Lay the money down and we will work. Because in most cases there are a few days to spare. Also there's the "Online" license. We rarely sold outright unless it was for a very juicy sum. Few of us had cash flow problems, when you can wait 6 months to get paid, you can't be broke. That's for those who need a 50% advance to pay the models, make up, location, etc.
Approach a decent shooter and tell them "We will pay you $XYZ for a scene and we want 1-XYZ of a girl in different settings, dress, etc" and we will say yes or no. When someone offers us $1500 for five scenes, we realise that this takes us away from doing other work, or worse still. They might submit it to magazines and poach in our market.
A solo girl scene, nothing too fancy, for $500 isn't usually going to cut it. $1,000 and we are falling over each other to grab the money. It's on top of the market we had already shot for. We would make sure the license wasn't for our other markets, unless the offer was too good to turn down.
Now then to even think a newbie shooter or someone who can't sell for more can offer the same quality is absurd. A few sites prove it. The truth is 95% of the sites couldn't afford us. sounds harsh, but true. They simply didn't have the money to invest. I've met them over and over again. They want a level of quality they can't afford.
This often goes for niches as well. Great leg fetish guys were never shooting scenes for $500. she Male was a very lucrative DVD market. Online couldn't afford the top tier. It was all available to be bought, if the offer was right.
The difference is you own or are sending traffic to a site in the FTV, Met Art tier of porn. Not to site that has little more to offer than the rest in the niche. They can make money as well, if enough people send enough traffic that some converts. As much, do their affiliates earn as much?
Should do because we know how much money there is in online porn. Well there was.
You might start to doubt that when all you get offered in a deal to tie up with a sponsor is some lame deal or worse still rev share.
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