Models for major well-known affiliate programs doing promotion - themselves? I shoot models for major affilate programs, and I'm friends with a good amount of content providers. We write them a check and send them on their way. They don't talk to the program owners, or even photographers about this biz. They don't know about "affiliate programs", tours, conversions, sales, market saturation, niches... or anything like that. They only care about doing their job... getting naked, and getting paid.
However, and here's the interesting part... we log onto GFY and we see these supposed "models" posting photos of their latest "shoot", etc. For one thing, there are no models in the adult biz that I've seen... or even heard of, that are given the responsiblity of promoting their own sites. That would be like leaving a sites success in the hands of someone that has zero business knowledge / experience, and someone that does not even care about these things. Like I said, they just want to get naked and get paid, in and out.
If I could find a model that had all of these characteristics, no doubt I would use them to their fullest. But I think that's a far fetched idea, to think about models working that angle in this biz. Don't all of you program owners posing as "models" feel a little stupid knowing we know without a shadow of a doubt that you're really just a poseur model? Do you think webmasters really care if they're talking to the model herself, or the program owner? Don't you think we'd RATHER be talking to someone with some actual business knowledge?? Why don't you just get the fuck to the point and say you're the damn webmaster for the site and you're looking for traffic. And don't fucking tell me this hot blonde chick you found in the newspaper who does adult entertainment knows anything worth a damn about the things that make this business make money... I've gone through enough models (hundreds) to know these girls don't exist unless we're in GFY Fantasy Land.
Food for thought.
