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25. How did you get busty amateurs off the ground?
Great story here - here it goes
Jeff was just a photographer working for another guy. I can't remember if I called him or he called me first. So after speaking with him and seeing that he lived in Sand Diego, I invited to take him out for lunch. We sat for about an hour, I explained to him that you can't take illegal pics of naked chicks at the beach or upskirt shots at a mall. That's what he was doing at the time. I told him he needed a model release, copy of ID, you know, the basics. Then I told him to set up with Epoch for processing, Epoch was still pretty new, so it was super hip information at that time. I said, do a 50% rev share and update daily. Told him a few things about appealing to webmasters, then he was off to the races. We spoke again 3 months later, I just left WebSideStory and had started the Marketing Firm. While speaking, I told him to register his mispell, busty-amatuers.com, he didn't want it and he didn't undersand how anyone would know to type that in. I was just being a good guy by telling him, dude, you really should reg this uncase your site because super huge one day, it's bad enough you're branding a domain with a dash in it. He insisted that I reg that name ffor myself then. So I did. Soon after, he made me a deal that if I gave him free consulting, he'll make my payouts 100% instead of 50%. So I sat in every meeting every week with the Busty crew and advised Jeff on some big money making moves. His biggest move was when I teamed him up with Money Tree and their free hosting company they had. I said, let them host the tours and pay them out like 70% to them. Overnight, he became huge, he was seen everywhere in that free hosting pages, he was the top banner and also Money Tree was doing very well. Webmasters were seeing him everywhere and starting to sign up. Then in Miami of 1999, I told Jeff to make a softcore tape of his girls and brand the video with his domain, I'd play it at the Players Ball (it was only my second Players Ball). I meant like, topless videos, Playboy-like. His version included chicks with dildos, girl on girl, sticking the dildo's in the ass, tampon string hanging out of Daizes box and more. Everyone in that Players Ball admired his content while the huge movie screen played his videos right above and behind the artists (Digital Underground and Ice-T). All night!
As Busty blew up, so did my type in traffic. Man those days were great. Talk about easy money! Then Jeff got into the drugs and spaced out a bit. One day he quit and never looked back. What a shame.
More in a few...
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See, people didn't know D$ had a story...
I feel like I'm on the E True Hollywood Story. LOL
Thanks Sleazy for selecting me.
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