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Originally Posted by Anthony
Only thing I disagreed on with KB, was making public what would seem a private conversation. In the heat of things, shit happens though.
Look at it this way J, it still got your name out.  |
Anthony , I respect you and your opinion so I'll break it down for you in an easier way to comprehend.
In that conversation in which J Styles told me 10 different things he had going on, which content producers he had just met with , how many volumes of titles he had collected, who he was calling next and how much money he was making etc...
One little caveat was that he would be writing a column for AVN and AVN Online as a platform to promote his own company. I skoffed at it, but it was a trivial part of the conversation. I laughed because my dear friend Houston was a columnist as well and she phoned in her article to Heidi every month ( she didn't want or need to extra publicity that much) I too had been asked by Farley to write a column for AVN- only after they saw how well I wrote an article for XBIZ. I told him they'd have to pay me a lot of money to do it- That was the end of the conversation.
Funny thing is all the time D was in good graces with AVN- sitting at the owners' table for the awards shows, and receiving referrals from them - do you think they gave a fuck about me?
NO.
Did they want to give me articles and coverage?
NO.
I was the "asshole" brother to them. The irony here is that when I brokered the sale of YNOT- AVN was the first company I approached about buying it. I recall Darren Roberts and Paul saying " Why do we need it? why do we need webmasters?"
I wonder how different the attitudes would be from webmasters now if they would have decided to get more engratiated with the webmaster community by acquiring YNOT back in 2000.
I believe in my opinion their business model is to "take, take, take"- and not give, give, give
