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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
Steve you may wish to explain what you did when you started up lightspeed. Assuming you wish to share.
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(Reprinted from earlier "100 questions" threads)
We are constantly looking for new models. We advertise in local papers and on all our websites. We operate our own talent agency in Phoenix, and keep the cream of the crop for our Lightspeed sites. I also offer a standing $1000 bounty to anyone who introduces us to the next Lightspeed Girl. We get a lot of referrals from photographers and our current models. My goal is to make being a ?Lightspeed Girl? as prestigious for models as working for Playboy, Vivid, or Hustler.
When we hire a new girl, we first shoot her on a flat rate basis for 10 sets. We use the content on our teen sites, and let her guest star on our other solo sites. Once we see how she looks on camera, and if our members like her, we commit to shoot 20 sets a month of her with the intention of growing her fan base while we shoot enough content to open her own solo site. After her solo site is online, she then gets a monthly shooting fee, a commission off her own site, all the profits from selling autographed pictures and her personal items, and monthly bonuses based on the performance of the LightspeedGirls and LightspeedWorld network of sites.
Remember that if the girl doesn?t make enough money to pay her bills, she?ll quit. I think its best to ALWAYS pay them a base shooting fee (that can be adjusted over time). The commission on the site should really be more of a payment for exclusivity and for interaction with her members (responding to fan mail, keeping an online daily journal, and doing live shows). Also, paying them monthly bonuses on the overall company profits is a great way to keep multiple girls happy. Profit sharing makes them feel like owners of the company, then they are glad to appear on each other?s sites, help each other out, and recruit hot new girls into the network. Never make them compete with each other. That?s a sure fire recipe for disaster.
I tell people that I have found the ?secret formula? for keeping models happy. I call it ?Letting them walk all over me.?
Steve Lightspeed