14. Discuss your adult programs and the ones you work with.
OK, let's hope that this answers some oft-answered questions of me. Like me and my life, my business relationships could hardly be considered "normal", and hey, although the intracacies of my set up and my structure are no-ones business apart from mine and those they directly involve, I hope this shed some light that aids in peoples understanding of where I fit in and with whom.
Firstly, let it be understood that one of my long held business maxims is that I do NOT build shit for other people, i.e., I do NOT work as an employee usually and with few exceptions a piece of the pie has to be on the table for me to be remotely interested.
I must also say my contract is my handshake, and anyone who remotely knows me, knows and understand that I value my integrity above all else.
If my word is no good what good is anything else ?
For the record, I am PART of
CuriousCash, but I do NOT own part of
CuriousCash. CuriousTim has done an amazing job building his business from a single site in 1999 to the 30+ sites (and growing) we have today in what is close to the largest exclusive * original content Gay/Bi/Curious specirfic programs on the net. I am proud of my role in that growth and continue to exert great energies in the marketing, business development and traffic generation roles that I always have, and always will have. Tim and I, like any blood brothers, are inexorably linked, and always will be I am HAPPY to say. I never have been an employee of Tim, and I never will be. It's like I said, I am PART of what
CuriousCash is, and I will always be CuriousToyBoy.
Tim runs and incredibly tight operation, with an overhead so low that most people would doubt it could operate, but under Tim's leadership, the "lean and mean" Tim's angels team has continued amazing growth whilst many others have faltered and fallen.
Now here is the recent twist. Last year, my good friends Ben & Phil from the Dutch based program
LionDollars (who have actually been around for 5 years, but have kept a relatively low profile to their size) asked me to come on board with a project to help them with internal traffic generation, brand marketing and development of small webmasters, an arrangement which I readily agreed to.
LionDollars are a very large program in anybody's language. They have built an incredible team of extremely talented people and are growing at an exponential rate. With over 100 niche sites and a big chunk of dating sites, their operation is a definite winner (watch soon for the new "Blacklabel" dating program which will knock your socks off !!).
Earlier this year, the boys asked me if I would be prepared to come on board at
LionDollars full time, as an EMPLOYEE of their company.
Now I know my usual maxim, but this opportunity incorporated the exsiting traffic project at the existing terms, and the opportunity to work with such a progressive and exciting organization, with incredible technical staff and an infrastructure many could only dream of was too big a drawcard to refuse - I had the freedom and resources so that I could develop and implement things with an incredible team that would only have been pipedreams elsewise.
Ben and Phil understand my existing business obligations and needs and agreed to a level of participation in those existing businesses and projects that did not impinge upon their needs of me as an employee.
Also to his credit, but if not somewhat reluctantly, CuriousTim understood my needs to grow, and he also understood the cross benefits to
CuriousCash with much of what I am doing at
LionDollars.
I also have some mobile phone projects that I am putting to bed and some other arrangements through a legal firm in Brunei Darussalem which I remain an irregular consultant to.
I suppose the situation could be viewed much like Jason, who although he now heads
CECash, but retains his
Porndollar and [http://www.ohmobile.com]OhMobile[/url] operations (Hi Jason, didn't think you'd mind me using you as an example mate !!)
Here it should be pointed out the business of being CuriousToyBoy, as much as I would like to take full credit, is actually a team effort. Ands a bloody fine team at that.
Most here know that Kieran (FlogTheLog) came on board with me a few weeks ago. With my new arrangements, I have had to make some changes to my business operations with my new roles, so I have rolled thes up into a single program,
RichC.U.N.T.S (have to talk to Eric about unbanning the "C" word won't we ?). His role will be to affiliate and operations manage that program. I will no day to day involvement.
I also have Danny in the Philippines, Mouse in the States and Georgie in Bulgaria who do the really hard work - the nuts and bolts of my traffic generation strategies for
CuriousCash and other programs of friends of mine.
And last, but by no means least, I have the key to "CuriousToyBoy Inc". Her departure from [http://www.eurorevenue.com]EuroRevenue[/url] (hey Joe - thanks mate for the opportunity and thanks for remaining a good friend of mine) was kismet at it's finest (kismet being the Buddhist philsophy that all things happen for a reason).
Raven heads CuriousToyBoy Inc as my Business Manager, and my team could not have a better leader than my best friend and big sister.
So in summary let me make it clear.....
Lindsay works for
LionDollars as Lindsay, with scant little involvement of the others. When I travel to shows now I am the official representative of
LionDollars, so when I take my clothes off next time, blame them
As an employee for the first time in MANY years, I could n ot think of a better team to be part of !!
CuriousToyBoy Inc concerns itself with ALL other aspects of my other business relationships.
Clear as mud, isn't it?
