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Great interview. Thanks.
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30. Explain the expression "what happens at fight club stays at fight club"?
okay I should be able to finish these up tonight. Flight club is the best strip club in the states. Trust me on this! As for the saying, its kinda like an unspoken rule. Flight club has great girls, its clean, and the girls know what its all about. MONEY. You take care of them, they take care of you. Plain and simple. I love to just go an chill there so I take lots of my friends and associates there. As for the saying, there really isn't one, but if some stories from there were told it could cause some damage to a few people you may know. :censored |
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Lou This was funny as hell also thanks for the props you a super great guy and I'm sure we will forever be chasing girls. I can see us now all old and people pointing at us and saying those girls are just with them for the money.. as we are smiling :1orglaugh I have adopted many of your ideas. to have a more well rounded sites I know Updates updates.. BTW its Thursday you should fly to Tampa :winkwink: |
31. What exactly do you and your brother do for the business on a daily basis?
Jeff and Charles handle the affiliates. Jeff screens every single signup that comes in and I mean EVERY SALE. We have a merchant account, so we must be careful with fraud. Jeff has implemented and mastered our own set of fraud parameters that could get our merchant account shut down if not for his vigorous screening methods. This reduces chargebacks, fraud, and credits .He also is very involved in all design work. He must approve every design related thing as he is a perfectionist and as much as it drives the rest of the office crazy, we are all glad he is this way in the end, because its a good thing in the long run. I handle picking every model we use on the sites so I am dealing with dozens of photographers everyday. I personally do all of the members area updates and keep 2257 in perfect shape. I also am very involved in day to day operations. I will go to Charles (who has lots of control here) and check with him. We have gotten very good and what to expect from each other so I can just sit with him and he can give me a run down of all good, bad, and nuetral things going on in the office and the business in general. We also just purchased 2 very large TGP's and I am currently getting a crash course on those and just making sure Dave who is running those is doing the best job he can. He fills me in and I give him my ideas. I like to learn so I ask him lots of questions. He already has demonstrated some excellent trades and productive sales swaps! So he has done a very good job on this so far :thumbsup Hit him up and see if we can work something out. |
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That was a good night. Cant make Tampa tonight, but I will be down there soon! You should come up here in the spring time when my pool gets finished and we will have a blast! Lou |
Great interview Lou.
This one is a bit more interesting to me as I have shot for Karups. Lou runs a tight ship there, as a producer I love that you can send a models pics in and hear back within a day or less, and when you send in an invoice you can count on the check arriving like clockwork. Lou has a vision of what he wants for his members and won't compromise! From reading this interview and dealing with him I love his no bullshit, straightforward attitude. He's not caught up in his own success Major props to you Lou. |
this has been an awesome interview, Lou you rock and i always have a good time partying it up with u XOXO
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Flight club rocks. ;-) I challenge anyone to prove its not the best....MI clubs are hands down better than any Vegas or AZ club...... :thumbsup XPorn |
32. How many adult conventions do you attend a year? Which ones are your favorites? Least Favorites? Disucss
Well I used to only attend the Vegas show. Then I started hanging out with Tony Morgan and well I do almost every show now LOL. I would say I attend 4-5 a year now. I think I did Vegas, CanCun, Phoenix Forum, Miami, and LA this year. My favorite is the Phoenix Forum. I have only been to it once and it was this year, but its a great show IMO. You can get lots of business done there and still have a great time thanks to the CCBILL crew. As much as I swear off the shows when I return, I will most likely hit that show. As for least favorites, dont really have one. They are pretty much the same to me. I have fun, hang out with some good people then go home. I like them all, but will probably not do as many this coming year. Lou |
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33. What's more important - new sales or recurring revenue? Discuss your thoughts there.
This one is very easy for me. RENEWALS ARE FAR MORE IMPORTANT THAN NEW SALES. New sales are very important and we do our very best to maximize those, but you must do everything you can to keep the customers you already have. Think about it. A paysite offers 25+ bucks to an affiliate to send him a sale. Well I am telling you that the site owner can spend far less to keep that customer than the 25+bucks he paid for that member in the first place. And think about how long you can maybe keep that customer. We have some members that have been with us for 7 years. A guy emailed me just yesterday requesting more of a certain model that joined our site in 1998! Of course this only works when you have a small database of members built up. It works even more amazingly when you have a large base of members built up. Bottom line here is keep building that member base up if you really want to see your bottom line increase. The way you do that is to keep the customers renewing. More and more people are starting to do this and its created tougher competiton no doubt. I am sure lots of you have noticed that better content has been surfacing in the last couple of years. RENEWALS maximize your return with the least amount of investment IMO. :2 cents: Lou |
Sleazy and the rest of GFY:
Thanks for having me as your guest. It was a pleasure to do this and hopefully it was good reading for some of you. I hope everyone had a great Holiday! And before I go I would like to say GET OUT OF MY SEAT MOTHERFUCKERS!!!! :thumbsup |
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Sweet interview!
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lou - THANK YOU very much for doing the interview- amazing read! :thumbsup
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Thank you for the compliments Lou. :-)
I met Lou and Jeff in the late 90s and right away I realized that these two guys were going to have long-term success. They were in the small minority of site owners that pushed quality of content, customer service and long-term vision. It sounds like a no-brainer now that success would come to those who model their business on those factors, but in the late 90s it was not the case. Back then, the majority of site owners were focused on marketing, sales volume and maximizing the dollar value that could be extracted from each surfer. Something else that should be mentioned is that Lou and Jeff are extremely loyal to their friends and family. For a long time, it was the running joke between us that they still lived at home and could afford to live anywhere, but the truth was that they just loved their family. Folks, that?s just awesome. :thumbsup |
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Lou.... I am touched, dude. I have enjoyed your friendship more than I can ever say. Having your hosting business is just an added bonus. If there is every anything that I can do for you or your family.....ANYTHING.....I am simply a phone call away. --T |
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Interesting interview :thumbsup
I have mainly been in contact with Jeff, but both of you seem like truly awesome guys. Karups pc was one of the 3 first programs we ever signed up for in 2001 when we were just starting our site, and you guys believed in us from day one. Both Thomas and I are truly greatful for that, and Karups is one of the main reasons we have been able to get to where we are today. Your sites are some of the net's very best and the member retention proves that. Keep up the great work guys :thumbsup |
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This one needs a bump after hangin out with Lou again last night, Hey Lou thanks for picking up the tab bro, you didn't have to
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