hahahaha! I totally knew that you were going to tell this story!

Please tell me this is not true. OMG

It was a choice of this one or shit stain girl LoL

oh my god.... can you throw this out for me..... ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Every word of it if is true... I have never been more turned off by the US college system as I was after working with some of these college girls for 45 minutes. I don't care how much alcohol you have had... somethings you just don't do.

I always used to ask them: "Who looks after you when you are not in a wet T-shirt contest?

18.What did you do in the opening ceremonies of the sky dome?

So the other thing that I used to do that no one probably knows, except Kiwigirl, is I used to roller skate competitively. Not like Roller derby but the same way that Ice Skaters figure skate.

One day a dude shows up at our roller rink during our practice time and said he is looking for roller skaters to participate in the opening ceremonies of the Skydome, now the Roger's centre. At the time it was the coolest thing happening construction wise, I mean a venue with a retractable roof? Pretty cool for 1989!

Being a performance junkie I put my name down with absolutely no idea what I was really getting into. To be fair I don't think the poor, unsuspecting choreographer knew what he was getting into either. I think he was picturing Starlite Express.

So they hired Glass Tiger, for those of you who don't know Glass Tiger was a fairly recognized Canadian band in the 80's, which the Skydome opened June 3, 1989. In fact from what I remember all of the stars that were involved were at least Canadian born.

We had dozens of rehearsals and were some of the first people inside of the Skydome, before it had passed fire safety or any other kind of safety for that matter. The choreographer dreamed up this awesome stage with ramps where we could get speed for jumping that worked around the choreography. What he failed to realize was that in a place as big as the dome the stage had to be much taller than something that was say created for a Broadway theater... guess what that did to the ramps? MUCH STEEPER!

The choreographer spent most of his time screaming at us to get control, but I really just wanted to strap boots on his feet and see how much control he had!


It was not the most graceful pieces of work but in the end we all managed it without any major injuries.

Who threw her underwear away in the mop bucket? LOL.....

Actually I believe shit stain threw them out in the towel bin where the bar backs throw the dirty rags to go out to laundry.....

19.How did you get your job at platinum bucks?

I essentially was searching for a job on monster and came across their posting. It said they were looking for someone who was good with sales, good with the Internet, liked to travel and comfortable with Adult material (which I assumed meant something porn related, but I was picturing that it was a toy store looking for marketing and sales people). I am sure the ad said a few more things but I don't recall those points.

So I sent off my resume and I didn't think about it again. I started my own company in the mean time basically selling website templates. This was great but was not paying my bills.

So now nearly 3 months after my application I am sitting in my room. On the hunt for a job again although less diligently than i should have been. I am in actuality on Kazaa downloading porn (which for the record until I started working here I really believed it was all real). I was also chatting on MSN with my friends and probably had monster or workopolis open in the background.

All of a sudden my phone rings. It is Albert, who some of you surely remember. He is friendly and upbeat and asks me if I am still interested in applying for a job with the corporate name for Platinum Bucks. I of course am interested in applying for anything at this moment and do my best to pretend like I remember making the application.

He then asks me if I am comfortable around adult material? Everything comes back to me now. I asked, "what do you mean by adult material exactly?" He replied, "you know like porn."

I turn around and look at my monitor where Tera Patrick is getting fucked seven ways to Sunday and giggle a little bit. "Yes I am comfortable with adult materials," I replied.

He then asks are you able to work chat clients? I am confused by this and ask for a clarification again. He says, "you know like MSN, AIM etc.?"

Now I feel like dude is hanging out in my room and about to jump out from my closet or something. I am starting to wonder if I am on some sort of practical joke show.

He then asks me to come down for an interview that evening. I was hired on the spot after a 45 minute interview led by Platinum Dan.

Now in my head you have to understand that this was only supposed to be temporary to pay some bills until I could make my template company work or find something else that I would really like to do. Yet here I am 8 years later and still in the biz.

awesome interview Ellisa!!

so glad to know that after 8 years, we are still rocking and great friends as well!

Love you and Tanker to pieces...hippy and dobby however..they are far too smart for their own good! lol

Elisa is amazing, I'm glad she was one of the first people I met in Toronto and even more glad she was able to come to our wedding reception.

And I can't wait to finally have Swankdollars added to the impressive roster of CCBTools clients.

20.How did you get someone fired for sexual harassment? Have you done worse yourself since that?

Honestly this happened so by accident, I really felt terrible but the truth is I tried to undo it and knowing now how things work I would be inclined to think they were just looking for a reason to fire him anyhow.

It happened late one evening I was working for an E-learning company. Possibly the nuttiest employers I have ever had, husband and wife team. The wife was sleeping with half of the sales team and the husband was just mean. He would keep tabs on her in a book. If she asked to go to the movies he would check his little book and say something like, "No we cannot go to the movies because on July 9th you slammed the door to my Porsche and your punishment will be that we are not going to the movies."

They couldn't be on the same floor and had to have their offices in different parts of the building. Although this did not stop her from using the intercom system to scream through the whole office building in search for whatever she needed. To the point where I was on the phone one day and a client asked me if I was okay or if they should call the cops.

Anyhow I digress, it was just a weird working environment. So the sales team consisted of 4 guys and they had to rotate throughout the week 1 night each excluding Fridays to cover the west coast hours.

I was the marketing and sales coordinator. My job consisted of answering to EVERYONE. Normally I would have tasks with the same deadlines and the husband and wife would argue over whose work was more important.

On this particular night I was staying to finish up some spreadsheets that the wife had wanted in the morning. It was before I owned a laptop and if it didn't get done at work it just wasn't happening. So I stayed to work on them.

It was Rick's job that night to work the west coast. Now he had terrible breath. He was bald with a scary comb over that made him look like Mr.Potato Head, armpit stains almost always .... he looked more like a science teacher than a sales guy. All of which did not stop me from being me and always polite even if his hygiene wigged me out a bit.

I am sitting at my desk and he asked me "So why are you still here at 7:30pm?"

"I am getting some spreadsheets prepared for the boss lady in the morning. I don't have the software and information accessible at home," I replied.

"Well I'd sure like to spread you between the sheets," is what he said to me.

I looked at him, raised a disgusted eyebrow, packed up my stuff and was out of there.

Now it should be said that at this time, I was single, and the head of the sales team was very, very hot. Had he said this to me I would have probably been clearing off the top of a desk.

I wasn't really offended so much as totally grossed out by the image. The next morning my boss promptly asked me for the spreadsheets. I apologized that they were only 3/4 of the way completed but explained why I left in such a hurry hoping she would be understanding. And she was.... just not towards Rick.

The next thing I saw that afternoon was Rick with a box of his stuff being escorted out of the office. He looked at me and said "I hope you're happy, I was just kidding around."

I looked at him and said, "well there is a fine line between sexual harassment and flattery, and it really depends on who is delivering it."

I know I didn't sound very remorseful. When I tried to speak to the boss lady about it she treated me like a battered woman and told me that I shouldn't make excuses for such a dirty man.

Now I am not sure I have sexually harassed anyone worse in this industry, it would have to be really bad for it to even stand out in someone's mind. I have definitely had worse comments, propositions or just straight up grabs (although most of those came from girls) working in this biz.

Maybe that is a question for everyone else... Have you ever felt sexually harassed by me? LoL

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Love you guys!

Great Q's and A's

Keep em coming Ellisa!

:)

This is one of the best interviews ever, I love the wedding and engagement pics you posted :)
WG

I love both Tanker and Ellisa. I do say I may have been one of the very first to meet Ellisa, if memory serves.

I last saw Ellisa in San Fran, and let me tell you, she looks amazing.

Congrats to an amazing person.

Cory.

No. :(

21.Why were you soo happy when Sleazy puked in your sink?

That is an easy question. We had a webmaster gathering in our home when everyone came to town for Webmaster Access. We started drinking very early in the day. I know it was early enough that Jman, ElvisManson and Sleazy thought it would be nice to bring me a house warming present. They went to the store for what I thought was ice and returned with a patio bar 4 captains chairs and a GIANT umbrella.

So by 2AM the bases were loaded and it was time for everyone to start heading home or to wherever they were going, probably to strip clubs.

When Sleazy came down the stairs I took one look and I knew something very, very bad was about to happen.

I was actually mortified that anyone puked anywhere but the washroom. The truth is I would have much preferred it in my toilet. That said the options at that moment were all over my very plush and very white carpets or in the kitchen sink.

I was so pleased he picked the sink, and yes if I could be "happy" that someone puked in my sink it was in that moment. LoL

I'm glad I didn't have to clean that up and that would have sucked! Thank god he was sober enough to do it himself

22.Why do you like dogs with soo much energy?

Well that is apparent I think. I needed a pet that could keep up with me and Tanker. Funny thing was when we rescued our first Jack Russell from the pound the lady was hesitant to let me have Dobby because at the time I had no backyard even though there was a ton of green space around us.

Anyhow after having him for about a 2 weeks I became very concerned. All my supposedly hyper dog did was sleep all day long. I thought maybe he didn't like us or something.

So being a good dog owner I took Dobby to the vet. I told her the issue and asked her if she thought he could be ill or unhappy. She asked me what types of exercise he was getting. I said I take him on an hour hike every morning and then walk him 2 or 3 more times throughout the day for 15 - 20 minutes.

The vet laughed at me and said, "Ellisa there is nothing wrong with your dog, he is just tired." So much for finding a dog with more energy than me LoL

Has anyone ever seen a dog want to make its bed and go to sleep? check out this video I caught of dobby ready for some sleep!

http://jamesandellisa.com/cpg/displa...?album=6&pos=0

haha he is a good dog but definitely gets worn out with us!

23.Why stay in adult?

As of lately I ask myself that same question every single day. Times are changing. Things are not as easy as they used to be. For some of you I know you work in adult because you actually have a passion for the porn and strive to build bigger, better and more original sites. For me, as I said, Adult was supposed to be a stopover on my way to something else, but the money was too good to walk away and frankly the people for the most part have been amazing!

I always felt that as long adult was at the forefront of technology, so was I, and that I was gaining valuable information as I was moving along. I think mainstream has definitely caught up with us, well in some ways anyhow, certainly not across the board.

I think all the skills I have acquired here are transferable and I am making the transition slowly but surely. I will always have 1 foot in Adult because of CCBTools but want to spread my wings a little too.

The tube sites, the shady processing, bad offers and of course just the economy as a whole has shown us that our business is not as recession proof as we had once thought. I do believe it is preferable not to put all of your eggs into one basket. I don't think we are going to lose the paysite model altogether and I don't believe that Internet porn will be reduced to only Tubes, but I think as I have always been about the money and not the actual porn it is time to see what else I can do. That said everyone who has the adult skills could be making money in mainstream some how too and probably should be.

Someone, however, came to me with a very cool and different project which might send me right back here full-time as I would love to work on it because it is something we have never seen before. We shall see I guess.

LoL why do I feel badly about that now? haha Sorry baddog.

sinks are awesome - you just turn on the tap and woosh it all goes down the drain!!!!!

25.Post pictures of your new home. Talk about it?

Okay am skipping this one for the time being as I didn't find any pictures and need to snap some.

26.What kind of car do you drive? What's your favorite car to rent when traveling?

I drive a Lincoln MKX. I call it my spaceship. I love it! I have room for my skis, dogs and kids when they are here.

When I am traveling I rent whatever I can get the best deal on LoL I am actually not really into cars and could care what I am driving as long as I am mobile.

24.Where do you see yourself in 5 years, 10 years, 20 years?

Looks like I skipped this one too, my mistake. In 5 years I see domination of the North American online industry, in 10 years I see having conquered Europe and in 20 years I am hoping for total world domination.

LoL Okay seriously I hope to keep finding projects I love and can work on. That in 5 years my business will have grown to the point where I can just manage the people working for me from a phone while Tanker and I travel the globe. In 10 years I hope to be purchasing cute little condos in all of my favorite cities and be mostly retired.

In 20 years I hope to be reinvesting money into philanthropic projects to actually make the world a better place. Yep cheesy but true. I know it is Tanker's heart to be serving the community, hence all of his years in the military. So once we don't need to be focusing here and his kids are safely through university it would be awesome to do some of the projects we have talked about.

27.Why do soo many people say they have huge dirt on you but are afraid to provide dirt on you?

The answer to this question is very simple. I have a lot of amazing and awesome friends in and out of this biz. I have been through thick and thin with a lot of people. We have seen each others good sides and bad and we have helped when we could have harmed and kept each others secrets all along.

So the reason why no one will dish is because they are amazing friends and they are terrified I will dish back, or that something much worse might happen to them LoL

Much love in this thread so why not a little more?! Ellisa is one of the hardest working chicks in the biz and I have nothing but mad respect for her. One of my best memories was soaking our feet in Amber's tub at the Diplomat somewhere around 4 am during my first Annual 40th Bday Bash.

Next thing I know she's doing crazy things with college kids in Key West. Go Ellisa!!!

28.Who do you look up to in this industry? Down on?

Hmmm I never really thought about that. I would say I don't look down on anyone person in particular. More like a group of people. I dislike people who are full of shit. There seems to be a never ending line of them in this industry and out. I also don't like people that are fake. Smiling when they see you and horrible about you when you turn around. By all means like me, hate me, but please be consistent.

As for who do I really look up to? I think as for how to conduct yourself in this industry Platinum Dan has always been a mentor. A very smart business man, good on his word and has managed to never be pulled into any of the drama and antics that can be seen on this board daily. I was able to learn a lot under his tutelage and continue to see how one can achieve if they put there mind to it.

I also look up to my husband who has been a part of this industry in such a positive way for so many years. I have never heard a bad word about him and he inspires and conspires with all of our clients in a way that everyone seems to be so happy to deal with him. I am sometimes a little short or crabby. I wish I could be as happy and sweet as him no matter how annoying someone was being to me, or maybe that is the beauty part of Tanker, he never finds anyone to be annoying LoL

almost done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ellisa, I still want to pics of the house!

29.What's the worst thing that ever happened to you when intoxicated? Best?

I had to think about this for a while. The truth is that even when I am really drunk I am pretty good at not getting out of hand.

I think the worst thing that could happen to anyone when they are intoxicated is that they could get behind the wheel of a car. I am not proud of this moment, but I was 22, I felt that I was invincible,it was Spring Break and we were on a budget of about $40 a day or something like that, so bad decisions were made.

Myself and 3 friends were partying in SoBe. We had found a bar that was $20 for the 2 boys and $10 for the 2 girls to drink as much as you wanted. We were all on the way to having a really fun and wasted night. When all of a sudden one of the guys said to me "Ellisa you better go and help your girlfriend." I of course couldn't understand why she would need my help being that she was actually a good 4 years older than me, maybe more. Until I got to the dance floor and found my beautiful, blond friend in the middle of a bunch of Russian dudes, dancing, in her bra and waving her shirt around in her hand.

Now personally given we were in SoBe and the amount of clothes other girls were wearing in comparison to her I would say that she was still mostly dressed. Unfortunately the bouncer who had spotted her in the same moment didn't feel that was the case.

I went over and pulled her out of the circle she was in, getting a ton of dirty looks from the Russian dudes as I did. In that moment the very large monkey-like bouncer told me that I had to take my friend and leave. I tried to explain that she was in diabetic shock and that she really would be fine as I hauled her off to the bathroom.

I know, terrible excuse but it was what first came to mind and since I had no idea that this is NOT what diabetic shock might look like it was plausible in my mind. I got her shirt back on in the washroom where we hung out for about 30 minutes. When we left I was so sure that the bouncer would never recognize us and we could just slip back into the crowd. WRONG! He had waited outside of the washrooms and as soon as we appeared we were promptly escorted to the back door leading into the alley behind the club.

I attempted to nicely, politely and in every lady like way explain that we were Canadian and that our friends that were still inside needed to be at least notified where we had gone, as this was before any of us were carrying cell phones regularly.

The bouncer did not care. What happened next was not necessarily my fault, as if he had just been some what reasonable I would have been in and out in less than 5 minutes.

I am 5 foot 3 and half inches tall to the bouncers 6 something body of huge muscles. I don't think I hurt him but he was just not expecting me... I through an upper cut into his chin and while he was confused I kicked him in the shin so I could run back into the bar past him. I found my two male friends who had now been drinking for about another hour and surrounded by hot chicks. They did not want to leave, however saw they had no choice as the bouncer started to make his way through the club towards me, and out of the door we went.

Now my girlfriend had been having A LOT of fun on this trip and we had aptly nicknamed her back-alley Jackie because of where her last encounter had taken place. There had been tons of hot guys every where we went but the boys didn`t feel they were getting much love. Until of course on this night when we got thrown out.

As we walked down the street the string of things that my one, very drunk friend, was now screaming at her were atrocious but really funny: "You fucking whore, if we had been kicked out and you were getting laid you would have made us all wait, you get your pussy eaten and fucked all day long but I have a chance finally with one, hot girl on this whole trip and you get your cunt kicked out of the bar!" That is maybe not an accurate quotation but you get the idea.

All the way down Washington he is screaming at her from about 10 paces behind us. So we decided it was time to go home. We had a 30 minute drive back to Hollywood and no one was really in the condition to do this, but no one had money to spare for cab fare either.

Sooo the decision was, excluding Back Alley Jackie we would throw the keys high into the air and whoever they landed closest to would drive. They landed at my feet. I put my two feuding friends in the back together so they could kill each other and my other friend sat up front with me.

We got almost to Bal Harbor when I see 2 red lights in my rear view mirror and hear a siren. Being drunk, rather than pull over I pull onto a road that leads into an underground parking type area and a dead end. The police officer followed us down. As I had no seat belt on I tell my two asshole friends, who are now physically wrestling, to STFU in the backseat and I jump out of the car and run over to the police officer's window.

"Oh officer I am so happy to see you. My friends and I are from Toronto," as I gestured over to our Canadian license plates, "we are so lost and scared. I heard Miami has some really bad neighborhoods and we don't think we are going the right way back to Hollywood. Can you please help us?" I asked in my very sweetest and most sober voice.

"Well you are going exactly right, just come back up out of here and get back on the A1A and take it all the way to where you are headed."

I smiled, thanked him for saving our lives and ran back to our car. Being sure to put on my seat belt, and thankful my 2 warring friends had finally simmered down, I began to pull away. As I did the police officer motioned for me to put down the window again. I did. He said to me "Miss, just so you know, I had actually pulled you over to give a $350 speeding ticket. Please slow down."

"Yes sir," I replied. I drove us the rest of the way home. Feeling incredibly lucky to have dodged the speeding ticket. That said, I should have been feeling incredibly lucky in that we managed to not get killed doing something so incredibly stupid.

I think that was actually probably the best AND worst thing that happened to me while intoxicated. Kids don't try this at home!

I would kill for a video of you doing the Betty Botter Bitter Butter tongue-twister. Still amazes me to this day.

so much <3 for ellisa!

such a great gal to get to know since my first show back at the 2008 Phoenix Forum! I enjoyed reading your ambush! :)

Great interview E!
WG

Awesome interview actually!

I thought I posted this already but realized that I did not...last one...

30.What's the big deal with internet radio? Discuss

The big deal for me is that my mainstream project is working with the awesome people at WebmasterRadio.FM who many of you know from their time in adult. We are the largest online radio network for B2B industries and supply our listeners with tons of original content that will help them grow their businesses on and offline.

It is a great way to get your messaging out to people. While we have a lot of listeners tuning in live we have even more downloading our podcasts each month, to the tune of 1.4million downloads.

The sky is the limit with unique branding opportunities and a plethora of ways to put your messaging out to the masses. We do a package where we allow advertisers to buy 30 minutes of airtime a month to create their own shows. If this time is used not as an infomercial but as a way to situate yourself and your company among the other thought leaders and tech pioneers hosting shows on our network, you will begin to set yourself up as the preferred vendor for that product. People will look at you as being 3rd party endorsed and as an expert on your topic, opposed to flying your own flag and sales pitching them to death.

Internet Radio, is a big deal because it is yet another way that you can target huge, real audiences with your advertising budget!

one more!

I was saving my answer until I really hit #31. Yes it is true that Steve's Best man speech was so sweet that both my mom and I were crying.

Although that didn't come until after mom threatened both Steve and Jman with their lives, as she draped one arm around each of them at the dress rehearsal, saying in her very proper British accent, "I have heard stories about both of you, there will be no funny business at this wedding."

LoL even I was shocked by her candor.

LoL I was totally typing that out when you posted that... I didn't forget you, in fact I sort of miss you. When are you coming out to play again?

Hahaha for all the drunk moments where I have busted that out I am surprised there is no video. I will make one for you.

Best part is she said it with a huge smile but we knew not to mess with Mom... I will always cherish the relationship I had with your mother, was special to say the lease :winkwink: