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HAHA....love this! GREAT person to interview! I can't wait for the rest of the answers.......some of these are going to get really good! :)
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12.Why did Tanker have a such a disturbed look on this face when Sleazy asked you to make his bed?
Another easy question; The disturbed look would be because you are his friend and he didn't want anything bad to happen to you. I think the more disturbed look came when I made your bed because I wanted to put a thank you card on it for our awesome wedding gift...which for those of you who don't know were 2 round trip tix 1st class to Costa Rica. I like to surprise people. Don't feel bad for Tanker though I was very up front with him before we got married that I was domestically challenged. Turns out that I am a pretty good cook though so he actually got a slightly better deal than he bargained for. |
13.What's Tanker got that Phil Collins doesn't have?
Nothing against bald men but definitely at that age it was a hair thing. I met Phil Collins at a Ball in London when I was about 12. He said I was pretty and asked me to marry him jokingly (I would hope jokingly as I was 12 and anything otherwise would have been wicked in appropriate). I told him thanks but no thanks! Really at that age the only thing I was thinking was "you are old, and bald big giant pass!" |
One of my favorite and most awesomeness people in the whole world, perfect candidate for an ambush interview! Can't wait to read the whole thing, keep it coming!
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http://jamesandellisa.com/cpg/albums...ober%20002.jpg This one is definitely a favorite photos of us! http://jamesandellisa.com/cpg/albums...ober%20029.jpg Our special day! We just hit out 5 year anniversary and I cant wait to do the 50th! http://jamesandellisa.com/cpg/albums.../062301103.jpg |
14.Talk about your first OFFICIAL date with Tanker.
My first official date with Tanker was wicked awesome! It was supposed to be a camping trip with The Doc and Kristin who chaperoned all of our first encounters. When I arrived in Vegas to head to lake Mead Kristin informed me that she had papers due and too much work to actually be able to leave on our trip. Tanker saw this as opportunity and said we should still go and do something if not camping. So we decided to go to the Grand Canyon and then to visit Ram in Jerome and then to Arizona. Tanker booked in at a really nice hotel for the Grand Canyon it was the only one that was classified as a spa. We drove out there and then planned to get up and check out the grand canyon the next day. We had an amazing dinner and evening. The next morning when we woke up to go to the Grand Canyon and discovered that the line up of cars to get in was atrocious. While I was getting ready Tanker disappeared out of the room. When he returned he held up 2 passes to take a helicopter ride over the canyon instead. It was very romantical. I had some awesome photos of that but unfortunately I learned my lesson about backing up my laptops when all of those were lost. The rest of the trip was pretty awesome too until it was time to go home, it always sucked to have to leave. Thank God for Southwest though as their cheap flights made it posible for us to fly somewhere almost every weekend and meet up. What a great memory though, thanks for bringing it back up! |
15.Discuss CCBill tools, how did you come up with the idea?
Well first of all I have to clarify for the sake of legal that it is in fact CCBTools which stands for Creative, Click-Thru, Business Tools, although if I could have got away with calling it CCBill Tools I definitely would have. In fact even as CCBTools, the first thing we got when we launched was a C & D from CCBill. I was so excited we came up on their radar so quickly until I read the email LoL Thank God a little birdie happened to be around the offices while it was being discussed and explained that it was Tanker and me behind the product and that we came in peace. 2 years later we do have a great working relationship with them as you can see from their new appstore where we are featured: CCBill App Portal As for how did we come up with the idea? Well there was definitely a shortage of promotional tools for the numerous small CCBill Affiliate Programs that existed. So Mike69, another old school name, programmed the suite of tools that most webmasters wanted, everything from a banner manager, POTD, RSS Feeds, Flash embedded videos and galleries to include 15 different tools. Then made an easy to use and very sleek admin portion so the program owner could control all of their promotional content and tools from one easy to use interface. Then it was up to Tanker and I to spread the word and show everyone how awesome it was. I think what our clients will agree on is that while they love the tools the biggest value is in getting to work so closely with Tanker and all of his expertise. |
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Princess Ellisa Rocks! You go girl :thumbsup
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bump - just cause
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LOVE UUUUUUU xo
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Ellisa rocks it... so does the whole CCBTools crew. Best people I have dealt with in the industry
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16.Tell a Key West story that will leave a mark on everyone's brain.
Oh boy... I have so many of these! I am not sure where to start. I think I will have to tell the story that grossed me out the most. Let's face it this is an adult webmaster forum, so stories of college girls eating each other out on stage is really not THAT exciting, although amongst the civilians it does get quite a rise. So every night around 11pm I would head to Duval st. and go to Rick's Bar in Key West to start recruiting unsuspecting college students into our wet T-shirt contests. I had about 30 different things I could say to girls in order to have them agree to be in my contest. On this one particular night a very pretty girl with a great rack wants to know if she does the contest do I think she could win? I tell her that she is beautiful and stands a very good chance. This girl get's in my contest and doesn't win. Another girl who was a little less pretty but had more friends in the bar won by applause. The first girl comes off stage. She looks at me with daggers and says, "you said I would win." I turn around and I am messing with my model releases and say to her, "I never said you would win I said that there was a great chance you would win." About a minute later she gets really excited and said to me, "Ellise, Ellise, I know why i didn't win." I look over my shoulder to find the young woman, who is wearing a lovely pair of soaking wet and white booty shorts provided by Freeones, holding them slightly open and away from her body. "Well that's good sweetheart," I tell her, "why is it that you didn't win?" She proceeds to show me the front of her shorts and says, "Because I bled out through my tampon all over these shorts!" I quickly turned around to collect all of my stuff as my obligations here for the night had been met, and just when I think it can't go anymore wrong this pretty young woman said to me, "Ellise can you throw this out for me?" I turn around and find her now holding the offending tampon by a string and waving it in my direction. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! You have never seen me run out of somewhere so fast in my life! How do these girls get into college? In what universe is it okay to ask a stranger (or a friend for that matter) to throw out your used tampon for you? |
17.How did your mom passing away effect you?
Okay so from really lite and fun questions to the heavy stuff. My mom was my very best friend and meant the world to me. Her passing away was the hardest, most horrible thing I have had to deal with in my life. If I am being very honest I am still dealing with it every day and having major realizations each day. More than anything it was a shocker that it could really happen. I know even up until the last moment I believed in my heart of hearts that something would change and she would miraculously be saved. This made it very, very hard to use that time to say good bye properly. I was so afraid that I was going to jinx a turn around by saying good bye. I am dealing with the fact that maybe I didn't say everything that I wanted to and ask all the questions that I needed to. It really burst my bubble, which perhaps everyone needs to have done in their life to really see how to grow. I am lucky that it didn't happen until I was much older as I know so many people who have terrible tales, far worse than the loss of a parent, from a very young age. For me though it was the first time where I really couldn't make something work out no matter what I did and that loss of control was maddening. I miss her a lot, she was so amazing and wonderful. I know that I was lucky to have such an awesome role model growing up and I think my resolve to do her proud is what has changed the most for me. I always wanted to but figured I had time on my side, now I get that you just never really know. |
Ellisa rocks. Love the wedding pics. Nice ambush!
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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. |
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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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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 :)
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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. |
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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
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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 |
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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! |
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