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: