Who have you learned the most from in this biz?
 

I was thinking back to the people who have taught me many things and I have came up with the person who has taught me the most.

Dugmor. I met him while stealing his content for an AVS back in 2000 when I was a newb. We started chatting and found we lived walking distance from each other. He taught me about lighting and editing and what cameras to use. Priceless advice that saved me 1000's in wasted time. I also learned from him how to market and how to make yourself a presesence. No ONE does that better than Dugmor. I am glad to call him my friend.

Duke

Sleazydream, no doubt about it. My mentor...

DH

Sleazy knows too much!

:)

Duke

If I start naming people ...

Jenny did help me a lot with tgps ... he started me in the tgp world ...

But a lot of different people have helped me a lot

Quashe :glugglug

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Wow......... thanks dude !

Yeah looking back I think it was funny how we met and how we become friends ! Someone sent me a link to your DefaceHerFace site and I was like ok........ some guy posted a video on a forum. Not that big a deal....... so I figured I would write the owner of the board and tell ask him to remove it cause it was upselling an AVS. The owner removed it and the next day added another one of my movies from a different series of video of mine. So I sent another e-mail. It turned out the owne was DukeSkywalker and was upselling his area from the AVS. I had to write the owner of the AVS and tell him to put his account on hold cause some of the movies where mine in his members area. I relized Duke was starting to shoot his own content and was just trying to make a buck and explained to him that he could make a lot more money by just upselling my site that had all the video he was using from the trailers. If I remember the scenes where from Blow Job Auditions and his surfer/members of his forum would love it !

After chatting with him some more on ICQ and thru e-mail I found out he lived the next town over from where I grew up and was planning on visiting my family the next week. We met up and went out to some some strip clubs. We started out at Satin Dolls ( known best as Bada Bing in the Sopranos ) but as we spoke some more we found out our true love was the skanky dive strip clubs in Paterson and Newark ! So we went down there and I guess I will let Duke finish the story ....

Joe Holler, Fantasyman, James Buffet, Seth Warshavsky and a few more.

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And finish I will! Dugmor and I drove down to newark and found a heroin addict walking the streets. She came up to our window and said "what are you guys up to tonight" we said nuttin. just chillin. She said, "you want a bj?" we said no. She says "how about you pee in my mouth. That kind of took us by surprise, but we were pretty liquored up and didnt want to touch her so we gave her some nice bling to pee on her. Man, she must have had a pee fetish because she gulped down litterally every drop. Anyway, we gave her some more money for some eats and that was that. Needless to say it was an adventure.

Duke

i guess I owe it to the company I had worked with and to al the people i had encoutered with in this biz, space aint enough

The devil

I am still a n00b at this (4 months). No one taught me anything - i learned everything myself. But i do look up to one person in this forum. Guess who it is :winkwink:

Many people have taught me things that are invaluable.

Dr Bizzaro: He brought me into the biz and taught me the inner workings of TGP and submissions. Thanks buddy!

Shemp: I remember talking to him in Vegas after having a few too many drinks. I probably made an ass of myself (no business cards, slurred speech, etc). The amazing thing is that he spent the time to give me priceless tips, a couple drinks and a greeting every time he saw me that week.

Duke: He's let me take part in expanding his affiliate program and making it the best it can be. I've never been able to take such a hands on approach before and I appreciate it. In just a few months, we've really gotten this program kicking ass and I hope to see it continue for a longgggg time...Or until he decides to hand the company over to me. :Graucho

i learned a lot from jewcash actually

you dont hafta be smart to start something big and recognized

but it sure helps to keep things afloat :1orglaugh

I dont deserve to be in the ranks of Shemp and Dr Bizzaro but I thank you for your kind words buddy. You are doing a kick ass job man. You really know what you're doing and I heed all the advice you have given me!
DUke

Jensen!

Mecix - he got me started in this biz
Ross A - he gave me a lot of tips about submitting galleries :)

I've learned the most from all the people I've seen go out of business.

I haven´t learn much from other people but I like to say thanks to my brother that back in 1995 got me online and I made my first website.

:thumbsup

Pretty much the top 2 or 3 people of any niche.

Juicy has been and still is my guru:glugglug he has been absolutely generous with his knowledge to me and i have always been thankful.

there are a dozen other people too who have helped me alot as well. if it was for them too, i would still be trying to figure out what the fuck to do:1orglaugh

i've come a long way in a year

:glugglug

For me, its Paul -C-

Almost everything I know is down to him. I worked with him for 18 months. For the last 9 months I've been out on my own. I owe everything to him. Thanks buddy!

Paul knows his stuff! Great guy too! I'm happy to be able to call him a friend.
Duke

The surfers :)

There have been a few who have taught me different things.


My first webmaster gathering was the CJ/NatNet/Lightspeed party in Atlanta. I knew no one, felt rather out of place, and was almost convinced that I was in way over my head. Then I started talking to someone, (I had no idea at the time to whom I was speaking), and found him so easy to talk with and so much a regular joe that I started spilling my guts about my fears and worries and the like. He may have been drunk at the time, but the advice he gave pushed me on my way. He said, "Why are you trying to do what everyone else is doing? What are YOU good at?"

That's the moment I decided not to try doing what everyone else was doing. I turned to writing and the rest is history. I thank him every day. It wasn't until after we had talked that someone called his name and I was dumbstruck. I had been speaking with Steve Lightspeed. :thumbsup



Again in Atlanta, this time for Webmaster Access, I was sitting at the bar when I was invited to a table of people I didn't know. I was introduced, and immediately invited to dinner. MMmmkay. Now mind you, I'm not used to things being bought for me, even dinner. But I had a BALL. During the course of that dinner I had opportunities to speak with several people, and I learned so much about myself and what I wanted to achieve during that one dinner that I'm still absorbing and using what I learned. I consider those people some of my closest friends in the biz, and continue to learn from them with every conversation. Those folks are:

Jack of AFF
Sagi of AFF
Lauren (mmmwah)
Sleazy

There's a reason I wear a SleazyDream tat. It's one I'll never regret getting. :glugglug

Couldn't have said it better myself!

Boneless and Tipsy.

Lawrence Connor

ed powers. he's a nice dude and can still make great movies even with his flabby butt.

Mav-rick / Mavrick

Most of you will not know him as he is the type of genius that resides in the shadows.

Everyone else that believes they eh-jah-makated me can :Kissmy

Every day is a learning day. I put most of my business time on research. Knowledge is the most important thing. A great deal of people have "learned" me a lot including but not limited to

manga, r-c-e, wizd0m, alex from san diego, dr ace

:thumbsup

Ralph from hereistheporn help me out back 5 years ago..

Thanks Bud :thumbsup

Spew rocks! :thumbsup

It is funny now in 2006, you forgot how much I taught you !

All the newbies think I was influenced by you ... when the reality you learned everything from me :laughing-

I learned everything I know from Jon Clark.

i am still learning from all

sure is a lot of man love in here...

2004 thread alert.

Yeah ... well it seems Duke's memory is short and a few newbies need to be educated !

One thing I've learned about this business is that most people in it do have short memories.

Is'nt that the truth :thumbsup