rakdobi wrote:You have no idea what you're talking about... If it's so easy, why don't you open a studio? Do you even understand the situation? Starting a business from nothing (she was initially under gio production) then had to shut it down, leave the country she was born for another place, try again to open the business, again had to shut it down and now try a third time in a new place. You've never done scouting, never been in contact with agents, and you're just messing around, complaining endlessly, and giving advice. The payment here on the site is low, there are a lot of expenses, the world economy is in inflation, and this site is finished. Where's the rest of the studios? Just disappeared? There's a reason for that. By the way, I suggested to her not to come back here, a non-profitable place, it is better to open a website and distribute alone,.This place looks like an amateur XXX tube
Why don't I open a studio? Because I'm making money through other means. Just because I don't jump on doing something - doesn't mean it's not doable. A real hot 50 IQ take there, Bud.
I already explained to you, in my previous post, that she
isn't starting the business from nothing. She has contacts, she has models, she has a reputation (at least, she had one), and she has people who know about her and are willing and ready to buy her scenes, so much so that they were willing to give her money for the
prospect of her releasing more scenes. Please, explain to me,
how is this nothing?Sure, the payment on the site may be low, then ... start your own website, right? She already has brand name recognition. And her releasing one or two scenes a week - on a web-page that has
only her work on it - would no doubt be a more profitable venture than releasing a great scene and then having a mountain of gay and twink porn bury it three pages deep the next day. Or, you know,
she could do both.So, besides the fee for the model, the studs, a smartphone, and an apartment (which she would live in at the beginning as well, so, really, no extra expense there) ... what would she have to spend money on again? The idea was that she was going to be bringing lots of talent with her
to South America. So, there goes the scouting costs. Not only this, she, again, has contacts in the region, as she would have no doubt be building connections while she was in charge of the studio, and connections would have been trying to reach her as well.
Scouts aren't people who try to run away from the people who give them business, you know? It's not like, "Where can I find a scout? Fuck! They're all in hiding!" From what I remember, she shot a lot of talent from South America that had been on Yummy and Mambo and stuff like that as well.
I fucking wonder ... could she have made contact with a South American scout and talent agency through that set-up? Nope!!! Because that would just make too much fucking sense.
Sure - porn is in a bit of a tough spot right now. You said the site is dead - and while that certainly isn't true - one can clearly see that many of the studios are indeed having issues.
Maybe Erika shouldn't have gone to South America then? Or, more likely,
maybe she shouldn't have promised people that she was going to be starting operations down there whilst having her hand out for free money.Lots of things could have happened. Just as lots of reasonable things could have happened to the other studios in South America. Too bad Erika didn't have the Email addresses of everyone who sent her support so that she could reach out to them and keep them apprised of events, even if it wouldn't have been the best of news, but to remind them that she remembers their assistance, and that she's actively trying to get things cooking down there.
Yeah, too fucking bad she didn't have those Emails, right?
Oh, wait ...
She fucking did.Which is the point of this whole thing.
For somebody as already established as she was - and going to one of the few places where this kind of industry can still be profitable - there was little to no reason she couldn't make it work down there. Even if she's starting out, as I listed in my previous reply, on step one again.
The fact that she didn't get in contact with any of the people who actively supported her journey shows a great lack of respect and, most importantly here, professionalism. And if you aren't professional - if you cannot conduct your business in a professional manner - that means the failure of your venture can be
attributed to you. Not the circumstances - but the person who doesn't seem to know Step Fucking One in the larger picture of things, and seems to have needlessly burnt a lot of bridges, and pissed away a lot of time, doing things that aren't the basics of getting your shit up and running.
And that's her fault.
Not the industry's.
Hers.
rakdobi wrote:There is a lot of porn in Poland, the biggest porn site right now in Europe is Polish
Another hot 50 I.Q. take fresh off the presses.
Jimbo8012395 wrote:EKS dropped the ball not filming more of Kathy Layne or if they had filmed more, not releasing it to the public.
It's an absolute tragedy we'll likely never see a DAP or her filming with Giorgio Grandi/Andrew.
Utterly gorgeous and a great performer with a lot of potential. Her scenes also sold like hotcakes. Oh well...
Yeah - if you took everything she was individually - it was rather unremarkable. When you took everything she was and put them together - she was un-fucking-believable. Truly a phenomenal performer. Everyone seemed to love her - one of the instances where pure, raw fucking beauty, and incredible talent could break through the din of everything else and attract people to her scenes like moths to a flame.
Don't worry, if there is indeed a BBC DAP of her already shot by EKS, we'll be sure to never see it.
Because ... of course we won't.