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[Electra]

Originally Posted by Toby

If you're also looking for individual "indie" sites (model/couple own and run it themselves) just let me know. I promote dozens of them in various niches from milfs to mistresses

I'm interested in everything since this is an entirely new area for me. There are lots of things I haven't done in adult yet. What I'm trying to do is build up my adult business stuff while developing my mainstream resource , particularly want to develop more advertising for mainstream sites...barely scratched the surface of doing that yet which is really stupid of me since I started in mainstream and had a fairly decent site going before I came into adult. It still gets really good traffic but needs rewriting and redesigning... in fact its a mess lol There's so much work to do, I need to clone myself.

How do you guys manage it all ?

[softball]

Originally Posted by Electra

I'm interested in everything since this is an entirely new area for me. There are lots of things I haven't done in adult yet. What I'm trying to do is build up my adult business stuff while developing my mainstream resource , particularly want to develop more advertising for mainstream sites...barely scratched the surface of doing that yet which is really stupid of me since I started in mainstream and had a fairly decent site going before I came into adult. It still gets really good traffic but needs rewriting and redesigning... in fact its a mess lol There's so much work to do, I need to clone myself.

How do you guys manage it all ?

Sometimes I wonder. Two of us run, shoot content, edit, write, promote five or six sites. So it can be done.

[Electra]

Originally Posted by rhetorical

Sometimes I wonder. Two of us run, shoot content, edit, write, promote five or six sites. So it can be done.

How many hours a day do you work?

[softball]

Originally Posted by Electra

How many hours a day do you work?

On a slow day, maybe 25......

But seriously...when we do work its kinda all day, but three or four times a week we go hiking in the mountains which kinda fucks up the day for work. But some evenings, we don't watch tv, we do this shit. All in all its actually not that bad compared to a 40 hour job that involves commuting time, rush hour and all that entails. When we shoot, however, its about ten hours a day solid for two weeks or so a couple of times a year. High production jammed into a short time.

[Electra]

Originally Posted by rhetorical

On a slow day, maybe 25......

But seriously...when we do work its kinda all day, but three or four times a week we go hiking in the mountains which kinda fucks up the day for work. But some evenings, we don't watch tv, we do this shit. All in all its actually not that bad compared to a 40 hour job that involves commuting time, rush hour and all that entails. When we shoot, however, its about ten hours a day solid for two weeks or so a couple of times a year. High production jammed into a short time.

I don't have the luxury of having any mountains near me to go hiking.. I suppose I could go for a run up the Philly Art Museum steps like Rocky I'm usually up about 8....have to get up cuz my cat will just keep standing on me when she wants me to get up. Its hard to sleep when a cat is walking on you. Then I'll work through until midday when I have to get news up and after lunch its working through until 7 or 8 at night. If I'm working on a project I will work through the weekend as well. Hardly get to watch TV...mostly the news..although I love Eastenders on Sunday even though I know the episodes on PBS are about 10 years behind the ones in the UK. I think I work a lot harder now than when I had an offline job.

[Toby]

Originally Posted by Electra

How do you guys manage it all ?

Prioritize and Divide & Conquer.

When everything runs smooth at the same time I can get by spending just 3 or 4 hours a day maintaining the status quo. But that rarely happens for more than a few days a month, plus I'm never happy just maintaining the status quo.

The rest of the time I just put in the hours needed to get it done while ignoring the stuff not absolutely essential to keeping the cash flow coming in. Some weeks that's into 80 hour neighborhood. But it still beats the hell out of having a daily commute and a supervisor to report to.

P.S. I have a monthly glass club meeting this evening, so I'll send you a PM with a list of indie sites later tonight or tommorow.

[Electra]

Originally Posted by Toby

Prioritize and Divide & Conquer.

When everything runs smooth at the same time I can get by spending just 3 or 4 hours a day maintaining the status quo. But that rarely happens for more than a few days a month, plus I'm never happy just maintaining the status quo.

The rest of the time I just put in the hours needed to get it done while ignoring the stuff not absolutely essential to keeping the cash flow coming in. Some weeks that's into 80 hour neighborhood. But it still beats the hell out of having a daily commute and a supervisor to report to.

P.S. I have a monthly glass club meeting this evening, so I'll send you a PM with a list of indie sites later tonight or tommorow.

I guess its a matter of knowing how to manage our time..I'll have to work on that.

What's a glass club?

[Toby]

Originally Posted by Electra

I guess its a matter of knowing how to manage our time..I'll have to work on that.

What's a glass club?

Yup, efficient time and task management is critical when working for yourself.

I belong to a local glass collector club. I collect antique glass when I'm not doing this Interwebs gig. A couple of pics....

[Electra]

Originally Posted by Toby

Yup, time and task management is critical when working for yourself.

I belong to a local glass collector club. I collect antique glass when I'm not doing this Interwebs gig. A couple of pics....

Oh my goodness...that's just BEAUTIFUL!!!! How do you go about finding stuff like that?

[Toby]

Originally Posted by Electra

Oh my goodness...that's just BEAUTIFUL!!!! How do you go about finding stuff like that?

Most of that I've bought on eBay over the last 6 to 7 years, and the rest at shops and shows. Most of that is by US makers, the rest UK with exception of the five tumblers on the bottom left of pic 1, which are French. It all pretty much dates from about 1888 to 1908. I have one other set of shelves about the size of pic 2, with mostly odds and ends pieces instead of groups of the same pattern. It's an addiction, and yes, it can get expensive.

[Electra]

Originally Posted by Toby

Most of that I've bought on eBay over the last 6 to 7 years, and the rest at shops and shows. Most of that is by US makers, the rest UK with exception of the five tumblers on the bottom left of pic 1, which are French. It all pretty much dates from about 1888 to 1908. I have one other set of shelves about the size of pic 2, with mostly odds and ends pieces instead of groups of the same pattern. It's an addiction, and yes, it can get expensive.

You must be an expert on antique glass...you could start a blog on it..assuming you don't already have one