A First

This week we're experiencing a big FIRST. Before I tell you what it is, let me explain the basics of who does the work on our sites:

TUCKER AND I.

Long story short: for the past six years I/we have been doing almost everything ourselves. I've bought a couple of scripts, software, equipment, costumes. NakedHosting takes care of all of our hosting needs and the technical side of that. But really, I have only paid for THINGS, never hiring actual PEOPLE to do specific jobs. Sure, we pay affiliates, but only when they make sales; it's not the same as HIRING someone. And yeah, we've gotten incredible free help from friends and colleagues, but again . . . not the same as paying for help. I started out doing everything alone and in the past six years have only added one person (Tucker) to the "staff".

This week that changes! This week we are paying a videographer / video editor to shoot us, edit the footage, encode it, etc. It will be the first time we've really paid someone to do work for our sites. I cannot describe how intensely excited I am!

The bulk of our content is solo stuff since Tucker and I shoot each other; doing couples stuff is really hard when you're shooting it yourself, and I think not as fun when you're worrying about being a photographer AND a fucker. Plus I really really really find video editing monotonous, and can't afford the time or money to get the right tools and learn to use them. As a result, I feel like a lot of our video content is sub-par. But I'm *dying* to offer members more hardcore stuff (note: by "hardcore" I do not mean "extreme" as in setting each other on fire while fucking telephone poles, etc.); plus I just really love watching Tucker (or Delia) and I doing it. I love almost all of the content we do have featuring us together, and I know it will only be a million times better with Ron shooting the video, offering insights and suggestions and direction, and editing it.

So. This is going to be a landmark week for us. Hiring someone to shoot content probably doesn't measure on most porn companies' "landmark dates" register (for most of them it's a REQUIREMENT, not an option), but for indies like us? Whoah! It's a BIG DEAL!

Oops. I just remembered that I paid a friend to build a computer for me back in 2002 and do some follow-up work after that, so this is actually not a first. But it feels like it!!!

I look forward to working with Ron a lot, milking his brain and talents, and moving towards contracting out more of our work in the future. Though I tended to be one of those people who hated group work in school (and I still love working on projects by myself), I have come to appreciate working in teams. With the right people working together the process and end results are better than anything you could imagine doing alone. Ron is definitely "the right people".

Honestly we can't truly afford him right now, but thanks to one of my long-time members' sweet donations, I have just enough of a cushion to earmark some money for Ron so that he knows we value his work and are serious about budgeting him in for more. He is worth way more than we'll be paying him this week, that's for sure.

Guess this means I will have to hurry up and make a nice leak-free clean tour for affiliates to promote SpyOnUs.com! Now . . . if I could just find the money to pay someone to do THAT job . . . someday!