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With over two decades of experience in the adult industry and technology, Mark is the innovative force behind TooMuch.net, a leading video chat and technology solutions provider. Specializing in cutting edge platforms like FanLink and Miracam, Mark has built a reputation for delivering top tier services to influencers and content creators worldwide. While Miracam was discontinued this year, Mark still provides technology and assistance to some of the industry’s biggest names. TooMuch is rolling out its brand new product, FanLink, a simple yet powerful video chat system aimed at influencers in and outside the adult industry. They’ve also launched an AI based age detection system. His services include hosting support, custom development and behind the scenes upgrades that boost speed and security. Mark and his company have earned multiple awards in the adult and in mainstream. Mark you used to run studios back in the day while you were developing your live cam network software. What was it like to code software while having a bunch of naked girls running around all the time? And how did your programmers keep the shit together? Well, time for your first question. It was fun and it was distracting and it was fun and it was distracting. It was all four of those things. But it was, in all honesty, it was pretty good because we got to have more collaboration than you might expect without the girls. So for example, in our office space we had the programmers in one part of the office and studios and changing rooms on the other side. But in the middle was a common area. There’s a few common areas but the middle was the main one. So what was happening is that the programmers were approached by the girls and say, "How can I do this?" Or, "Could we add a feature that would do that?" So besides meaning technical problems might be reported, a lot of it was feature talk and ways to improve things. So it was the casualness of the atmosphere lent a lot to the collaboration and improvement of the software and the services. Sure. You sold off some technology, closed up shop in 2014 and have been working from home ever since. How do you like it compared to working in an office? It’s different but I like it overall. Watching again on the collaboration aspect, you lose that. When you’re in person in an office, seeing a whole bunch of different people, there’s always a chance to bounce ideas or just talk or play games or whatever but as you’re playing games or talking, you’re learning or coming up with new ideas. Working at home is different. The only meetings or collaborations you have are with maybe with clients or programmers through video calls, not Skype anymore but teams or other platforms like that. And since it’s not random or spontaneous, I think a lot of the collaboration is lost. So I miss that. On the other side, it sure beats having to be stuck in traffic going to work every day. You get to work from home, start and then when you want, it takes a bit of discipline but it’s also great. Yeah, no need to pay for a rent either. Exactly. You save a lot of money. Yeah, definitely. One thing that comes to mind before I ask my next question about mainstream, there’s a lot that’s changed in the adult industry. Talk a little bit about that starting from when you started an adult to today. I think I would probably say there’s a whole different thing, a whole ton of different things that have changed. If we talk about just about technology for a second, when I started way, way, way back in the olden times, the format for video wasn’t even video, it was called that JPEG push. There was a bunch of frames, maybe you got like four frames per second on a teeny tiny little image and that was amazing at the time. Then it became flash video, became popular and then it became Windows media or vice versa. I forget that one of course today, it’s on the people. On the cultural side, it’s a bit hard to say because since this in Montreal, Montreal and the people were always adult friendly. So the girls that were doing it like we ran ads in college newspapers for example and had no problems doing it. But in other cities, they couldn’t get away with doing anything like that at all. Today, adult is still accepted, more so, not just in Montreal but in North America. So many people are in adult now, it’s become more acceptable. To a degree, in some ways it seems to be going backwards. Yeah, I think it depends where you live. A lot of places in the United States are getting more restrictive, imposing more and more laws and it’s kind of flipping around in some places I’d say. I don’t know for sure, I’m just going by based what the new laws are in places like Florida and Kansas and things like that. 22 states. Yeah, well I think it’s 10 states now, I have to check. No, it’s 22. But 22 states. Wow, 22 states. Yeah, so but in Canada, the needle hasn’t moved one way or the other, it’s just like oh, okay, naked girls doing naked things online, okay, who cares, next. Yeah, I think in Montreal that’s kind of the French influence now, isn’t it? Yeah, I don’t know if it’s French but it’s definitely Montreal. Yeah, which part of that, a great part of that culture I think is French, right? Yeah, yeah, for sure. Oh yeah, Montreal is primarily French speaking, French everything. Yep, I’ll never forget when I was a young man, I used to go to Lake Tahoe and I used to stay in this motel owned by a French couple and let’s see, it was Pierre and Jean were the, oh God, I’m going back 35 years. No, 45, God. Pierre and Jean were the couple and oh, what was the daughter’s name? I think it was like Monique or something like that. And I remember I’m walking by the pool and the daughter’s out there and she’s probably 16, 17, I’m maybe 22 and I walk by the pool and she’s out there in a bikini sunning herself and Pierre notices me looking at her and he goes, you know, in France, before you fuck the daughter, you need to fuck the mother first. Okay. Oh, it’s pretty hilarious. That kind of told me a lot about French sex culture. Okay, I don’t know how true that is everywhere, but yeah, I mean, the people are more relaxed here. Absolutely. Good thing to say. Talk about the changes in the adult industry since you started. Not technically, but just the changes, a lot’s changed. Yeah, it’s hard for me to say because I don’t have a God’s eye view of the whole industry. I only see my parts, right? What I can see out of my light cone or whatever you want to call it. The adult is as for performers has gotten harder and harder. It’s harder and harder to make money thanks to other business like tube sites, hugging all the eyeballs. I feel bad for people who just are getting started in adult horror. Under the impression that all they need to do is show their bodies and they make instant cash. Then I feel even worse for the ones who do this for months at a time, building up content for their own website only to have it all stolen from them. So yeah, I mean, I don’t envy those people. They may be having fun, but it’s harder to make money for them to make money than it ever was. Well, but for the creators though, for the individual performers, in some ways it’s a lot easier with things like OnlyFans. Yeah, that’s right. If they’re doing it for their own websites to sell and promote, it’s very tough. But if they’re joining an existing platform such as OnlyFans, that’s different. I still think they have to hustle, takes a lot of work and a lot of social media savvy, but the ones who do it right and really, really know how to flirt and to present that fantasy to customers are the ones that can do extremely well. Yeah, I follow a lot of creators on X. One of the people I follow is Cherie DeVille, who’s obviously a superstar. She did our 200th episode and it was great. We talked mainly about advocacy in the adult industry and every day when she posts, it’s gold. It’s absolutely gold, but you see the work that goes into it. My God, it’s multiple posts and I’m sure she has people working for her, but wow, different costumes and different ideas. She’s a great example if you don’t follow her on X you should, especially for any aspiring creator because that will really show you the way to do it right. When did you start taking on mainstream clients and do they know you’re in the adult industry? Yeah, well, I always did a couple of mainstream things on the side, like helping friends or previous companies I worked with, I was employee that. I got into computers in the 80s and 90s, so I had a few different jobs before I quit my last one, but I still was in touch with everybody. The mainstream stuff started to take off for me again after I closed the last studio in 2014. In 2016 or so, I started to get a couple of calls here and there and can you help with this or that? I said, "Sure, I’m not going to refuse business." Then it exploded when COVID hit. I was in trouble. I needed to move fast and was a top dollar for everything. That’s when it took off. It’s a beautiful thing. How has AI changed the way you work? A lot. I haven’t been this excited about technology since I first saw the internet back in the 90s. Wow, that’s quite a statement. Yeah, it’s true. I remember back in the 90s, my friend of mine, I used to work for him in the 80s and then I quit. Then we stayed friends and then in the 90s, he showed me this weird thing called the internet in his basement and what the heck is this and all that stuff. I remember my imagination was, "Wouldn’t stop racing. How could we use this? How could we use this?" Now today, AI is everywhere. When I first came across it years ago, been a couple of years now, it was, I think, it was really exciting and still is. I use it as, it’s basically called Agents. You can create agents that help you do software. You can use agents to do different, deeper kinds of research for you and things like that. I use the usual chat GBTs and a few others, but I’m also running AI machines here in my house and a couple online, but the online ones are expensive. They’re just temporary ones. I try to do everything here and on-premises instead because it’s less expensive. Yeah. I was reading yesterday, I read an article about how you could set up your own chat GBT on your computer. That’s so cool. Yeah. It’s not that hard. You do need a really fast computer. If you’re going to get into it, I would suggest that you make a budget to go and buy a fast machine with lots of RAM, 64 or 128 gigabytes of RAM and not necessarily the top of the line GPU, but you want something like an NVIDIA 47 or something like that, which costs just that card is something like $1,000 or whatever. That’s a big deal. It’s not too bad, but it’s better if you have to do them. Like you can set up an AI server like that or an alternative and a lot of people don’t believe me, but it’s true is you can use an Apple Mac mini pro instead and those are faster because of the architecture. Anyway, it doesn’t matter what system you use. It can run on Windows or Macs or Linux and you can run your own. One of the big bonuses is that you can do what you need to do an adult without worrying about being banned from chat GBT. Yeah. That’s definitely. If they’ve relaxed their rules some, but still certain words and things they have a problem with. That’s right. It’ll if you give it some words that doesn’t like it’ll stop and say, you can’t use those words and then if you press your luck, it’ll just stop. I’ll just say, I won’t work anymore on this project. And if you do too much, use your account. Interesting. It’s okay. I got a lot of accounts. I got a lot of Gmail addresses. So we got a lot of accounts. Never come close to that though. What’s your home office and setup like? I think you alluded to some of it and tell me how you’re using it. So my main computer, my main go to computer is an Apple Mac M4 mini, the new one. I work in front of a 49 inch monitor and I have a secondary 28 inch monitor beside that and my desk and my office is low light. It’s ultra quiet. There’s no machines in here with fans making any kind of noise at all because I hate fan noise. But at the same time, when I’m working, I’m playing and listening to heavy metal all the time and the louder the better. I have speakers and subwoofers here in my office and I just crank it when I’m working because I don’t know why. The loud noise of music helps me concentrate but fan noise drives me up the freaking wall. And I also have just for fun. I have an old PRS 80 from the 1983 that is actually working and connected to my network and I’m going to connect to an AI and I’m going to make a video just showing using a 40 year old computer 40 40 year old machine. Crazy. You know, on AI just because I want to do it. That’s neat. How can people run their own AI servers for regular or adult content? So it’s pretty easy. You need to and all the software you need is free, believe it or not. So basically you can do this like I said on a Mac or on Windows. There’s a bunch of different resources. About one resource I like is on YouTube is network check and he has a video that takes you through the steps on setting up your own AI server. So he gives you the instructions, you go and you download different software, you run it and you’re chatting with your own documents on your own machine. It sounds so easy. It’s not bad. It’s surprisingly the faster you computer the faster it’ll give you the results. Right. So but it’s not hard to do. You could have it up and running in 15 minutes. That’s crazy. So Mark, let’s discuss your AI products. The most notable is AI age detection. Tell us about it, how it works and how much it costs. So it’s exactly what it sounds like AI age detection. It’s a program that people can install on their website. Works for any different, any kind of website, a regular HTML or PHP or WordPress or anything that they’ve got going on. It installs with a simple script, one line of code. And how it works is this. When it’s configured, it looks at the inbound traffic to your website. And if it’s coming from a location, let’s say Florida that has age restrictions, it can do one of two things depending on how you can figure it. The first thing you can do is just redirect that user to any URL you want to send them to. It could be just back to Google or back to a page that says, "We can’t help you, sorry." Or it can take them to, or the best way to do it is to take them to a safe for work tour. So it’s still your website, but all the images are cleaned up, right? Just our PG or R rated content, let’s say. And that’s what that does. And if you enable the age detection, what it’ll do is it’ll prompt the user to turn on his webcam. The webcam will then look at his face and run about 20 different samples of his, take about 20 different samples of his face in about half a second to one second. And then it will determine his age. If his age is determined to be less than 18, it will then redirect him to wherever you want him to go. Save, you know, or block him or send him to a different site. Google kidsrs.com, whatever. Something like that. Yeah. And if he is determined to be over 18, then he’s allowed to continue through to your website. And the best part about this, well, there’s a lot of best parts. The first best part is that it does not collect any personal information about the customer, right? So it won’t capture his face, for example, and save it. The second thing, it runs completely in his browser. So it doesn’t have to download anything. He doesn’t have to click any extra things except to allow access, camera access to him. That’s it. And the process is super fast. So one click, two click, and he’s finished. The other best part is that it does collect information that is available to the users, excuse me, to the site owners. So for example, in the logs, it shows you how many people came from which different site, where they were redirected, if you have that redirection set up, how many people passed age verification, how many did not. And it can even determine additional things like the sex of the person, right? If you try to trick the system like holding up a photo of someone, you have an older person, let’s say, it’s smart enough to detect that. So and people can, like the cost, there’s a few different versions. They can buy it for $890 a year, or they can rent it. That’s actually, well, the rental is coming in a few days, but we didn’t set the price yet. The main difference between the basic and hands-on, the pro versions are, one of them is for like standard, excuse me, single domains, and the other is for multi-domains. So if you have several different domains, you don’t need to buy, you don’t need to buy a separate license for each one. You just need one. Yes, you need one. So if I have a hundred sites, it’s just $890. Correct. Oh, no, sorry, that’s the basic one. The pro one is $1,200 a year, and it doesn’t matter how many domains you have. You can have as many domains as you want, $1,000 if you have it. Wow, that’s crazy. What is this compliant with the regulations for the individual states? I don’t know. The regulations are changing. Different states are different. That’s the thing. Yeah, exactly. Some of the only requirements is that you have an age verification system in place, but you are trying to do the right thing. And some of them want proof. So let’s say you have a member who signed up. They want proof that this member actually passed the age verification system. So on something like that, then it’s possible to do. We have to modify the software a bit so that it’ll assign a token to every user who signs up to your site so you can see it later. So that’s compliant as far as that goes. But different between states, and it’s changing. So I have to know for sure. We have to see if we can keep up. The company is, we’re not in megabucks, right? We’re not rowing in though. And I don’t know for sure if this will be, like some people who ask about it think it’s great. But one of them actually even said to me the other day, he goes, "You know what? $890 a year. That’s too expensive. I’d rather take my chances and get sued." And just like, okay. Good luck. Yeah. You know, someone who just did. Yeah, me too. You know, even if they get away with it, you know, just the legal cost of fighting this is going to be ridiculous for them. They’ll be out of business before they realize it. Yeah, yeah. Penny’s safe pound full of shrimp. So you’ve also got something rather interesting, AI porn to safe for work image conversion. Tell me a little bit about that. So this was a fun project. And it’s actually, like we’re offering it as a service, but people can actually do it if they want to run their own AI server touching on the subject you said earlier. So it’s something that they can do themselves. But how it basically works is this. If you’re a company and you have, let’s say, you have tens of thousands of images and they’re all explicit nude content and you need to make some safe, safe for work versions or safe tours or whatever. It’s very, very time consuming to convert those images to block out the naughty bits. So we have an AI-empowered service that does this for them. And this is something you can’t do with chat GBT because it’ll laugh at you before it beats your account, right? But yeah, so what it does is it does, it’s actually two different versions of that program. So the further what it does is it looks at every image. And if when it identifies boobs or butts or penises or vaginas or whatever, it will block them out just by putting a blast square block. Just like Japan. Yeah, just like that. Or you have the option to blur it out, right? But it’ll censor the image and it’ll do that for, if you have 10,000 images, you say, "Create a safe version and it’ll do it." It takes a bit of time, but 10,000 images would be done maybe in about 30 minutes kind of thing, depending if they’re smaller images, it’ll do it faster. If they’re bigger images, it’ll take longer, but it does it really fast. There’s a different version of that. It’s the same software, just slightly different. And what it does is it looks at every image and then describes what it sees using AI and will convert, it’ll then build a gallery for those images. So let’s say you have a bunch of images of a blonde girl having sex with somebody in a park. The AI will look at those images and describe them and create a title for the gallery. It’ll create the title of the gallery website itself using the correct title and meta description and keywords, not just for every page, but for every image in every page. And even better, it can write that data to the meta description of the image itself. So it’s pretty good. That’s your AI product, right? Yes, correct. Okay. All right. You skipped ahead on me there because I was going to ask you about that. Let’s back up. The AI porn to save for work image conversion, what’s the cost on that? It’s like $100. It’s because it doesn’t take very much time at all. So if you have like 10,000 images, 10,000 images, it’s $100. If you have like say 50,000 images, it’s like $200. But you said they can do this themselves. That’s right. So if they want, then we’ll sell them a license to use the software instead for, you know, ask me about the same price, about $200, but probably less. Because it’s easy to use and we don’t have to support it. So we have very little costs. So it might just say, here you go. We just don’t want to have to support installing it. We’re going to say, here’s your instructions. Here’s the requirements. You need this kind of machine and you need this and you need that. And if you don’t have it, then don’t buy it because you can’t support it. Yeah. Good luck not having to support something. You know people are going to have questions, man. Come on. Oh yeah. But I mean like they have to have the hardware to support it. Yeah. No, I understand. And really the hardware that they need is a gaming machine. If they’re on a PC, they just need a PC with a GPU. And if they’re on a Mac, you know, any of the M1, M2, M3, and 4Macs will be just fine. Wow. Let’s talk about the SEO product a little bit. What advantages would this be for someone’s SEO? That’s a better question to ask Rob, Robert Warren. But when Google is looking for content, they’re looking at a website. They want to see things like the title of the website matches the content of the website. Right? Title of this page is about a blonde girl naked in the forest. And then the header or the H1 and H2 tags have to include that. And then the actual just pictures and descriptions of those pictures have to line up with the rest of the title on the page. If Google lists your website in a search result and your title and description match what the content is, your customers spend more time on that page. And Google is happy because they delivered their customer to you. Right? It’s important to think about the visitors that come to your website are Google’s customers. Google’s referring someone to you. They want them to be happy. So if your title and meta and everything else all line up, then Google’s customers spend time on your site and Google is happy and will send you more customers. Your ranking goes up. And what does this cost? There’s no charge yet. We haven’t figured out the price. It’s going to be only about $100. You know, sorry, less than $100. When will it be available? Probably in about three weeks, four weeks from now. Whatever today makes me. So sometime around the middle of June. Okay. Okay. Let’s talk about, and this is going to run in a couple of weeks, just to let people know. Let’s talk about age verification, which is a hot topic in the adult industry right now. What are your thoughts on it? I hope it goes away. But I know that it won’t. Because at its core, it’s a good thing. And if you think about adult sites so far, all they’ve had to have, you know, the requirements to enter an adult website was that you just had to click a button claiming you were 18. And that’s never really been a requirement. It’s just something that people do. Okay. Let’s face it. You really have been no loss. Yeah. It’s ridiculous. So at its core, it’s a good idea. I hope that the panel, when I said I hope it goes away, what I really mean is the penalties. I have the penalties go away. Like because some sites who don’t do this properly, who are being sued, they don’t just, if you imagine you’re a small site, you don’t just get sued out of business. You sue and you lose your house. Well, yeah, if you’re not, if you’re not smart and you didn’t incorporate true. Yeah. But even then, they can sue your corporation and you personally, right? How that holds up in court, I’ve got no idea. But just fighting that is enough to bankrupt some people, you know, or really regret them, really make them regret getting into this in the first place. So when I say I hope it goes away, like I hope that somehow a better rule comes along. Like maybe instead of a fear of a lawsuit, this should just be like, okay, CC Bill won’t do business with you unless, you know, or your payment processor won’t do business with you unless you have age verification. That makes a lot of sense. Well, no, it probably should, it probably should be at the MasterCard and Visa level because CC Bill is not going to do it. It should probably be at the MasterCard Visa level where MasterCard and Visa has regulations where they don’t process. If they don’t process provider level, if you don’t do, if it’s not selling memberships or whatever, then okay, put it at the hosting provider level, let them have that as a requirement. They can do that too, but here’s the biggest problem. And we talked about this when we were discussing your AI model, which I think sounds fantastic, and is probably what people should be doing. I think it makes the most sense. Well, you know, politicians don’t always make the most sense. Not only knows, you know, second, they usually don’t know a damn thing about technology. And you can tell by the way they talk. And third, listening to these old, you know, 85 year old senators discussing the internet as always, just, it always just cracks me up, you know, and third, there should be one standard. Okay. I think a national law in each country should be there that spells out what a website’s obligations are. Should kids be able to access porn? Of course not. And any legitimate operator or model doesn’t want kids to see their stuff. This isn’t how we want to make money. We don’t want kids to have access to it. We all agree on that. But to impose these terrible laws that in some cases have criminal prosecution, if you look at the law in Tennessee, and I believe there’s one other state where they will actually prosecute you criminally, I mean, come on, that shouldn’t be the case. So yeah, you’re absolutely right that the bottom line is the site shouldn’t be able to process if they’re not doing their job on keeping kids out. I said many years ago, and I’ve repeated this many times, and I’ll say it again, probably five, six, seven years ago, I said age verification is going to be a thing. And if the adult industry doesn’t get ahead of it, then we’re going to be victims. And boy, has that turned out to be the case. Exactly. You need to be looking forward all the time. If you become, if you’re an adult and become complacent to technology, you lose to competitors. If you become complacent to laws, you go to jail. Unfortunately, yes. As soon as you sit on your hands, you’re taking more and more risks every day. Absolutely. Absolutely. So let’s talk more about AI, because I know that’s one of your favorite subjects. It’s also a very big topic of conversation, both in adult entertainment and also in mainstream. What are your thoughts about AI’s benefits and dangers going forward? It’s hard to say the dangers, because the danger is depends on whose hands it’s in. So like any tool, you can use it for good or evil. You can use the internet as a fantastic thing, and a lot of people use it for great things, but a lot of people use it for bad things too. So same thing in AI. Content creators, porn stars, and even mainstream are being cloned in AI. So they’re putting situations that they never shot, for example, not just their likeness or their still pictures, but of course, their videos and even their voices. Cloning someone’s voice 10 years ago was crazy science fiction, and now anybody can do it. Right. They’re facing it. Yeah, and they’re facing it. Now it’s today, it’s still fairly easy to tell when something has been AI generated, right? But it does fool a certain amount of people, people who aren’t used to seeing it. But for people who have been exposed to it, they can start to see young Kenny Valley is starting to tickle the back of their neck, and it’s like, wait a second, something’s not right with this video, and then they see it and they go, okay, thank you. I think though that this is also going to create an emerging technology. It already exists in Hollywood, and I think it’s anyone with a few bucks to spend can make a lot of money. What I think models, porn stars, content creators should be doing now, basically creating digit doubles, detailed full body scans, and then copywriting their image because if anybody clones somebody and uses it, okay, that’s copyright, there’s some legal legs to stand on to fight. But more importantly, this sounds a bit creepy, but let’s say you are a beautiful, sexy person, 18, 19, 20 years old. If you scan yourself now, good quality, perfect quality scans, you can keep making content of your 18, 19, 20 year old self for the next 50 years. Unique content, unique scenarios with different people and whatever, and even better, you won’t even need to go and shoot it. You’ll be able to pretty soon tell your AI to put me with these other people doing these other things in this other crazy situation and click generate, and there you go. And today, it’ll look a bit weird, won’t look 100% realistic, but tomorrow it’ll be indistinguishable from reality. Yeah, that’s very cool. One more thing we didn’t talk about is Fanlink. What’s going on with that? Yeah, so Fanlink is a replacement for MiraCam. MiraCam has been our video chat platform. It’s been, it was an evolution of LiveCam Network, and it’s time for it to go. And we finally sun set it this year. Fanlink is a little bit similar, except that it’s geared more towards content creators. And specifically for the big content creators, if you imagine a webcam website, the models on there now have to basically beg for private chat time. They have to beg for tips, beg for love sense, wiggles and all that stuff, right? They’re on free chat broadcasting and showing everything. They’re fully nude in free chat, and there’s hundreds or thousands of people watching them, and they’re just begging, begging, begging. So what Fanlink does instead is it cuts all that noise out. They models the content creators, they sign up, they set their prices in their packages. So let’s say, call me for 10 minutes for $100 or $200 or whatever they want to charge, or a 30 minute call is $500 and a 60 minute call is $2,000 or whatever they want to charge again. And then they set it and forget it. When the customer, they get a URL which they can place on their social media. It’s just as call me. Now when they get a call, it goes right to their phone to via, similar to FaceTime, they receive a link saying, Joe Blow is trying to call you, make $500 to accept this call. They tap it, now they’re on a video call with that person. That person has already paid, he’s already vetted, he’s already a customer, a paying customer of that person. So there’s no more free chat, there’s no more show me or boobs baby, and then maybe I’ll tip you, none of that bullshit. So if you’re an amateur model just starting out, it’s not for you at all. But if you are an experienced influencer, and it’s not even limited to adult, it could be for fitness models, it could be for cooks, it could be for anybody. If you’re an influencer and you have like 50,000 followers on X or Instagram or more, just post that link out to say here you can call me. And that’s it. Well, 50,000 people try and call her, no. But there will be a few that will help her generate an extra $20,000, $30,000 a month in sales for the customers who are die hard fans and who are the whales. I don’t think it has to be large content creators. It’s really anybody who has a social media following, right? Yeah, anyone has a following. If they don’t have a following yet, it won’t work for them. But once they start, they can still sign up, it doesn’t cost them anything. But if you try and get one person to spend that money, it probably won’t work at all. But if you are a beautiful woman and you have already thousands of followers that hang off of your every action, then it’ll definitely work. You don’t even need to be an adult content creator. You could just be anyone. You could just be a fashion model. You could just be anyone of the TikTok dancers, that kind of thing. Yeah, fabulous. So who are you primarily working with these days? Nobody, just me. I have a small programming team and my AI boxes. Do you have some nice conversations with them? As a matter of fact, I do and it drives my wife up the wall. And this is something that anyone can do, but I do it because I’m insane. We know, but we still love you. So you can talk by voice to AI robots and they’ll talk right back to you. So what most people don’t know is that you do not have to accept the default personality that they have. You can give it a personality. And I forget the movie. Well, imagine science fiction movies that we saw where the robot has personality and says stupid jokes, right? I used to, I love science fiction, but I always hated things like that because of course robots won’t talk like that. Even in that movie Christopher Nolan’s, what’s a movie? Interstellar, one of the robots in their Tars. He’s got personality and I fucking hated that part of the movie because I just thought it was stupid. But anyway, now that’ll never question. Yeah, of course. AI’s got personality. So what I did, I told it, do you know who Marvin the paranoid Android is? And he goes, yeah, from, from hitchhikers guy to the galaxy. So I said, okay, talk, pretend like you’re that character, but even more paranoid and throw in some Rodney Dangerfield. And they fed all that up. Oh God, I got, I need you to record one of these conversations and send it to me. But I’d be more than happy to do it because it’s so much fun, right? I’ll have my conversation. Like how do I, how do I fix this or what do I need to do? And it’ll respond to me as a, as a, as a ultra paranoid, comedian and insulting AI back. And I just laugh my head off because it comes up with the stupidest jokes. It still answers my question, but it has it with incredibly hilariously bad attitude. It’s a lot of fun. That’s great. You should, you should have done Don Rickles. That’s even better if you want to get in. Don Rickles. Absolutely. Yeah. I forgot about Don Rickles. He was awesome. Throw him in there. Throw him in there. I saw, I saw a great documentary on Don Rickles. Oh man. He was a lovely man. And Rodney, on the other hand, I saw him live one time and oh my side was splitting. I saw him in the big amphitheater and we had to eat. Oh my God. And there was a, I never, I love both of those comedians. I never saw either one live. I never saw Rickles, but I would have loved to have seen him, but Rodney. Oh my God. He was funny. Well, hey, Mark, I’d like to thank you for being back with us on the Dolt’s Late Broker Talk and I hope we’ll get a chance to do this again soon when you have your next great idea. Well, thank you very much for having me, Bruce. It’s always good to talk to you again. And yes, I’ll definitely let you know. Thank you. So, the last episode today is part eight of what to do to make your site more valuable for when you decide to sell it later. Last week we talked about information needed to give the buyer and being transparent with the buyer. Here’s more information on what to give to a potential buyer. How well has your content been protected from piracy and what steps have you taken to protect your content? Are you using a piracy takedown or monitoring service? These are important things to know. What promotional tools do you offer to your affiliates? The more tools you offer, the more successful your affiliates will be. What is your traffic breakdown by country? Tier one countries like the USA, Canada, the UK, Germany and Australia are the most preferred. Add in anything else that will add value to the sale of your property that you can think of such as what custom scripts do you use? What content management system software is on your site? Do you use billing or affiliate software like NATS? What’s your retention rate? How you retain your members is of the utmost importance. How many joins and rebuilds do you have a day? Do you buy advertising and if so what kind? Can your content make more money on the DVD or VOD markets or have you already tapped into those opportunities? How much did you spend to produce or buy the content that’s on your site? What do you believe the content is worth now? We’ll talk about this subject more next week and next week we’ll be speaking with Alex Ribbon of Dreamcam. And that’s it for this week’s Adult Site Broker Talk. I’d once again like to thank my guest Mark Prince of 2Much.net. Talk to you again next week on Adult Site Broker Talk. I’m Bruce Friedman. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) [BLANK_AUDIO]
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