4. Focus on Production Efficiency and Effect. Make Your Money Later.

Streamlining your processes goes a long way. It allows you to do far more with what initial little you might gain, which will then propel you forward all the more.

This is a sub-branch extended from a larger blog set I have written laying out tips and advice for Onlyfans Creators, but also independent Escorts, Performers, Sex Workers and whoever else getting started in the Adult Entertainment Industry.

This advice comes from a Content & Brand Production & Marketing perspective. This is not about doing the job itself.

The core post can be found HERE.

You don’t need to be huge. Focus on 1000 True Fans.

If you can find 1000 people who want to pay you $100 a year for your product or service, then you’ve got $100K a year.

That is absolutely doable, and once you get 1000, you’ve achieved the hard part. It tends to be a whole lot easier to increase that from there.

Thinking of it practically like this makes it far more achievable than thinking of it in terms of ‘being part of the 0.5%’ and other phrases like that you see constantly thrown around as some kind of benchmark. Forget about the success of other creators and focus on personal goals.

Would you pay for your content?

I’ve had a lot of new starters send me raw footage to produce for them, and it’s a single flat shot, framed close, of them already engaged in the act. And that’s the entire shot. That is the only thing that happens from start to finish, and that is what they actually assume is going to make them money.

Why would people pay for that?

I understand that you get in the mood, and it’s all hot in the moment. You might also get a kick from the exposure of it, but if you’re actually serious about this business, then you need to think about what you’re providing your audience.

In today’s buyer’s market, with the sheer amount of choice that is available, why would anyone possibly pay for a static zoomed in shot of a single motion?

Review your content on a clear analytical mind. Is this the best you can put forward? Can you improve things in some way? What would you as a customer want to see?

Can you realistically achieve what’s in your mind?

This kind of work is a lot harder than most believe it to be, and I’m not talking about getting naked and looking good. That may actually be the easiest part.

I see it happen regularly in the raw footage clients send me. They start out with these shots and deliveries planned in their head, just assuming it’s going to go fine. But then some little thing doesn’t work, and the quick adjustment required throws them off just that little amount. They then find something else, some equipment perhaps requiring extra adjustment, and that confidence level drops just that touch more.

As the shoot drags longer and longer, it becomes more and more of an act, they get more and more frustrated because of all this extra bullshit they need to deal with, they’re uncomfortable, their knees are getting sore from sitting on this floor, these angles, phrases, voices they had planned feel just stupid now when actually performed, and it takes them more and more out of the mood.

I’ve had at least three creators, new and experienced, come to me with big ideas, all inspired and with a plan to get it done over said couple of days, ideas that to me were legitimately fantastic and would have hit really well had they actually done them… But I never hear anything from them again. I just assume they’ve set up, gotten to start, and had the reality hit.

Ideas are the easiest thing in the world, but delivering them is another matter entirely.

But this does not mean that great idea is unachievable. You might simply need to adjust, or start with something smaller that you can build to your ultimate goal.

Audit the Idea.

Sit down and actually map the concept out into tangible components and assets. What will be required? How much space? How will camera placement work? Do you have the skills it will require?

And can you repeat it regularly, if that’s the intention?

Do a 'Dry Run’

Try out the expressions you have in your mind. Use your voice in ‘that way’ and record it. Try the positions and angles and see how they actually feel and frame.

But also experiment with different lighting and how it works with your specific complexion, on your specific camera.

When you review it the first time, adjust and try it again another.

How ‘else’ might it be done?

If the idea remains legitimate but just currently beyond your scope of expertise, skill or means, are there areas of it that you can optimise? The answer might just lie in starting with a stripped out far more achievable version, which can then be built out into the original down the track.

Ask a professional editor/producer about the execution of it. They might have suggestions for how pull it off far easier than you think.

What you DON’T do though, is just send them a bunch of random clips and shots, with no plan, and say “I WAN’T TO SEE YOUR CREATIVITY!”. 90% of the time you’re not going to like what they deliver, and it’s not going to be because they’re bad at their job. It’s because you’ve absolutely had a plan in your mind, but you’ve not voiced it, they haven’t matched it, and you’ve gotten annoyed because they can’t read your mind.

Most importantly… stop talking about it.

It is known now that when you talk about an idea, the brain receives a level of the same phisiological reward it receives upon actually doing it. So the more you talk, the more satiated the brain will be, so the less of a chance you will actually do it.

Stop talking, and get to it.

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