My point in was going to be that many of these new-fangled revolutionary things being tried by some (wannabe) alt porn companies are things that the self-made amateur porn market has has in effect for 5-10 years. (Interaction with models, journals/blogs, models making a larger cut of the overall pie, more control over one’s image, etc.)

Sites like Southern Charms offer the same type of deal of 50% subscriptions and 100% of hard goods. They boast that all you need to do is answer a few emails and you can make up to $1500 a month. The downside is you give up ownership of your pictures and they can post them long after you have quit. And the claim that answering a few emails is all you have to do is bogus.

If you want to become a nude model or a porn actress these sites aren’t a bad start but they are only a temporary stop to help teach girls how to market themselves. But nobody should get into this business if they can’t market themselves at least a little. Its common sense, if you like yourself and believe in yourself you can market yourself. If you don’t then you have no business taking off your clothes in the first place.

It may be a little harder at first to make the right decisions and take the right jobs but as with everything it can be learned through experience. But if you are getting into this business to make money you should have some idea of what direction you want to take. People think getting naked for the internet is an easy thing that should be treated with a light hearted laugh and its not. Everybody can see you!

Unfortunately, girls get into this business for the wrong reasons I understand. These companies benefit from them by giving them hopes of being able to make money without having to do anything but take a picture.

In the example you gave is that 50% after the admin fees and the affiliate cut? In most contracts I have seen the model cut comes last.

Now, if that’s worth a 50% share of all membership purchases and 40% of all hardcopy sales, well, that’s a question that each model is going to have to evaluate for themself. That being said, what SatansSecret is offering isn’t nearly as bad as many, many contract terms I’ve seen out there for models. I’m not saying that the site is going to make a model rich, but making beer money from a photoshoot or two is a lot more than many people will ever make.

If all of these sites are taking a lot more than they should, someone setting up a site that takes less should attract a lot of models, right? So showing the numbers on how much a good site costs to run, how much it would take in, and how much it might pay out should be fairly easy. Same goes for films.

Is there such a resource? Because if not, there should be.

It’s very hard to make money but it is possible. I spend most of my time researching possible jobs and doing background checks most of which don’t pan out. I turn a large amount of work down.

Comparing overall sales to my original paycheck is very disturbing. If I was under contract my life would be much easier and I would be making more money. But I’m not a contract girl and, I prefer to do it all on my own. That’s not to say I would turn down an invitation. Being under contract would free up much of my time to concentrate on other projects.

Either way I really enjoy what I do and work around 16 to 20 hours a day 7 days a week on it. I am happy and would rather do this and not make a great deal of money then go to a boring office every day and gossip with the IT guys.

I think Tony’s comment is helpful though. It does talk about what SAG is and that the glamorous life of an actor is all fiction.

The subject of your post however was not about SAG and more about profit sharing. No matter what, taking jobs like these makes very little cash for the models. If there is a company behind it you are working for someone else and you can bet they are taking a lot more than they should. As much as they say it’s better for you, it really isn’t. You lose ownership of your pictures and videos and your name is secondary to theirs. It isn’t as dandy as they say-no not at all.

Wrong.

Take some time and read the SAG Ultra Low Budget Agreement, which covers films with budget of under (IIRC $200,000.) This is the SAG contract that would cover 99.99 percent of all porn productions.

Actors working under the SAG UBA make about $100/day (and that’s a 10 hour day,) with no residuals on the first 100,000 DVDs. Porn DVDs sales are measured in hundreds or thousands, not tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.

Broadcast residuals are calculated on a small percentage (less than 5%, paid to SAG, and then split among the performers by their formula) of the gross revenues from broadcast sales. Nevermindsing that most porn never sees any broadcast revenue, cable and on-demand lisensing fees for adult are laughably small, which would make the actors’ cut even smaller.

Even the few SAG actors who work under the standard SAG agreement rarely make much more than their dayrate, which right now stands at about $750/day. The number of SAG members who ever see meaningful residuals from broadcast or DVD sales is a fraction of the union membership.

Yes, I know, everybody’s got a friend or a cousin who was in a popular commercial or a TV show, and she’s still cashing checks 20 years later. But like the porn perform who gets into the business, keeps her head on straight, and gets out with a five-figure nest egg, the SAG actor who ever makes any real money from acting is the rare exception.

I’m sorry to come down like a ton of bricks, but your average SAG actor would be delighted if they could keep their clothes on and still get porn-scale.

SAG ULBA
http://www.sagindie.org/docs/sag-ultralowbudget-2005wm.pdf

SAG Rates:
http://www.sag.org/Content/Public/2005-08TVTheatrRates.pdf