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no more reMV for me One of the things content producers do to gain more exposure is to cross promote with other producers and performers. When I first started making porn people would contact me about a banner exchange, because I had a website and there was a page for that sort of thing. I’d put their banner on a page on my site and they would do the same on theirs. There were certainly other ways to cross promote, but that was the easiest and most memorable. This was back when I was still burning DVDs and sending them out with cases and artwork though, and as things began to go more digital the ways to promote expanded. I participated in very little of it, and it certainly cost me sales, but that part of the business was one I was never very good at. Ask me to film and edit and I’ll do so with expertise but require me to get on social media and make my presence known and I falter. Which leads me to ManyVids. There are some places where being visible is nearly impossible. On Clips4Sale, for example, if you’re not a majorly popular producer or performer there aren’t a lot of ways to stand out. The site is not interactive, it is just an online store that sells porn. ManyVids, on the other hand, has an incredible amount going on, and within that Universe of activity there are quite a few ways to try and stand out or catch attention. One of the most popular is to repost what others performers post, in the hopes that they will do the same for you. You see, every time a new post goes up it gets put on a scrolling feed on the main page, so the time it spends there depends mostly on the number of individuals posting. It’s a hugely busy site so visibility is sparse, and brief, but if you have 30 / thirty fellow content producers and performers reposting for you throughout the day and night (because you did for them) that increases. This act of reposting is called “reMV” on ManyVids. It can be hugely beneficial, but the thing is, it is also extremely boring. We’re talking sitting at the computer and clicking the mouse over and over again kind of boring. It’s probably the most unsexy thing I’ve done in all my years working in the adult industry. So I took a break, and when I came back I announced that I wouldn’t be clicking the “love” button for anyone anymore, nor would I be participating in the whole “reMV” thing. In other words, no cross promotion, I was going it on my own and thanks very much to all the people who had shown me love in the past. It’s been that way for about a month now and I am happy with the decision. Not only did I not see a marked difference in sales or visits to my profile and store, I am free of that tedious task of scrolling down, clicking hearts and reMV buttons, repeat, repeat, repeat. It used to take me something like 15 / fifteen minutes to go through this process, and I was doing it every single night for 2 / two profiles. It honestly turned the business of making and selling adult content into a chore instead of a delight. I found myself less than thrilled to be a part of something I was once immensely proud of. Making porn became boring! I never thought I’d say that.  |
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