I wanted to start this new topic and thread to give our members an idea about how we hire models for the site. I think its a good thread to start since the recent issue with Kodaaa and Smoore29 and other issue's about models have been questioned.
Every production studio has a different method for hiring models. The major part of my job during the day when I'm not filming or running the business is to hire models for Broke Straight Boys, College Boy Physicals and Boygusher sites and any other sites we are filming for BluMedia/D&E Productions (new projects).
When I started hiring models for Broke Straight Boys, I just made sure the boys were straight, broke and what I thought was good-looking. As time went on and the popularity of the Broke Straight Boys site grew, hiring models went from being fun to making the proper business decision for the site. Broke Straight Boys.com is a nichey type site. We can't hire gay boys because that would defeat the purpose of the theme of the site. The search was on, in the beginning I had no choice but to hire models that considered themselves "Gay For Pay" which means they are straight in the everyday world...but for $$$, they will be gay on film. Go figure? but it worked and this type of model met our needs at the time and these type of models worked the porn circuit and went from studio to studio and can be seen on other sites. This didn't sit pretty for me and I didn't like the fact the models we hired, paid them good money, we took the time to promote and market them, those models would go to another studio and film. What sucked about this was our site is called Broke Straight Boys and it bothered me a lot to see the boys I hired for our site go to another site and do "gay" porn.
This challenged me and it question our integrity of the Broke Straight Boys site. My business thought was if we keep using models that continue to appear on other sites, then we are not truly a Broke Straight Boys site and we are not doing the right thing for our members. The search continued to find boys that nobody had. I then decided to stop, look around, and figure out how to get models that nobody has used before. We placed ADs in magazines, posted on the internet and we were also getting applications sent in from guys off the site applying to become a model.
This started early on the Broke Straight Boys site and we introduced new fresh faces that nobody had seen before. Overwhelmingly, our members loved it and wanted to see more of the same model over and over again. This is how the repeat models started on our site and it seem to work very well for us (there is an in depth explanation about this on another thread). It did so well for us, the popularity of the Broke Straight Boys model was born! Tyler was our first model, then came CJ, and Danny, Dustin, Diesal, Logan just to name a few (there are many others) these models became the face of Broke Straight Boys site and you don't see them on any other site. This gave us the opportunity to market the model, promote them and bring them to events as a true Broke Straight Boys
A small percentage of members have voiced there opinion regarding the fact we use the same models over & over again just too much (again, in another thread, there is an in-depth explanation why we use models over and over again.)
In 2008, hiring models became a business decision and I started questioning if a model that applies to our studio, is it the right thing to do? What is that model going to offer our site? Are the members going to like this model? Does this model fit the Broke Straight Boys imagine? These are some of the questions I had in my mind when hiring models. We also wanted a loyal model, a model we can trust, bring to events, sign them up as exclusive models. Having a model that is exclusive on your site is good, but its great when the only place you can see that model is on our site and on our site only. There are going to be times when models go to other studios and you will see them on other sites and vice versa that you will see models from other sites appear on the Broke Straight Boys site. This is common in our industry and happens all the time, we have no control over it but we try our best to limit it. So here are some questions I want to ask our members that are on this forum, I want you as the member to be David for a moment and if you can answer some of these questions and give me your thoughts on this matter.
1. Do you prefer seeing exclusive models that can only be seen on our sites? If so why?
2. Does it offend you as a member when you see "our" Broke Straight Boys model appearing on a gay site that is not part of our sites, basically appearing on our competitors site?
3. Which models would you prefer to see on a ongoing basis?
4. The models that you picked to see on a ongoing basis, would you be okay to see them on our other sites such as College Boy Physicals, BG, BCB???
5. What do you think as a member about using models that have been seen all over the internet? and I will expand on this question:
Without mentioning models names, what would you think if we hired models that have appear often on gay websites and we pawn them off as a Broke Straight Boys?
I'm just curious to find out what our members think, If your going to answer the above questions, really put some thought into this issue. Put yourself in my shoes and think like a business man and if you had to hire models for our site how would you do it?
-David
Every production studio has a different method for hiring models. The major part of my job during the day when I'm not filming or running the business is to hire models for Broke Straight Boys, College Boy Physicals and Boygusher sites and any other sites we are filming for BluMedia/D&E Productions (new projects).
When I started hiring models for Broke Straight Boys, I just made sure the boys were straight, broke and what I thought was good-looking. As time went on and the popularity of the Broke Straight Boys site grew, hiring models went from being fun to making the proper business decision for the site. Broke Straight Boys.com is a nichey type site. We can't hire gay boys because that would defeat the purpose of the theme of the site. The search was on, in the beginning I had no choice but to hire models that considered themselves "Gay For Pay" which means they are straight in the everyday world...but for $$$, they will be gay on film. Go figure? but it worked and this type of model met our needs at the time and these type of models worked the porn circuit and went from studio to studio and can be seen on other sites. This didn't sit pretty for me and I didn't like the fact the models we hired, paid them good money, we took the time to promote and market them, those models would go to another studio and film. What sucked about this was our site is called Broke Straight Boys and it bothered me a lot to see the boys I hired for our site go to another site and do "gay" porn.
This challenged me and it question our integrity of the Broke Straight Boys site. My business thought was if we keep using models that continue to appear on other sites, then we are not truly a Broke Straight Boys site and we are not doing the right thing for our members. The search continued to find boys that nobody had. I then decided to stop, look around, and figure out how to get models that nobody has used before. We placed ADs in magazines, posted on the internet and we were also getting applications sent in from guys off the site applying to become a model.
This started early on the Broke Straight Boys site and we introduced new fresh faces that nobody had seen before. Overwhelmingly, our members loved it and wanted to see more of the same model over and over again. This is how the repeat models started on our site and it seem to work very well for us (there is an in depth explanation about this on another thread). It did so well for us, the popularity of the Broke Straight Boys model was born! Tyler was our first model, then came CJ, and Danny, Dustin, Diesal, Logan just to name a few (there are many others) these models became the face of Broke Straight Boys site and you don't see them on any other site. This gave us the opportunity to market the model, promote them and bring them to events as a true Broke Straight Boys
A small percentage of members have voiced there opinion regarding the fact we use the same models over & over again just too much (again, in another thread, there is an in-depth explanation why we use models over and over again.)
In 2008, hiring models became a business decision and I started questioning if a model that applies to our studio, is it the right thing to do? What is that model going to offer our site? Are the members going to like this model? Does this model fit the Broke Straight Boys imagine? These are some of the questions I had in my mind when hiring models. We also wanted a loyal model, a model we can trust, bring to events, sign them up as exclusive models. Having a model that is exclusive on your site is good, but its great when the only place you can see that model is on our site and on our site only. There are going to be times when models go to other studios and you will see them on other sites and vice versa that you will see models from other sites appear on the Broke Straight Boys site. This is common in our industry and happens all the time, we have no control over it but we try our best to limit it. So here are some questions I want to ask our members that are on this forum, I want you as the member to be David for a moment and if you can answer some of these questions and give me your thoughts on this matter.
1. Do you prefer seeing exclusive models that can only be seen on our sites? If so why?
2. Does it offend you as a member when you see "our" Broke Straight Boys model appearing on a gay site that is not part of our sites, basically appearing on our competitors site?
3. Which models would you prefer to see on a ongoing basis?
4. The models that you picked to see on a ongoing basis, would you be okay to see them on our other sites such as College Boy Physicals, BG, BCB???
5. What do you think as a member about using models that have been seen all over the internet? and I will expand on this question:
Without mentioning models names, what would you think if we hired models that have appear often on gay websites and we pawn them off as a Broke Straight Boys?
I'm just curious to find out what our members think, If your going to answer the above questions, really put some thought into this issue. Put yourself in my shoes and think like a business man and if you had to hire models for our site how would you do it?
-David