Originally posted by reysan
I know guys who've been flown all-expenses paid and paid ten grand for eight minutes on film, all at the drop of a hat. If the porn company can spring for that, I'd say they're doing pretty good.
Well, not necessarily. Some people demand a lot of money/benefits, and you just have to pay it or you don't get the big name. A few years ago, we had an opportunity (ha!) to invite some big-name American homeschooling speaker over to our conference in Australia. She asked for five-star accomodation, first-class travel, etc, etc, etc, in addition to the fee for actually speaking. Now, as it happens, we KNEW that there was no way we'd recoup that (we don't even pay our own expenses, let alone make a profit, with these conferences), but in an industry where the market is orders of magnitude larger than ours, the possibility is really there. When the market is enormous and the competition cut-throat, spending extra money may give you the edge you need; but it doesn't necessarily mean that you're successful. It might just mean you have a more expensive failure.