Live the Dream: Chronology of an experiment
My argentine girl and I come for vacation to Buenos Aires in 1997. It was not my first time in BA, but this time I stayed for 1 month.
Two years after, in 1999 I took the decision to move to Buenos Aires to start with an Internet related company. My project involved several businesses related, as ISP, design and development, owned portals and a cybercafé in the center of the city which by the way was the first seriously mounted cybercafé in Buenos Aires. Magicnet.
My partner and I organized two operations for the web development and design. One was DDH (design, development and Hosting) and the other one as Eye for you, this company wanted to produce contents and design and sale it for the USA market. Just 6 months later, in 2000 the dotcom industry experienced a big crash and Argentina itself started to fall into their own financial crisis. During the year 2000 we just worked to survive but we had no luck, in 2001 my partner suffered a blood pressure attack, and a few months later he passed away.
All the projects and illusions I had just vanished and the eye four ya project too.
In the argentine summer of 2002 I took charge of a big bakery placed in downtown with 25 employees, one of my first decisions was to replace part of the staff so we put an ad on the newspaper and hundreds of people answered the ad. I had a database structure that remained from a job we did for Scotiabank (a bank who vanished from Argentina and never paid for the jobs we did for them) So I used the structure for placing the counter staff candidates, which was full of inexperienced promotoras.
Several of these promotoras, also said they were fashion models, or fashion models aspirants and they included their background and book photos.
I answered many of the models trying to fuck them in exchange of nothing since I was broke and it was funny and cheap and best quality than fucking pro-girls. The thing worked not too good, but I managed to succeed with a couple of them.
So, I kept developing the database, with 50 records and made it grow to 100 records. A friend of mine helped me to put another ad looking for models, buying a couple of cellphones, renting an office and proceed with the first project-operation. Saying that we were bookers from an Italian model agency. So we mounted a fake casting and several girls attended to it.
We repeated the experience a few months later. This time with more resources and resulted better. So, in late 2003 I had a database with 150 aspirants, secretaries, actresses and promotoras.
I kept focused due the devaluation of the currency to export talent as programming, and design, my models aspirants database always was more a hobby than anything else, since I was and I still married so it was a really undercover operation.
However, the outsourcing businesses never succeed, so, one day I just decided to merge the database to the programmers and designers database on the website. In 2004 I had more than 300 records including designers and programmers. One year later, in the beginning of 2005 I said, what the fuck and I deleted the old website, and created a new one more oriented to export models than programming and design services. I had to put a 50% of fake models on it, since my real models were too amateur. The amazing thing out of this was that many professional models, actresses, actors asked online to be included on the lists, so I started to include every new profile on the database and made it grow up to 700 records. Then I removed the designers, programmers and focused more on the artists and models than anything else and modified the website several times. While kept as a hobby the website received more than 1.000 unique visitors per day and I had around 30 new applications pending a week. I was able also to do some real professional productions and represent some models helping them in the legal and negotiating issues, and fucking them for something instead of nothing. In fact I got associated with a model to start this business seriously. That really encouraged me to start with another career, while my original idea always kept untouchable and remained focused into fucking the bitches. These bitches and believe me, because I've been in touch with them for several years, are worst than any professional *****. So I feel that somehow, my duty it's to equalize the things and to put them in the position they deserve to be.
That's the reason for the live the dream project to exist.
Educate your clients please
Great idea, as you have a great base to kick off from. But full of potential twists and turns, like real life.
As these girls will probably have met various real potential clients in the past, I suggest you educate clients on a few basic exchanges to throw in, don't wear your dockers and sneakers, etc. Models will know the gig is up if your clients can't play the game right and that means educating them a bit, myself included if I was here, but would be hopefully for another time.
In the near future, I will be going to a cocktail / party type affaire where the agency types will mix in a few clients and friends with models and I have been educated to play the big shot. Not my style but I can pull it off.
I just hope that even putting this on the site has not already set up a problem.
Buen Suerte.
MAG