SoleMates
1st Level Red Feather

Hi. You're about to read something that makes me grumpy. Enjoy.

One of the things I, as a producer, hate to hear is when people dog-pile on the men who appear in videos, calling them fat, ugly, creepy, or any number of a hundred other things that would never fly were the genders to be reversed, but I digress.

The most common question that seems to come out of such discussions, assuming the people starting them want to be productive, is usually something along the

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Hello hello, and welcome to the first in a series of posts wherein I list off the things that make me grumpy.

If there's one tired old saw that this community likes to bandy about, it's how "all producers" use the same models, or, more narrowly, how we all hire the same handful of famous fetish stars. Not a day goes by where someone doesn't get the utterly brillant idea to hire "real vanilla girls next door" or some such in an effort to, quote, "shake up the industry", as if the

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Welcome to the second in a series of stuff collectively titled "What you need to know in order to run a tickling studio." You can read Part One here, wherein I explain the hows and whys of scouting and approaching talent for your venture. I suggest you read it first.

Still here? Good. Now that you've sent out a billion first contacts, a potential model has actually responded to you! What do you do now?

Well, the first thing to note is that what

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Welcome to the first in a - potential - series of posts on "Stuff you need to know if you want to run a clip studio". People are always spamming Tickling Discussion with "I want to start a studio, where do I start?", and I thought it might be a good idea to collect all of this stuff in one place. I've been running Sole Mates since March of 2013 and while I'm not as famous or successful as the big guys, I certainly have a firm grasp on the stuff you'll need to know.

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