).This is a special Xmas for me.. as my paysites http://barefoot-urban-girls.com/ and http://barefoot-nudity.com/ have just turned five!
These have surely been five exciting years, full of great achievements and lessons learnt!
In these five years I have carved my own niche in a market segment dominated by City Feet and Toes-In-Action,
which had both already been online for 10 years when BUG and BN were launched.
http://barefoot-nudity.com/ had an avalanche success up to late 2015, but entered into a slow decline afterwards,
for reasons which are still unclear to me, and in spite of costly investments in 2016 and 2017.
Yet I have managed to keep BN economically viable, mainly thanks to the cooperation of two gorgeous models
I have the privilege of being great friends with: CHAT NOIR & PURPLE QUEEN.
I love BN because it is the oddball, the heresy, the black sheep.. and yes, I love it even more because
there are dudes hating it! (especially here in this forum
).I'll do my best to keep BN alive for as long as I can.. I have loved female nudity and exhibitionism since I was a teenager..
and I'll love them until I die!
http://barefoot-urban-girls.com/ has had a different and quite peculiar story.
After a brief initial success (probably out of the novelty), it soon struggled to a point that I was unsure about holding dedicated shootings for it,
as these could only be funded through the (dwindling) profits from BAREFOOT NUDITY.
Yet BUG was about the very start of my career as a footographer, and I have a passion for (apparently) losing horses.
In a nutshell, BUG is a love story, not a business venture. So starting from 2016 I have tried hard to make it successful.
I have invested heavily into BUG in 2016 and 2017, holding dedicated shootings with both non-nude models (SWAINS, PERLANERA, AMELIE, LAVINIA..)
and BAREFOOT NUDITY models as guest stars (CHAT NOIR, GOLD CHANEL, ELETTRA, FENICE, CHARLOTTE, PURPLE QUEEN, CLEMENTINE POULAIN..).
I have put lots of creative energy in developing the new "BAREFOOT LIFESTYLE" series, and in producing non-nude "on the road" material
during my customary tours in Germany to visit my dear friend - and talented barefootographer - gb62da.
Well, it's great to let you know that those efforts have paid off! BUG has become economically self-sufficient in early 2018,
and has nearly twice as many subscribers as BAREFOOT NUDITY now! (it had been exactly the opposite for years).
A lot of other things have made these five years exciting and memorable.
I had three "Featured Model of the Month" specials at WU's FEET LINKS, one starring RED-X, and two starring SWAINS.
SWAINS - August 2017: http://wusfeetlinks.com/feat201708.html
SWAINS - November 2016: http://wusfeetlinks.com/feat201611.html
RED-X - April 2015: http://wusfeetlinks.com/feat201504.html
RED-X was interviewed by Patrick of SOLES OF SILK for WU's FOOT FORUM, and I was also interviewed by him.
THE FEETOSOPHER's interview: http://wusfeetlinks-interviews.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-feetosophers-interview.html
RED-X's interview: http://wusfeetlinks-interviews.blogspot.com/2015/08/red-xs-interview.html
Finally, I became a Hall of Fame member at http://www.wusfeetlinks.com/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi
On a sad note, I also saw a legend like WU die, and pioneers like Lord Lucan and Arnaud Ferrand quit in the past five years.
I have learned a lot of things in these five years.. above all:
1) Everybody loves you when you give away quality stuff for free. Yet convincing people to spend some money to enjoy your stuff is much tougher.
2) You cannot please everybody even in a tiny market segment like this one.
People have well-defined, often diverging tastes also about female barefooting and dirty feet fetish!
3) If you are successful in what you do, you will have to handle the envy and hatred of some people.
My experience is that giving trolls the hell they deserve is a good move.
If you eat their shit in silence, it may take a long time before they get bored and quit trolling you.
If you systematically bust their asses, you will always be in the spotlight.. which is absolutely OK!
The worst thing for people doing business on internet nowadays is passing unnoticed.
4) The golden age of "foot-related paysites" is over, and will not come back.
Internet piracy and hordes of Ordinary Joes and Plain Janes flooding the web with DIY foot-related pictures and videos
have been giving, and will give, a tougher and tougher time to old-style vendors like me.
You can hold on or quit, there are no alternatives. Being a hard-nosed Italian S.O.B... I am gonna put on a brave fight before I die!
In the next days I will celebrate these first five years of BAREFOOT URBAN GIRLS and BAREFOOT NUDITY with
plenty of SPECIAL UPDATES for subscribers, FREE PROMOTIONAL PHOTOSETS and TEASER VIDEOS for everybody to enjoy, and a
"GOLDEN FIVE" TOP MODEL CONTEST here in the Forum!
To finish this long post (quite a rarity for a man of images like me
), I take the chance to:- Wish all BUG and BN subscribers, friends, followers, casual readers and especially HATERS (
).. merry Xmas holidays!- Wish the same, with a huge THANK YOU, to all the 150-plus barefoot (and more-than-barefoot!
) beauties I have worked with in over 14 years..on top of them, the five fantastic girls I am great friends with in everyday life: CHAT NOIR, PURPLE QUEEN, SWAINS, AMELIE & KEA. You rule, girls!
CHAT NOIR
PURPLE QUEEN
SWAINS
AMELIE
KEA
