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Chapter 15- It's Just Business
After a few weeks, I could tell from my daily sessions on the share site of Vic's webpage that his business was booming- - and was going to mushroom soon. It seemed like every time I logged on, there were more and more people in the chat room, all talking about their installations and about trading recordings of their own or other couples' fuck sessions- - almost like a virtual swing club or you-tube for horny voyeurs! I had a glimmer of an idea to pitch to Vic, and after talking it over with Lily, we decided it was a pretty natural follow-on to the systems he was installing right now; that with minor adjustments in his future installations, he could vastly expand the offerings to many more customers- - and make a butt-load of money also! We also discussed that it would probably help if we offered to risk some of our own savings to expand into this new area, if he was game. I called him one day and asked if I could swing by his office and talk a little business, without divulging my idea or that we were thinking of financing an expansion of his work ourselves.
Lily and I met for lunch and afterward, drove to Vic's office for a 1 o'clock appointment.
"My favorite customers!" gushed Vic as he shook my hand and gave Lily a hug.
"What's on your mind... is the system working ok for you?
"Oh, it's going gangbusters, Vic... that's what we want to talk to you about... Lily and I think we thought of a great way for you to make a lot more money without a whole lot more effort," I answered.
"Go on, I'm all ears," said Vic.
"Well, for starters, we couldn't help but notice that a lot more people are logged into the share portion of your website, obviously indicating you've been installing lots of systems and people are interested in seeing how others are using your systems. It just seems natural that in addition to the basic access you're now offering, it wouldn't take a lot of capital outlay to sort of `expand' the offerings to your customers," I explained.
"What Travis means is that in addition to letting people enter the chat room, exchange e-mails and discuss the systems, how great would it be if you also offered to provide storage for video sessions the members are particularly fond of or otherwise just wanted to have available for later use," added Lily.
"Yeah... sort of like a neighborhood `U-Store-It,' but instead of storing boxes and mattresses, you're storing videos your members took of themselves or others using your installations," I echoed.
"It seems like that'd take all kinds of disk space that I just don't have," answered Vic.
"I think we could find somebody- - maybe even a client- - that's knowledgeable about using the cloud to store huge bunches of data controlled by your people and that only your clients could access- - that way you wouldn't have to invest in a lot of infrastructure to store the files, just a routing architecture to push/pull data to and from the cloud," I said.
"Well, on the surface, that sounds like a nice service to offer, but I don't see how that's going to make me much more money... and I also can't believe you made the effort to take off work and drive all the way over here just to talk about a storage scheme... there must be more," said Vic, with a glimmer in his eye.
"Well, now that you mention it, there's another aspect to this that we would be interested in not only having available, but could see lots of your customers- - who already trust you- - wanting to have for themselves as well," said Lily. "What if the service we just described was called the `basic' membership, and you offered it to every client that you installed a system for- - just like now.
"Yeah, go on.
"Well first, you'd have to adapt your software to search through all those stored files and cherry pick clips you deemed- - and programmed the software to find- - especially erotic or arousing. Further, the software would either blur faces or otherwise only collect files that showed sexual activity- - in all its forms- - without divulging any identifiable data. The system would store those files in a special, categorized catalogue available to only silver' members," I explained. Seeing a quizzical look on Vic's face, I continued, "categories might be big cocks cum on small tits' or `bisex MMF'... or...
"...or bisex MFFF'" added Lily, giggling. "A silver' membership might include all the basic membership's chat room, e-mail exchange and file storage PLUS allow for clients to browse the stored files and see all the other members' stored files- - or at least all those where faces aren't shown that your software made available.
"And what would a `gold' package provide?" asked Vic, quickly catching on to the gist of our scheme.
"Gold membership would require members to allow access to their home servers, allowing anyone else to see their live feeds whenever they hit a share' button on their end. It seems there are plenty of exhibitionists in your client list that would love to have others watch them suck, fuck and otherwise do' each other... in turn, gold members would be assured that they could also tap into any other gold user's system's sharings' in real time- - sort of a show me yours; I'll show you mine' exchange.
"What do you think? We'd even be willing to pay for all the up-front costs to develop these services... for a cut of the membership dues, that is.
"I don't know..." said Vic, the wheels turning in his head, "the first few gold members might not be too impressed with the offerings of others; it'd look like a one-way street to them.
"We thought of that," added Lily. "Before going live' with a gold membership option, beta testing would include your one-on-one salesmanship to convince a number of showoffs- - we'd be your first, of course- - that would be ok with sharing with little potential return initially, but if membership were free for life the beta testers- - before offering it to paying customers- - you'd have a stable of available sharers' right from the git-go. We think you have enough exhibitionists in your client list right now that'd jump at a chance to have this service for free- - at little real `cost' to them- - in fact, they might think letting others watch them would be a plus.
"Platinum service was offered to anyone who would surrender control of their system to other users. It would allow any other platinum member to manipulate their systems any time, sort of a `virtual voyeur' that I'm guessing some would pay dearly for! It would also allow a remote user to use a member's system to peek into surrounding houses, if that option was also installed. The options are endless in our view. In exchange, a platinum member could be offered the same privileges on other platinum members' systems as well.
"I'm willing to explore this further," said Vic, "but I don't have time to flesh out all the details... why don't you and Lily write up a proposal and I'll have my lawyers have a look at it and see if it's legal; then I'll have my software people see what they think and, if everybody thinks this'll fly, we'll test some of the changes on your system, if you're willing. I also have a couple of other clients that I think would gladly share feeds with you and Lily... we may even want to watch y'all watch each other... I'm getting a boner just thinking of the possibilities here.
Join the crowd, I thought. I can barely keep mine in my pants here!