2005 calenedar?

[tslasia]

Are there any plans in the work to have a calender of the lovlie ladies for 2005? I think one of the girls in bikinis would be nice. NO Nude! Areeba from a few weeks ago would be exellent and so would Anna from last update as models. What about Aon and Dina. Also Ponlineen.

[Guest]

I have a copy of this calendar which a girl gave me as a present when I was in Phuket.

Soi Katoey

Although not sure how much it would cost to make I for one would buy one if ATS decided to produce one.

[Guest]

yes, I have seen that calender......someone from Coctails and Dreams or associated with it made that one, because all the girls work there or near there; I see Mint, Jenny and others from that bar, as well as Linly and Pop [with dark hair now as compared to when we shot her 3 times as a blonde].

I have talked this over with Stogie a few times but I don't see the point; like any business we are here to make revenue, and I see this as a break-even venture at best. Figure you print 1000 calenders and need to sell 500 to break even; do you have any idea how hard it would be to sell 500 calenders? To people who are generally afraid to admit to this obsession they have with ladyboys? Even if we cover up the genitals it would still be obvious they were ladyboys from the AsianTS.com title; and if we are not naming the site, what good is the promotion? Then, figure in mailing costs, production costs, going to the post office every day, dealing with the orders, etc, and it is very un-appealing to do this. Cocktails and Dreams has a storefront to sell their calenders from; for us it would be all mail-order.

I am sure none of you guys do your jobs for fun, you do it to earn money for yourself and your families. Since there is no money to be made in producing a calender, i don't see it happening. Nice thought though, and we certainly have the material, it's just not cost-effective.

[Guest]

......someone from Coctails and Dreams or associated with it made that one

The calendar was not produced by Cocktails & Dreams but looks to have been done by someone down there in Phuket. In fact as far as I know none of the girls from C&D actually appear in it, as Mint and Jenny do not appear in the calendar even though it looks like the do from the pictures on the site.

like any business we are here to make revenue

Of course this is the objective of any business which is not a charitable one.

I see this as a break-even venture at best.

You certainly came to that conclusion very quickly. Have you considered any alternatives such as partnership. What sort of market research have you done to determine the number of calendars that could be sold and without knowing the unit price of a calnedar how did you come to your break even number?

Sorry I know this is your site but you seem pretty quick to discount this suggestion with little more than a passing glance. Hey don't get me wrong you certainly have every right to do this.

Please don't take this the wrong way I am just giving my opinion on the subjeect.

[Guest]

you seem pretty quick to discount this suggestion with little more than a passing glance.

thanks for your opinion, Oz....you certainly have every right to state it and if you can prove me wrong, great! I would love to produce something like this if I thought it was economically worth it....if you think so, please tell me otherwise.

saying I just discounted it with little more than a passing glance is not right on though.....as I said above, stogie and I have discussed this at length in BKK and I crunched numbers in my head and it just didn't fly. my worthless degree from university was for business; even the most basic business school classes tell you to look at every future venture with an eye on the bottom line and in this deal it just didn't seem worth it.

figure this....guys that view this site for the most part are secretive about it; i know that I personally could not hang an AsianTS calender on the wall because family and friends come over often. To make money, we would need to have about 1000 guys buy a calender at 15-20 dollars apiece who have no problems with hanging a transexual calender in their kitchen or bedroom. I really don't see that happening but I will listen to any ideas. as I said, we certainly have the material.

[Guest]

as I said, we certainly have the material.

As I have stated before I work in Content Management and help large business repurpose their most important asset which is their content to give them a larger RTOI. I am stating the obvious when I say if you can reuse your existing content your are effectively reducing the unit cost of producing it. Of course producing a calendar is one of many ways of doing this.

[mirimark]

I agree with JaiDee about the Calender. But I am telling ya, Burning your Videos to DVD's would be a much more Profitable Adventure with even a Lower overhead. You would only have to burn by orders taking.

[Guest]

if we do up a batch of 1000 calenders and they begin to sell, we would need someone to ship them out and i travel 8 months a year so it won't be me. a distributer may help with that, but then of course they would want a cut which eats into the profits even more after production and shipping.

we could certainly come up with 12 nice outdoor monthly photos of the girls for a calender, that is not the problem. making them, selling them and shipping them is the problem and if someone has ideas on how it would be profitable to do that I am listening.

[stogie bear]

So you won't mind if I have a bash at it then?

Sell them through the Clubhouse!

Also, I bet if you had a professional coffee table book printed of your 150 hottest photos you'd have the most interesting read for any doctors office! Sell them for $30/40 bucks a pop. If that rancid cow Madonna can do it... But for that you'd literally get it professionally published and distributed. Start chatting to publishers! No effort on your part, just re-hashing old stuff!

[mirimark]

Upload your 13 pic's, Email them to BCXprinting@earthlink, they print them for $12. each ?
I'll pick them up, Email me with ccbill payment confermation, and I'll ship them for $3. each.

[Guest]

Jai, stick with your instincts here. If I were your accountant I would agree with your thinking. Breaking even is not a business option for an organisation like yours were your competition is varied and unpredictable. The last calender I got remained, unfortunately, in my private bathroom !!!

Bricktop

[Guest]

Breaking even is not a business option for an organisation like yours were your competition is varied and unpredictable

Bricktop this goes without saying but not sure where the competition being varied and unpredictable comes in? Too many business only look at the bottom line of one part of the business and of course it is the buisiness as a whole that needs to be profitable. I am not necessarily saying that the calendar idea is one that should be pursued but just provoking thought on the issue of content reuse.

[stogie bear]

I've always liked the idea. It would be nice to have 100 or so just to give out as prizes for competitions etc!

[Guest]

One of my favorite ladyboys had a onepage calendar made of herself. It's hanging in my kitchen and no one has a clue.

But don't think a ladyboy calendar would be a big seller.

[Guest]

But don't think a ladyboy calendar would be a big seller.

thank you, PigDog, for saying what I basically said about 10 posts ago.  

 stogie......if YOU wanna print up 100 calenders, go for it!  I'll even buy one from ya!