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The core elements of building an on-line business and building traffic are about the same as they've always been.
Yeah, the economy sucks but there is nothing you can do about that so don't even consider it.
I've only been in adult for 2 years but I was in mainstream before that. All I'm really seeing is adult becoming more competitive and more difficult, just like mainstream. A lot of the bitching you hear is from people who are accustomed to opening a site and being profitable on day one. Or affiliates who worked an hour a day and made a ton of cash. You could never do that in mainstream and the days of doing that in adult are fading away quickly. Doesn't mean adult is dying, it's just maturing.
Unfortunately, a lot of insiders saw a naturally maturing market and thought that meant the industry was dying, not just maturing. So they got desperate and started cross selling and giving everything away to grab what they saw as the last few scraps before the industry collapsed. But the industry was never collapsing or dying, it was just maturing as all markets do.
But that's the double edged sword of adult. It's cool because anybody who's clever and hard working can do well but it also means there is a serious lack of people with formal business knowledge.
Gotta take the good with the bad if you want to be in adult I guess.
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