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Originally Posted by k0nr4d
You are actually a very good example of someone who has really stepped up their game in the last while. In like 2-3 years you went from running a couple of foot fetish sites to doing ALOT of various projects at once.
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For me, the 2007-2008 credit crunch/recession/economic collapse was a wake up call. I needed more diversity, and irons in the fire. I had to make myself more recession proof. I had simply gotten lazy.
As I said in another thread the other day, I can always afford a good lifestyle off my foot fetish empire alone. After 15 years online, I have a solid traffic and client base who keep coming back on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. Fetish folk will always buy whatever turns their crank, and as long as you listen and shoot what they ask for, you will always have a business.
That being said, I simply had gotten into a "lul" where I was not reinvesting in my business like I should. Where you are trying to keep you finger on the pulse, and ahead of the curve. The credit crunch simply snapped me out of it. Now I am an endless number of projects going. Almost seems too many at times because some days I spend all of my time working through a version 1 or version 2 of some delivered script.
That said, now more so than not, I spend the majority of my time working on the creative stuff. Which is frankly where I prefer to be. Out of the daily grind or "maintenance" and just working out the new 5-10-20 year ideas. Some will be things we keep in-house, others can work out for licensing, or I will just sell it off and take the pay out and easy money.
Back when I worked at the phone company, they used to say, "The only constant is change". Very true.
