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A lot of excellent and very insightful posts so far in the thread.
One thing that many people in the adult industry do wrong is they become too reliant on their adult revenues as their sole income. Not all...but some people. We've kept our production company afloat over the years partially because both the wife and I have maintained other employment outside the adult industry. We offset the up and down adult trends with steady 9-to-5 jobs - which takes the worry out of economic downturns and trends for us.
During economic slumps, we just keep plugging away at increasing our production buffer (we have enough unpublished content to continue updating for a full year). We can afford to be experimental when it comes to the photography...trying out new ideas to see what works. Too many other producers get into that 'formulated rut' and churn out basically the same thing over and over and over.
So my point is - those who don't put all their proverbial eggs in one basket are the ones who'll weather the economic storms. It helps greatly to love doing what we do - we'd still be producing original content even if we were barely breaking even.
There's always tomorrow.
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