I agree with pr0.
I don't expect the adult biz to get back to what it was, but i agree with the part he said about working hard again and plan ahead to re-emerge in a year or two.
I think the problem a lot of us, who started in the gold days might be having is just that we have relaxed too much because the easy money we were making (well not that it was that easy, i worked up to 14 hours per day until i had my little network). Talking about myself that relaxation also came after a big tragedy when my little daughter died when being less than one month old. It affected me a lot and i barely worked for like a year, having my business on autopilot and luckily making good money, but not expanding as i should have been doing, besides a few sites i purchased and that have ended being good deals
I'm still making a good living as i have never been a big expender and also invested most of my profit on properties, but if i have kept the pace i had at first instead of relaxing, i would probably be rich right now like some other TGP guys who started when i did. Instead i'm starting to get worried not about the present or short term future, but about the long term.
So I have been thinking lately and after a long summer holidays i took, i have started to work as hard as i did in the past. Now that i'm used again to work a lot of hours (it's hard to get back on earth), i need to sit down and think, study the market, the competition, start to network again as i have over 400 contacts in icq i have not talked with for over a year, etc (btw guys, feel free to contact me again for biz if we haven't talked for a while). At least now i have cash to invest and a good source of traffic, so it's not like starting from zero like in the past.
I see other guys i know are posting here about also getting back to work hard as they did, so hopefully this will end on new ideas for the biz. Crockett, nice to read you are also back at full speed, i remember our talks like 3 or 4 years ago when the TGP biz still was alive.
The thing is that i'm motivated again, and that is a key in our business, specially if you work alone as i do. Without motivation, it's easy to get lazy and to waste hours not being productive.
Ok, enough time expended here with this self psychotherapy, now i'm back to work
