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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Over the last 5 years I've seen many good to great shooters turn their hand to becoming weddings photographers/videographers, advertising, one shoots wild life in Africa, another shoots hotels around the Med or like me retire. BECAUSE they earn more that the top custom shooters ever do or they made enough money to sit back.
And a few publishers kick their porn business out to concentrate on other things. Like PRO, D. Gold, D Sullivan, R. Desmond, etc. Because there's more money elsewhere.
Like affiliates going into mainstream many others have done the same.
Have to go, Eva's wants me to do the ironing. LOL
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It's an interesting post. Thanks for sharing it. I particularly like how it feels a little less preachy than some of your other ones. I agree, people will go where the money is and you're right. I notice a ton of affiliates leaving. Personally I think a lot of it has to do with the various games sponsors are playing at the affiliate's expense to make up for falling revenue although I think falling conversions and a greater difficulty in getting good traffic also has to do with it. Like the content shooters there comes a point where many will say screw it and decide to do something else instead. The same is also happening with bigger companies who are not taking in the amount of revenue (and a few are losing millions as well) they are used to. Even though they are still profitable they are leaving to focus on other things.