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Originally Posted by Ferus
All those things we have been saying for the last few years; including but not limited to a hard working staff with specialists in their individual area of expertise, including people that know how to direct models, proper light, makeup, design a enticing story to the set, quality post production, run a affiliate site, generate traffic and partner up with valuable affiliates.
Top it of with financial assets to build and scale the operation, and knowledge to steer the business in the right direction before the major shifts occur.
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i had opened a thread in a german forum 11 or 12 years ago with the title "spezialization and teamwork". the discussion turned into a direction where most people declared me crazy and said that they would be insane if they had to share the beautiful money they could earn all by themselves with someone.
only very few understood it at that time and these few belong today to the really big players in this market. the others chew fingernails today or are unemployed or keep themselves alive with a cheap job.
all areas that have always existed still exist today but in perfected form. and these areas have branched out into sub-areas which are subject to constant change and mutated into full-time jobs.
the one-man-show of the past is today a dying out minority. even the apparent number of people writing here doesn't give any more information about it, because in former times there were single individuals here and today there are many people writing here that have a huge team behind them.
these "invisible market participants" have made the biz much bigger, although on the surface it looks much smaller.
for example, what should my server administrators write or learn HERE? what should my designers, coders or even the administration staff do here?
nevertheless they all have to be fed and paid and are part of this business.
paul still lives in this one-man-world and interprets what he sees with the eyes of a one-man-worlder.
Of course, in the time when i was still one-man-show myself, i made more profit on my revenues. there was always 60-70% left at the end.
today my company feeds my employees and their families, buys large quantities of services and contents and the bottom line is that my personal profit today is maybe 6-8%.
nevertheless this profit today in numbers is many times higher than in the time when the profit share was 60-70%.
paul never learned to think big because he judges the world not from the summit of mount everest but from the summit of a molehill - which in itself is not so bad because the summit of mount everest doesn't offer room for everyone. the insane part is his claim that the molehill is higher than mount everest.