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Old 10-09-2015, 10:19 AM  
dcortez
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Originally Posted by Spunky View Post
10 years is a brief break?
Had to wait and see how the "shakeup" turned out.

In the 90's adult entertainment on the web was a steep upward climb on the charts as far as business went.

That's before affiliates started outnumbering actual content producing sites/owners.

Credit card processors started dropping out like flies, taking down good sites with them, and sponsors explored every traffic skimming tactic they could get away with.

And then, Tumblr, and other "free" (to public) sources of adult entertainment left the profitability to only the larger porn shops.

Not to mention, that, as an original content producer, getting ripped off and fighting hack assaults daily, took the fun out of it.

Watching my best to date web host, Hostgator, melt down in quality, after being bought by EIG, and getting pushed over right up against the NSA spy data centre in Utah, was the mortal bullet.

So, I went back to mainstream brick and mortar (creative services/products) and found a happier balance.

Now, I'm focusing on maintaining more brick and mortar in my adult enterprises, and lightly leveraging the web where it makes sense.

It's amazing how quickly, ten years flies by...

-DC
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