what makes you think people cut costs in other businesses? arie works in a company where they must spend a third of their money doing things they messed up over. i've parked at printers and seen them throwing away tons of paper, including misprinted items. all grocery stores throw away food regularly and i'm sure with some planning, they could throw away less.

lessee... we were at a resturant the other day that had more people working there than customers, and they always seem to have that going on. when we were doing print ads, i spoke to a woman whose company just bought all the reps mega computers and most of the reps couldn't use them - and didn't need them. that's a common one i see at places now - they could easily make do with regular pentium 4 3gig units with half a mg of ram and instead they pay top dollar for computers that won't help them any more because they feel they must be better.

the list goes on and on but every industry i've worked with or have known people well who woeked in has tons of waste. extra employees because of bad planning or fear of firing or nepotism, costly computers when $700 a piece computers would do the job well, supplies and inventory thrown away due to errors or just idiocy, too much of things that aren't needed and so on.

Quote Originally Posted by marcjacob View Post
Thought id start a thread on this as its not something i see discussed in the Adult biz that often.

Any other business is cost conscious and will try to keep costs at a minimum, but our business is based on quality alot more than some other industries. I was wondering how to decide on cost over quality.

I think alot of noobs dont make much because their costs are too high while sales are building. But can you increase sales without spending a fair amount on marketing, content, hosting and so on?

I dont see alot of evidence of people cost cutting. The fact that people use higher % processors suggests to me that maybe cost isnt a big enough issue. Also i have never once had an email from a company offering to reduce my overheads, but in a mainstream business i used to run, i got them all the time. I would have expected the major processors to compete on cost for my business, but they simply dont bother, because it seems that they know that they dont have to.

Ive spent alot of time reducing costs and the net result is that im keeping more of my sales revenue than i was before, which is vital if im going to one day quit the day job!

Any thoughts?