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Keeping Going
(Article Contributed By Dino - Posted on July 17th, 2008)
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Once you’ve been in this biz a while, motivation becomes an important factor in your day-to-day working life. This business is very addictive by its nature. Most of us are into porn in some form or another or we wouldn’t be here in the first place, so when you get the chance to work with it and make money from it at the same time, most people go into overdrive. I know I put in about 72 hours of straight, non-stop work in when I first started. Three days building my first sites, reading everything I could and loving every minute of it.
As time goes by, it becomes more like any other job. Hell, I don’t even have to “quality test” my content purchases anymore. You become numb to your own message of fantasy your sites and galleries preach, and focus instead on the end result – sales, money and traffic.
Then comes the down-phase that I know a lot of webmasters have been through – myself included. It’s when the novelty has worn off, the job is feeling like a job (as it should do really) and then a bad month or two hits you. You start to wonder what else you could do, and most of the time, go out and do it. This is the point that most newbies leave the business for good. They gave it a shot, the bad months brought them back to reality with a bump and they left for better climates. Nothing to be ashamed about – this isn’t a job for everyone by a long shot.
Those that get through the first slump and come back are normally here for the long haul. At this point they start to treat the job more like a business – one with you as the sole employee. No longer do you see yourself working for others (even in an indirect sense) – you’re building a business for yourself, a portfolio of sites, galleries and systems that grows every day with new additions. This is where the motivational loss can sometimes kick in.
I’ve worked for companies in the past that were a lot of fun to start with. One of my former journalistic jobs was with a tiny company that had barely made a dent in the console mag market. At first it was like just about any other startup company – the director would take us all out to dinner and go drinking with us, we’d all spend a lot of our own time working simply because it was new, it was exciting and it was above all, fun!
Then, as the company got bigger it had to evolve. Management positions were put in place, hierarchies and chains of command. Memos started to be sent and we stopped going for dinner and a beer every night after work (or at least until we started the night shift). We still worked our tails off, but the motivation that comes with an enjoyable environment was lost very quickly.
Since you’re in complete control of every part of your business, it really is down to you how you keep yourself interested and going during those long nights at the computer. The more you get into it, the more site and gallery building becomes a simple routine, and while routine is good in one way (it cuts down on mistakes for one thing), it’s bad in another. Complacency is your enemy, boredom is the battlefield and apathy is the weapon.
Personally, I try just about anything. I’ll get an idea in the shower, talking to friends or even writing an article for PornResource.com, so I’ll sit down and code it. Sometimes I get ideas for projects while I’m doing stuff for one of our programs or just talking to friends. I put them in a big list and it’s aptly named “Fun Stuff that could make Cash” – it sits on my desktop and when my normal (i.e routine) work is done for the day, I’ll get to work on one of the entries in the list.
It keeps everything fresh and it keeps the fun factor there. Then again, seeing those bills also is damn good motivation as well.
Till tomorrow, pimps!
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