Giorgio Grandi wrote:
We are at the point that sales are not the only reference anymore.
R.O.I (return of investment) in percentage will start counting lot.
Invest 5000, hold a scene for 3 months to get 1000$ profit
Vs
Invest 500, hold the scene for 10 days to get 500$ profit
To chose what content to shoot will be the game change
I struggle to believe the stats are anything like this, though.
i have followed your work and your comments online since way before you came to LP. I know you have shelved other projects because they weren't making a profit. I followed you here from your first video. I followed your output here AND the comments you have made along the way.
I know, because you have said, that from the start here you turned a profit and that LP revolutionised your porn output because finally there was a model that allowed you to do so.
I know, because you have said, that you were making a profit on scenes back when each scene was half or less as many tickets as they are now and tickets themselves were cheaper to purchase.
I know, because you have said, that you expanded your business here, could afford to hire other people to shoot scenes under your name, could expand to bigger and even more windowless and characterless sets; could start producing multiple scenes per day with you in an executive role. Few porn producers ever make the revenue to do that.
I know, because you have said, that LP has gone from strength to strength with frequent assertions that it has more members buying more scenes than ever before.
So whilst your mathematics is unquestionably reasonable here Giorgio the example you give, where a scene filmed now making many more sales at a far higher price in a ticket "currency" that is itself more expensive to purchase .... that somehow it may take three months to make a 20% return would suggest that three years ago you would have had to be producing videos at a huge and unsustainable loss and to have done so for three or four years unending. I mean I get the logic of your reasoning (and admire the blunt and honest hard-nosed business honesty) but the example you give shouts out "please, pretend you have never read the myriad comments I have made over the years about profit, sales increasing etc"