by Cassie Howard | Mar 21, 2017 | Business Basics |
I know. You’re probably thinking that subject line was click-bait, huh? Except it’s not. It’s completely true! Everything I know about business I learned from porn! When I worked in the adult industry from ’99 until the early 2000’s, I was pretty much the black sheep in my family. In fact, I guess I still am the black sheep, except today people also understand that I know what the fuck I’m doing and they just leave me be, HA! I remember being embarassed about it at first. Like I didn’t want people to know what I was doing.. except.. I was GETTING NAKED ON THE INTERNET, so it was only a matter of time until people found out! Needless to say, my family wasn’t too impressed (my mom, who I was still living with at the time, even shut off the internet, thinking that would stop me - but I just went to friends’ houses and used theirs). I went on to build a pretty successful business in the adult industry, making thousands of dollars a month just being me. It was my first glimpse into what wealth truly was and what it felt like. This morning I was thinking about how far I’ve come in the last 13 years of working online and I realized that pretty much everything I learned about business, I picked up by working in the adult industry. PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE AT YOUR CORE Even though, yes, people were paying me to take off my clothes, what I learned early on was that the majority of my followers wanted to...
