Are you a small business owner? Do you like porn? If you have a pulse and therefore answered yes to either of these questions, you should check out the Dirty Writer's 10 Important Business Lessons From the Porn Industry. The article/list shows how the adult film and photo industry continues to increase its profits every year-- mainly through no-holds barred selling tactics and, um, ass. We can all learn something in these trying times:
8. Provide samples.
Provide the illusion of getting something for free. The more attractive and valuable the sample appears to be, the more interested they will be in the real product.
There's also a list of Top 10 Things To Do In A Recession, which is utterly irrelevant to the above, but worth noting for #10:
10. Catch up on your internet porn. Don't bother paying; you can waste hours a day just checking out the free stuff.
Previously: 10 Reasons The Recession Will Rock Your Love Life.