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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy.Smith" data-source="post: 7659044" data-attributes="member: 6790015"><p>No problem!</p><p></p><p>I could probably turn publishing into my sole income - it would just mean downsizing our house, getting rid of one of our two used cars, and moving to a diet consisting primarily of rice and beans. Since the technology industry chooses to pay me far and away more than RPG publishing does, I instead let publishing be something I do nights and weekends and let it fund things like going to GenCon, or family vacations. We also reinvest a large portion of our profits back into the company - sometimes those investments pay off, sometimes they end up being money sinks that give us some good lessons on what not to do, and sometimes they pay off but not for an exceptionally long period of time.</p><p></p><p>And to give even more of a sanity check - our miniatures Kickstarter has not been profitable. What it has done is given us a line of miniatures that we can produce for a long, long time at a profit, but monetarily, it has been break-even, or a significant loss if factoring in the time I personally spent bagging and shipping miniatures instead of writing material to publish. But that goes back into reinvesting - we could have capped the number of figures at a dozen and had several thousand dollars in profit. Instead, we pushed the line so that we could bulk process the molding and casting and not have to expand our line for a long time. Now comes the test to see if that will pay off over the long haul, or if it became a profit-neutral vanity project.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeremy.Smith, post: 7659044, member: 6790015"] No problem! I could probably turn publishing into my sole income - it would just mean downsizing our house, getting rid of one of our two used cars, and moving to a diet consisting primarily of rice and beans. Since the technology industry chooses to pay me far and away more than RPG publishing does, I instead let publishing be something I do nights and weekends and let it fund things like going to GenCon, or family vacations. We also reinvest a large portion of our profits back into the company - sometimes those investments pay off, sometimes they end up being money sinks that give us some good lessons on what not to do, and sometimes they pay off but not for an exceptionally long period of time. And to give even more of a sanity check - our miniatures Kickstarter has not been profitable. What it has done is given us a line of miniatures that we can produce for a long, long time at a profit, but monetarily, it has been break-even, or a significant loss if factoring in the time I personally spent bagging and shipping miniatures instead of writing material to publish. But that goes back into reinvesting - we could have capped the number of figures at a dozen and had several thousand dollars in profit. Instead, we pushed the line so that we could bulk process the molding and casting and not have to expand our line for a long time. Now comes the test to see if that will pay off over the long haul, or if it became a profit-neutral vanity project. [/QUOTE]
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