Breeding business starting up late this year

[OctagonGecko729]

A good way to make yourself the bad guy in this market is having that "not about the money" mindset when making this your business, that wont make you many friends. If it is a business you wish to start then you absolutely must be about the money, as in knowing your market and the value of the snakes you produce. In my opinion being competitive in this industry/hobby/community is about producing the best not beating the next guy's prices. If your snakes are better than the next guy you should have no problem asking market value or slightly higher.

You definitely stated this well. People forget that in a free market money is simply a representation of human desires. If your not looking at this in a monetary way you definitely will fall short in pleasing your customers. For instance, we have bred animals in the past which arent fetching a profit when you total up their total cost of living. So, this next year, we wont be breeding the same parents again. This assures that we wont be producing animals that people dont want. Now I can choose to keep on breeding these animals that dont sell but it will require subsidizing from somewhere else (a second job) to continue and its incredibly wasteful.

I also have never understood why people feel like profit and love of the animals is mutually exclusive.