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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
I am thinking from the consumers perspective.
I'm all for clips4sale and we get good sales from there. It fits the users needs totally. I wish there were 10 more sites with the same format doing the same type of figures. What I would like to know is why isn't there 10 other sites like it?
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Greed.
Clips4Sale was the first. The offered a fair 60/40 split on revenue.
The others that have come after it offer 25-40% to the store owner. Then bring in all that affiliate, extra percentage math bullshit in the dangling carrot for 75% or whatever.
Basically selling the dream of the affiliate program to lazy webmaster and in turn drive traffic to their main site in hopes the long term advantage will be more people coming to the main site, and in exchange you get some crumbs if they buy from others. This is no different then the traffic leaks some claim with C4S.
When you look at the clip stores, a lot of them are mom and pops or smaller production houses. Most are not going to settle for 40% and some math riddle with the promise of riches. Especially when you can make more money on C4S then the others
combined, and get more traffic (if you know how to work the system).
There are probably close to 10 other outfits out there now. However, unless you have limited content in your pipeline. The odds of you working all 10 clip store sites is a long shot at best.
For me, I shoot, and release, so much content in a month that I am willing to try and few of them here and there to test their traffic and sales. But, just like any other business. When one is paying you crumbs, and the other thousands. You are going to stop wasting your upload time and move on to something else.
For those who have licensed limited content, or do not shoot as much. Yes. Working all 10 clip store sites may be advantageous to "not leaving money on the table". For me, even with two internet connections, I am not going to upload to 10 sites. I will demo them, find which do best, and focus on those. Same as most of the others.
