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Originally Posted by Shap
I have to disagree and I'll be totally 100% brutally honest here. Two things saved our ass.
#1 Having a paysite that focuses on the member. Our members are extremely loyal and that has saved our ass. If Twistys relied on the sales it gets from Tube Sites it would be fucked. We do very well with our core audience and existing traffic sources but tubes is not an area excel at. Our great tube traffic is on GayTube and that can't sell a Twistys membership. The truth is Twistys, like most paysites, is down from it's peak but it has been very stable and still is our top company earner and most profitable site.
#2 I have a few good domains but right now GayTube is the only superstar. There is absolutely no question that without GayTube I'd be a nervous person. Why? Because I don't believe the current paysite business model can be successful long term (5 to 10 years). Having GayTube gives us the best of both worlds. We have a great paysite that has stood the test of time and we have a non stop growing GAY tube site that is in a growing market (tubes) and one that still buys memberships GAY. Currently GayTube doesn't even make a quarter of what Twistys does. But at the rate it keeps growing and the opportunities that have come up because of it I know it is only a matter of time before it's doing what Twistys does now and much more.
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I thought you had some real good straight tube site domains on the same level as gaytube? Also, I realized after I posted , it was Far-L who I was thinking of that has partnered up with some of the bigger tube sites and gets the majority of his traffic from them now.
You do have several years of a built up membership base that even if you turned the site off today you would still bill out 100K's of thousands am I sure, that has to help. maybe I spoke a year or two soon. But "in the end" or near future, that gay tube site is going to keep going up and you going to be working you ass off with twistys production costs and rebills decreasing (from declines if nothing else) as your new sales dwindle.
build up those straight tube domains and keep your own traffic source going to help try to off set that with new sales
