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Originally Posted by Shap
Who said anything about sending to a tube site?
I think you completely missed the point. Are you an affiliate or paysite owner? There are people getting rich off tube traffic. When I was preparing and planning our future it was obvious that if I wanted Twistys to maintain it's position in the market and have a bright future we were going to have to be really good at acquiring and monetizing tube traffic. It should be noted my goals and plans with Twistys were not to make a decent living. I always wanted to be at the top. You can't have the goal of being one of the biggest sites and not be willing to learn how the biggest source of traffic can be turned into a huge opportunity.
Obviously if you own a paysite and are perfectly happy making what you are now without making money on tube traffic then by all means tell me to gfy. I'm just trying to help those that are ambitious.
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Ambition does not need to follow the herd to the lowest common denominator, which is the tube model. This is not being a leader, it's being a follower.
When the content on your site (tube) is not the content you are selling, this is a serious problem.
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Point 6. The success of most paysites will depend on how well they can buy traffic and make money from it. 5 years ago you could do very well relying heavily on affiliates to help you build your business. That is no longer true. To be one of the leaders in the industry, more than ever, you have to be able to acquire and make money from traffic on your own. No more relying on affiliates.
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The thing you are missing is that affiliates make the traffic on their own and they send it to programs to make money with their targeted traffic. (some of this is purchased traffic, although i personally have never bought traffic)
If you stop relying on affiliates to at least send you a fair percentage of sign ups, this is a huge mistake imo.
Of course I am fine with everyone getting deeper and deeper into the tube world because as i know now, the saturation levels are hitting and the only thing to do is to try to find ways of monetizing traffic which should have been paying off on selling the content on the tube in the first place.
This kind of ideology cannot last.
Unless.
Are there any big tubes right now that make the majority of their money with the content uploaded on the tube, as in selling the product which is the site's content?