Originally Posted by AJHall

Cheaper pricing can work wonders. If the trend is for members to join, cancel and then come back 6-12 months later, they're not being given enough incentive to stick around. Something needs to change so that the only way for a member to see large amounts of new content is to stay an active member of the site.

Time release of content in conjunction with automated content rotation cycles AND updates by date can be helpful for smaller sites. Many times this enables even a very small site to benefit from offering low priced trials. With hot content and the right hook this strategy can convert to full price memberships quite well.

As far as bought traffic being worth it, in order for it to be worth it you'd need to already have a site that's converting that type of traffic at a decent rate. You're right, in today's market, profiting from a costly tube advertising campaign that's promoting a solo site without cams and heavy interaction would be a very big challenge.