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Originally Posted by midnightio
SwingsGirl: That makes sense. Was not sure why I could not pull up anything on the site search; now I know why! Congrats on being able to take your content and being able to control it and hopefully better monetize it.
BTW, what was your overall opinion of Hotmovies? Were the content revenues worthwhile given the number of users/viewers which use their site? I have a project in mind with particular video content, and in lieu of building a membership site and the on going time requirements, I am considering posting some 30-45 minutes scenes there and studying the results.
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Another great question midnightio, and I will answer your question honestly and hope it does not in any way deter you from your project.
Yes hotmovies.com was a great company to do business with, the staff were always professional and sincere, and they treated me very very well!
However I must tell you that as the one who produced the content, it was very difficult to digest,accept,swallow, and process the fact that you as the producer are not entitled to the LION's share of the revenue.
Case and point.....I will share this because I think it is critical for all producers to grasp, we remember one payout being $2500.00 for 1 month....they payout once a month.
So when use a thing called "math" to help with your decisions, well the math tells me that if I get paid $2500.00 and I am being paid a rate of 25% of revenue, then that tells me that someone else is walking away with $7500.00 of money that quite frankly should have been split with a little more integrity.
I don't think I have to add much more because I have always felt numbers talk better than people.
Knowing that our content is capable of generating at least 10,000.00 a month, we felt it was vital to return the control and dispersal of our content back to ourselves the ones who actually do the lion's share of the work
We understand that business is about networking and expanding distribution of your goods and services, but that kind of split is a way to put yourself out of business real fast