Originally Posted by ilnjscb

Prn Nrd,

I will suggest to you right now the steps to take. Talking is a shitload easier than doing. So I'm doing the easy part and you'd be doing the hard part.

Plan 1:

1. Partner with PR. Rebrand, or popularize their content producer partner tube
2. Publish honest, RT sales and traffic stats to all initial producer members, invite only
3. Share every fucking revenue stream, not one or two, every. That way your partners are actually partners and they'll jump in to optimize where they can.
4. Develop the best fraud and chargeback protection, as well as takedown, this is worth paying for
5. Ask for content that drives certain revenue streams; this is where the sharing all revenue will help you. 12 with pop drives traffic; 3 with teaser drives joins; Softcore might allow for new classes of advertisers, WHICH IS A GOAL WE ALL SHOULD SHARE, etc
6. Stats, stats, stats - implement the best surfer tracking tools
7. Allow for pure hosted, pure affiliate, and hybrid partners.
8. Use gaming psychology on surfers, with rep, scores, achievements, etc, and surfer to producer rewards for top notch content
9. Dispatch the smartest guy in your operation to sell to new add accounts
10. Reward producers who grow revenue
11. Make settlements quick, fair, and transparent.
12. Implement bitcoin (or some better designed digital currency) micropayments

Plan 2:

1. Gather a group of interested producers and developers, develop a tube.
2-12. As above

For a few months, maybe 6, you'll get slow traffic, as frustrated surfers link in and affiliates test their models. Then, you'll start being competitive.