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Originally Posted by Retox Josh
Gotta spend money to make money, and if you take shortcuts you're ROI will reflect that.
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You can keep repeating that like a parrot, but it doesn't necessarily make it true. For example, I barely spend fifteen minutes a day on webmastering, yet I started one blog with free WordPress software on June 19th and have made over $1200 from it so far. The success had nothing to do with the cost or sophistication of the content management system, but more with the ingenuity and work I put into the design, writing posts, trading traffic, links, and selection of niche & sponsors.
It would be the same with a MGP style video site or tube site. One doesn't necessarily need the expensive tools to do the job. The advanced features in some of the paid for tube scripts are great but not the be all and end all. As a matter of fact I think some of the free scripts are better than the paid ones, at least right now. Furthermore, the concept ROI pre-supposes the idea of revenue vs expenses, so the less one spends, the better one's chances of turning a profit quickly.
I am not against paying for software in general, I have literally thousands of dollars worth of licenses for all kinds of software here in my office. But if a free script can do the job and do it as well or almost as well as a paid tool, there is no reason to downplay it or dismiss it. If your script has some awesome features that others don't, webmasters will gladly pay for it, especially if they have more complex tube sites or highly trafficked tube sites and if you offer a feature that makes their lives easier, like easy import of sponsor videos.