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Originally Posted by gideongallery
and that is why your hair brained solutions will never work,
you need to find additional revenue streams that don't currently exist
either to replace the lost income or to pay for this untopian world you want to create
product placement
live interaction are the way to go.
creating companies which will lose money so they can screw the people who are screwing you over (while they make a profit) is never going to work because
ding ding ding they are making a profit screwing you over.
so they can afford to spend you into an early grave.
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No they can't spend us into an early grave and you saying this shows how little you know. Actually we could spend them into an early grave. They have to have those advertisers to pay their costs, their profit margin is slim and by reducing the effectiveness of their advertising they will become a drain on the sites supporting them. It might only take a 10% swing, but a 10% swing can be 100% of the profit. Or 50%. It's definitely not 10% of their profit.
An additional revenue stream, like what? I think this industry has gone about as far as it can finding additional revenue streams. Easier said than done. But we are listening if you have any ideas.
Product placement. Such as? There are more companies who would sue us rather than pay us to use their products in our sites. Maybe the Pill, vibrator or lube companies will fund us all. In my experience of talking to these people at trade shows they're not even interested in giving away free samples for us to use in scenes. So maybe you know more than I do.
Live interaction. Yes and spot on. It would not take much for a site to do live shoots or have live webcam girls inside the site. It could be a cooperation between the paysite and the cam site or it could be the paysite doing it themselves. From what people tell me cam sites don't upsell to cam sites as well as they do to other paysites, others might know different, so maybe a girl online for free to the members would be a good idea. It would need 4 girls a day to make it 24 hours. But it represents another cost to the sponsor and today the margins are so tight many can't afford.
Unless they reduce the affiliates payout, long term the affiliates will earn more, or spend less on support or promoting themselves. But we know how this game works. Sponsors that screw webmasters can make it all good by having 60% rev share, $100 sign up weekends or even 90% rev share on a target no one will reach. Or a sponsor who puts on a big party, banners everywhere or skins a board will get more than a sponsor who is taking the fight to the Tubes and asking affiliates to stand alongside him.
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