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Originally Posted by Sly
What he is asking is why would you pay them the full 40% to process when you can set up your own store, send your self the traffic you send them, and only pay whatever your processing fee is with your processor... typically 15% and under.
Does C4S send a lot of sales with their traffic to make up for that 40%? Setting up a store with them sounds great, basically free money like you said. But if you are sending any kind of volume to your own clip store, wouldn't it make you a load of more cash running your own processing?
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Sly, when I set up my first C4S clip store containing mostly lesbian videos on C4S over a year ago I was relying almost completely on their traffic and I managed to sell a few thousands of dollars worth of clips over a period of several months. Clip sales have slowed down a lot since then but that was nice extra money. Plus I redirect some of that C4S traffic to my other sites, which presumably made more money from my blogs, cams etc. I still make some sales on C4S even though I haven't updated the store recently, and I am starting some new clips stores to keep that going.
More recently I did exactly what you said and started my own downloadable clip site on my own domain with processing at 4.9% and I send my own traffic to it. Of course, this isn't necessarily a perfect substitute for C4S, since there may be some people who prefer the C4S environment. How you set up your own store and tour and other factors may come into play. I actually think it pays to keep links to both C4S and your own stores. That way you get them either way if they are predisposed to buy anything at all. C4S has a minimum price based on clip length so it works out that my clip prices on C4S are higher anyway to make up for the 40% cut, and I offer short little sub-clips on C4S and Clips.com that I do not offer on my independent clip store which also make sales a few bucks at a time.