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Originally Posted by BVF
You know I'm on your side, as I am also a single site owner making a living from it so you know I'm not trying to be an asshole....But three minute sample videos on your tour? That's gotta be yanking a lot of bandwidth.....
I have 9 updates at a time on my page and I used to have a sample video for every update....But now, I just put the sample up for the most recent update....Maybe you could do the same and trim some of your costs.
I hope everything works out for you.....It's hard to see someone like me out here having problems like that.
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Actually, the bandwidth costs on those videos is lower than my old tour, I think mainly due to them being streamed using wowza. My cost are not really going to change, I buy a set amount of bandwidth from Mojohost and always stay under it. My server costs currently are actually lower than what I had been paying for the last 5 years.
BUT if you factor in affiliate script rentals etc... the cost more than doubles. Add that to the fact that I'm small, I don't have a merchant account and have never been able to get one, so I'm still getting nailed for the 13% on each transaction. You start adding everything up and quickly find out how there is no way your going to be able to support the high payouts anymore.
One thing the site has always had going for it was it's nitch. People can argue all they want but looking at the fact that over 70% of my sales come from non affiliates, and have since I started the site, and I do ZERO marketing... it tells me that I will survive (maybe with less) but survive none the less.
This is not some greedy money grab I'm trying to do here. It's a reality check.