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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
The tubes aren't really "selling" anything though. They are giving away what used to be the product for free and instead generating revenue for pennies on the dollar with prepaid advertising from non-pay sites. Essentially it's trading the profitability of the pay site product itself for a greater share of non-paysite revenue.
You can't compete by "selling" a better product. You have to be willing to give it away and play the same game or move on to a different product which has not been devalued. In a way it would be much like running a lemonade stand and selling lemonade for 50 cents a cup. Then some asshole sets up shop right next to you and starts giving it away free. It's basically the same situation.
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Most of the major tubes have membership areas, sell products branded to them, have many white labels, use social networks, emails, sell mobile and they have ads... each of the unique major tubes produces 100's of new sales daily.
Many people already sell a better product and that product has no problem selling.
Then my lemonade stand will give away ice, a nicer glass, an ac/headed room, tv's/sports, or maybe spike the drinks with some soft ass chairs. Just like the festivals giving away free food/beer, yet every restaurant and bar on the street is full - the result of mass amounts of people showing up to a single place - they will do all types of shit, even things you don't expect.