Originally Posted by TheFootMan5

I really can't say anything bad about clips4sale. I've made some money running stores, they always pay out on time and their support responds back quickly.

However, with that being said there are clearly a lot of changes happening there and I think I know what's going on.

Back last January of 2012 when I started a bunch of stores with content I had backed up, I made about $5,000 the first month with less than half the content uploaded across a number of stores. I figured I could expect the same the next month and then something weird happened. I was use to having like 20-30 emails when I'd wake up on the weekends and one weekend had ZERO sales. Either a Saturday or Sunday when I woke up, and a few clip orders trickled in during the day and night, but it made no sense when I was doing 4-5 updates across 15-20 stores with new content. Traffic was cut in half and sales that month were about $2,400 and half of the previous month. It leveled off around $1,000 a month with traffic going down.

I heard some stores making ungodly amounts of money per month like $30,000 and $40,000 a month which I thought is not even remotely possible, but I was wrong. Some of these stores only update once a day at MOST. If your average clip is 9 minutes long and priced at $9.99, in order to make $40,000 for the month with a 60% payout for each clip sold you'd have to sell

$9.99 * .60 = $5.99 per clip sold. $40,000 divided by $5.99 = 6,677 clips sold for the month! LOL which comes out to about 222 clips sold per day. This blows my mind and almost seems impossible, but the top stores have done this amount per month, even with less than seven updates a week. I don't get it. I've also heard of stores who haven't updated in like five years still making $500 a month. WTF? In order to break into the top 50 you have to be around $4,400 a month right now.

I think what they are doing is promoting certain stores who they deem to have the best, quality content for their buyers. They are helping stores who don't update as much get that "pop" to the front page. Traffic and sales are at an all time high on clips4sale and what they don't want is some guy with a ton of low quality spamming with updates 50 times a day and then a surfer buys a clip, hates it, then doesn't come back. It makes sense from their perspective. I noticed that sales use to correlate to updates, which really isn't the case anymore. Traffic is being funneled to stores deemed "high quality".

Every time I open a store it always gets stuck in that no man's land of $500-$1,000 a month and then when I hear stores with similar content making $10,000 + per month it's annoying as fuck lol. While market saturation has a lot to do with this (more producers, more models becoming producers, etc.) it doesn't really seem to affect the top stores, which rarely move.

While I think a few years ago you could open a store and make a decent buck, those times are over. You can however make a decent amount of money but you'll have to put in some serious work finding new talent, making catchy animated GIFs, writing long SEO type descriptions, and finding the right niche among other things.