Congrats JT for the new project and the sales ! Top #10 before the end of next week ?
And i do think also that the +10 min vids are very good to convert, and also, if the tube doesn't take an affiliate commission it make more sense...you give them good content, they will earn enough from the ads revenue. Maybe for a company without a lot of content or very specific niches it will not worth to do it and they will be better to just make small promo clips to not loose too much sales..and have a member zone with content that you cant find everywhere
BTW i dont really agree with you NewNick (about the OP not helping and negative impact), but i understand your point of view, but i dont see that much bad thing about this topic. This board is full of different peoples, and this topic can help webmasters, content owner and other people. As an affiliate, you can do some tube upload, with whitelabel/cobrand and do money out of it, even if you dont have your content.
Having succes story message like this should be giving some positive and some ideas about how to earn extra revenues... Why not hire some remote/inhouse staff to do it if you dont have time and it seem to works fine, we do it and we easily pay the 2 salary of our uploaders. Yes a team is better, but i believe it s possible on small scale too.
And JT you have the right to be happy and proud of your success, yes the industry is getting harder, but like i said "success story" could be inspiring to some people. Its kind of true that the more the big companies take big piece of the pie, the harder it will be for very small worker/affiliate, but its the same in all industry, ex Wallmart vs a little unique shop.
But sometime small is beautiful too, i know some solo guys that does tons of $$$, efficient one man army.
And if not, why not try to grow/expand, you dont need a lot of money to do it, you need guts/ideas/hard working /studying etc etc,,, talk to NIck when he started Crakmedia, he had nothing, no $$ , but big dreams/hope, a good self confidence and he have +60 employees.. so everything possible. And thats why at Crakmedia we always take time to talk with our affiliates and give them advice and try to help, we know its not easy BUT its possible to do good money, and we will continue to share some knowledge, tutorials etc, for the affiliates that join Crakrevenue, that was the purpose, share and grow together, win/win.
Good luck to all !!!
And welcome back Fabian