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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
My point was that you seem to know nothing about a completely foreign business model. Not a big deal. But there is a massive learning curve to anything profitable as well as a large cost in time and investment. Why distract yourself because you "have a good domain name"? You haven't even stated any goals, so there are no good answers as the question has zero context as do most of the answers.
I will tell you that there are companies with less content than you, doing 30+ joins a day from submissions. I would imagine there is a great deal you could be doing that doesn't involve doing something you understand poorly and then only devoting some of your attention to it with no real desire to completely master it.
You have to define your goals, where you want to be in terms of traffic, revenue - evaluate the use of time resources and where they are best spent etc etc etc etc and then ask "does a single tube site fit into this model". I personally don't see a single domain/tube yielding anything compared to the cost in time/distraction. If you were going to start a massive network of scraper sites to feed a network of tube sites feeding into this single tube site and you had a plan and the experience of buying feeder traffic, filtering it through the network while working the seo side of things, that would be very different. But a single site?
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I should've stated my (modest) Goal in my original post but stated it elsewhere: $500 a week in additional net profits for my company.
Now, having read the rest of your comments I would 100% agree with you about my lack of knowledge in this business model, my limited time and resources and sticking to what I know best (and, BTW, my company does more than 30+ joins a day via tube submissions alone on a good day, not counting 'organic' traffic and non-tube affiliate traffic).
But I must say I DO know a bit about the tubesite business model, having worked closely with the biggest ones on Earth for 3+ years and having many friends who run them. So I do know A. the time and expense required and B. the commitment and experience needed in the areas you outlined.
Now let's bring it back to scale here. I am NOT interested in attempting an Alexa 1000 or better tubesite. I am not interested in selling ads or traffic. I REJECT the current tube site business model that many more experienced, knowledgeable and well-funded have attempted and failed at. No, no - what I want is a small, boutique tube, maybe 100,000 uniques a day or even less, spotlighting the "best" of that day's video submissions, displayed in a way that actually helps paysite owners and helps make sales for them.
My current operation is mostly self-sufficient at this point, with many employees handling the 'heavy lifting' so now I must focus on traffic and affiliate sales. I thought I would start with a tube site but if not, then what? No way I'm playing either the SEO or feeder-traffic game. LOL