AaronM

Disagree all you like but facts are facts are facts.

Non-exclusive video:

Let's say that you sell a non exclusive video for $100.00 and over the lifetime you sell that video AT THAT PRICE 25 times.

That's $2500.00 minus your overhead....Including your precious "Marketing" costs. (Not much profit there)

Exclusive POV video:

You sell the same scene for $400.00 but you only sell it one time.

$400.00 in your pocket minus overhead. (Profit on this is only made because you shoot it along with other content so it balances out with bulk non-exclusive orders)

Exclusive video FOR YOU:

For this example, we will look at POV BJ scenes....I believe you sell yours for around $400.00 per scene which means your overhead is less than that. Let's pretend that it costs you $400 to shoot it though.....

You spend $4000.00 and shoot 10 of those videos then offer it as a plug in. If you use those same "Marketing" skills that you claim to possess then it should be no problem for you to sell this plug in. I know of a company who has been running a similar plug in for almost a year now and after only 3 months, they were billing $30,000 per month.

Now...Try to keep up with the math.....

You shoot one additional scene every week at $400 per scene. 52 weeks a year plus your original 10 scenes total $24,800.00 out of pocket.

A quick preliminary look shows $24,800 out of pocket for a years worth of updates and an income of $30,000.00 PER MONTH.

Let's pretend that there was zero profit the first 3 months...Why? Fuck if I know...Just to give your theory the benefit of the doubt I guess.....

9 months left in the year at 30k per month = $270,000.00 minus your per scene cost = $245,200.00 and you have studio costs, advertising, tapes and so forth....And of course hosting.

Now.......

Let's pretend that the additional overhead for bandwidth, etc... is 30% of the $245,200.00 figure.....

$245,200.00 minus 30% = a net profit of $171,640.00 per year for a grand total of 62 scenes shot. In round figures that comes to a profit of $2,768.00 per scene over the first year....Remember that you are selling that scene to others for $400.00 exclusive and you would have to sell the non-exclusive one roughly 7 times...which you and I both know you are not doing. You are working and shooting a hell of a lot more than 62 scenes a year and not profiting $2,768.00 per scene which is extreme low end for the mentioned product.

I have been more than generous with the numbers here considering that I accounted for no profits the first 3 months and zero growth over the other 9 months. There is also no way that your additional overhead would be 30% and if it was, the monthly growth of your sales would way more than balance that out.

So Joe and the others who disagree with me...... How many people do you know who make a 6 figure income based on shooting only 62 videos in a single year and marketing them strictly on the web? More importantly.....Are you making that kind of money for that little effort? If you were then you would not be disagree with me in the first place.

The people who make consistent GOOD money in this business will spend $2000+ for exclusive shoots because they know damn good and well that they will make that back many times over. Those same people most likely update their website at least once a week and they started with at least 10 videos as I have done in my example. That means they are spending a minimum of $124,000.00 per year. What do you think their profit is?

Don't get me wrong...Making 200 grand a year selling non-exclusive content is OK money but it is far from GOOD money considering the amount of work that is actually put into it. Let's also remember that most of the content providers around here are likely making less than $50,000 per year (again I am being generous). The only reason they are not shooting exclusively for themselves is because they can not afford to or they don't know how to market a pay site or plug in. How do I know this? Because I have been there myself but unlike most of these people, I have done my best to listen, learn, and expand my businesses to include things other than simply shooting for others.

The next time you decide to tell me that I am wrong, you may want to open your minds and think about other ways to maximize your profits. Very few of the people who post to this board own their own affiliate programs that are generating even a 6 figure income. Why take business advice from those who are less successful than you? If they knew WTF they were talking about then they would be doing it.

My final thought?Work smarter AND harder.