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Originally Posted by charly
If giving 1 set to a sponsor who then gives it to 100 affilaites, turns off one affilaite, who buys his own content, then we are even.
If it turns off two buyers we lost money.
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People should go into business, any business, with a concept of the product or service they intend to provide. That concept should include identifying the sector of the market to which they intend to sell, because to a large extent that determines the exact nature of the product or service, as well as its price. With a clear idea of what they will be selling and to whom they will be selling it, they do the sums, adjusting their ideas until everything adds up.
It's a reality of business that there will always be people who will not buy from you and people who would only buy if your product or service were cheaper or different. Yes, and people who might have paid more. Although it's a good idea to sit down once in a while and thoroughly re-examine your business model, you will drive yourself nuts if you are constantly asking could I have made more money if. And it is a very bad idea to try to accomodate everyone "on the fly", because then you have effectively thrown out the conclusions that you reached with your best judgement and are allowing yourself to drift on the tide.
You have the potential to deal with at least two distinct markets, but selling the same product to them all is a poor idea. Consider not only the sales you lose when webmasters spot that a set is already heavily exposed because you sold it to someone for FHG's, but also the reaction of the - say - 3 webmasters who bought the set before the FHG buyer came along. They were expecting that over time you might sell 20 sets (or whatever) and suddenly they spot the set everywhere. They are going to think twice before buying from you again.
If you don't want to focus on a single market sector, think about the book publishing business. Books come out in a hardcover edition, then a trade paperback, then a regular paperback. You know how many sets you can realistically sell within a certain time frame, so during that time frame sell only full-priced sets, not selling to sponsors for FHG's until you move sets to your "bargain basement". Alternatively split your sets, making the non-nude shots available to sponsors and in your bargain basement immediately. Or maybe it is possible to extend your sessions, putting the model against a plain background to run off a series to sell specifically for FHG's. The specifics are up to you, but the point is to produce variations of your product such that each appeals to a different part of the market and all of your customers feel they got what they expected.