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Originally Posted by Yanks_Todd
sorry, perhaps I read into that a bit more then I should have. I felt you came across as more of knocking the model I am running then wanting to help.  Apparently I was wrong. 
I think cams are amazing and perhaps I will hit you up sometime in the near future to learn more. However I don't think pics and vids are going away permanently and this post was to promote some positive thought about who will be there when the dust settles in all facets of the biz.
I know I will be. Tubes aren't going away but the growth they have experienced is unsustainable. I was actually trying to figure out an equation to that affect. The average tube surfer more then likely consumes more vids then can be produced by the few real amateur submitters. Thus someone has to produce.
Tube traffic converts like shit for paysites but if they keep growing the diluted revenue they generate from cam sites won't cover their bandwidth costs.
In other words the industry will have to rebalance.
Cam sites will still rock and I am sure you will do fine. But I have a really positive mindset about my biz model as well.
Sorry if I offended you, it was late, lol. |
I'm not knocking your business model at all. I am sure you are very successful with it. It is just a very hard model these days to make money with any more. I've had some decent membership sites back in the 2000/2003 time frame. Personally in my situation I got tired of building up membership bases just to have the wiped out by 3rd party billers going out of business. That wasn't the only reason I stopped promoting them as I could have gotten my own merchant account, but the main reason was the amount of time I was putting into creating membership sites, updating them, buying content, doing customer service, etc... ate up a lot of my time that was better used into generate traffic. For me, I was best at generating traffic and left all of the updating, customer service to the site owner.
Membership sites still have a lot of potential, but personally I believe only the ones that have interraction will survive in the long run, or at the most stay as a good profitable business. If you shoot your own content and pay thousands of dollars for scenes for your members just to have it stolen and posted to tubes sites within a couple hours, you can't compete with that. The learning curve on the net is slow, there is still a lot of porn users every day finding tube sites for the first time, mainly the older users. The under 24 crowd already knows about all the free porn, so as the older generations find out, the membership sites with no interraction will continue to decline unless something drastic changes.
I agree with you that at some point the tube sites will have all of the content on the net on their sites and will run out of new content to put. BUT, they will just wait for you to post new content and then steal it and use it as their fresh updates as well. Why would a user pay to see your content on your site when all they have to do is wait a little and it will be on another site (tube) for free to watch.
I also never suggested you stop doing what you doing. I was mentioning if you were ever looking to diversify, start a new stream of income and if they both do well for a long time, perfect make more money. If the membership sites starts decline bad, then you have the cams site to supliment lost income. If done right you can use the cam site as an additional source of revenue and upsell to your existing members.
The only thing I could suggest you to help with your present model would be for you to add interraction in your member's area, something that people can't steal.