My questions now, as i am planning our next step in this business, which will most probably take the form of our own pay site:
1- I now make 60% when i sell my clips at clips4sale. If i open my own pay site, how do you think that the operating costs would compare with the 40% i leave to clips4sale? How much percentage do you leave in operating costs for your pay sites?
hosting is cheap now, bandwidth too ... get a domain and build a site yourself ... CCBill will only take about 15% of subscriptions ... the content is free
You said each customer for you spent about $20 at C4S? Is that after C4S charges? Each new customer at my website is worth $25 initial, and then there's the rebills ....
2- I would like to open a pay site that would offer individual clips download as well as membership. How does this model fit with the standard affiliate-sponsor model? Is selling individual clips interesting for affiliates?
... as per Gonzo, the problem is with processors.
3- What percentage of sales is coming from your affiliate programs compared to your own traffic?
0%, but I'm just developing this area myself
4- What kind of percentage split do you experience or would expect between individual clip and membership sales? Do you expect that individual clip sales could match membership sales anytime soon?
see my previous post ... it has doubled my sales
I hope that 2008 will be as exciting for all of you as 2007 was for me ;-)
Best wishes to you all,
Dany.