Feeds & Paysites

[Chilihost]

One argument I haven't seen here is the issue of assets.

If you spend $12,000 a year on feeds, at the end of 5 years, you've spent $60,000 and have nothing to show for it.

If you spent the same $60,000 on buying exclusive content or paying models and shooting your own, you'd have between 50 and 200 sets of content that you own. The value of that intellectual property is a part of the net worth of your business, should you ever decide to sell it. If all you have is a domain name with a bunch of links and a monthly bandwidth bill, you won't have much, other than the traffic to the domain and whatever membership goodwill value to sell.

This is an EXTREMELY good point, but I think it really depends on the feeds you are talking about. Some feeds are worth it because they update and keep things fresh plus offer a huge amount of content instantly for a cheap price, but most are just videos that you can buy for the same price of the feeds for 6 months.

[JOELK]

I think it is always better to have your own content and will have something to show for it like BoyFunk pointed out. On the other hand there is only so much you can shoot and update. That is why we decided to mix things up with exclusive content and leased feeds and give members the best of both worlds. It seems to work really well but you have to pick your feeds carefully. We expect the feeds to have regular ontime updates and have good content. Our members really like the exclusive content as well as the leased feeds. I hope that helps.

Mark

Glad the feed are working out well for you Mark

Joel Kapp
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[basschick]

feedsnow lets you have only 4 videos per page or "console" as they call it. so it would take several to really build up a site. the good part is that you can choose which movies to put on each console - you could choose them by niche or have a "just added" page or anything you like.

it's really a shame you can't have more videos per page. that would make their feeds a real benefit to any site, and would make them more money.

Ok, must be a dense day for me, as I'm not following the multiple consoles concept here? You mean something that can be brought in like a page include for each niche?

Yea, I had a feeling full site "feeds" would be received/perceived differently if presented as bonus sites.

[Bec]

Thanks for clarifying Patti -- I just wasn't picturing what you were describing.