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Poll: Pond5 exclusive (dropped excl. option added)
jjneff:
Only doing the % math not the earnings, I have sold a lot of exclusive files and it is not 50% earnings difference, I can post that.
increasingdifficulty:
--- Quote from: jjneff on February 18, 2020, 07:02 ---Only doing the % math not the earnings, I have sold a lot of exclusive files and it is not 50% earnings difference, I can post that.
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A 60% cut is 50% more than a 40% cut.
"% math" and "earnings math" follow each other 100%.
This is extremely important.
jjneff:
I understand what you are saying all I am stating is the it is not dollar for dollar 50% more as I have the sales to prove it.
increasingdifficulty:
--- Quote from: jjneff on February 18, 2020, 07:20 ---I understand what you are saying all I am stating is the it is not dollar for dollar 50% more as I have the sales to prove it.
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No, your sales prove that creating a new account with mostly a different portfolio with new clips with 0 sales (= bad search placement), with a large part consisting of animated still images didn't produce the sales you had expected.
If you had had a non-ex deal on that same account with those same clips, uploaded at the same time with the same prices, you would only have earned 67% of what you actually earned.
When you make business decisions you base them off of actual math, not what you know happened in the future...
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Since I make several hundred percent to 1,000%+ more from the other sites (and always have), a 50% bigger cut was not enough for me. Of course going ex COULD have resulted in amazing promotion and customers flocking to $1,000 clips and I would have been wrong. In this case, I wasn't, but I didn't base my decision on that.
georgep7:
No matter the percentages, exclusivity was (for me) all about not spreading files all over, worrying in what sub library they will end up and satisfying customers that would prefer an exclusive video pool paying something better for this feature. Strike one was llc sales, strike two was listing (not sales, list for sale) in China market with low prices, strike three was this hyperstock thing. Not really frustrated, i will keep my files in P5 hoping for the best but now i want my freedom to delete any file to my will.
I cannot change my vote to the poll but also send the six months termination notice.
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