> how many people are paying to view a video on the internet? even with > micro payments. can't say I ever have. > > & I don't know what all this is: > > >> World class disc dog events are held in every region of the country > several times per year. The same can be said of agility and flyball > tournaments as well as rally-obedience and dock diving > > maybe just start doing it & see how it progresses? don't wait for > others if you have a good idea. people will want to join in later when > the momentum is high. good luck > > kath
Well, have you found something that is your passion that is for sale? That's the key, and that's where people like me come in. Right now people only have access to their passion via purely user generated content. The model of online video has been one of user generated content. Fun Stuff. For more serious things like instruction and top of the line entertainment (iTunes) we pay, via iTunes, netflix or we get it at the video store. People pay for content all the time, just not our kind of content. There is a whole level in between that I believe, along with Steve Rosenbaum, that there is going to be a rise of specialized communities with local and online advertising partners that absolutely fill the niche. There's the key again. It's not broad spectrum. It's not raw numbers, it's the long tail of the 1000 true fans, and in the case of well developed communities, there are tens of thousands of true fans. Granted the true fan is not a fan for the personality or the artist, but for the activity that the community is built around. All you have to do is create a gathering place, bring in the right talent to draw attention from the community and if you do, should be able to deliver content to a passionate community. Again, 10 videos that do 100 hits each at $1 of profit per video is $1000. Make good content for a passionate large community and that goal should be a gimme. As far as not knowing what all of the dog sports are, they are that, dog sports, and there are tens of thousands of dog sports competitors across the country and we're friggin' crazy people. Really kind of strange for regular folk. Our lifeline to our sports is the internet. It's the only way we can see what's happening in our sport. There is a big difference between spectator video, which is what most everyone seems to generate, and professional video. So, professional video of Joe Schmoe from Philadelphia, PA is not going to sell, but pro video of this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae4nu_zmTeI&feature=channel_page I'm buying it, especially if it's good video. There are usually about 10 guys like this at every large regional event in Frisbee. Then of course there are usually about 20 minutes of really nice video that could easily be assembled from an event. 100 competitors, $5 for the video online? Not to mention the competitors who wanted to make it but missed it, and the wanna be or soon to be competitors hungry for knowledge. It should be fairly easy to sell 100 units at $1 profit for the project to take in $1000. The same could probably be done for agility, but in a different sense. There's a guy already doing this and he does make sales, but it's just him and he's only covering one event at a time. He's like me - dog trainer, web developer, videographer, editor, sales manager, graphic designer, small business owner. That's a lot of hats. Thinking about it, perhaps it is a bit specialized, but there should be plenty of events that the professional hobbyist would pay a few bucks to see and be a part of. As far as just doing it? No problem. I am. We should be ready to go in a month or so. I do need more content than I can generate by myself, and want a professional product to distinguish the professional part of our site (pay to play) from regular user generated stuff, although we will embrace and feature user generated media. It would be great to partner up with some people on this list and get some projects together. I really think it could pay the bills plus for a lot of people on this list if done right. Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Jan 6, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Kath O'Donnell wrote: > how many people are paying to view a video on the internet? even with > micro payments. can't say I ever have. > > & I don't know what all this is: > > >> World class disc dog events are held in every region of the country > several times per year. The same can be said of agility and flyball > tournaments as well as rally-obedience and dock diving > > maybe just start doing it & see how it progresses? don't wait for > others if you have a good idea. people will want to join in later when > the momentum is high. good luck > > kath > > 2009/1/7 Ron Watson <[email protected]>: > > > > If you, as a video producer (shoot, cut, encode) were to hook up > with > > people like me and create 50 videos for a rabid community like mine, > > or more likely 10 videos for me and 10 videos for five other sites > > like mine, and sold 200 units on each of them at $1 profit per, > > that's $10K. > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
