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Thoughts on podcasts, youtube, etc. and funding

Jwiggins762 said:
Didn't you tag out on bucks last season in bama?.....Cant get any higher than that imo.
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There are many people who tag out or even maybe kill a few extra bucks in alabama. They just are smart enough to keep it to themselves. ;)

@SILhunter, it's all about value. If you owned a saddle company, would you see more value in paying somebody to back just your product, or paying to flip a coin and see if that money bought a recommendation or a scathing review? What if you paid me, and I hated your product but loved your biggest competitor? What then?

Now flip it. If you're looking at buying a $500 saddle system, is there more value in watching a "free" video put out by the company or a prostaffers, or paying for access to a video by somebody who doesn't care if that manufacture makes a million dollars or goes out of business?

I know I learned what I liked by buying, selling, trading, and borrowing a lot of saddles. Significant time and money invested, which I honestly dont have the desire to go through every time something new comes out just for me.
 
Aaronpaul14 said:
I’d donate to a patron type deal. Can give those people chances to win the gear you review.
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That's not a bad idea I think. But what I'm envisioning would require more backers than there could ever be winners of that type of drawing.

What other incentives would folks potentially be interested in? I know one guy who lists his top-tier sponsors in his videos, and answers specific questions from the lower tier in them.
 
As far as editing goes, it's not hard to do. I use cyberlink powerdiirector for my youtube stuff. Most of what you'll be doing is cutting out dead air and bloopers.
 
Nutterbuster said:
That's not a bad idea I think. But what I'm envisioning would require more backers than there could ever be winners of that type of drawing.

What other incentives would folks potentially be interested in? I know one guy who lists his top-tier sponsors in his videos, and answers specific questions from the lower tier in them.
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To me the unbiased and wide variety of items that could be reviewed is the #1 reason I would pay monthly to keep you rolling.

Having a chance to win something eventually would be #2.

Maybe even having an input on what is reviewed could be another incentive to donate.

And then come up with some funny nutterbuster merch to boost cash flow.
 
Aaronpaul14 said:
To me the unbiased and wide variety of items that could be reviewed is the #1 reason I would pay monthly to keep you rolling.

Having a chance to win something eventually would be #2.

Maybe even having an input on what is reviewed could be another incentive to donate.

And then come up with some funny nutterbuster merch to boost cash flow.
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Patreon does have options for things like polls I think. Giveaways aren't kosher directly through them, sadly.
 
Fall is coming? Did you recently move up north without telling me? It's going to be a long damn time will we have any semblance of fall weather in the south. I think it was actually a hundred degrees and 100% humidity today. Freaking miserable.
 
denots said:
Fall is coming? Did you recently move up north without telling me? It's going to be a long damn time will we have any semblance of fall weather in the south. I think it was actually a hundred degrees and 100% humidity today. Freaking miserable.
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Fall is definitely coming. I never said fall weather was coming. Reading comprehenshun...
 
What about trying to leverage equipment sharing instead? I’m guessing you will have a broader universe of equipment to access and review if you asked the community to pay shipping to loan you equipment that you would return, than you would asking people to pay you enough money to buy it and then review it. I’m sure plenty of people will say they will pay you on a patreon and I’m sure some of them will, but I’m guessing you would get more access to product with the first strategy. And you could expand on the first strategy, what if you partnered with Mark Dohring? That dude has a YouTube review twice a day, you could share products and the community would support both of you I’m sure

Ultimately it all comes down to content and how it’s valued. We all love the content, the degree to which we value it will determine how easily you can monetize it.

I would also investigate starting an LLC just to start recording losses relative to investment.
 
Patriot said:
What about trying to leverage equipment sharing instead? I’m guessing you will have a broader universe of equipment to access and review if you asked the community to pay shipping to loan you equipment that you would return, than you would asking people to pay you enough money to buy it and then review it.
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I've actually relied on that some in the past. I just don't see it working with a hot, new item that's worth a lot of money. Say I want to review latitude outdoors' saddles. You buy one. I ask for a loan, and promise to pay shipping both ways, or ask you to split it for the cause...how willing are you gonna be to part with it? Especially if you bought it just in time for opening day?
 
You have a podcast? I’m kinda glad I didn’t know that because I only have a 512GB phone.

Shotcut is free editing software that will do all you need.

There some Indian dude in YT that does pretty good tutorials for it.
 
SNIPERBBB said:
There's basically three models to funding shows. Subscriptions, sponsors, or sell stuff or a combination thereof. Giveaways are nice and all but ultimately it's the content and the social capital that keep people watching and opening wallets.
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There is another model but it takes a leap of faith to use it.

Value for value
 
sureshotscott said:
There is another model but it takes a leap of faith to use it.

Value for value
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This is the concept I was suggesting when I said “Ultimately it all comes down to content and how it’s valued. We all love the content, the degree to which we value it will determine how easily you can monetize it.”
 
Is this what @Patriot is getting at? Companies loan you saddles and equipment then you get to determine who gets to use that equipment by a drawing or first come first serve basis, etc? For example Acme saddles wants advertisement and contacts you to reach out to your subscribers. A subscriber sees the new Acme saddle and wants to try it out but doesn't want to pay $1,000 for the new saddle. The subscriber puts $1000 in your account, trys the saddle and doesn't like it but only pays a flat $25 (or whatever) to try it and send it back. (I'm seeing this like tool rental at Home Depot or something). Benefits you and the subscriber. On the other hand, the subscriber likes it, decides to keep it, the company can pay you the same amount for selling it and send him out a new saddle once they receive the demo. Seems complicated now that I re-read it, ha! Maybe there's something similar already out there?
 
Jtaylor said:
Is this what @Patriot is getting at? Companies loan you saddles and equipment then you get to determine who gets to use that equipment by a drawing or first come first serve basis, etc? For example Acme saddles wants advertisement and contacts you to reach out to your subscribers. A subscriber sees the new Acme saddle and wants to try it out but doesn't want to pay $1,000 for the new saddle. The subscriber puts $1000 in your account, trys the saddle and doesn't like it but only pays a flat $25 (or whatever) to try it and send it back. (I'm seeing this like tool rental at Home Depot or something). Benefits you and the subscriber. On the other hand, the subscriber likes it, decides to keep it, the company can pay you the same amount for selling it and send him out a new saddle once they receive the demo. Seems complicated now that I re-read it, ha! Maybe there's something similar already out there?
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I was thinking more basic like us hunters share stuff. We already have folks sharing all the time. I could see folks paying at least one way of the shipping for Nutterbuster to review the gear. I do think if he has enough subscribers he could also probably get the companies to send him stuff too as you suggested. That is pretty common and I don’t think any of us would worry about him being biased, Nutterbuster is clearly not a man who’s opinions can be bought .


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Patriot said:
This is the concept I was suggesting when I said “Ultimately it all comes down to content and how it’s valued. We all love the content, the degree to which we value it will determine how easily you can monetize it.”
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Wish I could give you a definite "business model assessment" but I think we're all talking about the same thing.

@Nutterbuster if it was easy to kick a dollar your way before/during/after hearing your podcast I would do it. My real-life job keeps me busy from doing all the CBA otherwise. :(
 
Patriot said:
I was thinking more basic like us hunters share stuff. We already have folks sharing all the time. I could see folks paying at least one way of the shipping for Nutterbuster to review the gear. I do think if he has enough subscribers he could also probably get the companies to send him stuff too as you suggested. That is pretty common and I don’t think any of us would worry about him being biased, Nutterbuster is clearly not a man who’s opinions can be bought .


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Definitely less complicated! Good idea!
 
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