I’ve long taught that educational videos…teaching people how to do stuff…can be one of the most lucrative forms of online video. But what if you want to sell single “how to” videos, on a pay-per-view basis, instead of an entire course on a subject ?
Pay-per-view video is still an emerging technology on the web…and setting everything up yourself can be a major headache. It’s often easier to pay a service to do everything for you, where you only need to focus on the content in your videos. And one such service worth looking at is MindBites.
MindBites caters to publishers large and small. For as little as $14 a month, you can have up to 100 videos for sale, either through your own site or through a custom MindBites store. You set the prices for your videos however you want. When someone watches your videos, they’ll see the first few seconds and then be prompted to make a payment to watch more. You can even set how many days after purchase that someone will be able to access your videos.
Keep in mind that MindBites is doing all the heavy lifting for you…they are doing the video transcoding, hosting the videos, delivering the videos, providing the video player, accepting the payments and providing secure access to the videos. For this (in addition to a small monthly fee I quoted above), MindBites keeps from 30% to 35% of the sales price. So if you’re selling a video for $5, you get around $3.25 and MindBites gets the rest.
MindBites isn’t a service for everyone, but if you’re looking for an out-of-the-box solution that does everything for you…and you don’t mind splitting your profits…it’s worth a closer look. Here’s the link to MindBites.