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Originally Posted by ChicagoRy
I think you had an initial point about this.
But now two people from their company have informed you of the process of their site, and how they see most other sites as having a similar process.
I think it's fair game once they let you know this. Pushing for this information being more clear on their site or something could make sense, but you personally know what to expect from here on out so complaining to him isn't going to accomplish anything.
I hope it accomplishes that training sites are more clear on this. And especially I haven't seen something like this on any other training site. (Signing big pros who are hardly producing any videos)
I don't agree with several points Matt is making. If somebody agrees to be signed as a video instructor on a training site then he SHOULD be required to put out an acceptable amount of videos, BECAUSE that is what customers expect.
So what sucks about this. Because of your current quality (videos per producer per month) people expect a similar quality from the new instructors. Now this doesn't happen, which disappoints customers.
But what's really unethical here is that customers pay in advance (subscription), expecting new instructors to produce similar amoutns of videos. Now when this doesn't happen customers have paid for services they expected but did not receive.
Again if you sign a superstar for your sports team people are going to buy a lot of season tickets because they expect him to put in a similar volume as the other players. If he then only plays one game of the season because you don't want to pay for more (or he doesn't feel like playing) it sucks for the people who bought tickets to see him.
And I am certain your subscriptions and extensions during your sign-ups of nutsinho and boywonder were higher than usual.
So you earned money and are happy, but besides this being questionable from an ethical view, I also think this will be bad for your future reputation. Because people, like me, notice that you sign great people but they don't produce videos. So I rather go to a training site that has less popular players but which are producing quality videos.
So I think leggopoker should be concerned with this, because despite the initial increase in revenues, this could reverse and have people going to other sites.
So now to Matt's point that he can't put that into practice.
I already mentioned one possibility. If somebody is only asked to do one video, then just feature it an a guest video so it doesn't raise the expectations that this will be a regular occurence.
Secondly, you could easily make a contract with each coach that says e.g.: Produce 6 videos in 6months, for each video you get paid $2k immediately and if you finished the 6 videos in time you get a $10k bonus.
Or: coaches are required to produce 6 videos in the first 6 months. They receive $5k for each video but have to pay $5k for each video they produce less in this time (making exceptions for unexpected circumstances like illness etc.)
[Oh and please don't use the agrument again that money doesn't matter. Let's see how many videos nutsinho and boywonder could suddenly put out in a week if you pay them 100k a video]
If coaches are not willing to sign something like this what qualifies them to be a part of your instructor team? Your instructor team shouldn't be something where people just join and leave, it should be decently long term right?
Last edited by Aki86; 05-11-2010 at 12:52 PM.