The fact is that as far back as seven years ago we told you that it will never work. You used those suggestions as “we, the established veterans were jealous and afraid be put out of business by those with easy to use inexpensive toy cameras; according to you we were dinosaurs on our way to extinction”.

Care to reassess those statements?

You never really stopped and listen to the voices of experience, as a consequence two things happened: you and your followers were wrong and we are still here doing better than ever.

The problem was, and still is that, you business model was bad to begin with, actually you had no business model whatsoever, you just try to take off with your gut feeling. Most good business ventures start as gut feeling but before is turned into a business a business model is developed to see where will the money come from and why. You didn’t do that even thou we told you that you should.

The reality is that there’s plenty of money to be made on the web, but not in your way.

You used and oversaturated the web as a potential direct moneymaker instead of a venue to make money for existing products and businesses. You made a small attempt a few days ago to direct people toward business but I can tell you that most of your followers will never make it.

Fire away gang, just keep in mind that I haven’t been wrong yet. Every one of my predictions since we first started these discussion with Michael over seven years ago came true. It’s your future not mine.

Large corporations have embraced the web as a new method to promote and communicate fast and easily with their clients and employees; and now that the quality of video on the web is better than ever they are spending small fortunes in using quality videos as a marketing tool.

Your mistake was in believing that “cheap” was the way to go. We’ve been telling you for years that in the grand scope of marketing and merchandising the cost of producing a quality video is a drop in a bucket. Over and over has been proven, with studies, that cheaply produced videos will have an adverse effect on the marketing potential of a product or service. Business people know that you need quality to sale a products and there’s no such thing as cheap quality.

Those small companies that you were going after and who could never afford videos before the web still can not afford videos, no matter how cheap it is.

For the video creators there’s no money to be made in cheap; companies will always find somebody that can do it cheaper. Look at Craiglist, people are willing to work for nothing just to get some demos and experience. A company who doesn’t want to spend any money can have an unlimited supply of videographers willing to work for nothing for years to come.

For the small businesses like the mama and papa pizza place that you said will be the main source of revenue for CJs and VJs, the web has turned out to be a real pain in the rear and an additional expense that many could very well do without it. We are in a transitional period. Small businesses still must be listed in the older and traditional venues like yellow pages and newspaper ads, now add the “must be on the web” costs and these poor people are spending more money than ever without getting any significant increase in return.

Trained and skilled veterans did not go out of business like you predicted; most if not all are experiencing the biggest increase in business that they have seen in their career. This is not gut feeling, this is the happening truth.