A business decision made early on was to charge a monthly fee of $49.95 for the subscription of a Provider Site from Moon Island Media. That original business decision was based on the premise that a monthly fee would encourage Provider Site subcribers to "pay attention" to their site which, of course, is good for everyone. While we didn't have anyone say no to a Provider Site because of the monthly fee, we didn't feel good about it. We felt it would be better to take a more positive approach and reward Provider Site subscribers for performance. So, in late September we ripped out the monthly fee and installed a "Performance Points" program.

The Performance Points program lowers the "Base Transaction Fee" (a percentage retained by Moon Island Media for each stock footage license fee sold via a Provider Site) according to the number of new clips added to a Provider's Site clip inventory and license sales totals in each accounting period (please request details). Please see the post "New Performance Points Program" for more info about the Performance Points program).

The Performance Points program is designed to reward our Providers for performance on the assumption that each intends to make their Provider Site successful and doesn't need a monthly bill to do so. We understood that this puts the financial burden on us while our Providers build up thier Provider Site inventory and get their site promotions going. But we feel its an investment worth making. Please support our effort to make each Moon Island Media Provider successful with thier stock footage offering.

~ Pat Cook