starting a paysite but need a few pointers

[Toby]

Originally Posted by furrygirl

Not everyone does it in that order. I personally think that creating your own unique thing is a better bet financially than working to build someone else's empire. I wouldn't want to be dependent on a sponsor for my livlihood. If I screw up, it rests on my shoulders, but if I'm going great, I reap the reward, too.

The same rules don't apply when you can create your own original content for the cost of your own time and equipment.

When you have to pay to buy content or pay models to shoot your own, the economics are far different.

Most of us are just homely old farts that no one would pay a dime to see nude on a web site.

(I apologize to everyone for that horrific visual, especially at the dinner hour.)

[furrygirl]

Originally Posted by Toby

The same rules don't apply when you can create your own original content for the cost of your own time and equipment.

When you have to pay to buy content or pay models to shoot your own, the economics are far different.

Just to clarify: of the three sites I currently run, one is a store with an inventory investment, one an "amateur" site of me ("free" content), and one is purchased content. My third paysite I'm working on is also purchased content.

Purchased content, in my opinion, is far simpler (and often cheaper) than making your own content. Content, even of oneself, doesn't just "happen" out of thin air. I invest money in clothes and lingerie, a dozen pairs of sheets and duvets, toys and props, hotel rooms, travel, sometimes paying photographers (and soon, a video guy), along with two digital cameras and a decent computer. Plus, my time is worth something, even if it's not a directly out-of-pocket expense.

Being able to just go shopping online for pic sets is actually a far easier and cost-effective way of making paysites.

[Toby]

Originally Posted by furrygirl

Just to clarify: of the three sites I currently run, one is a store with an inventory investment, one an "amateur" site of me ("free" content), and one is purchased content. My third paysite I'm working on is also purchased content.

But you learned your "webmaster lessons" on your own amateur site. Single girl sites where the girl alone or with a boyfriend/spouse are the owner, performer and webmaster are a unique entity, and the same rules simply don't apply. In fact my own very first adult site was just such a site in 1997. A whole lot more than just the rules have changed since then.

Originally Posted by furrygirl

Purchased content, in my opinion, is far simpler (and often cheaper) than making your own content. Content, even of oneself, doesn't just "happen" out of thin air. I invest money in clothes and lingerie, a dozen pairs of sheets and duvets, toys and props, hotel rooms, travel, sometimes paying photographers (and soon, a video guy), along with two digital cameras and a decent computer. Plus, my time is worth something, even if it's not a directly out-of-pocket expense.

Being able to just go shopping online for pic sets is actually a far easier and cost-effective way of making paysites.

Perhaps, but unless you pay premium dollar for purchased content, said content is neither original nor exclusive to your site. Which is one of the major selling points of amateur sites.

I'm not saying that building a successful paysite can't be done as a first adult site, but I'd guess the success rate increases drastically when the "webmaster lessons" are learned building non-pay sites first.