Paysite owners, what is specific 1, 2, 3, etc step guide to opening paysite?

UncutBucksMike · 2007-02-24, 12:05 PM

CCBill is a good way to go. If you decide to move to cascade later and use "an overrated affiliate program" (as someone else said), it can be done without too much pain. There are lots of programs that do pretty well with CCBill alone (ask Desirae, Spunky, etc. LOL). 20 pics and 20 movies would be the minimum I would start with. We started with less but looking back, we should have produced more pre-launch. Content management is a big issue, manually doing html gets to be a major pain in the ass very quickly. I built my own CMS, after doing the manual html thing and using AWW for a while. I am sure you know all the goodies you want for your affiliate program after being on the other side of the fence, so provide what you expect of your sponsors. Knowing PHP will be very helpful, in providing some of the stuff. If you have other questions, let me know.

Mike

basschick · 2007-02-24, 01:06 PM

by LOTS of content, do you mean you have 50 photo sets that have variety and are optimized for your member area? are the pics high quality and do they show the personality of the model?

and again, LOTS being in the eye of the beholder, most of the single model sites i review don't have lots. they have very little. do you have 20 or more videos over 8 minutes each or 30 videos over 5 minutes each? do they look sharp and well lit? are they optimized at a bitrate and quality level and size so they are competitive with other sites and look good?

if you have the content but still have to optimize it, you can save time by having the design done while you work on getting things down to size. but first go through EVERY pic set. find only the best pics - the ones that are the sexiest, the ones that show the model's personality and the best lit. make sure there's variety, some pics with smiles and that some are close ups and some are medium or full body shots. those are the only pics you should send to your designer.

if you order your tour, member area, affiliate pages, banners, fpas and fhg templates at the same time, make sure the designer starts on the tour and member area first as you want them finished first followed by the affiliate pages. that way, once you're done setting up your member area and tour, you can work on the affiliate pages while banners etc are being done.

if you don't have the server, get it now. either start uploading 24/7 or mail your host a harddrive and have him put everything on your server.

come up with a basic file structure for your member area and make sure everything is where you want it to be. if not, move things till they are.

by now you should have a member area template. put up at least 10 videos and 20 pic sets with descriptions, thumbs, everything. if you have a tour, you can put together at least one page and the join page. now you have a little member area, a tour and can submit your site to ccbill. in the meantime, you can keep adding more and more content to the member area - it'll be over a week till you have visa.

in the meantime you can put your affiliate pages together.

once you have either 30 pic sets and 12 videos up or or 40 pic sets and 20 videos if you want to shoot for better retention at the gate, you're ready to send your site to some review sites and your first affiliates.

jscott · 2007-02-25, 02:04 AM

basschick, reading yours now

jscott · 2007-02-28, 12:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by basschick

by LOTS of content, do you mean you have 50 photo sets that have variety and are optimized for your member area? are the pics high quality and do they show the personality of the model?

and again, LOTS being in the eye of the beholder, most of the single model sites i review don't have lots. they have very little. do you have 20 or more videos over 8 minutes each or 30 videos over 5 minutes each? do they look sharp and well lit? are they optimized at a bitrate and quality level and size so they are competitive with other sites and look good?

if you have the content but still have to optimize it, you can save time by having the design done while you work on getting things down to size. but first go through EVERY pic set. find only the best pics - the ones that are the sexiest, the ones that show the model's personality and the best lit. make sure there's variety, some pics with smiles and that some are close ups and some are medium or full body shots. those are the only pics you should send to your designer.

if you order your tour, member area, affiliate pages, banners, fpas and fhg templates at the same time, make sure the designer starts on the tour and member area first as you want them finished first followed by the affiliate pages. that way, once you're done setting up your member area and tour, you can work on the affiliate pages while banners etc are being done.

if you don't have the server, get it now. either start uploading 24/7 or mail your host a harddrive and have him put everything on your server.

come up with a basic file structure for your member area and make sure everything is where you want it to be. if not, move things till they are.

by now you should have a member area template. put up at least 10 videos and 20 pic sets with descriptions, thumbs, everything. if you have a tour, you can put together at least one page and the join page. now you have a little member area, a tour and can submit your site to ccbill. in the meantime, you can keep adding more and more content to the member area - it'll be over a week till you have visa.

in the meantime you can put your affiliate pages together.

once you have either 30 pic sets and 12 videos up or or 40 pic sets and 20 videos if you want to shoot for better retention at the gate, you're ready to send your site to some review sites and your first affiliates.

Ok, now basschick, if you had a ______ i would suck it!!! hehe (jk jk!!)

love the info, that is what i'm looking for

content, so far, i have about 10 pic sets, only a few movies (bj and some candid), and going to a beautiful resort this weekend to shoot some typical beach/resort/bathtub/shower/wettshirt etc etc sets.

the quality of the pics are decent, i take them myself , i am an amateur at this, but i want the site to come across as more "real" and amateurish tho

about the file structure, i'm not sure the easiest way to organize the pictures in the members area, programs? site depth? i dont want to have to do all this manually thats for sure! and whats best gallery generator out there? i want to give each set a nice long descriptive text and thumb (in members area) and i want updates to show on tour page

also, what about pennywise? security? do i need to know about this or is it all to do with my server manager to deal with that?

again, basschick, your info and suggestions/comments/tips were GREAT

jscott · 2007-02-25, 01:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by UncutBucksMike

CCBill is a good way to go. If you decide to move to cascade later and use "an overrated affiliate program" (as someone else said), it can be done without too much pain. There are lots of programs that do pretty well with CCBill alone (ask Desirae, Spunky, etc. LOL). 20 pics and 20 movies would be the minimum I would start with. We started with less but looking back, we should have produced more pre-launch. Content management is a big issue, manually doing html gets to be a major pain in the ass very quickly. I built my own CMS, after doing the manual html thing and using AWW for a while. I am sure you know all the goodies you want for your affiliate program after being on the other side of the fence, so provide what you expect of your sponsors. Knowing PHP will be very helpful, in providing some of the stuff. If you have other questions, let me know.
Mike

Hey Mike thanks a lot, and yes I do plan to launch the site with more than 20 (BIG) pic sets, and probably about 10-15 movies

I know a TINY bit of PHP, and the content management I will be needing help on, along the installation of the billing, I plan to go with CCBILL.

The affiliate program side of it I think I can handle, I will put the basic tools, hosted galleries, banners, link codes, zip files, POTD's all with the cookie remember code (a hassle when affiliate programs dont have the cookie thing in place)

Thanks for your comments and suggestions, I will hit you up if I get stuck somewhere

It's still very early right now tho, I'm still working a LOT on the content

THANKS THANKS

2007-02-24, 01:06 PM	#2
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2007-02-24, 12:05 PM	#1
UncutBucksMike Aw, Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 25	CCBill is a good way to go. If you decide to move to cascade later and use "an overrated affiliate program" (as someone else said), it can be done without too much pain. There are lots of programs that do pretty well with CCBill alone (ask Desirae, Spunky, etc. LOL). 20 pics and 20 movies would be the minimum I would start with. We started with less but looking back, we should have produced more pre-launch. Content management is a big issue, manually doing html gets to be a major pain in the ass very quickly. I built my own CMS, after doing the manual html thing and using AWW for a while. I am sure you know all the goodies you want for your affiliate program after being on the other side of the fence, so provide what you expect of your sponsors. Knowing PHP will be very helpful, in providing some of the stuff. If you have other questions, let me know. Mike